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Reduce Litigation Costs Using Email Archiving for Early Case Assessment

- New Practical Applications Report from Smarsh makes the case for time- and cost-saving technology -

National Harbor, Md., August 26, 2009 – Smarsh®, the managed service leader in secure, innovative and reliable email archiving and compliance solutions, today introduced the first in its series of Practical Applications reports, Reduce Litigation Costs Using Email Archiving for Early Case Assessment. The paper debuted at the 2009 International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Conference in National Harbor, Md. and can be read here.

Authored by Seth H. Row, a litigator and electronic discovery consultant based in Portland, Ore., the report contends that deployment of an email archiving solution will save companies time and money in their Early Case Assessment programs. Ultimately, efforts in this area will help prepare counsel for the Meet and Confer conference, inform the decision to defend or settle a case and deliver positive results in litigation cost management.

Email plays a critical role in understanding the strengths, weaknesses and overall risks of a case early on. Analysis of a company’s centrally-preserved email archive can help increase fact-gathering efficiency and aid counsel in recreating a case’s timeline, determining its cast of characters, understanding a larger context, finding the “smoking gun” and identifying other critical documents.

Smarsh’s hosted email archiving solution captures every email (and attachment) that enters or leaves a client’s organization, and preserves them with forensic integrity in a central repository. The messages are scanned, indexed via virtually every criteria associated with email (i.e.: sender, recipient, body content, attachments, metadata, etc.) and classified according to results. Because all email is preserved in the archive in its original form (ensuring that no messages are tampered with, altered or deleted) for the entire retention period set by the company, there is no backup media restoration to contend with. The entire archive is instantly searchable and messages can be produced on-demand.

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Smarsh® is the managed service leader in secure, innovative and reliable email-archiving solutions for message compliance and records retention, proactive litigation readiness and mail server data management. Smarsh solutions for data-leak prevention and secure messaging help users meet email and file transfer encryption obligations, mitigate risk associated with outbound email, and facilitate email supervision.

The SaaS (software as a service) delivery model enables clients to eliminate IT infrastructure costs and minimize operating burden, while benefiting from Smarsh’s expertise and experience in hosting large volumes of mission-critical client data. Customizable solutions fit the needs, budgets and technological infrastructure of any organization and are matched with unrivaled customer support.

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