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New Facility to Expand Deloitte Discovery Practice




Frank Piantidosi
Chairman and CEO, Deloitte FAS
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

Bruce Hartley
Director, Analytic and Forensic Technology, Deloitte FAS
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

Deloitte’s Discovery practice is expanding with the launch of its new, state-of-the-art Electronic Discovery Solutions Center.  Located near Nashville, Tenn., the centralized, 13,180 square-foot facility will enable Deloitte’s clients to more quickly and effectively address discovery challenges.

Discovery is generally defined as the evidence collection process that precedes any lawsuit or legal proceeding.  The discovery process is one of the most costly processes facing corporate legal teams as the type and quantity of electronic files proliferate.  Since a December 1, 2006 amendment to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure took effect, all companies must share an inventory of electronic files during the discovery process.  In many cases, courts require electronic discovery, or e-discovery, to be completed in as little as 90 days.  Millions of dollars in fines and sanctions are potentially at risk any time a discovery request is mishandled. 

“Discovery is a complex issue for companies engaged in a lawsuit or investigation.  In today’s global business environment, multi-national companies may need to collect and process data on servers, hard drives and devices throughout the world for just one discovery request,” said Frank Piantidosi, chairman and CEO of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP (Deloitte FAS).  “Deloitte’s vital industry advantage is our ability to handle litigations and investigations across multiple geographies, and in many languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Arabic.  No matter where our clients’ legal teams are, we’re on the ground and ready to help them respond to discovery requests.”

Operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the Deloitte Electronic Discovery Solutions Center was designed as a scalable facility to satisfy today’s high-volume processing requirements and to quickly expand capabilities to meet future demands. 

“The Electronic Discovery Solutions Center allows us the flexibility to grow as the marketplace advances.  Today, clients may require multiple terabytes of data to be collected, processed and stored.  For example, a single case may require us to analyze electronic data that — if printed out in stacks of pages — could reach as high as three Sears Towers in one month. Tomorrow, that amount could double or triple,” said Bruce Hartley, director, Deloitte FAS.

A team of highly skilled professionals, including former government prosecutors, intelligence community members, computer science and forensic specialists and high-tech engineers use their vast experience and some of the industry’s most advanced software to collect, process and sift through data to identify files including PDFs, Microsoft Office documents, instant message logs, Smartphone logs, and even voice and video files that are instrumental in supporting client cases.

The Deloitte Electronic Discovery Solutions Center will employ approximately 100 professionals in suburban Nashville.  In addition to professionals working at the EDSC, Deloitte Discovery has professionals and labs in several U.S. Deloitte offices as well as access to the Analytic & Forensic Technology professionals and labs of the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu member firms and their affiliates around the world.







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