DISCOVERY
A New Cost Model for Streamlined Discovery
The challenge of discovery for organisations
We help organisations answer the following questions;
European financial institutions have traditionally
adopted a passive and reactive approach to comply
with threatened litigation, but in the wake of the
credit crunch they’re now exposed to a wave of
international litigation. Valuable lessons can be learnt
from their peer organisations in the more litigious
United States to let them develop a proactive,
structured response.
What are the problems?
Many businesses rely on expensive, outsourced,
forensic consultants working alongside their external
legal counsel to ensure they’re compliant with
requirements and regulations. The overlapping and
disjointed processes connecting outside forensics,
external counsel and internal lawyers result in high-
cost, inefficient discovery.
Most companies don’t have a systematic repeatable
process for discovery, making it impossible to develop a
technical architecture for automating the processes. As
a result, expensive resources often end up being used
to perform simple tasks.
The demand for litigation services and its supporting
technology is variable. This makes it expensive when
having to pay for solutions, which are built up-front and
require software licenses.
We can’t reduce the amount of litigation you face, nor
the complexity within each case, but through our
experience and our partnerships in both the legal and
technology areas of discovery, we help businesses save
money by bringing their discovery operations in-house.
© Rule Financial Ltd 2009

Rule Financial’s approach Guidance Software’s EnCase eDiscovery
Rule Financial bridges the gap between lawyers and EnCase eDiscovery is an enterprise-wide solution which
technology through strong relationships with a top automatically searches, identifies, collects, preserves and
international law firm and the market-leading processes electronically stored information (ESI). It lets
eDiscovery software vendor Guidance Software. businesses build an in-house, systemised, repeatable and
defensible process to comply with US and UK law.
We will work with you to develop a repeatable
straight-through-process which relies on in-house  Identification – Pre-collection assessment of ESI to
market-leading technology rather than outsourced determine scope of work
forensic consultants. This process incorporates the  Preservation – Storage of collected data in tamper-
roles of both internal and external lawyers. proof, forensically-sound containers along with
metadata
We deliver Guidance Software’s EnCase eDiscovery  Collection – Gather from desktops, servers, network
solution on a pay per use basis. There is no upfront locations, email servers, portable devices etc
capital expenditure; instead, customers pay through  Processing – Provide ESI consolidation, secondary
their operational budget on a per case, per custodian filtering and de-duplication
basis.  Review Platform Integration – Export collected ESI
to most popular review platforms
The benefits for discovery from the Rule
Financial and Guidance Partnership Guidance Software’s Clients
“Guidance Softwa re’s solu tion addresses virtually every
aspect of info rmation secu rity and eDiscovery. It saves
money, saves time and produces better results wheth er
the task is internal investigation or eDiscovery.”
“In one large case we were able to cull 9.2 million
documents to 600,000 for collection. On that case
using the eDiscovery Suite, we were able to save $3
million in processing and attorney review costs.”
Analyst’s View
“The collection tool of choice a mong many of th e other
eDiscovery vendors in addition to enterprises. For many
organizations ... this is as good as it gets.”
Rule Financial and Guidance Software Free Case Analysis
Formed in 1997, Rule Financial bestrides the two worlds Rule Financial and Guidance Software will demonstrate
of financial services and the law. We’re the leading the benefits of our eDiscovery approach and technology
supplier for the enhancement of Operations and IT by performing a discovery exercise on one of your
solutions for investment banks and have recently recent legal cases completely free of charge.
acquired capabilities focused on the legal market. Contact Us
To this cross-market domain we’ve added the market- For more information on how we can help you, please
leading technology of Guidance Software, whose EnCase contact marketing@rulefinancial.com
eDiscovery® forensic software is consistently awarded the or telephone +44 (0)20 7826 4444
top rating by analysts Gartner and Socha Gelbman.
© Rule Financial Ltd 2009