| eDiscovery Solutions Group Announces Partnership with Third Coast Consultants
Premier Consulting Firm to Provide Comprehensive Strategic Services for Proactively Managing Electronically Stored Information (ESI) to Improve the Overall eDiscovery and Compliance Process
Boise, Idaho
August 18, 2009 - eDiscovery Solutions Group announced today
that it has entered into a partnership with Third Coast Consultants
to provide litigation readiness, general data retention and
management strategies and information security services designed to
help corporations and their outside counsel better understand and
manage the risks and costs associated with the accelerating volume
of Electronically Stored Information (ESI).
Under the terms of the partnership, Third Coast Consultants will
provide a wide range of litigation readiness consulting and data
retention policy development for eDiscovery Solutions Group clients
throughout the United States and South America. In addition, other
partners from the eDiscovery Solutions Group consortium will enable
Third Coast Consultants to expand its eDiscovery offering with
additional eDiscovery consulting, services and technology with
support in most of the major metropolitan markets in the US, Canada,
Europe and the Far East.
The Company indicated that its partnership with Third Coast
Consultants is a major component of an overall strategy to provide a
comprehensive solution to corporations worldwide to proactively
manage the accelerating volume of Electronically Stored Information
(ESI) and associated costs of compliance and eDiscovery. The Company
points out that according to a January 9, 2009 article by Debra
Logan and John Bace of Gartner, Inc, entitled "Reduce The Cost
and Risk of E-Discovery in 2009, "Electronic discovery will be
close to the top of many organizations' IT project agendas in 2009,
and will remain important for years to come, regardless of the state
of the economy."
"Given the exponential increase in the volume of ESI within our
client base worldwide that is straining every aspect of the
information management process, we wanted expand our core offering
beyond the standard eDiscovery process as defined within the
Electronic Discovery Reference Model as established by Socha and
Gelbmann," stated Charles Skamser, Founder and CEO of
eDiscovery Solutions Group. "With a strategic foundation firmly
rooted in providing litigation readiness consulting for Rule 26(f)
conferences as required by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
(FRCP) and vision to further assist corporations with a wide range
of data retention analysis and policy establishment, Third Coast
Consultants will provide the leadership to extend our current
eDiscovery offering(s) to be more strategic, proactive and reach
beyond the eDiscovery paradigm," continued Mr. Skamser.
As part of the strategic planning services designed to support the
requirements of the FRCP Rule 26(f) conference, Third Coast
Consultants coordinates communications and activities between the
corporate client and the supporting law firm to analyze and
understand: (1) historical and current information preservation
processes; (2) corporate content repository structures and
locations; (3) the total cost of responding to the potential
eDiscovery requests; (4) content accessibility; (5) collection
methodologies, and; (6) eDiscovery production recommendations.
"Based upon our membership in the eDiscovery Solutions Group
Consortium, once we have completed our Rule 26(f) analysis and made
our recommendations for collections and eDiscovery production, we
will then be able to offer a comprehensive and seamless solution to
deliver everything that our clients require to fulfill our
recommendations," states Alan Blakley, Esq. Senior Consultant,
Third Coast Consultants. "As such, we are very pleased to be
joining the eDiscovery Solutions Group," continues Mr. Blakley.
In addition to strategic planning support for the FRCP 26(f)
conference, Third Coast Consultants is also equipped to provide data
retention analysis and policy development, data security analysis
and policy development and general strategic consulting to better
understand and manage corporate information.
"One of the main reasons that eDiscovery is so expensive is
based on the fact that most corporations are not proactively setting
up data retention policies that enable them to easily and cost
effectively respond to eDiscovery requests," states Charles
Skamser. "The methodology and technology exists to support
these needs and Third Coast Consultants have the expertise to
develop the right data retention policies and recommend the most
cost effective data archiving technologies to any corporation in the
world before the next matter becomes an expensive issue,"
continues Mr. Skamser.
With a growing consortium of partners worldwide, eDiscovery
Solutions Group offers a broad array of eDiscovery consulting,
services and technology along with project management to support the
entire eDiscovery lifecycle. Following the eDiscovery processing
paradigm of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM),
eDiscovery Solutions Group has developed an eDiscovery best
practices framework that includes consulting, collection, analysis,
processing, production, review and presentation.
Within this framework, the eDiscovery Solutions Group can deliver
data retention policy, development, data archiving, eSecurity,
eCompliance, eDiscovery readiness, strategic planning,
implementation support, paper and ESI collection, investigations,
expert testimony, data recovery, computer forensics, early case
assessment, data analysis, data redundancy management, conceptual
search, de-dupe, near de-dupe, scanning, copying, coding, language
translation, EDD, TIFF conversion, hosting, on-site, on-shore and
off-shore review, legal process outsourcing (LPO), courtroom
graphics and presentations, tool training, systems integration and
custom solutions.
About Third Coast Consultants
Third Coast Consultants is an international information management
consulting firm focusing on litigation readiness, compliance,
records management, and data retention strategy. With experienced
information management professionals throughout the United States
and South America, Third Coast Consultants work with corporations
and their outside counsel to analyze, develop best practices and
policies and manage Electronically Stored Information (ESI) to
support corporate business objectives, governance, compliance and
litigation. Our mission is to limit risk and manage costs with
solutions that fit the specific needs for each of our clients. To
learn more about Third Coast Consultants, please visit http://www.3rdcoastconsultants.com
About eDiscovery Solutions Group
eDiscovery Solutions Group is an international consortium of
leading independent eDiscovery consultants, eDiscovery consulting
firms, regional litigation service providers and best-in-class
eDiscovery technology companies that have come together to provide
all of the services, consulting and technology necessary to support
the entire eDiscovery lifecycle for the legal departments of
corporations, the IT departments of corporations that need to
support eDiscovery requirements and litigation centric law firms.
For more information about eDiscovery Solutions Group, please visit:
http://www.ediscoverysolutionsgroup.com/.
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