In-house Scenarios

Stock Options Backdating

Your company faces an SEC probe and several shareholder lawsuits simultaneously. Using DiscoveryBox, you can keep financial data secure and in its original format as the collection and the initial review of sensitive documents is performed in house. By significantly reducing the universe of documents that must be safeguarded under a legal hold, DiscoveryBox minimizes the disruption to day-to-day business, relieves the strain put on IT resources by the discovery process and enables your company to complete the internal inquiry in weeks instead of months, better assess the case risk of the shareholder lawsuits and to decide more quickly on a legal strategy.

Theft of Trade Secrets

Your company hires an engineer from a rival, and six months later learns that the new hire may have taken electronic documents from his former employer that include trade secrets. Your outside law firm needs to quickly quarantine the data, find out if anyone else has had access to the files, and if trade secrets were shared. Speed is crucial. DiscoveryBox streamlines the process. The data for the new engineer is collected and loaded within 48 hours by DiscoveryBox. The legal team conducts a targeted review that requires a much smaller universe of documents to be preserved under a legal hold. This focused investigation is completed within a month, mitigating potential damages and enabling your company to develop a more effective legal strategy.

Defective Product Pattern Litigation

Improperly manufactured components from a supplier left your company's flagship product with several defects. The first lawsuit was brought more than a year ago and your company has collected several thousand gigabytes of data from 50 employees that are being reviewed by an outside law firm. Another lawsuit is filed on a very different set of facts regarding the testing of the flagship products. The facts involve many of the same 50 employees, but the lawsuit is being handled by a separate outside firm. DiscoveryBox eliminates the collection of duplicate documents and enables the sharing of all review calls so that only new additional documents are made available to the second firm. This significantly reduces the cost of storing, collection and reviewing documents for the second and any subsequent lawsuits.