Industry studies indicate that corporations in the United States spend almost $4-5 billion annually taking electronically stored information (ESI) from its source and producing it for a requesting party. The cost to review this information for privilege/responsiveness prior to production is
estimated to be another $30 billion. Traditional solutions to these problems have ranged from knee-jerk (and expensive) purchases and implementation of software and hardware for managing discovery, to abdicating responsibility for the process to law firms, to half-hearted attempts at managing the
process with capacity-constrained in-house legal, IT and records management resources.

The failure of these approaches has led to a growing recognition that corporations should approach "the inevitable" (i.e., litigation & discovery) with a proactive and organized approach, which is known as "litigation readiness." This phrase was first introduced to the market in 2004 by Prashant
Dubey, one of the authors of this book in the form of an executive primer book entitled: Litigation Readiness: Mastering the Inevitable. Seven years hence, the co-authors have authored a book based on years of learning derived from helping dozens of corporations achieve a higher level of litigation
readiness in the face of an every growing electronically stored information ecosystem. Litigation Readiness: A Practical Approach to Electronic Discovery is a strategic guide to litigation readiness, or how a corporation can establish and embed a business process for responding to discovery when
compelled to produce ESI.
About the Author:
Prashant Dubey is CEO of The Sumati Group. Previously, he was CEO and co-founder of The Knott Group. Prashant has been a senior operating executive at public and private corporations, such as Baxter International, Fios, ABC Technologies, Tripwire and Covansys, taking many of them to and through
successful exits that have yielded high returns for investors. He introduced the concept of Litigation Readiness to the market in 2003 and has authored dozens of articles on the subject. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Chicago and an MBA in Strategy from the University of Chicago,
Booth School of Business.

Sam Panarella is the CEO of Crux Consulting. Previously he was President of The Knott Group. Before cofounding The Knott Group, he was a partner at Stoel Rives, LLP and was a judicial clerk for Otto Skopil on the United States 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.