[October 29, 2014]

Kroll Ontrack Announces Legal Hold Offering Complete with Project Management Consulting

Kroll Ontrack, the leading provider of ediscovery and data recovery products and services, today announced it is offering Relativity Legal Hold complete with Kroll Ontrack consulting to help law firms and corporations automate the legal hold process while helping ensure accurate and defensible legal hold management. Offered for a cost-effective flat fee per matter, Relativity Legal Hold technology by Kroll Ontrack gives organizations a way to streamline this complex enterprise challenge.

Administered directly by the organization or with the help of Kroll Ontrack consulting, Relativity Legal Hold automates the legal hold process and empowers users to defensibly manage and track legal hold communicatins and key data in a single place. Project initiation and management is efficient and flexible, whether utilizing customized communications and questionnaires or leveraging a full bank of legal hold templates, including initial notices, questionnaires, follow-ups and acknowledgments. With built-in dashboards and reports, custodian responses are tracked for real-time insight, and alerts and reports can be automatically sent to stakeholders, such as IT or outside counsel. Throughout the process, every action is tracked, helping ensure defensibility and reducing the risks related to manual processes.

"You don't get a 'do-over' with preservation, so putting in place an effective legal hold is critical to a comprehensive, efficient and accurate collection and downstream review," said Senior Vice President of Consulting Cathleen Peterson, Kroll Ontrack. "Relativity Legal Hold, coupled with our expert consulting, helps ensure that a sound and repeatable legal hold process is both established and executed. Whether guiding legal hold setup and helping draft custodial notices or facilitating communications between key stakeholders, Kroll Ontrack consultants help organizations efficiently and effectively navigate the nuances of legal hold management."

Specifically, Kroll Ontrack consultants can project manage legal holds, developing and driving repeatable legal hold strategies. Through a consultative approach, Kroll Ontrack consultants:

• Guide legal hold setup by helping counsel draft and distribute the legal hold notice, coordinating with HR to leverage HR system data.
• Help design the strategic questionnaire templates in conjunction with counsel to account for all data sources and locations and assess custodian involvement in a matter, ensuring feasible and accurate collection.
• Facilitate custodial interviews and manage follow up to promote timely, complete and comprehensive custodian interviews.
• Provide consultative expertise to effectuate preservation and properly prepare for and execute collection.

Relativity Legal Hold technology by Kroll Ontrack is offered for a flat-fee per matter; Kroll Ontrack legal hold consulting and project management is offered as an hourly professional service. For more information about Relativity Legal Hold from Kroll Ontrack, visit: http://www.ediscovery.com/solutions/relativitylegalhold.

About Kroll Ontrack Inc.
Kroll Ontrack provides technology-driven services and software to help legal, corporate and government entities as well as consumers manage, recover, search, analyze, and produce data efficiently and cost-effectively. In addition to its award-winning suite of software, Kroll Ontrack provides data recovery, data destruction, electronic discovery and document review. For more information about Kroll Ontrack and its offerings please visit www.edisocvery.com.

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