Focus

Falcon Discovery is a niche legal service practice specializing in managing e-discovery in-house. E-discovery is perhaps the single largest cost in litigation today and our groundbreaking InsideOut™ managed service gives forward-thinking companies an in-house e-discovery capability that delivers astonishing cost savings while significantly enhancing defensibility and the accuracy of results, with no additional headcount or capital expenditure.

E-discovery, re-imagined

Falcon Discovery is transforming the way corporate legal departments manage discovery in the digital age. It started in 2004 when Qwest Communications asked Falcon’s founder, Don McLaughlin, to survey the escalating cost and complexity of the legal discovery process.

Given an opportunity to re-imagine the discovery process from the ground up, Don enlisted a team of lawyers and technologists to create a new framework for aligning people, processes and technologies to optimize the discovery process. Working as an extension of the legal department, Falcon’s team engineered a whole new approach to managing legal discovery - from the inside out.

The result is InsideOut™, Falcon’s innovative in-house e-discovery service managed by Falcon’s team of lawyers and technology specialists. By 2008, Falcon had grown to help other Fortune 500 companies enhance their discovery technologies and processes. That same year Corporate Counsel magazine selected Qwest’s legal department as Legal Department of the Year, specifically citing its innovative relationship with Falcon Discovery (see article).

Today, Falcon maintains its exclusive focus on helping clients leverage in-house process innovation and advanced technology to manage legal discovery more quickly, efficiently and cost effectively.

• Senior Leadership

  Falcon Discovery’s executive leadership helps clients optimize the e-discovery process by applying a range of expertise, including forensics, records retention, technology and process consulting, litigation and discovery management, and production management. Our executive team coordinates and oversees our staff attorneys and technology specialists in their work managing cases through the lifecycle of discovery, from preservation, collection, and early case analysis through searching, review, and production.

  • Don McLaughlin, Jr., Esq.

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    Don McLaughlin is a founding partner, board member, and president.

    Don works directly with Falcon’s clients to help them optimize their legal discovery processes. As chief architect of Falcon’s InsideOut™ model, his thought leadership is often cited in legal publications and he is a featured speaker at legal and business conferences.

    Prior to founding Falcon, Don’s consulting practice helped Qwest Communications manage the legal and technical challenges associated with electronically stored information (ESI) on high-stakes criminal and civil litigation matters.

    In the past, he practiced commercial litigation at Sherman & Howard, one of the Mountain West’s largest regional firms. He also served as a deputy district attorney in Colorado’s Eighth Judicial District.

    A recognized thought leader on in-house e-discovery, in 2007, Don served as an editorial adviser for the publication, “Navigating the Hazards of E-Discovery: A Manual for Judges in State Courts Across the Nation,” which was published by the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver.

    Don earned his J.D. from the University of Denver and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Vermont, and studied internationally at the University of London and the Université de Grenoble.

  • Cody Greenwaldt, Esq.

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    Cody collaborates with in-house and outside counsel and oversees the provisioning of       eDiscovery services, including in-house e-discovery response, preservation, collections and forensics, processing and culling, searching and early case assessment, document review and production management.

    Prior to joining Falcon Discovery, Cody worked as in-house counsel for a Fortune 200 company and he was responsible for the ongoing development and implementation of the company’s corporate ethics and compliance program and conducted internal investigations, which required extensive interviewing and electronic data analysis.

    Cody has also worked as a managing attorney providing large-scale document analysis, review and related services in response to high-profile document requests and government investigations.

    Cody received his J.D. from the University of South Dakota School of Law and his B.S. from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

  • John Mooney, Esq.

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    John Mooney is Director of Client Services

    John is responsible for effective delivery of discovery solutions to our clients. As a client liaison to Falcon’s legal and technology consultants, he ensures each team continually meets and exceeds the expectations of our clients.

    Prior to joining Falcon, John managed the discovery and document review process at a Fortune 500 company. John was also a judicial intern in the Southern District of New York.

    He received a J.D. from Touro College in Central Islip, New York.

  • Matthew Porter, Esq.

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    Matthew Porter is Director of Legal Technology

    Matt oversees Falcon’s technology solutions. In this role, he maintains a deep understanding of e-discovery technologies, including emerging tools, hardware, and applications.

    Before joining Falcon, Matt was Senior Client Manager at Xerox Litigation Services, where he provided case management and electronic discovery services to top law firms and Fortune 500 companies.

    Prior to his time at Xerox, he practiced law at McKenna & Cuneo (Washington D.C.), Faegre & Benson (Denver) and at his own litigation consulting practice.

    Matt is often a featured speaker on e-discovery issues and has published articles about legal issues affecting software development.

    Matt holds a law degree from New York University and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and in English from Hofstra University.

  • Martin Siefert

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    Martin Siefert is Director of Electronic Data Discovery (EDD) and Digital Forensics

    Martin has an extensive background in digital forensics and network security, as well as software and web application development.

    Before joining Falcon, Martin worked for Experian where he managed the company’s worldwide EDD projects, including digital forensic investigations for their cyber incident response team.

    Martin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. His professional certifications and affiliations include:

    • Certified Computer Examiner (CCE) through the International Society of Forensic Computer Examiners (ISFCE)
    • EnCase Certified Examiner (EnCE) through Guidance Software
    • EnCase Certified eDiscovery Practitioner (EnCEP) through Guidance Software
    • Active member of the High Technology Cyber Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA)
    • Active member of the Colorado Association of Computer Crime Investigators (CACCI)

    He also volunteers his expertise in digital forensics to the digital crime lab at the Lakewood Police Department in Lakewood, Colorado.

     

    

• The Falcon Advantage

  The E-Discovery Challenge

  E-Discovery has become perhaps the single largest cost in litigation today. For each matter, electronically stored information—including e-mail, file attachments, instant messages and application data—generates a staggering amount of potentially relevant information. To deal with this more complex legal landscape, new technologies and practices offer significant opportunities to handle discovery in a more coordinated, efficient and defensible manner.

  The Falcon Advantage

  Falcon Discovery helps enterprise thrive in this new legal landscape. Our groundbreaking approach drives greater coordination across the entire discovery process through our hard-to-match mix of litigation skills, intelligent process engineering, and leading edge experience with deploying and managing in-house e-discovery technologies.

  We manage the entire e-discovery life cycle in-house, from preservation, collection and early case analysis through review, production and trial. Our exclusive focus on e-discovery provides corporate clients—and the law firms that serve them—with a highly-responsive, end-to-end discovery process managed by a team of e-discovery specialists. The result? InsideOut™ delivers significant and sustainable cost reduction, smarter results and enhanced defensibility.

  Get the Falcon Advantage:

  • InsideOut™: This end-to-end managed service optimizes the entire e-discovery effort to help enterprises achieve unprecedented results and cost savings. Learn more.
  • Specialized Practices and Advisory Services: From records and information management to every step of the legal discovery process, our deep expertise can be tapped to meet the exact needs of your organization. Learn more.

  • Corporate Legal

    We serve corporate legal departments by tackling head on the spiraling costs and hidden risks of discovery in the digital age.

    Our InsideOut managed services model delivers significant and sustainable cost savings through an end-to-end in-house discovery capability.  Falcon’s managed services leverage our client’s or Falcon’s enterprise grade e-discovery technologies, coupled with Falcon’s InsideOut discovery process. InsideOut delivers a one-stop, fully integrated solution for managing e-discovery in-house, from forensics and collections to dedicated in-house discovery attorneys and litigation support professionals. This end-to-end approach helps our clients continuously improve the speed, defensibility, and quality of discovery results—all while dramatically driving down legal costs.

    For clients who may not need a complete, end-to-end process across matters, our attorney and technology teams also use components of the InsideOut model to support clients on individual matters onsite or near-site, by performing discovery work far more efficiently and cost effectively than outsourcing to traditional law firms or third party staffing or service providers.

    For more information, contact us.

  • Law Firms

    Falcon Discovery helps law firms provide their clients with more efficient and cost effective discovery services. Our extensive experience within Fortune 500 companies spans the entire discovery process. This gives our law firm clients an edge in understanding the most appropriate technologies and professional services for a client. With Falcon’s advisory and professional services, the firm can focus its efforts on legal strategy and execution while protecting the client’s bottom line. We believe this approach will make your clients very happy.

    For more information, contact us.