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Our innovative and deeply experienced eSpark team brings a different value-driven approach to clients for e-discovery, e-compliance and e-document management. Learn how we believe eSpark brings efficiency, spend value, and business level sanity to an expensive, confusing area. Share Our Spark. Meet the eSpark team.
What is eSpark? Innovation is energy. One small spark of innovation can energize new ways of thinking that lead to new products and new industries. eSpark is our spark of innovation to power a new way of legal thinking about e-discovery, e-compliance and e-document management. When you think of technology solutions, you don't immediately think of attorneys. Yet, today, clients facing legal challenges of almost any variety turn to attorneys to apply legal standards to electronic information problems. The result of this often unwieldy collision of legal and technical worlds can be runaway legal costs, impractical and overly-intrusive technical burdens, and outcomes that are less than satisfactory. Square peg, round hole. We're trying to end that mismatch, mostly by using knowledge and extensive experience we've gained, in collaboration with technology professionals, to "spark" new ways of thinking about and creating solutions for e-information problems. In the e-discovery arena, we've developed what we believe to be a unique process – a service/product/skill that differentiates us from other law firms. The prevailing e-discovery strategy is to gather first, ask questions later. We've been there, done that. This approach can be inefficient, resulting in mega-terabytes of information for attorneys or others to review. In contrast, we understand the need for early information management, information policies and procedures, and preservation and production protocols. And we know how to identify and use the relevant information. We've developed a process that's designed to focus rapidly on determining what information is actually material to the issue, who has knowledge about it, where it is, and how it can be most efficiently gathered. Then, we gather material, without sweeping in unnecessary information to be reviewed later. We try to look for the needles in a bale, not a haystack. This concept sounds utterly simple and obvious, but it requires expertise, an understanding of the legal issues, and a developed process to do well. We believe that's the space where we can and do operate to provide you with value, in addition to legal accountability. And we do it at Midwestern rates with an openness to alternative fee engagements. Deep knowledge: We’ve got it. Our eSpark team is not a repackaged group of stodgy attorneys – in fact it's a cross-disciplinary team of experienced attorneys and other professionals knowledgeable in specific areas of business, information technology, records management, security and litigation. The team includes members of the Sedona Conference Working Group on Document Retention and Production, ARMA International, and the International Legal Technology Association. Members of our team have attended and taught national e-discovery specialist certification courses and other training for information technology specialists and attorneys. Learn more about our attorney team leaders. Demonstrated experience: We’ve got it. Our eSpark team has served with distinction in leading e-document efforts for national, regional and local companies in major litigation and other contexts. We have provided this service in cases in which we served as lead counsel, but also in cases where our clients understood our expertise and value, selecting us as their e-discovery counsel to work with other lead counsel. Value: Did we mention that eSpark also includes the benefit of a Midwestern rate structure and substantial experience with alternative fee engagements? Learn more, about: e-discovery, e-compliance and e-document management.
Innovation is energy. One small spark of innovation can energize new ways of thinking that lead to new products and new industries. eSpark is our spark of innovation to power a new way of legal thinking about e-discovery, e-compliance and e-document management.
When you think of technology solutions, you don't immediately think of attorneys. Yet, today, clients facing legal challenges of almost any variety turn to attorneys to apply legal standards to electronic information problems. The result of this often unwieldy collision of legal and technical worlds can be runaway legal costs, impractical and overly-intrusive technical burdens, and outcomes that are less than satisfactory. Square peg, round hole.
We're trying to end that mismatch, mostly by using knowledge and extensive experience we've gained, in collaboration with technology professionals, to "spark" new ways of thinking about and creating solutions for e-information problems. In the e-discovery arena, we've developed what we believe to be a unique process – a service/product/skill that differentiates us from other law firms. The prevailing e-discovery strategy is to gather first, ask questions later. We've been there, done that. This approach can be inefficient, resulting in mega-terabytes of information for attorneys or others to review.
In contrast, we understand the need for early information management, information policies and procedures, and preservation and production protocols. And we know how to identify and use the relevant information. We've developed a process that's designed to focus rapidly on determining what information is actually material to the issue, who has knowledge about it, where it is, and how it can be most efficiently gathered. Then, we gather material, without sweeping in unnecessary information to be reviewed later. We try to look for the needles in a bale, not a haystack. This concept sounds utterly simple and obvious, but it requires expertise, an understanding of the legal issues, and a developed process to do well. We believe that's the space where we can and do operate to provide you with value, in addition to legal accountability. And we do it at Midwestern rates with an openness to alternative fee engagements.
Learn more, about: e-discovery, e-compliance and e-document management.