Professional Services

At CDS, our professional staff is our most valuable asset. They are trusted advisors to AM Law firms, consultancies and corporate legal departments who will guide you seamlessly through the entire eDiscovery process from Information Management to Presentation. Our experienced consultants use tested methods to streamline your processes and to design defensible discovery protocols to meet your e-discovery requirements.

Rule 26(f) Meet and Confer Planning
The Rule 26(f) Meet and Confer can set the tone for litigation. Your team must arrive prepared, armed with the information necessary to set manageable discovery parameters in order to limit costs. CDS provides early-case-assessment to help you determine the volume, scope and reasonable accessibility of potentially relevant data. Based on these finding, CDS can help you prepare discovery parameters and can support your recommendations for cost-shifting, with third-party certification of the inaccessibility of legacy data.

Workflow Design
Each electronic discovery is unique. Our professionals have guided law firms and corporate counsel through a wide variety of cases. We customize workflows to meet court mandates and deadlines while staying within your budget.

Document Review Training
Document review is more than just reading documents and tagging them. By utilizing best practices, your team can dramatically increase their efficiency and accuracy. CDSs professional trainers can turn your group of individual reviewers into a cohesive review team.

Project execution
Our team of Project Managers has extensive experience working with government agencies, law firms and corporate counsel to ensure the smooth execution of their electronic discovery processes. The PM for your case is accountable for the smooth execution of data collection, processing, review progress tracking and production. Your CDS Project Manager is your personal e-discovery partner.

Data Reduction
Targeted-filtering and pre-organization of data is key to an efficient document review. The CDS Project Mangers combine technologically-advanced filtering tools with their extensive experience to minimize and pre-organize your data set.