Law Firms A-Z List

Consilio

Text provided by the firm: Consilio is a global leader in eDiscovery, risk management and compliance, document review, and legal consulting services. The company assists legal departments of multinational corporations and their outside counsel to respond to legal matters, reduce legal spend, minimise risks, and operate more efficiently using innovative software, cost-effective managed services, and deep legal and regulatory industry expertise across a spectrum of industries. Read more

Text provided by the firm: Consilio is a global leader in eDiscovery, risk management and compliance, document review, and legal consulting services. The company assists legal departments of multinational corporations and their outside counsel to respond to legal matters, reduce legal spend, minimise risks, and operate more efficiently using innovative software, cost-effective managed services, and deep legal and regulatory industry expertise across a spectrum of industries.

Consilio and its global family of companies, DiscoverReady, Advanced Discovery, Altep, Millnet Document Services and Legal Placements Inc., employ leading professionals in the industry, applying defensible workflows with patented and industry-proven technology across all phases of the eDiscovery and risk management lifecycle.

ISO 27001:2013 certified, the company operates offices, document review facilities, and data centres across Europe, Asia, and North America.

For more information, please visit www.consilio.com.

Technology-assisted review (TAR): What it is, how it works and when to use it

In the past year, we’ve seen a significant uptick in clients asking to use TAR, largely because of the advent of Practice Direction 51U, the Disclosure Pilot for the Business and Property Courts, as of 1 January 2019.

Raid Ready: A Case Study

By Daniel Rupprecht, Director – eDiscovery consulting, Competition & Investigations A knock on the door With substantial fines, potentially into the millions, regulatory investigations are a major legal risk to corporations. Many such investigations start with a bang – at least a bang on the door in the form of a dawn raid. A dawn raid is an unannounced inspection of a company’s premises conducted by a regulatory authority, often signalling the beginning of an investigation. Whether related to a […]

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How the new disclosure rules impact approaches to preservation and collection

The New Disclosure Rules are currently (as of 1 January 2019) part of a two-year pilot within the Business and Property Courts of England & Wales. In 2016 a disclosure working group was created following growing concerns over the increasing costs of litigation. The working group created a new draft practice direction which was subsequently updated following consultation. The resulting draft (and the corresponding Disclosure Review Document – “DRD”), has now been included in the Civil Procedure Rules as Practice […]

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From Paper to Digital: Clearing a Dead Room

Introduction On a recent matter, I began the usual process of understanding the totality of the documentation that might be at issue, something which is never straightforward. I started with a discussion of custodians and date ranges followed by the typical questions related to data sources, devices, cloud storage and archived information. All seemed to be going well until my very last query. “Are there any hard copy documents that we need to consider?” To which I received the following […]

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Apples to Oranges: how investigations differ from a litigation approach when implementing eDiscovery solutions

Competition matters, and investigations more generally, differ greatly in execution from the approach to eDiscovery taken in litigation. Understanding the potential issues is paramount in developing an eDiscovery model that tackles the regulatory pressures faced by legal teams and their corporate clients. In the first article in this series we compare the different approaches and examine strategic applications of eDiscovery technologies to competition matters. An Overview of the Approach to Litigation Disclosure At the outset of any dispute which is the […]

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eDiscovery costs and budgeting – creating order out of chaos

The direct and indirect costs of eDiscovery in substantial disputes can be, and often are, hugely expensive. The review of documents in particular has the potential to incur the largest proportion of costs during litigation in comparison to other phases such as pleadings, witness statements, expert reports or trial. A combination of the volume, diversity and proliferation of electronically stored information means that it can be very difficult to predict with certainty how much data might need to be collected and reviewed, and […]

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Tactical wins – Controlling legal costs in uncertain times

By Mike Brown Corporate legal departments face myriad challenges; challenges that are magnified if the organisation has a multi-national or global footprint and is involved in multiple industry sectors, especially if those sectors are highly regulated or routinely litigious. Given ever increasing emphasis on budgets and cost control, companies now require that internal departments are as efficient as possible, accountable and operate as a commercially minded business unit rather than a cost centre. A common scenario for a fully utilised […]