Meeting your legal discovery challenge is becoming an increasingly difficult task as litigations, regulations and media formats for electronically stored information (ESI) continue to multiply out of control. With your company’s critical documents created and stored in a wide range of diverse environments, including file systems, desktops, laptops, emails and SharePoint servers, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has become a complex and costly corporate mission. Add the 22,000 regulations governing information retention worldwide, and you face an overwhelming prospect in preparing for litigation discovery.

Lighthouse can help. We deliver ECM solutions for companies that need to archive emails and soft/hardcopy documentation for litigation discovery requests. Lighthouse helps companies decide how to leverage content management systems to archive and maintain ESI, especially in accordance with industry and federal laws and email compliance regulations governing eDiscovery.

eDiscovery is the process of identifying, locating, securing and producing electronically stored information and materials for:

• Legal evidence
• Regulatory requirements
• Internal and governmental investigations
• Employee disputes
• Corporate governance
• Corporate transactions
• Operational control

Lighthouse will help you implement policies, procedures, and an integrated hardware/ software platform that supports overall document and email storage objectives to ensure an efficient and effective eDiscovery process.

The Failure of Traditional Approaches 

eDiscovery should be part of every company’s overall business strategy, and a plan should be in place before the prospect of litigation looms. The problem is that most companies have a patchwork of corporate processes for handling ECM, ESI and legal discovery. These approaches are often inconsistent, costly and disconnected, leaving companies vulnerable with incomplete or lost information.

Traditional eDiscovery methods have consisted of point solutions that are incapable of providing comprehensive information management and control. These approaches have been disorganized, dispersed and ineffective; they often lose data, retain too much information or produce duplicate or irrelevant information for legal discovery. Being solely reactive, current eDiscovery approaches are also costly and carry a high-risk of failure. They often funnel redundant and expired information to expensive outsourced processing and review resources.

Before litigation is reasonably anticipated, corporate IT, records managers and compliance auditors need to get their ESI under control, cleanup the digital landfill, and prepare an information data map. A catalog of the company’s records, an ESI data map is the cornerstone of an eDiscovery preparedness initiative. The absence of an enterprise-level, consistent in-house platform solution increases a company’s risk and costs regarding legal discovery. Without a comprehensive view of all of a company’s critical documents, counsel is blindfolded without early-case information insight.

Companies need to implement a defensible, enterprise-wide ECM program in order to retain information to meet regulatory requirements or internal corporate business practices. A single, integrated ECM platform for ESI management puts into place a company-wide legal hold and notification process that is ready to preserve all forms of relevant information when litigation is reasonably anticipated.

Lighthouse eDiscovery Platform:
Proactive, Agile and Defensible 

eDiscovery needs a comprehensive, in-house, single platform answer. Relying on outside service providers and point solutions will only keep costs and risks high. According to research firm Gartner, one-off solutions for each regulatory challenge cost companies 10 times more than a proactive approach.

The solution is to approach eDiscovery as part of an overall, integrated Enterprise Content Management platform. Deploying ECM platforms from IBM, Lighthouse can help corporate counsel:

• Standardize the eDiscovery process
• Develop a defense strategy quickly
• Reduce outside counsel cost
• Respond to requests rapidly
• Reduce risk of regulatory violation

Lighthouse can transform your current ESI situation into an organized, secure and trusted system for delivering relevant, insightful and review-ready information. Lighthouse will help you create a comprehensive data map that will enable you to comply with new eDiscovery regulations. An integrated, agile ECM platform for eDiscovery delivers:

• Comprehensive ESI Data Map
• Advanced Auto Classification
• Records Management
• Content Collection Processing and Archiving
• eDiscovery Search and Analytics

The cornerstone to the Lighthouse solution is the market-leading IBM eDiscovery Manager, which enables IT to respond effectively to eDiscovery requests with proactive ESI management controls. Another key component is the IBM eDiscovery Analyzer, which is a tool for lawyers, paralegals and supporting specialists to gain early case assessment and smart culling capabilities that significantly increase agility and drastically lower review costs.

High Savings and ROI

A Lighthouse eDiscovery solution delivers significant savings and a high ROI by helping to eliminate costly phases of the legal discovery process. The processing, review and analysis stages consume 80% of eDiscovery cost and time. Lighthouse’s search and analysis services can help reduce the data set by 80% in preparation for the attorney review.

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Project Workshop for Compliance Readiness

The Lighthouse ECM team works closely with our certified IT Compliance consultants to help companies manage ESI in accordance with eDiscovery laws and regulations. They can provide an in-depth at your location to help outline your current environment, determine your eDiscovery and compliance objectives, and draft a detailed project plan.

For more information or to schedule a no-cost initial consultation, please contact info@lighthousecs.com or call 401-334-0799.