Nowadays, clients are looking for discovery design that controls the high costs and exorbitant time commitments of preparing for litigation. The modern law firm must, therefore, aim to match technology to each unique legal situation based on a variety of factors including the client’s role in the litigation, the complexity of the issues and the amount of information being reviewed.
During a recent assignment, Lovells assisted a client in evaluating potential litigation involving conspiracy and fraud claims arising out of a complex multi-party transaction. With the equivalent of approximately two million pages needing review, we faced two contradictory challenges. Firstly, how to effectively review such a large body of data in a short time while keeping staffing tight and costs down. Secondly, how best to leverage our existing knowledge of the issues to identify significant documents, test our legal theories and strengthen the strategic recommendation our client was seeking.
