Litigation Support

eDiscovery

Klinedinst understands that eDiscovery can prove to be a vital part of successfully litigating a case and therefore requires careful planning, oversight and execution. 

Our eDiscovery team has decades of experience working on cases ranging from those involving a few thousand documents to complex class-actions and government investigations involving millions of documents. Recognizing that eDiscovery can be costly, the team believes in collaborating closely with clients, including when pre-planning and budgeting.

Areas of service include:

• Preservation, including legal holds and third-party preservation letters
• Identification of relevant data
• Early Case Assessment
• Defensible document collection
• Drafting and negotiating of ESI protocols
• Meet and confer / pre-trial conferences on eDiscovery issues
• eDiscovery briefing and motion practice
• eDiscovery vendor selection
• Search methodology and data analytics
• Processing and hosting of data
• Document Review and analysis

Information Governance

Businesses create, store, share, and dispose of growing amounts of information every day. Without clear policies and processes, that data can create unnecessary legal, regulatory, and discovery challenges. Klinedinst’s Information Governance team works with clients to better understand how information moves through their organizations and develop practical approaches to managing it.

Our attorneys and eDiscovery professionals bring together legal, privacy, data-retention, and litigation perspectives. This allows us to help clients consider information governance not simply as a records issue, but as part of broader risk management and day-to-day business operations.

Information Governance Capabilities

• Document and data-retention policies
• Data mapping and information inventories
• Privacy and data-security policies
• Litigation hold and preservation processes
• eDiscovery readiness
• Review of information-management practices
• Data sharing and transfer considerations
• Coordination of legal, compliance, and eDiscovery requirements

Information governance can become particularly important when a business faces litigation, a regulatory request, a privacy issue, or a security incident. Klinedinst works with clients to identify relevant data sources, address preservation obligations, and develop policies that account for both current business needs and potential future disputes.

Our team also works closely with Klinedinst’s eDiscovery and Privacy and Data Security practices when information-management issues overlap with litigation, regulatory compliance, or data protection.

To learn more about our Information Governance capabilities, contact a member of the Klinedinst team.

Related Practice Areas

• eDiscovery
• Privacy and Data Security
• Cyber Incident Response
• Business and Commercial Litigation

Litigation support

Modern litigation often involves much more than pleadings, depositions, and courtroom strategy. The volume and complexity of electronically stored information can affect nearly every stage of a matter. Klinedinst’s Litigation Support team works with attorneys and clients to manage information efficiently, preserve relevant data, and support the practical demands of discovery and litigation.

By bringing legal and technical resources together, Klinedinst helps clients address discovery issues from the early stages of a matter through document review and production. Our approach is designed to keep the process organized, defensible, and aligned with the needs of the case.

Litigation Support Capabilities

• eDiscovery
• Information Governance
• Data identification and preservation
• Litigation holds
• Collection of traditional and non-traditional electronically stored information (ESI)
• Document review
• Discovery-related research and meet-and-confer support
• ESI processing and production

Klinedinst’s eDiscovery team consults across the Electronic Discovery Reference Model and works with clients on issues involving custodial interviews, preservation, forensic collection, document review, and production. The team also helps clients think beyond an individual case by considering information governance and data-retention practices that can affect future litigation and regulatory needs.

To learn more about Klinedinst’s Litigation Support capabilities, contact a member of our team.

Related Practice Areas

• eDiscovery
• Information Governance
• Business and Commercial Litigation
• Privacy and Data Security

Appellate

Klinedinst’s Appellate practice group is equipped to handle the complicated appeal process from start to finish. Our appellate department not only drafts and manages appeals, but also strategizes and consults during trial to maximize potential options should an appeal become necessary.

Our experienced appellate lawyers can be an invaluable resource to clients, particularly in complex or “bet the company” litigation. As with all matters handled by the firm, our attorneys provide hands-on management of every appellate matter, to ensure the appellate phase becomes a prudent investment in the entire legal case and not merely a compounding of expenses.

Our appellate group handles both federal and state appeals, including appeals before the California and the United States Supreme Courts, and is actively involved in the appellate community. In addition, members of our appellate department handle a wide range of appellate issues involving the following areas of substantive law:

• Banking and Lender Liability
• Bankruptcy
• Civil Procedure
• Commercial Contracts
• Constitutional Law
• Criminal Law
• Employment and Labor Law
• Environmental Law
• Family Law
• Insurance / Bad Faith
• Intellectual Property
• Personal Injury
• Probate
• Products Liability
• Professional Malpractice
• Real Estate / Land Use
• Workers’ Compensation