At the beginning of 2020, businesses of all sizes had to find a way to deal with a global pandemic and a financial crisis at the same time. The challenges were significant, driven by critical needs such as restricting budgets, ensuring regulatory compliance and improving data security as virtually overnight millions of employees shifted to working from home.
Related to these challenges, enterprises also need to maintain their discovery readiness. Otherwise, they will not be prepared to respond effectively to pending litigation and legal investigations. Key to this readiness is working closely with internal and outside counsel to plan and implement appropriate solutions in order to meet discovery obligations.
Within this scenario, law firms need to maximize their eDiscovery services capabilities in order to help clients manage their discovery-readiness in today’s volatile business environment. One essential element of meeting this goal is to team with the right eDiscovery services provider. What constitutes a fitting partner? At a basic level such a provider offers years of experience helping law firms and corporate counsel deal with a full scope of discovery and evolving regulatory requirements. For example, Canon Discovery has helped clients comply with the EU’s Privacy Directive, investigate data breaches, assess and mitigate data management risks and implement defensible, cost-effective discovery response plans.
Leveraging the expertise of an experienced eDiscovery services provider better positions a law firm to help clients solve a variety of business- and discovery-related challenges associated with the current business climate. Some of these challenges include the following:
Canon Discovery has a long history of supplementing legal staff in many areas within law firms and corporate legal departments. We leverage seasoned professionals to backfill positions (possibly including litigation support) so that case teams have the support they need to navigate complex litigation matters.
Our teams can assist you in critical areas like document processing and hosting as well as remote data collection and review. In fact, remote document collection capabilities have never been more important with so many corporate legal department and law offices still closed or operating at a diminished capacity. Utilizing eDiscovery providers that do not require direct involvement by the custodians is virtually essential for success today.
We also help firms avoid delays in ingesting, processing and producing electronically stored information. While small amounts of data can easily be transferred online, larger datasets typically require personnel onsite to collect and directly copy the data. Canon offers a local and safe environment with local personnel to handle such requests.
Finally, Canon Discovery has the capability to augment in-house and law firm litigation support resources by deploying our dedicated team across the entire discovery cycle. This includes:
Leveraging the skills of Canon Discovery may be an attractive option for your legal team. Feel free to visit the Discovery Services page of our website. There you will find valuable information on legal industry trends and the latest approaches including whitepapers, case histories, fact sheet and more.
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