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Featured White Papers

Seven Essential Strategies for Effective Archiving

Is It Time to Consider Automated Classification? Part Two: Ensuring Compliance and Defensibility with Automated Classification

Is It Time to Consider Automated Classification? Part One: A Better Approach is Needed

What To Do With Legacy Data?

How IT Can Be The Difference Between Litigation and Settling

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Featured Recording Webcasts

Take the Guesswork Out of Information Governance with Auto-Classification

The Pillars of Defensible Record Autoclassification

Is It Time for Automatic Classification of Records?

Contoural Webcast: E-mail Archiving School for Legal: What Every Corporate Legal Staffer Needs to Know About E-mail Archiving

Contoural Webcast: E-mail Archiving School for IT: What Every IT Professional Needs to Know About E-mail Archiving

Strategies for Creating and Maintaining ESI Data Maps: Practical Advice from the Trenches

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Featured Articles by Contoural

Cadillac or Chevy- Picking the right information governance program
Inside Counsel Magazine
April 9, 2012 Column

Who should own information governance- legal or IT?
Inside Counsel Magazine
March 19, 2012 Column

5 key players you need on your information governance team
Inside Counsel Magazine
March 7, 2012 Column

7 tips for starting information governance projects
Inside Counsel Magazine
February 21, 2012 Column

How to deal with data stuck in the cloud
Inside Counsel Magazine
February 6, 2012 Column

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Contoural is a leading independent provider of business and technology consulting services focused on litigation readiness, compliance, information and records management, and data retention strategy. We sell no products nor take referral fees, offering our clients truly independent advice.

We believe that creating a consensus across our client's organization is a cornerstone to an effective strategy. Our services encompass all electronically stored information (ESI) including e-mail as well as paper documents.

With an average of 14 years industry experience, our team is comprised of attorneys, former compliance officers, and records managers who have a deep understanding of legal, compliance and business requirements for retaining and managing information combined with seasoned IT professionals with expertise in archival, search, litigation management systems, data classification and storage focused on program execution.

Our clients include more than 20% of the Fortune 500, as well as many small and mid-sized industries across the U.S. with engagements throughout the world. Contoural's dramatic growth is based on providing value to our clients; we have built a reputation for successful engagements.

Our services are offered either as a full program, or on an "a la carte" basis. They include:

Our services save our clients money through proactively reducing the cost of e-discovery, enabling more discovery to be performed internally, reducing dependencies on expensive law firms and e-discovery providers, and enabling and ensuring compliance cost-effectively. Furthermore, our assistance enables clients to acquire only the software and hardware they need, and helping companies synthesize and integrate products they have already purchased into workable, real-world programs that can be followed.

Contoural achieves litigation readiness, ensures compliance, reduces risks and lowers costs.