Aon offers litigation preparedness solution

Aon Consulting has announced it’s a new software solution for litigation preparedness and IT risk consulting to facilitate records retention and preservation orders.

Jerry Barbanel, executive vice president of FALCon, commented: "With the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the potential sanctions for improper data retention, Aon's consultative approach combined with the Atlas software from PSS Systems enables clients to ensure compliance with the Rules. In this increasingly complex environment, we are committed to providing clients with industry-leading expertise, technological solutions and a platform to drive down costs."

Aon said, the software suite, provided in partnership with PSS Systems, enables companies to implement legal holds while reducing the burden of litigation; enable retention programs to be administered across disparate business units and information types; and provide a map of the data sources underlying both products to allow the synchronization of retention with legal holds.

“With the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the potential sanctions for improper data retention, Aon's consultative approach combined with the Atlas software from PSS Systems enables clients to ensure compliance with the Rules. In this increasingly complex environment, we are committed to providing clients with industry-leading expertise, technological solutions and a platform to drive down costs.

Jerry Barbanel, executive vice president of FALCon

The suite is comprised of two modules that leverage a common enterprise reference map and communications framework.

By federating retention and hold rules to the people and systems with data, Aon said, companies can rationally and legally dispose of unneeded data to reduce costs and risks.

Deidre Paknad, president and CEO of PSS Systems, said: "This partnership offers corporate customers the best of both worlds -- guidance on the legal holds process, discovery strategies and records management combined with the systems to automate, sustain and operationalize that guidance. We find that many companies struggle to institutionalize the guidance they receive from experts and Aon is a leader in offering clients a complete solution. We are delighted to be a part of their portfolio and to include them in our growing distribution network."