Graubard Miller

Proofpoint Enterprise Archive is an enterprise-grade retention and email archiving solution that helps organizations reduce legal discovery risk and costs. By providing a secure, searchable repository of all email messages, Proofpoint Enterprise Archive enabled Graubard Miller to easily and consistently perform early case assessments, instantly preserve data in active legal holds, and enforce eDiscovery email retention policies.

“You always have to think ahead of the people you serve and have the tools ready for them when they need them. IT must take the lead and find any way to push through the policies and tools that a law firm will need to be compliant with all of the regulations and protect themselves in the event of eDiscovery requests,” explained Steven Heller, director of technology at Graubard Miller.

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Graubard Miller was most interested in the Proofpoint Enterprise Archive features that provided email archiving, document stubbing, and an interface that allowed users to search and collect email in response to eDiscovery requests. Since up to 80 percent of email data is stored in attachments, the stubbing features helped simplify mailbox management and reduced end user mailbox sizes by automatically removing storage-intensive attachments from Microsoft Exchange, while keeping them easily accessible to users within their existing Microsoft Outlook folder structure. The eDiscovery email retention solution also enabled the Firm to flag and review outgoing emails and provided built-in templates that allowed IT to construct its own records retention policy – all for less than Graubard Miller was paying for nightly backups.

Post deployment, Graubard Miller noted that:

• The mail store was reduced to a manageable size
• The stubbing feature enabled end-users to access stubbed documents with a much smaller, more efficient mailbox
• The searchable archive made searches for eDiscovery requests both fast and economical – Proofpoint's high-speed search technology returned results in 20 seconds or less
• End users were more productive with easy, self-service access to all their historical email
• Active Legal Hold features made it easier to create and enforce legal holds during eDiscovery
• Supervision review features simplified compliance audit processes and helped comply with SEC and FINRA regulations

“Proofpoint has been instrumental in helping us respond to eDiscovery requests and search emails faster, meet compliance, and set up a more efficient archiving process. Deploying Proofpoint was the best decision I ever made,” stated Heller. "I would recommend Proofpoint Archive software to a peer. We were able to clean up our Exchange server with the stubbing feature. We were also able to save a lot of money whenever we had to do searches for eDiscovery. Having the majority of our data in a limited amount of datastores [helps us achieve information governance]."