Understanding the complexities of E-Discovery is critical. As the legal and technological landscape constantly changes, clients require guidance from professionals practicing and collaborating in the field every day — and our award-winning teams do just that. At Ropes & Gray, our goal is to not only meet, but anticipate E-Discovery challenges. By building a team of dedicated professionals, we have developed a disciplined approach to designing and managing complex E-Discovery processes to provide our clients with cost-effective strategies and solutions.

OUR TEAM
Recognizing the importance of E-Discovery, Ropes & Gray has developed a core team of professionals dedicated solely to E-Discovery:

• Our E-Discovery Counsel works exclusively to assist clients in managing their electronic information before and during litigation.
• Discovery attorneys concentrate on managing defensible and efficient document review processes.
• More than 25 experienced litigation technology professionals provide technological guidance and support throughout the discovery lifecycle.

Widely recognized as leaders in the industry, our E-Discovery team members frequently speak on E-Discovery project management and developments in E-Discovery law.

OUR TOOLS
We use the most current technologies available to manage client data. Recognizing the ever-evolving technologies and platforms related to E-Discovery, Ropes & Gray invests in continuous E-Discovery education, participation in industry working groups and associations, and vendor investigations and analyses — staying one step ahead of E-Discovery trends and technology.

E-DISCOVERY IN ACTION
Ropes & Gray has utilized E-Discovery in all aspects of litigation. Some of our more recent experience in which we successfully guided clients through complex E-Discovery issues includes:

Pre-Litigation Document Management Consultation —Litigation Readiness Plans
We have assisted clients in developing policies and plans to effectively manage multiple data sources across numerous offices. To do so, we have learned client systems, interviewed necessary personnel, researched applicable laws and regulations, and drafted and implemented document retention policies, data usage policies, and litigation readiness plans.

MDL/Pharmaceutical
A government investigation into an international pharmaceutical client’s drug pricing and marketing practices resulted in numerous state and MDL proceedings. Through E-Discovery negotiations and use of cuttingedge technology, we significantly reduced the initial estimate of over 300 custodians with approximately 25 million documents to three million documents. In so doing, we created a searchable repository that could be accessed throughout the various actions, reducing costs and streamlining complex discovery.

Complex Litigation and Regulatory Inquiries—Financial
In connection with multi-district civil litigation and regulatory inquiries concerning an investment adviser’s management of bond funds with exposure to so-called sub-prime mortgage investments, we collected and culled over two terabytes of data. Again, we reduced the amount of data requiring attorney review by 70%. The resulting review included over 20 million pages of fund documents — email communications, network data, accounting reports — as well as stored audio files, and resulted in the production of over 8 million pages to multiple parties in less than six months.

Data Intrusion
We have represented companies in connection with possible data intrusion issues. These matters typically require immediate mobilization to quickly preserve and collect transient and disperse quantities of data. Our E-Discovery team has hands on experience in the urgent technological attention these matters require.

IP Litigation
When a court ordered a Japanese client to produce electronic documents related to hundreds of different products within 10 days, in native and .tiff form, Ropes & Gray’s dedicated professionals met the court’s challenge. We collected 100 gigabytes of data and posted it to a secure server for production, all within the court’s deadline.

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