SDD Global enhances and strengthens its clients’ positions before litigation begins. With SDD Global performing the necessary legal research, on a cost-effective basis, attorneys can more quickly and thoroughly than ever before assess the strengths and weaknesses of a client’s position in an impending suit and predict the full scope of available damages. This allows the clients to secure the strongest possible stance in pre-litigation negotiations and settlement discussions. SDD Global’s clients that are facing claims are not held hostage by the usual runaway costs associated with the threat of litigation. This substantially reduces the pressure to make “nuisance-value” pay-outs. Similarly, SDD Global clients that have claims against others have access to the most cost-effective means of making judgments about the viability of such claims before litigation begins, and of obtaining a satisfactory settlement or other resolution, without fear of fees or expenses running amok.

SDD Global’s litigation support group can strip much of the costs associated with the interlocutory stages of litigation. SDD Global’s litigation support professionals can draft interlocutory litigation papers and other documents with speed and efficiency. Whether an SDD Global client needs a set of pleadings, discovery requests or responses, subpoenas, motion papers, memoranda of law, settlement agreements or trial preparation documents -- all can be drafted by SDD Global’s trained litigation support teams. Moreover, our litigation teams are trained to work for clients across various state and federal jurisdictions and even continents.

Furthermore, the review of discovery/disclosure -- which sometimes requires firms to deploy small armies of legal associates – also can be performed by SDD Global, both faster and at a fraction of the cost. This helps clients avoid the undesirable position in which legal costs detrimentally influence the direction and the likelihood of success of litigation strategy.

Throughout the interim stages of litigation, our support teams can perform the legal research that is needed to constantly improve and maintain the strength of our clients’ positions. The traditional mindset -- that a legal dispute must invariably be lengthy -- is changing, with SDD Global streamlining the litigation process by constantly preparing for the future and foreseeable stages of a case. Discovery requests can be served and responded to ahead of schedule, and motions made promptly, so that otherwise typical delays are avoided.

On the subject of speed, the advantages of SDD Global are extraordinary. Our support teams add approximately 12 hours to the normal litigation workday. As litigators in the West head home to sleep, a fresh round of litigation support on the day shift in India is just beginning, in a time zone that is essentially a day ahead.

Our speed is also enhanced by the number of SDD Global legal associates that our clients now can afford to devote to any given case. As a situation demands, we can provide the assistance of a single researcher or an entire platoon of trained professionals, thus enabling our clients to “flood the zone” where such an approach is warranted. This is virtually the opposite of the practice of many large law firms, which, by necessity, must promise their litigation clients "lean staffing" of cases, to address well-founded fears of compounded hourly fees climbing through the roof. Our aim in litigation support, whether it is on behalf of a defendant or a plaintiff, is to help obtain the desired result for our clients as quickly as possible, through the appropriate and unstinting application of concentrated legal pressure. We have found that in using this approach, we and our supervising U.S. and U.K. attorneys and solicitors often run circles around the so-called "lean staffing" of mega-firms.

In the rare event that any SDD Global client’s case does need to proceed to trial, we can support our corporate clients, law firm clients and others in their preparation of trial exhibits and other documents. Preparing for trial is an inherently laborious and costly process, but those costs now can be reduced dramatically, with the work done far more efficiently and faster, by SDD Global.

The SDD Global legal support team also can perform the more cumbersome case management tasks that are necessary in any lawsuit, which, while simple, can mount and result in additional and unexpected costs for clients. These tasks include organizing client files, managing the online electronic court-filing of litigation papers, and maintaining and monitoring case-watch reports for changes and updates in cases.

SDD Global’s legal research teams, like all of our litigation support personnel, are experienced lawyers and/or former law professors who hail from prestigious Indian law schools and law firms, and who are fully trained by U.S. and/or U.K. attorneys or solicitors. They can provide any number of research tasks, across key subscription databases such as Lexis/Nexis and other platforms.

Our teams can handle legal research in virtually any jurisdiction or area of the law. Already they have handled projects involving the following subjects:

• intellectual property, including copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, etc.
• defamation and invasion of privacy
• rights of publicity
• anti-piracy litigation
• entertainment law
• trade secrets
• employment and labor law
• general civil areas such as fraud and contract law
• litigation procedure
• state and federal statutes
• multi-jurisdictional comparison surveys
• factual research, including financial, corporate and other data
  

SDD Global’s experienced lawyers are fully trained in U.S. and/or U.K.-style legal drafting and citation form. They can expeditiously and cost-effectively draft any of the following materials and beyond:

• legal briefs and memoranda
• discovery requests and responses
• appeal papers, including notices and briefs
• petitions for certiorari
• summaries of witness statements
• deposition digests
• print, videotape, and animation exhibits for trials
• any other litigation papers
• employment manuals
• licenses and other contracts

Our document managers, reviewers, and coders are expert in handling voluminous paper and electronic files in any litigation or other matter, regardless of whether the data is in print, text, voice, or image formats. Our document teams are trained in the law, and in how litigations and investigations work, so they can efficiently and effectively locate, organize, and present the documents and data for which our clients are looking, in any manner needed. We use a dedicated, customized, and secure web-based repository for your documents, and we are equipped with, and trained to use, state-of-the-art on-line e-discovery and other platforms. In particular, and among other things, our document teams can efficiently and cost-effectively do the following:

• Carry out electronic and other file reviews on a massive scale, if needed;
• Conduct thorough analysis regarding responsiveness, relevance, and privilege, in response to discovery requests, subpoenas, governmental requests, internal investigations, and corporate due diligence;
• Organize and present data from voluminous documents, in the form of understandable summaries, privilege logs, spreadsheets, databases and any other format, tailor-made for the needs of each client and situation;
• Create electronic files with all documents searchable by subject, issue, author, recipient, date and document type, allowing your to retrieve needed documents in an instant;
• Undertake large data extraction projects, where the amount of data to be searched is vast, and where the guidelines are complicated;
• Search and analyze large numbers of complex agreements, and create spreadsheets or other databases presenting the relevant information.