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Quick & Confidential, Inc. and Forensics Consulting Solutions “FCS” Join Forces to Provide World Class Litigation Support and eDiscovery Services Nationwide

Gregory Vaughn, President of Quick & Confidential, and KJ Kuchta, CEO and Founder of FCS announce strategic partnership

PHOENIX, ARIZONA – (August 15, 2012) – Quick & Confidential and Forensics Consulting Solutions, two Phoenix-headquartered companies, today announced a strategic partnership of their companies which will allow both to support their clients with a broader range of services and increased depth of expertise.  Both companies will continue operating under their independent identities offering the collective strength of their companies to clients nationwide.

“FCS was looking for a partner like Quick & Confidential who has earned its reputation as one of the finest litigation reproduction service bureaus in the country by putting the client first.  We have many clients who ask us to assist them with reprographics and scanning and we were looking for a partner like Quick & Confidential who shares our client-centric service model.” Said KJ Kuchta, CEO and Founder of FCS.

“Q&C has been looking for a strategic partner to widen, even more, our strategic technical consulting to help find the very best solutions for our clients and their ever increasing discovery challenges. We strongly believe that Forensics Consulting Solutions will help us achieve that”, says Gregory Vaughn, President of Quick & Confidential.

“Together, our companies bring over a century of experience in the management of litigation, and a level of service unmatched in the industry,” added Vaughan and Kuchta.

About Quick & Confidential

Quick & Confidential was founded in 1995 and stands as one of the most successful privately owned litigation reproduction services bureaus in the nation.  Law firms, corporate legal departments and government agencies, depend on Quick & Confidential Document Management to help manage their cases effectively. Quick & Confidential is customer-centric and professional, providing a comprehensive array of services for document management and litigation support.  As law firms have been faced with the changing landscape of discovery and their document management, Quick & Confidential has been responsive by adapting to the way law firms conduct their discovery for the past 17 years. The stability and commitment of our management team allows Quick & Confidential to consistently enhance our systems and practices to keep in stride with the changing, demanding needs of law firms. From litigation photocopying to eDiscovery to on-line review, the Quick & Confidential standards remain the same – A trained team accurately executing every detail of your project, to produce a quality deliverable in an efficient manner that exceeds your expectations.

About FCS

Forensics Consulting Solutions, LLC (FCS) is a service-oriented eDiscovery consulting firm founded in 2001 by Kelly J. “KJ” Kuchta, one of the nation’s leading authorities in information security and computer forensics.  Since that time, we have grown our solutions to include complex discovery management, managed services, project management, eDiscovery processing, and hosted solutions.  Our team of consultants will provide strategic technical consulting so that the best solution is designed for your discovery challenges. We can help you to identify and customize the right processes, workflows and methodologies that you face with discovery today.  Our experience also means you can rely on FCS as a trusted advisor who works with you to craft your approach and desired outcome when you are facing a high stakes eDiscovery challenge.  We wrote the book on managing high stakes litigation having handled the two largest patent disputes in the nation. The expertise and experience of the FCS team is where our clients receive their true value.  We create insightful discovery while providing an uncommon customer experience.

For more information:

Quick & Confidential, Inc

Gregory Vaughan

602-277-4474

Forensics Consulting Solutions

Kelly J. “KJ” Kuchta

602-354-2797

Forensics Consulting Solutions “FCS” Announces Departing Employee Data Management Services

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Phoenix, Arizona – March 29, 2012 – The departure of an employee, whether through termination, layoff, reduction in force, or other event, is a stressful situation for all involved. Mark Walker, Senior Director of Consulting and Client Services stated, “Departures of employees can be fraught with legal and compliance risks.” To address these risks, organizations must properly manage the data that was created or controlled by the departing employee. This liability is derived primarily from three sources

An article in Law Technology News recommended that “even if a layoff goes smoothly with no apparent disgruntlement on the part of the employee, a company should still collect evidence of its own due diligence in case there’s some sort of investigation in the future.”

The Forensics Practice at FCS specializes in managing our clients’ most sensitive data, during their most sensitive business events. Our specialized expertise, tools, and processes are designed to ensure that critical data is cost-effectively handled in a forensically sound and legally-defensible manner. FCS will be offering complimentary educational lunch and learns on this topic. Contact sales@forensicsconsulting.com for more information.

ABOUT MARK WALKER:

Mark is responsible for the delivery of consulting services as well as oversight of the FCS Forensics services unit. For more than 25 years, Mark has been a pioneer in the use of technology both inside and outside the courtroom. Since the dawn of the electronic discovery age, he has been on the forefront of some of the largest and most complex technology projects anywhere, using a variety of highly defensible applications and processes. With more than two decades of experience inside the courtroom supporting attorneys and judges, he understands how to efficiently apply technology to complex cases and investigations during the entire evidence lifecycle –ESI creation to disposition. Mark and the dedicated and highly qualified team of professionals are trusted advisors to attorneys and corporate legal departments around the world. As an educator, Mark has been a conference speaker for more than 20 years and has authored a number of award-winning books, articles and white papers on Trial, Discovery and the application of technology. Mark is a recipient of Professional Educations Systems 2001 Excellence in Education Award. He is a three time recipient of Advanced Micro Devices “Author of Merit” award. Mark was featured in Legal Assistant Today’s September – October, 2003 edition on technology. Mark also maintains on blog on ESI called The Digital Advantage that can be found at www.esiblogwalker.blogspot.com.

ABOUT FCS:

FCS was founded in 2001 by Kelly J. “KJ” Kuchta, one of the nation’s leading authorities in information security and computer forensics. FCS is the unchallenged leader in complex discovery management having been a contributor to a number of high-profile litigation and mergers & acquisitions including the Michelson v. Medtronics litigation, the P&G/Gillette and Sprint/Nextel mergers, and the SAP/Oracle and AMD/Intel patent litigations. FCS creates insightful discovery while providing an uncommon customer experience. Discover FCS.

FCS announces eDiscovery expert Julie Grantham, Esq. to Present its September Client Webinar
Forensics Consulting Solutions announced that Julie Grantham, Esq., General Counsel for COI Enterprises and former Adjunct Professor of eDiscovery Law at University of Texas will present “Meet & Confer: Updates on Case Law and Winning Strategies”

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Sep 05, 2011 – PHOENIX, ARIZONA

Nationwide eDiscovery expert Julie Grantham is the featured presenter for the September 13, 2011 Smarter Better Faster webinar presented monthly by Forensics Consulting Solutions.

“Last March, FCS began its monthly client educational webinars with topics designed to help our clients work Smarter, Better & Faster. It is our mission to create insightful discovery and to provide an uncommon client experience. During this series of webinars, we have presented topics requested by our clients in exit surveys that have ranged from work flow, to defensible reduction in data, to Discovery in the Cloud. Several clients requested an update on Meet & Confer, and we were thrilled to be able to have someone of Julie’s stature lecture on this program for our clients. Julie is recognized throughout the nation as an expert in eDiscovery law. In fact she developed and taught the first course on eDiscovery law at the University of Texas at Austin and her program has been used to model other law school curriculum.” Robin Thompson, Director of Marketing, Forensics Consulting Solutions.
This month’s webinar has been certified for one hour of CLE (which includes .25 of ethics) through the State Bar of Texas and is acceptable CLE credit in states with reciprocity.

Highlights:

• Better understand opposing party’s technical landscape
• Clarify the scope of document requests
• Resolve any production format disagreements that may later reduce liability and costs
• Reduce waste and reproduction of documents
• Pre-empt the negative impact of inadvertent production of confidential or privileged documents
• Recognize which cases require discovery of electronic information
• Identify client obligations regarding preservation of electronic evidence and scope of discovery

ABOUT JULIE GRANTHAM: Julie is nationally regarded as a leading authority in eDiscovery law. She is the author of numerous white papers and has appeared at symposiums and conferences nationwide on eDiscovery. For three years, she served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law

Forensics Consulting Solutions Announces Promotion of Mark Walker to Senior Director of Consulting & Client Services

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August 23 , 2011 – PHOENIX, ARIZONA

Kelly “KJ” Kuchta, CEO of Forensics Consulting Solutions, a complex e-discovery solutions company he founded in 2001, announced today the promotion of Mark Walker to Senior Director of Consulting and Client Services.

Mark Walker is a nationally recognized authority in the field of ESI who has led the consulting arm of Forensics Consulting Solutions since he joined the company in May 2007. Mark is responsible for the delivery of advisory services, as well as oversight of the Project Management Organization and Forensics Services Unit.

When asked about this move, KJ Kuchta indicated that “Mark has been an incredible asset to the FCS team and its clients since he joined. The Project Management experience at FCS has always been uncommonly great, and Mark will help us integrate this experience even further into our interactions with our clients. Mark and our Project Management staff are committed to delivering insightful discovery through innovative processes and uncommon client experiences.”

For more than 25 years, Mark has been a pioneer in the use of technology both inside and outside the courtroom. Since the dawn of the electronic discovery age, he has been on the forefront of some of the largest and most complex technology projects anywhere, using a variety of highly defensible applications and processes. With more than two decades of experience inside the courtroom supporting attorneys and judges, he understands how to efficiently apply technology to complex cases and investigations during the entire evidence lifecycle –ESI creation to disposition. Mark and the dedicated and highly qualified team of professionals are trusted advisors to attorneys and corporate legal departments around the world. As an educator, Mark has been a conference speaker for more than 20 years and has authored a number of award-winning books, articles and white papers on Trial, Discovery and the application of technology. Mark is a recipient of Professional Educations Systems 2001 Excellence in Education Award. He is a three time recipient of Advanced Micro Devices “Author of Merit” award. Mark was featured in Legal Assistant Today’s September – October, 2003 edition on technology.

When asked for comment, Mark Walker indicated “I came to FCS just over four years ago because I shared with the FCS family many core values. Among those is integrity, transparency, and customer centric philosophy that radiates throughout the company in everything we do. I look forward to helping deliver insight to our clients, and to continuing the tradition of delivering an uncommon client experience!”

Want to know more about Mark? Subscribe to his blog at www.esiblogwalker.blogspot.com

DiscoverFCS – for more information contact:

Robin Thompson
Director of Marketing
Forensics Consulting Solutions
rthompson@forensicsconsulting.com
602.354.2792

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 PRLog (Press Release) – Aug 10, 2011 – August 9, 2011 PHOENIX, AZ In a webinar hosted today by Clearwell Systems and Forensics Consulting Solutions (FCS), Greg Duke, VP of Sales for FCS, announced that FCS has achieved another “first” in the industry being confirmed as the first Certified Clearwell Manage Service Provider. “We at FCS are very excited  to be Clearwell’s first certified MSP providing managed services to our clients. Managed Service is not a new concept to FCS,  as we  were the first Clearwell provider to establish this service some 1 ½ years ago.  A solution which was modeled for Clearwell’s Managed Service Provider Program .   The benefits and return on investment  are amazing for clients who have Clearwell appliances that are not being used or underutilized, and it is perfect for those companies who want to bring the process in-house, but cannot make the financial investment infrastructure or personnel required” said Duke.  FCS has branded its managed services solution as “SmartSourcing.” FCS is the leader in complex discovery solutions.  FCS has continued a tradition of being first to introduce industry-changing solutions to manage discovery. About Greg Duke Duke is a nationally recognized expert in discovery processes who has, over the past decade, developed innovative, market-leading solutions to meet the needs of his clients through the use of leading technologies and an innovative approach to complex discovery issues, advancing the evolution of traditional discovery management. About FCS FCS was founded in 2001 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona.  With its world-class data center and reputation for establishing repeatable, defensible processes, FCS continues to be first to market with innovative processes and solutions for its clients that have changed the way discovery is managed.  Discover why FCS has been entrusted with the world’s largest litigation.   DiscoverFCS. For More Information Forensics Consulting Solutions 2600 N. Central Avenue, 11th Floor Phoenix, Arizona 85013 Greg Duke VP of Sales 602-680-9360 Robin Thompson Director of  Marketing 602-354-2792 FCS invites you to visit their experts’ blogs. Mark Walker, Director of Consulting:  www.esiblogwalker.blogspot.com Joe Skalski, Director of PMO: www.esiprojectmanagement.com A copy of a whitepaper on SmartSourcing by Winlock Brown, Esq. and Greg Duke is available by writing info@forensicsconsulting.com

Clearwell Systems, now part of Symantec, teams with Forensics Consulting Solutions for August 9 webinar “The Clearwell Cloud: An FCS Managed Service.” Webinar highlights benefits of SmartSourcing

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August 03 , 2011 – PHOENIX, ARIZONA

On August 9th, Clearwell and FCS will lead a discussion focused on the benefits of SmartSourcing the discovery process.  Are you underutilizing your technology?  Do you want to bring technology in-house, but don’t have the financial, human capital or technical resources?  This webinar will discuss how you can achieve the benefits “in-house” technology through SmartSourcing.

Highlights:

•   Leverage best practices:  gain access to experts one very matter
•   No need to worry about having to invest in scalable, secure IT infrastructure and data centers
•   No operational expertise required
•   Do it right, every time, with defensible processes
•   Increased utilization and return on investment

Register today to reserve your space in this complimentary webinar:  https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/470856224

About our Presenters:

•   Greg Duke, VP of Sales, Forensics Consulting Solutions:  Greg comes to FCS as a recognized leader in our industry in developing sales and market strategy.  He has been recognized for developing innovative solutions for clients facing complex discovery issues.  

•   Adam Spector, National Account Manager, Clearwell, Now a Part of Symantec:  Adam focuses on Clearwell’s National Partner Channel, managing all partners west of the Mississippi.  Adam previously worked in mergers and acquisitions in-house for Sprint, and at the national law firm of Adorno & Yoss.

•   Mark Walker, Director of Consulting, Forensics Consulting Solutions:  Mark came to FCS having over 20 years of experience in litigation support services logging more than 30 commercial trials.  Mark is an award winning author and frequent speaker and a nationally recognized industry expert in the area of ESI.

For more information
Robin Thompson
Director of Marketing
Forensics Consulting Solutions
602 354 2792
rthompson@forensicsconsulting.com

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Join us for a Complimentary Webinar on March 29th

Featuring Mark Walker

Grab your lunch and join us for the first in a two part webinar series to help you work smarter, better and faster.  In this webinar, industry expert Mark Walker discusses the management of complex litigation projects and shares processes that will improve workflows. Highlights include:
  
· Designing and Managing eDiscovery Projects
· Evolving Thoughts About eDiscovery Project Management
· Variations in Project Lifecycles
· Pre-Project Planning and Infrastructure
· Project Design
· ESI Technologies and How to Choose the Right One for Your
  Project
· Project Execution and Dealing with Pitfalls   

Title:  Workflow – working Smarter, Better, & Faster

Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM MDT

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/712071353

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

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Attendees receive a free copy of  “Understanding ESI Technologies and Workflows