Class Action

Overview

Class Action litigation tends to be so voluminous and the plaintiff parties so numerous that standard Discovery solutions are inappropriate.  The need to centralize all evidence into a universally accessible location that provides a high degree of security while at the same time providing plaintiff teams varying access is daunting.  Satisfying the range of entities presents challenges in and of itself, not to mention the logistical nightmare in tracking which documents have gone to which parties.

Challenges

Defendants need a single intuitive repository capable of providing each plaintiff with equal access and a secure workspace to comply with court production requirements. Providing each party with a different production format of the same data duplicates the effort, plus can cause costly delays and present the appearance of deferential treatment. 

Many hosted vendor solutions solve a portion of the problem, but are not necessarily flexible enough to allow for the varying levels of security and capabilities required.  For instance, available platforms often cannot support several volumes in a single searchable database.  Plaintiff teams need assurances of objective administration and control over their own review.  And any solution must include proper planning for data backups, disk redundancy and disaster recovery.

Solution

With the CaseCentral® Law Firm Edition™ each plaintiff team has a separate secure workspace while sharing the underlying produced files and data.  This solution meets production requirements in a universally accessible location.  If any of the plaintiff teams wants customization, the cost can be attributed to the requesting party.  CaseCentral is very familiar with the intricacies of multi-firm cost-sharing and billing. 

For producing parties, the CaseCentral solution represents a vast improvement over the old method of producing in different formats to different class plaintiffs.  Documents are produced into a single location where parties may request specific formats at their costs.  And if the decision is made to prepare for production within a separate CaseCentral system, production becomes an even quicker and simpler process.

Benefits to Producing Defendants

• Centralized production format and location significantly reduces cost, time and risk while ensuring accuracy and consistency across all plaintiffs
• Court requirements for a shared production site and the new FRCPs are met
• Production can be achieved quickly into a separate production environment
• Flexible architecture simplifies coordination and management of multiple law firms and contract attorneys, while making the addition of hundreds of users a snap
• Scalability of the hosted platform delivers high-performance access to tens of millions of documents

Benefits to Plaintiffs

• Secure workspaces
• Unique platform architecture enables consistent access to all documents while keeping the individual work product separate and secure
• Site administration is managed by CaseCentral as an objective third-party vendor
• Case administration can be managed within each team’s review workspace
• Custom requests can be supported by experienced support staff

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