How Fulbright Transformed Its Document Review

This post is syndicated from EDD Blog Online.


As e-discovery practitioners, our goal is to make e-discovery for our clients more manageable and cost effective. We sought to automate and streamline the process through the application of strategic technology and well-developed workflows. Our firm, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, was an early adopter of Recommind's Axcelerate eDiscovery platform, having implemented the solution internally in early 2008. Fulbright's deployment of Axcelerate eDiscovery and particularly the firm's use of predictive coding functionality, combined with concept clustering and data analytics has reduced the time and cost of document review.

THE STORY

In 2007, we recognized the need to acquire new technology to help address our clients' increasing e-discovery costs, driven by growing volumes of electronic data. One of the first law firms in the country to implement a web-based litigation support system, Fulbright has long hosted large data volumes for the purpose of conducting linear document review, performing complex searches, and preparing electronic document productions. Meanwhile, we recognized the need to leverage advanced technology to more effectively analyze, filter, and strategically organize large document populations, while reducing document review costs.

In a typical e-discovery project, data would routinely be culled and filtered using file types, date ranges and keywords, followed by a linear, eyes-on attorney review. This approach to document review has been a generally accepted practice for years, and works relatively well for many cases. As client data volumes continued to increase in size and complexity, and strategic search methodologies began to emerge and evolve, the opportunity for a new strategy was apparent.

The benefits and necessity of an alternative approach to document review can be easily demonstrated using one recent experience.

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Source: law.com
By: Laurie Weiss and Tom Barce

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