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CDS Advisory Services brings together leading advisors and technical experts to assist clients throughout the discovery process. We offer a diligent, creative, and consultative approach, which is unique in the industry. With a deep knowledge of discovery processes as well as data management, our eDiscovery consulting connects the legal and the technical worlds. CDS consultants, most of whom are former practicing attorneys, objectively recommend tools and procedures to ensure the best use of client resources.

Whether it is developing keyword searches or implementing the latest in analytics technology, Advisory Services creates solutions that help clients save time and reduce costs. These practices are applied throughout each matter, from initial workflow development to managed review and production.

End-to-End Support

CDS ensures a unified understanding of your expectations across our personnel and offices. When multiple matters occur simultaneously, an Advisory Services team member ensures all matters adhere to the client’s preferred workflow. CDS is known for its solid client relationships, which are built on the assurance that every CDS employee is driven to succeed, from the first meeting with a sales representative to closing a case with our technical staff.

Lower Costs, Save Time, and Improve Outcomes

Below are some of the ways in which CDS helps our clients:

Designing standardized data management practices for clients anticipating multiple lawsuits
Developing workflows to manage data housed in multiple locations, simultaneous litigation matters, and strict discovery deadlines
Assisting in establishing internal processes for data management based on a client’s current technology, data production needs, and best practices for the client’s specific industry
Evaluating discovery plans to issue-spot potential areas of weakness
Advising on keyword searches to encompass what is both technically feasible and legally imperative
Educating clients’ legal staff and litigation support on the latest eDiscovery technologies
Applying analytics technologies to minimize the size and cost of hosting and review
Designing and implementing predictive coding processes to minimize data sets, both at the outset of processing and at the start of review
Standardizing and regulating the workflow implementation across CDS project managers and a client’s litigation support staff

Please accept this note as my personal and professional endorsement of Complete Discovery Source, business partner to TOTE, Inc. and affiliates, as they have been a key resource to us in the eDiscovery process as we were involved in a complex matter where thousands of documents had to be produced. CDS made the process easy and they worked well with our outside counsel to make sure that the correct documents were produced. We greatly appreciate their support in the eDiscovery process for our companies, and we continue to utilize them on any on-going or new matters.

Since my earliest involvement with Chris O’Connor and Brad Janssen, I have found their company to be world class in many ways, they are courteous and above all, professional in every respect.

Iveta (Evie) Wentink| Compliance Director | TOTE
CDS has been an integral part of controlling our litigation costs across all the Reynolds Group Holdings businesses. As Chief IP Counsel managing the intellectual property matters of the distinct businesses under the Reynolds Group umbrella, I have routinely had multiple IP litigations going on at any one time. In each case, we would encounter e-discovery costs, and in each case, I would have the same witnesses, the same inventors and the same business people having their data put into discovery, each with a different vendor depending on the case and depending on which vendor outside litigation counsel would recommend. It was a waste.

I came to CDS seeking to simplify and reduce my e-discovery overhead. CDS presented me with the option of keeping serial witnesses in a database repository to reduce the multiple ingestion fees I was paying to different vendors to ingest raw data in multiple cases. That allowed me to pay a single ingestion fee with lower ongoing hosting costs. The idea was just what I needed, and we have expanded that relationship to use the repository for other sensitive matters where we have needs for searchable data or litigation holds. CDS was forward thinking, helpful and dedicated to taking care of my needs as a client. They have been a terrific e-discovery partner.

Daniel H. Shulman, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, Reynolds Group Holdings Ltd.
CDS provided one of the best customer service experiences I have had. In addition to being genuinely nice people with which to work, the CDS team is extremely responsive – routinely replying to requests within minutes. They understood the time constraints involved in the project and went above and beyond in providing what I needed within the needed timeframe. The team also cared about delivering meaningful results rather than billing for unnecessary services. The entire process was seamless from start to finish and I couldn’t have asked for more in a partner. I would use CDS’s services again in a heart-beat and I highly recommend CDS.

Monica Wahba, Legal Counsel US, Suitsupply
CDS efficiently handled all our eDiscovery needs and quickly responded to each of our requests. CDS helped us manage a cross-jurisdictional investigation and worked seamlessly with our domestic and international offices. CDS was attentive to our various jurisdictional and data privacy concerns, and we always felt comfortable that CDS was ready, at any time of the day, to give us immediate and accurate results. They remain a go-to for our eDscovery.

- Jonathan Bailyn, Associate, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Jonathan Bailyn, Associate, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP