Project Leadership Associates can help corporations and law firms better manage your litigation matters through our national e-discovery practice.

We are flexible and do it better, faster and cheaper!
Project Leadership Associates (PLA), the leading legal market consultancy and e-discovery provider, can help your organization improve the processes and costs of e-discovery. PLA’s certified e-discovery experts and industry leading personnel leverage the latest and most relevant and cost effective technologies, along with best in class e-discovery and practice methods and processes to support your full e-discovery litigation lifecycle needs.

Our Strategy - We do it YOUR way!
We leverage the right tools and processes for YOUR matter, large or small. Along with our renowned and experienced delivery teams, we work closely with you to deliver what YOU need, when YOU need it. We do it YOUR way and optimize costs for delivery. It is just that simple!

Our People - We do what we say!
Our national litigation solutions team, comprised of experienced consultants and resources (there are no PLA resources learning on your dime!) extend our e-discovery experiences across many corporations, law firms, courts and governmental agencies. We listen to you and your needs and leverage our strong understanding of the litigation landscape to help you. Our experienced Litigation Support Experts combine our solid understanding of the legal industry and litigation processes with extensive consulting experience in technology, IT systems and electronic discovery practices and technology, to ensure that you establish and maintain forensically sound and court-approved processes and best practices. And, yes, with the goal of helping you win your case.

Our Processes – our honed methodologies and processes help us to perform better than our competitors!
We provide services that range from: assisting corporate legal departments build best practices; company law departments to improve their managing of their e-discovery portfolio; and, guiding law firms as they build profitable litigation support departments. Our services assist you to improve processes relating to information management, identification, preservation, collection, processing, analysis and hosting of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) for your matters. We leverage best-in-class processes and checklists to optimize our delivery, including a substantial investment in project management methods and tools (as PLA employs upwards of 50 project managers). Whether it involves chain of custody or customized work process flows, we labor to optimize efficiencies, reduce errors and lower costs. Methodologies and processes are, in themselves, a true differentiator.

Our Technology - We use the right technology, tailored for you and your matter(s)!
Our technologies span collections, forensics, early case assessment, electronic discovery, culling, processing, hosting, data migration, data management. Our competitors bet big in certain technologies and try to leverage those technologies for every matter. We in turn, have invested in and continue to invest in the right technologies for you. We believe that technology needs to support business need, so we apply the right technologies for your specific matter. We invest in the leading industry technologies as well as new leading technologies. We invest on the right tools, so you don’t have to.

Our heritage as the largest legal focused technology consulting firm aids you as we employ over 100 IT engineers that can be leveraged across hundreds of technology disciplines. No other provider in our industry can offer this breadth of technology knowledge and experience.

PLA Litigation Consulting Services:
Litigation Strategy Solutions

  • Litigation Preparedness: Utilizing our proprietary Litigation Preparedness Maturity Model, PLA helps you develop a comprehensive litigation readiness program (including discovery response, litigation hold and other policies/processes) to allow your law firm or corporate law department to become proactive and dramatically reduce costs.
  • Law Firm Litigation Support Department Assessment and Build: PLA assists law firms build or reengineer litigation support department and eDiscovery offerings to employ the proper technologies, follow proper process and procedures, staff accordingly and achieve profitability, where appropriate.
  • Matter Audit: PLA can review a current litigation matter to determine if all the proper processes and procedures are being used in the e-discovery process.
  • Complex Matter Management: PLA can provide resourcing to appropriate manage your complex litigation matter or matters.

Litigation Management and Delivery Solutions

  • Computer Forensics and Data Collection: Project Leadership collects, analyzes and investigates electronic data focusing on identifying fraudulent activity, misconduct, compliance issues, inaccuracies and inefficiencies. PLA also collects data as part of litigation in a forensically sound manner using industry-standard and court-vetted tools and methods.
  • Early Case and Data Assessment: PLA uses the latest technology to efficiently find crucial information so attorneys can complete early case assessment well before manual review.
  • Electronic Data Processing: PLA develops strategies, identifies, collects, analyzes and prepares electronic documents and other data relevant to legal or compliance proceedings. PLA can also manage the data throughout the ESI processing and hosting stage. We use leading tools to search, de-duplicate, cull, filter and create load files supporting most review platforms, saving time and cutting costs during the processing period.
  • Review Hosting: PLA’s hosted solution utilizes Relativity to support both conceptual and linear review. Our team provides expert project management to boost review productivity, reducing review time and costs. Data security is standard through our hosting services.
  • Managed Services: PLA’s legal managed services program offers the benefits of insourcing with the flexibility of outsourcing, providing clients with a proactive approach to cost and risk management. This approach equips clients with a world class litigation support infrastructure so you can respond with agility to todays – and future – discovery challenges.

For more information about PLA's litigation services, please e-mail LIT@projectleadership.net or call 877-752-0451.