"NearPoint has already paid for itself by reducing legal discovery time. We definitely made the right decision in going with NearPoint."
— Ryan Shipkowski, Network Administrator, Matthews International
The new amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), effective as of December 2006, and most state discovery requirements mandate, among other requirements, contain strict litigation hold procedures, early disclosure of the existence of all potentially responsive ESI, as well as speedy and complete response to discovery requests.
In corporate civil litigation, all parties to the legal action have the responsibility to find and secure all potentially responsive documentation that may relate to the case. Custodian (employee) work files are the second largest record type targeted by opposing counsel in discovery requests. These work files, in the form of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Acrobat, and hundreds of other file formats, can be very difficult and costly to track down, secure and review for responsiveness. The most common storage locations for these types of files are enterprise share drives and custodian laptops/desktops.
NearPoint™ File System Archive ™ (FSA) provides a platform to rapidly search, retrieve, preserve, and access critical content owned by custodians with potentially responsive electronically stored information (ESI). Mimosa NearPoint FSA and custodian scan laptops/desktops, for potentially responsive records. NearPoint for FSA, can then place a forensically defensible copy of all selected files into the NearPoint content archive for litigation hold, further review and export for eDiscovery.
Built on the award-winning Mimosa NearPoint Content archiving platform, NearPoint FSA provide indispensable benefits for companies that need to collect and preserve local custodian content as part of an early “meet and confer” meeting, track ongoing case assessments, or to satisfy an obligation to preserve ESI for discovery.
The FSA Option can search the custodian’s network share drive, workstation/laptop and attached storage for specific responsive records. These files can then be copied into the NearPoint archive for further discovery processing.
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