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Fios and Exterro join forces to help corporations address legal holds and e-discovery
Published 6th August 2008
Fios will provide implementation services for Exterro’s Fusion legal hold management application
Portland, Ore. – August 5, 2008 – Fios® Inc., dedicated exclusively to delivering comprehensive electronic discovery services to corporations and their outside counsel, today announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with Exterro®, a leading provider of legal hold and discovery management software solutions for the legal industry. Fios and Exterro are now working together to help corporations implement effective, defensible approaches for managing legal holds in response to e-discovery for litigation and investigations. With this partnership, Fios will provide its full suite of business process and technical consulting services to support the implementation of Exterro’s Fusion legal hold management application.
“Effectively managing legal holds in response to preservation obligations has become one of the most critical issues needing to be addressed by corporations facing litigation or investigation,” said Prashant Dubey, senior vice president of Fios. “Fios has been formulating and implementing legal hold management business processes for our Fortune 1000 clients for the past five years. As part of our services, we partner with leading technology providers to help our clients automate their processes, in support of the risk mitigation and cost control goals of the corporation. We are excited to partner with Exterro to provide consulting and implementation services for Exterro Fusion’s legal hold solution.”
The implementation of Exterro’s Fusion legal hold management application will be offered as part of the comprehensive e-discovery consulting services offered by Fios. Fios has extensive experience helping clients assess, design and implement effective strategies, technologies and repeatable business processes for managing e-discovery. This experience, combined with automation and integration in Exterro’s Fusion, will help corporations gain control of e-discovery costs by leveraging technology to improve collaboration between in-house legal teams, outside counsel, IT, records management and other discovery response team members.
“Exterro’s mission is to provide corporations and their outside counsel with innovative, defensible systems for managing the e-discovery and legal hold process. Based on recent court rulings and the more intense scrutiny around legal hold processes, the demand for our software, services and related products have skyrocketed,” said Bobby Balachandran, CEO of Exterro. “We’re extremely pleased to have Fios, a proven leader in the e-discovery industry, as our strategic implementation partner. Fios’ deep experience in helping corporations navigate all phases of the e-discovery process, particularly around legal hold protocols, discovery readiness assessments, ESI content mapping, discovery response planning, FRCP 26(f) discovery conference preparation and information governance will be a big benefit for corporate legal departments who are looking to implement our world class legal hold and discovery management solutions.”
About Exterro
Serving the Fortune 1000 and Amlaw 200 law firms, Exterro is the leading provider of advanced workflow technology and automation solutions exclusively for legal hold and discovery management. Exterro Fusion helps legal teams control litigation and discovery processes and costs by tightening collaboration between outside counsel, in-house legal teams, service providers and experts. Exterro believes that process automation and improvements in litigation, especially in discovery, can be learned from the quality improvement successes of other industries and disciplines. Exterro's easy-to-use, quick-to-deploy and simple-to-integrate management platforms are built on a patent-pending, open architecture that integrates seamlessly with existing business processes and systems. A built-in management workflow engine provides cost controls, delivers time savings and reduces risks throughout the litigation support process. Exterro is headquartered in Portland, Ore. The company also has offices in San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Dallas. Find out more about Exterro and its technologies at www.exterro.com.
About Fios, Inc.
For over a decade, Fios has helped corporations and their outside counsel reduce risk, control costs and gain management control over the entire spectrum of e-discovery. We are dedicated exclusively to delivering comprehensive services and expert guidance that transform the burdensome nature of electronic discovery into a streamlined, legally defensible business process. Our proven services and methodologies are based on an integrated, in-depth knowledge of technology, legal and human resource requirements to meet the ever-changing demands of complex e-discovery. Headquartered in Portland, Ore., Fios is backed by top investors, including 3i, Digital Partners, Banyan Capital Partners, FBR CoMotion and Fluke Venture Partners, and has offices throughout the continental United States. For more information about the company and its services, visit http://www.fiosinc.com.