What is ediscovery?

Recent analyst reports have shown that 80 percent of corporate respondents have been asked to collect email information and 60 percent have had to supply file system information for litigation. If your organization has not yet been asked to search email or file system information, chances are that it will. Email and file system information is widely used as evidence in civil trials. While electronic discovery capabilities and procedures are evolving, companies are expected to respond to electronic discovery requests in much less time than in the past. Enterprises that rely on simple search tools, backup tapes, and manual processes to retrieve email and file system information face an expensive, risky, time-consuming process that includes search, collection, and review. And, if enterprises cannot preserve or produce all relevant electronic information in a timely fashion, the results can be costly including adverse rulings, negative publicity and punitive damages reaching millions or billions of dollars.

NearPoint Legal eDiscovery Solutions

The Mimosa NearPoint™ eDiscovery Option for email and file systems and the NearPoint Custodian Collector Option provides integrated, easy-to-use, and powerful capabilities that individuals and workgroups can use to search, review, cull, preserve, and produce Microsoft® Exchange email and file system information from within your corporate infrastructure. Having ready access to potentially responsive data can provide you with an important early case assessment capability. Corporate auditors, paralegals, staff lawyers, external counsel, and compliance officers can quickly search through thousands or millions of emails and office files, review these items, place them on secure legal hold, and export the results for further processing or presentation to external or opposing counsel.

Early Case Assessment

It doesn't matter if you are being sued for $1000 or $100 million, the first question to ask yourself is do they have a case. Next, you need to consider how you are going to manage the case, control its costs and evaluate the impact on your business. The key to managing litigation lies in your ability to take control of the case. One of the most efficient ways to manage litigation is to conduct an "early case assessment". Early case assessment provides you with a preliminary analysis of the legal merits of the case, claims, and likely defenses. An early assessment allows you to make an informed decision regarding the case and to decide whether to seek an early mediation or proceed to trial.

The Mimosa NearPoint eDiscovery Option for email and file systems provides you with all the tools to quickly evaluate the case merits and plan your going forward legal strategy.