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Anacomp Expands eDiscovery Consulting Services with Hire of Litigation Technology Expert

Legal Veteran Chuck Kellner to Advise Litigators on Document Identification and Collection, Defensible Search Strategies and Early Case Assessment

Anacomp recently expanded its range of eDiscovery consulting services through the hire of litigation technology veteran Charles "Chuck" Kellner as its Vice President of eDiscovery Consulting. The latest services are focused around a range of electronic discovery processes, including data identification, preservation, collection and analysis, defensible search strategies and early case assessment, and are intended to help litigators determine cost-effective, best-practice solutions to their eDiscovery challenges.

The new eDiscovery consulting services complement and extend Anacomp’s robust portfolio of litigation support services, which includes the hosted version of CaseLogistix®, Anacomp's flagship litigation review platform. The eDiscovery consulting services are designed for law firms and general counsel departments who are tasked with accelerating electronic data discovery and minimizing costs and risks while facing growing document volumes, increasing compliance requirements and strained operational budgets. By leveraging Anacomp's eDiscovery consulting services, such users are able leverage Anacomp's litigation support expertise and the proven benefits of its litigation support solutions through all phases of the eDiscovery process.

"We are very pleased to welcome Chuck to our senior management team. He brings tremendous eDiscovery experience to our services portfolio and will help advise our clients regarding process and analysis at the very earliest stages of a case," said Tom Cunningham, Anacomp's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations. "Anacomp's eDiscovery consulting services should prove to be a significant benefit to law firms and general counsel departments who need to accelerate eDiscovery and maximize their capital and resources."

Charles Kellner is a litigation support veteran and a recognized expert in electronic discovery. He is a frequent contributor to continuing legal education (CLE), industry groups and legal publications. Mr. Kellner works onsite with corporate and outside counsel and IT personnel to preserve, collect, search, and produce electronic data used in litigation, mergers and acquisitions and government investigations. He assists in early case assessment, negotiating scope of discovery, searching and culling, and preparing for meet-and-confer. He has developed protocols for the exchange of electronic data in myriad proceedings, including those before the Justice Department, the FTC and the FDA. He has testified on issues of cost and burden, cost shifting, scope and sufficiency of discovery, and on computer forensic findings in fraud and trade secrets litigations.

More information about Anacomp's eDiscovery consulting services can be found at www.anacomp.com/clx/consulting

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New Customer:
Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg Leveraging Hosted CaseLogistix for Accelerated Litigation Review

Leading International Trade Litigation Firm Showing Early Success with On-Demand Version

Anacomp recently announced it is providing the hosted version of its CaseLogistix litigation support platform to Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg L.L.P., a leading international trade and intellectual property litigation law firm with one of the largest International Trade Commission practices in the United States. The firm’s Washington D.C. office is utilizing CaseLogistix to enable its legal teams to quickly collect, organize, review and produce electronically stored information (ESI) and accelerate litigation review processes. The firm is leveraging hosted CaseLogistix via Anacomp’s proven docHarbor® information infrastructure to minimize capital and infrastructure investments, organizational complexities and the internal resources required to prepare data for review.

“We have been very happy with CaseLogistix and how Anacomp has handled our project to this point,” said Tom M. Schaumberg, Partner at Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg. “In fact, everyone at Anacomp has been consistently professional and very responsive to our needs.”

Established more than twenty-five years ago in Washington, D.C., Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg, L.L.P. represents both domestic and international clients, including companies in the electronics, pharmaceutical, bio-technology and automotive industries. Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg, L.L.P. is recognized as the leader in the field of Section 337 litigation before the U.S. International Trade Commission (Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, June 2009; The Legal 500, June 2009; IP Law & Business, April/May 2009; Managing Intellectual Property, February 2009). The firm is committed to providing excellence by listening to clients, offering realistic legal evaluations, developing strategies and implementing them in a cost efficient manner in the areas of international trade, customs and intellectual property litigation.

“We’re delighted Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg is already benefitting from the on-demand version of CaseLogistix,” said Tom Ullman, Anacomp’s Senior Vice President of U.S. Sales. “We continue to make progress with law firms and corporate counsel departments who have found that by leveraging hosted CaseLogistix, they can take advantage of the proven benefits of the platform while reducing costs, streamlining operations, and creating competitive advantage by better managing litigation document volumes and complex litigation processes.”

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Anacomp recently announced that it has received a full, unqualified SAS 70 Type II certification of its Herndon, VA operations center. The certification signifies the document hosting facility's operational controls and security procedures have been rigorously reviewed by an independent certified public accounting firm, and ensures the controls employed there have been suitably designed, tested and are operating at maximum efficiency.

Anacomp's Herndon facility serves as the key technology backbone of hosted CaseLogistix®, Anacomp's flagship litigation review platform, as well as the company's other hosted business process solutions. The certification provides additional, third-party confirmation that users of Anacomp's hosted solutions are leveraging proven, best-of-breed technologies that meet the strictest criteria for robust infrastructure and unwavering security.

"Achieving our SAS 70 Type II certification provides yet another demonstration of our ongoing commitment to delivering the very best technology to our customers," said Tom Cunningham, Anacomp's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations. "By continuing to bolster and invest in our proven docHarbor® information infrastructure, we're able to offer a hosted litigation support solution that is unmatched in the industry in its ability to accelerate review processes and reduce costs, and do so with minimal upfront capital or infrastructure investments for users."

Anacomp has invested over $60 million in its Herndon data center, which hosts over 14 billion documents for a variety of customers. The site offers unlimited information storage capacity, round-the-clock support and a range of state-of-the-art security features. For the SAS 70 audit, RSM McGladrey Inc., a leading national business consulting, accounting and tax firm, closely examined and monitored the center, reviewing and testing its control environments supporting hosted CaseLogistix and Anacomp's other document management services. The firm examined and certified controls in the areas of organization structure, governance and administration, physical and environmental, and system access, availability and performance.

Established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, SAS 70 is a widely recognized auditing standard for service organizations to demonstrate they have adequate controls and processes in place. A SAS 70 examination demonstrates that an independent accounting and auditing firm has reviewed and examined an organization's control objectives and activities. At the conclusion of the examination, a formal report including the auditor's opinion is issued to the examined organization.

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Tales from the Litigation Front Lines:
Dealing with Redaction in Document Productions

By John Stephens Litigation Pre-Sales Engineer Anacomp

I am always keenly interested whenever a colleague in the industry shares a horror story related to a document production. Even the simplest mistake can sometimes get law firms in big trouble or bog down the case with hearings often needed to straighten out the mess. Many document production mistakes occur when producing privileged documents. Thank God for claw-back provisions, but sometimes the damage is already done.

The most common mistake I hear about these days is producing OCR or extracted text where the images were redacted, but the text files produced still had the un-redacted text. In a case involving trade secrets where sensitive data needs to be protected, the damage can be immeasurable. You can potentially lose a client for life. It’s simply not acceptable in today’s competitive legal market, especially in our uncertain economic times.

Fortunately, there is a tool to help you with document productions where it will not allow you to produce the text from redacted images. CaseProduction will create document productions in industry standard formats (Summation, Concordance, etc) with the OCR/extracted text files AND provide a separate list of the redacted OCR/extracted text files so you can re-OCR the files. I like the fact that it is dummy-proof because even the most attentive person can sometimes make a mistake when the clock is ticking and the production has to be out today.

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