Do you have a unique, individual need or challenge related to electronic data maintenance, data discovery, or legal technology?

Kiersted / Systems’ specialty is understanding unique client issues and developing solutions that specifically address them. Whether you require a system customized to your overall business or a specific case, need to produce data from within a proprietary system, or seek an e-discovery partner to help you perform a consulting assignment, K / S can help you achieve success.

Every case is dynamic. The professionals at Kiersted / Systems understand varying project needs from costs to schedules to the parties involved. We are able to develop solutions that meet even the most challenging situations. Similarly, no company’s logistical operations are the same, so multi-faceted businesses of this nature likely need document tracking systems based on the specific documents and data points, and different types of suppliers that comprise the chain.

An eight-figure case requiring specific data support is almost always worth the relatively minor investment in a custom system to create the exact process you need—rather than trying to rig what you already have. Through proven techniques, specialized knowledge, and the use of the advanced technology, Kiersted / Systems can mine the data and present it in the most readily useable form.

Due to our experience in developing custom technology solutions, we have an unmatched ability to understand and work within your proprietary systems as well. Whether you need to upgrade the functionality of the system you have or to create a solution for mining information from an existing SQL or Lotus Notes database, our K / S experts will crack the code.

Supporting data is crucial to any legal case or situation. As the majority of today’s data exists in an electronic form, accessing supporting data through e-discovery has become an essential practice of legal-related services. Kiersted / Systems is a trusted partner to many legal service firms that don’t have in-house e-discovery capabilities, but need e-discovery resources to complete their work. K / S welcomes such complementary partnerships as a way of benefiting your clients, as we have for the following customers:

• Warrantech Companies – K / S provided vital analysis and tools to allow Warrantech’s forensic accountants to review data from the company’s outmoded tape-based backup systems. Kiersted / Systems' efforts proved crucial to helping the company’s attorneys defend the company in litigation, as well as determine amounts in dispute.
• Unocal Corp. – Unocal faced a potentially destructive lawsuit and needed to determine what it did and did not have in its archives that would support its case and/or become producible. The corporation needed to undertake a high level review of a huge amount of paper records housed in boxes. Kiersted / Systems built a custom box tracking system to assist with the endeavor and helped Unocal devise an efficient process—saving the company months of attorney fees and giving it superior, rock-solid results.
• Class Action Plaintiffs –– Every class action lawsuit takes a different shape. As a result, an off-the-shelf solution may not allow proper tracking of the actions of the many participants in the database. In this case, Kiersted / Systems custom-developed an Asbestos plaintiff database system for tracking tens of thousands of plaintiffs involved in a toxic tort class action suit. Custom-tailored to the unique needs of the project, the system achieved extraordinary accuracy and efficiency. For example, the tools allowed plaintiff attorneys to find cases where the same plaintiff was being represented more than once in the same action, thereby reducing the client’s exposure.
• Major Oil & Gas Company – A leading oil & gas company lost a large case involving thousands of service station owners. As a result, the company needed to mine through vast amounts of paper records spanning a number of years to determine who was owed what, based on contracts, product deliveries, etc. Ultimately, it was a case in which the information simply did not exist in a discoverable form. Kiersted / Systems constructed a system from the ground up to enable the company to gather and analyze the necessary data. It also accessed electronic data dumps from applications and built systems and processes to allow electronic data to be verified against the data collected from raw paper sources.