eDPM Advisory Services
eDPM Advisory Services is a modern e-discovery, project management and legal technology consulting company dedicated to meeting emerging technology and support services needs in law firms, corporate legal departments and within service provider organizations. We provide expert advisory services and guidance, professional project management and process improvement services, and training, technology and operational assessments centered around e-discovery, information governance, project management, matter management and legal technology support.
With the advent of formal rules and common law precedent governing e-discovery and information governance, the need for smart, affordable guidance and advisory services has never been more pronounced. Strategically planning for and executing on sound, defensible processes and utilizing resources under contemporary legal project management principles is the obligation of any organization doing business in our global, information-driven economy. Doing so with skilled, professional project leaders, with appropriate cost and risk controls in place, and with time-tested processes and tools is the commitment and promise of eDPM Advisory Services.
Advisory Services Model
eDPM Advisory Model
With deep experience and a network of strategic partners and resources that span the globe, eDPM Advisory Services offers professional services and guidance through an advisory model that helps ensure organizations are addressing the right issues and solving the right problems. Our five-point advisory model works like this:
Listen. We first listen to your business issue or problem and gain a thorough understanding of your vision or direction and the challenge you are trying to resolve.
Strategize. Next, we collaborate with stakeholders and other business leaders, if appropriate, to identify project requirements, consider alternative paths forward, and discuss potential solutions.
Advise. Then we offer our ideas and propose a clear direction, fixed cost, and refined project plan for achieving the desired outcome.
Execute. With the project defined, we execute on the plan, managing and monitoring progress, changes, and the budget, to deliver a tailor-made solution designed to foster a competitive edge.
Optimize. After closing a project, we continue to work with organizations to ensure you are achieving optimal results.
Who We Are
Michael I. Quartararo
Managing Director
Mike Quartararo is the founder of eDPM Advisory Services. He is also the author of the 2016 book Project Management in Electronic Discovery, the only book to merge project management principles and best practices in electronic discovery. He is widely known as one of the top e-discovery professionals in the US and has been successfully solving client problems using technology for 20 years. Mike built his career upon strategic and innovative thinking, leadership and operational skills he honed while working at the best legal organizations in the world. As a former law firm director, manager, project manager, database specialist and paralegal, Mike has decades of experience delivering e-discovery, project management and legal technology solutions to Fortune 500 corporations and law firms across the globe. He worked for nearly ten years at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, where he managed large-scale class action securities litigations, e-discovery projects and trial preparation, and more recently he spent that last ten years as the firm-wide director of litigation support at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, where he was responsible for the development and implementation of firm policy on e-discovery, information governance and technology support and the design and delivery of e-discovery and application-specific training programs. He also consulted regularly with attorneys and the firm’s clients on the use of technology, electronic discovery and information governance. Mike co-designed and taught a graduate program on e-discovery project management at Bryan University and developed an e-discovery project simulation laboratory for students to gain hands-on experience. He also sits on the university paralegal advisory board.
A graduate of the State University of New York, with a Bachelor of Science Degree in psychology and music, he also studied law for one year at the University of London, Holborn College. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified E-Discovery Specialist (CEDS). He also sits on the national advisory board of the Association of E-Discovery Specialists and is the ACEDS liaison member to the Advisory Committee of the EDRM at Duke Law School. Mike is a columnist for Above the Law and he frequently writes and speaks on issues related to project management, e-discovery and litigation support.