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Legal and Regulatory Expertise for Technology, Telecom and Media Companies
Comprehensive and global e-discovery, digital forensics and information governance consulting designed to reduce costs and risks for complex corporations.
How We Help
FTI Technology experts work alongside our clients’ privacy, legal, IT and executive teams to understand the values and risks of data as well as regulatory requirements and security obligations. As cloud-based data storage continues to proliferate, new communications platforms are adopted and multi-jurisdictional regulations emerge, we provide defensible and repeatable solutions to address the specific needs of our global clients in the Technology, Telecom and Media sectors.
FTI’s global teams are adept at addressing data risks and creating value for our clients’ organizations. We provide the expertise to run coordinated, international e-discovery efforts for investigation and litigation, as well as investigate the misappropriation of confidential information.
Our Expertise Includes:
Data Governance and Privacy
- Privacy program development and assessments
- Enterprise data mapping and litigation readiness
- Data retention technology and policies
- Data remediation and defensible disposition of irrelevant data
- Litigation hold
Comprehensive E-discovery
- Government inquiries
- Internal investigations
- Antitrust and merger investigations
- Traditional litigations
- Global Document Review Attorneys and Managed Document Review in US, UK, EU and China
- Data discovery and extraction from emerging digital sources
Digital Forensics
- IP theft, departing employees & misappropriation of confidential information
- Neutral third-party data remediation
- Data collection and preservation
- Expert witness testimony
Contract Solutions
- Pre-acquisition due diligence
- Post-merger integration of contracts and agreements
- Regulatory compliance
- Contract Management System migration
Recent Engagements
For the client, a global telecommunications company, a steady flow of information is critical to serving its customers, from service orders to data needed by technicians in the field. In order for the client to preserve billions of dollars in government contract revenue, the client needs to fulfill the new CMMC requirements by identifying controlled unclassified information (“CUI”) in more than 3,500 applications comprised of approximately 7,000 structured databases and protect the information in methods outlined by the government. The timeline for identification and protection reduced from 18+ months to less than one year and the privacy concerns must be mitigated while not interrupting critical business operations.
Given the client’s lack of a dedicated information governance program and decades of operating without a distinct and enforced email policies, a myriad of obstacles stood in the way of establishing a new approach. FTI would first need to understand the client’s email and file share universe, and identify any information within those systems that was subject to existing legal hold obligations. With that a baseline, the team could begin disposing of unnecessary data and prepare the archive for a new retention policy.
A large gaming company faced multiple, ongoing matters involving vastly different issues and originating in numerous jurisdictions, yet the same key custodians were relevant to most of the cases. Its legal team understood the excessive costs involved with recollecting and reprocessing the same information for each case and set out to find a solution that would enable the reuse of processed data.