Mimosa NearPoint: Electronic Discovery for LITIGATION

White Papers

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 101
This paper will give you a layman’s view of the new amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) that took effect on December 1, 2006. It also covers how the new amendments will have a major effect on how companies retain, store, and produce electronic information for litigation, especially email system data. The paper will review each of the new amendments, discuss their projected effects on eDiscovery of corporate email systems, and show how the Mimosa™ NearPoint™ email archiving solution and the NearPoint eDiscovery Option meet the intent of these new amendments.

Re-creating Email Conversation Threads Could Reduce Your Overall Legal Risk
This white paper will highlight how having access to all emails can lower your company's overall legal risk. We will look in detail at how a lone email message taken out of context can dramatically raise your legal risk, and how having the full context of an email conversation can potentially stop litigation before it ever starts.

Cost and Breakeven Analysis of Email Discovery Using Mimosa NearPoint Email Archiving with eDiscovery Option
This customer is one of the largest manufacturers and marketers of healthcare supplements in North America with corporate headquarters in California. The company manufacturers several lines of orally ingested vitamin supplements and employs 3,400 employees in several states. The company wanted to solve two related problems: eDiscovery risk and cost and PST propagation.

Osterman/Mimosa White Paper: The Impact of the New FRCP Amendments on Your Business
The next several months will present significant challenges to organizations of all sizes on several levels: corporate legal counsel will need to learn what impact the FRCP changes will have on their organizations, IT managers will wrestle with the potentially significant investments in technology that will be required to adequately preserve electronic data, and senior managers will need to evaluate and improve their corporate governance policies and procedures to meet the new requirements.

ESG White Paper: Mimosa Expands Electronic Discovery Beyond E-mail
When it comes to determining the most ‘mission critical' business application today, the designation goes to email. It is the cornerstone of collaboration and communication for many organizations and, with the latest release of Microsoft Exchange 2007, it soon will be the primary mechanism for regularly retrieving voicemails and faxes.

A New Era of Electronic Discovery for Email
Recent surveys reveal that half of organizations have performed electronic discovery for one reason or another. So if you have not been asked to search your electronic records, count yourself as one of the lucky ones. But be prepared, because you are likely to be asked in the near future. Over 80% of organization records exist in electronic form, so it stands to reason that to perform even the most basic search, proper preparation is necessary.

Litigation Hold White Paper
Stopping the destruction of Exchange email, including calendar entries, contacts and task lists, because of anticipated or pending litigation is an absolute must and very challenging. Companies around the world are experiencing a higher risk level based on increased litigation, more intrusive discovery requirements and legal strategies that take advantage of this difficulty. Recognizing and planning for these litigation holds and discovery can dramatically lower the adverse effects on your employees and lower your overall cost of legal defense. This white paper will present industry best practices for ensuring timely litigation holds.