Discovery and Litigation Support for Records Management

It has long been the norm for corporate legal departments like yours to pass discovery work to outside counsel, who in turn outsource much of the technology and processes to third-party vendors. With multiple hand-offs, this complicated model breeds inconsistencies, making it difficult for you to achieve appropriate levels of predictability, accountability and standardization.

Clearly, the pressure is on your organization to make discovery a well-defined, streamlined and repeatable process. And yet, as the amount of paper, backup media and digital records you must manage continues to grow, it can be a major challenge to quickly locate the resources needed to address litigation requirements without introducing considerable costs, risks and inefficiencies into the process.

Iron Mountain Discovery Services provides a suite of products and services to help you take control of your litigation and discovery and requirements while containing costs and risk.  Our end-to-end discovery support includes:

• Litigation readiness consulting - Throughout the course of any legal matter or discovery event, our, expert litigation readiness and response professional will guide you to refine or define your information management discovery process.  Our experienced project managers help you identify the most important information, dramatically reducing data sets early in the process and leading to substantial savings in imaging costs and attorney review time.
• Document Conversion Services – This service provides you with a single process to image and manage potentially relevant information, by simply converting your paper documents to electronic format. These documents will be coded using objective, bibliographic and subjective methods, and unitized, Bates stamped and redacted. We’ll deliver these documents to any of the review platforms you may have — or a best-of-breed review platform from one of our strategic partners.
• Tape Restoration Services – If you require your records and backup media to move between your offices and Iron Mountain facilities, your information will be protected by Iron Mountain InControl® a patented security measures, detailed tracking and an auditable workflow, InControl gives you the assurance of an unbroken chain-of-custody for media in transit.
• Discovery review Platform— Our solution supports leading industry review platforms to speed review and production of critical documents.  If you do not currently have a platform, we can recommend one to me to meet your requirements both now and in future.

With Iron Mountain Discovery Services, you can ensure discovery-readiness by securing:

• A repeatable, defensible, secure and error-free processes by consolidating discovery support with a single vendor
• A firm, auditable chain-of-custody that is documented every step of the way
• Resources and capabilities that help you quickly identify and access documents that are potentially relevant to a particular case

The confidence that comes from knowing all backup media, hardcopy documents and digital records are secured and managed following proven best practices.