Product Liability
Overview
Product Liability cases tend to be similar in nature 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.
Challenge
Large corporations tend to be faced by product liability law
suites to a degree that makes the management of those cases on
a case-by-case basis inefficient and risky, especially when inconsistent
treatment of the same evidence across similar cases by different
outside counsel occurs. Complex cases with extremely short
production deadlines, huge data volumes and specific production
formats compound challenges.
Solution
The CaseCentral® Corporate Edition™ helps corporations take control and address the above described challenges. A standardized workflow on one centralized, secure platform enables the efficient management of consistently recurring electronic discovery.
Connectors reduce conversion costs and errors, and the integrated ability to leverage the previous work of the litigation team leads to faster, less expensive production cycles. Administrators can provide legal teams on-demand access to some cases, and excluded them from accessing others on a very granular level. Matters are kept separate without involving IT in behind-the-firewall security and capacity issues.
Audit trails are automatically created, providing visibility into who reviewed a document, when they reviewed it, their designations, and comments. Companies can leverage prior restorations and conversions by re-using the documents that apply to multiple matters, ensuring higher accuracy and speed across matters. Furthermore, as the number of application users increases, CaseCentral scales to quickly and easily accommodate them, with minimal impact on internal IT departments.
Benefits
- One centralized review platform delivers unprecedented transparency and control over repetitive litigation including product liability matters handled across different law firms
- One centralized review platform also minimizes the security concerns that come along with production of sensitive information outside the corporate firewall
- Repeatable, defensible business processes including clear chain-of-custody address compliance with the new FRCPs governing discovery
- Reuse of administrative settings and work product across cases increases accuracy and speed, as well as incremental cost savings with every new case
- Reuse of prior work product also reduces business disruption and demands on IT staff
- Flexible platform architecture enables adding hundreds of users in a snap, while integration with corporate email and document repositories reduces loading time, costs and errors
- Scalable implementation ensures high performance access to tens of millions of documents
- Hosted services minimize startup time and cost while also simplifying ongoing management
- Predictable pricing facilitates effective litigation budget management
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