About Us

About Us

Since 1990, IE Discovery has delivered reliable, innovative Discovery Management services to government agencies and companies around the globe. From onsite collection and eDiscovery processing to legal review and web-hosting, our team of legal and technology experts apply their depth and breadth of knowledge to provide practical, cost-effective solutions for complex discovery needs. Our comprehensive services encompass the complete discovery cycle and leverage our secure, web-based system for searching, organizing, and producing discovery documents.

Companies turn to us for innovative approaches to address a broad spectrum of litigation matters. Our extensive resources and expertise enable us to assess your discovery challenges quickly and efficiently, then deliver the optimal methodology for success. Our commitment goes beyond identifying the best solution—we roll up our sleeves and deliver it.

A Comprehensive Approach

Electronic information is growing exponentially and continues to evolve day to day. At IE Discovery, we take a comprehensive approach to managing your information, considering your whole litigation portfolio and developing holistic, long-term discovery management strategies. This documented and defensible approach helps minimize risk, enabling organizations to respond quickly while predicting and controlling costs.

Even better, these benefits can be extended further by applying standardized processes and technologies across all matters, rather than on a case-by-case basis. In the typical scenario, legal teams work with outside counsel to manage discovery independently as each case arises, instead of managing discovery comprehensively. Taking an individual case approach creates inefficiencies and reduces the amount of control your organization has over its information. Conversely, our comprehensive approach provides a phased, strategic method for centralizing your information across all cases and all aspects of litigation. This gives you much greater control over your information, making litigation costs dramatically lower and easier to predict. Our comprehensive discovery management approach spans all five phases of discovery, Planning, Collection, Processing, Review, and Production.

The Benefit to You?

Reduced Litigation Costs

Studies indicate that up to 90% of litigation costs are incurred during the discovery phase. A comprehensive discovery management plan reduces the time and cost of discovery through efficiencies that include:

• Eliminating redundant and unnecessary work product performed by counsel
• Reducing the effort to learn new processes and technologies
• Reducing the time to identify and collect information for new matters

Dramatic Time Savings

Who is more often victorious in complex litigation: The party who delivers the most stirring closing argument? Or the party able to find key information within the volumes of irrelevant data more quickly and effectively? We all know the answer.

The fact is, a comprehensive discovery management plan reduces the amount of time spent identifying, collecting, reviewing, and producing information by:

• Leveraging work product of other matters to begin initial disclosures and rolling productions sooner
• Maximizing resource allocation by allowing staff to shift between matters more quickly
• Reducing time and effort required to train on new processes and technologies

Quicker Response to Production Requests

In the deadline-intensive environment of litigation, quick and accurate responses are a huge advantage. Here’s how a comprehensive discovery management strategy enables you to respond more rapidly to opposing counsel and the Court:

• You’re equipped with information collected from other matters that is ready for production with little or no further processing or review
• Time required to ramp up new collections, processing technologies, and review processes is greatly reduced
• You’re assured greater understanding of what relevant and responsive data may exist within the organization, where it resides, and how it can be produced before the matter arises

Greater Control Over Discovery

Many litigants feel they lose all control over the process once discovery begins—that their opponent serves broad requests for information and their only option is to undertake massive efforts at extraordinary costs to respond. Organizations prepared with a comprehensive discovery management strategy control the discovery process. Here’s how:

• Understanding the relevant information within their organization, where it exists, and how it can be produced
• Ensuring that they are using the most cost-effective processes, resources, and technologies to accomplish their litigation goals
• Being better prepared to predict the level of effort and cost necessary to fully litigate the matter before discovery preparations begin in earnest
• Having more options available to conduct the litigation

Totally Secure Information

Organizations face enormous privacy and information security regulations, as well as increasingly complex protective orders—all of which affect confidential and sensitive business information. A comprehensive discovery management strategy helps ensure your ability to protect the confidentiality of sensitive or legally protected data, as a result of:

• Consolidating information in a central environment, thereby eliminating the need for multiple physical or electronic collections with various counsel
• Creating real-time ability to grant or deny access to information to an individual or group as needed
• Creating the ability to track all parties who have accessed individual documents or electronic records

More Accurate Prediction of Litigation Costs

Accurate and timely predictions of litigation costs are a common challenge facing litigation managers today. Because discovery is the single largest driver of these costs, organizations that have developed a comprehensive discovery management strategy can more accurately predict overall litigation costs by:

• Using standardized processes and technologies across cases, thereby applying best practices and lessons learned from each case to new matters
• Creating standard benchmarks for the time and effort required to perform common discovery-related tasks

Creating budgeting and reporting standards for all matters. This ensures that unexpected changes in the litigation are understood as soon as possible, along with their impact on budget.