Client:
An international law firm with offices in London
Our client was acting for a high net worth individual who had invested a multi-million pound sum in a start-up business that subsequently went into liquidation amidst allegations of embezzlement and fraud by the founders.
The end-client had initially retained a Big-4 firm to collect the data but the electronic and paper format documents were delivered in an extremely disorganised and unusable format.
Our client indicated that they needed “to be immediately rescued.”
Task
Lineal was instructed to replace the previous vendor and provide a database of documents that could be simply accessed and reviewed.
Challenges
Over 150,000 pages of hardcopy documents required scanning, OCR, unitisation and coding, with 12 fields to provide suitable reference detail for the eventual disclosure process; ESI comprised a mixture
Overview
Lineal’s Project Management Team created a file structure according to Firm’s request, identifying key attributes from context and metadata. Our team was able to present the data in a categorised and comprehensible
Outcome
Facing a seemingly insurmountable task, Lineal structured a large and disorganised data collection, included newly converted ESI from a large and disorganised paper archive, provided a review platform, and ensured that key
Client:
A global law firm
Our client is acting for a multi-national service provider to the energy industry. The dispute is multi-jurisdictional and involves collating data from differing jurisdictions and liaising with the jointly instructed law firms across differing time zones.
Task
Lineal was instructed to act as the primary data host, to provide a review platform, and deliver project management services across multiple jurisdictions. Providing various access levels
Challenges
There were multiple custodians identified as being potentially relevant to the matter located in five different countries; some of these custodians no longer worked for the claimant and/or
Overview
Using the Relativity Processing Console, Lineal’s Project Management Team pre-processed the key custodians’ 600GB, which exploded to 1.2TB of unstructured data (two million documents) after decompression
Outcome
Through a rigorous, iterative data culling process combined with our data analytics expertise, Lineal was able to reduce the number of review hours from 33,000 to 6,700, achieving significant savings
Client:
A global financial services firm and their outside counsel (an international law firm)
The matter involved a dispute that featured a large number of documents and emails with broken chains and threads.
The client had a very short window in which to prepare for disclosure, was keen to reduce eDisclosure & Discovery costs, as well as billable time spent on physical review.
The relevant data was stored in a Symantec Enterprise Vault system and we were asked to use the Symantec eDiscovery Platform to manage the review.
Task
Lineal was asked to provide technical consulting services pertaining to data culling and assisted review/transparent predictive coding workflow, and ultimately to manage the e-Disclosure & Discovery process.
Challenges
A very short lead time (four weeks) in which to prepare for disclosure; a targeted digital forensic collection comprising over 640,000 potentially relevant documents from four custodians.
Overview
Lineal’s Project Management Team made a careful study of the key issues involved in the case. Working with general and outside counsel, we developed complex keyword strings, enabled by the analytics capabilities of the Symantec eDiscovery Platform
Outcome
By integrating artificial intelligence within the review workflow, TPC led to a smaller, targeted data set for review.
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