Introduction to Discovery: Introduction

Introduction to Discovery: Introduction

Is Your Company Involved in International Litigation?

In the past few years, many Japanese companies, especially manufacturers of automotive parts, semiconductors, and other products, have become increasingly involved in international litigation. If your company has business interactions with the U.S. (deals with companies or consumers, has a business presence in the U.S.), you are more or less likely to be sued. In addition to being involved as a party, you may well be involved as a third party in a lawsuit in which your subsidiary or parent company is involved.

Once involved in a lawsuit, the relevant documents must be filed within a certain (surprisingly short) period of time. In order to do this promptly, it is essential to be prepared from normal times and to simulate contingencies.

If the initial response is not correct, unnecessary work and costs may still be incurred, but inadvertent deletion or destruction of relevant e-mails may result in sanctions.

Since its founding in 2003, FRONTEO has been providing support services to companies that have had a difficult time with international litigation. Therefore, we would like to introduce some answers to questions we have often been asked in the course of our litigation support, as well as some discovery procedures that we believe would be useful for corporate staff to know in advance in case of an emergency.

In this age of globalization, international litigation has reached a point where it can no longer be said to be someone else's problem. Let's work together with FRONTEO to make the necessary preparations.

1. handling international litigation alone is difficult: don't leave the selection of a discovery vendor to others!

• Why leaving vendor selection to attorneys and local law firms is dangerous.
• Why law firms prefer to select vendors directly
• How to Choose the Right Discovery Vendor

3 Essential Questions to Ask When Selecting a Discovery Vendor

• 3 questions to use as a guide to measure attorneys

3. beware of "unit price" details! Tricks of the Discovery Support Estimator that can cost you a lot if you don't know about them

4. this kind of vendor is safe!

• How to recognize a Discovery Vendor: 13 questions to know if a Japanese company can use a vendor with confidence.

5. be careful of the quotation!

• Discovery vendor technical capabilities are just as important as discovery know-how

6. tricks to lower the unit cost of discovery but increase the overall cost

• The Key to Controlling Costs is in Checking Estimates (Part 1)
• The Key to Controlling Costs is in Checking Estimates (Part 2)

7. determining a vendor 's responsiveness: must ask questions to determine a vendor's discovery responsiveness