Preservation and Litigation Readiness

Smarter Processes for Reducing Downstream Review Costs

Companies and law firms look to H5 for the expertise required to navigate through documents – whether hundreds of thousands or hundreds of millions of pages – to comply with legal hold obligations and be better prepared for discovery. Our full range of advisory and implementation services help clients achieve predictable and reduced downstream review costs arising out of litigation or investigations, while mitigating the potential risks of over- or under-preserving documents.

Our Approach

At the core, we are experts in information retrieval – a practice distinct from the disciplines of law and corporate IT. We address the range of complex information retrieval problems associated with preservation by combining professional services, advanced proprietary technologies, and specialized expertise. Through this approach, we capture the preservation judgments of legal counsel and automate the assessment of documents to find the information clients need. Learn about our process.

Our all-in fee structure provides budget certainty and generates significant cost savings for our clients over their best available alternative. Learn about our benchmark analyses.

Services

We collaborate closely with our clients and their legal advisors, IT staff, and records management personnel to understand their preservation and litigation readiness objectives – whether associated with repetitive litigation or unique matters. We provide a customized approach that meets clients’ specific needs. Our services include:

Learn more about these services.

What Sets Us Apart

The world’s best companies and law firms rely on H5’s specialized expertise for:

  • More cost-effective, consistent, and accurate results than any review method, as proven by independent studies
  • Budget certainty and significantly reduced downstream review costs for future legal matters
  • Enterprise-wide systematic and consistent implementation of preservation policies
  • Defensible segregation or disposal of all non-relevant records, often 80 to 90 percent of electronically stored files, including email
  • Removal of a major burden from employees, who may be called upon to make preservation judgments
  • Work product integration into downstream review processes for optimal efficiencies
  • Reduced risk of unnecessarily preserving unresponsive (but potentially harmful) information and of destroying information that should be preserved
  • Better-informed decisions based on statistically valid performance metrics

We are prepared, if requested, to provide oral and written testimony that demonstrates the reasonableness of clients’ decisions in selecting our process, and of the process itself.

Learn more about what makes us different.