E-Discovery for Law Firms

As e-discovery has become a critical part of litigation and regulatory inquiries today, corporate clients are increasingly looking to their legal counsel as a trusted partner throughout the e-discovery process to achieve superior case outcomes and lower costs. With tight court deadlines, law firms are under pressure to understand case facts earlier, scope the time and cost requirements and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the case, and reach favorable outcomes for their clients. All of this is made more challenging by the enormous volume of electronically stored information that is increasing each year.

The traditional e-discovery process requires substantial time and effort before lawyers can begin scoping the case, reading documents, and assessing the case facts, meaning case strategy must be developed without a full understanding of the facts and key evidence may not be found until too late in the process. Manual document by document review adds to the time before case facts are understood and the review of irrelevant documents can increase costs substantially. As a result, law firms are in need of a solution that enables them to perform earlier case assessments and focus on higher value activities like developing case strategy while reducing unnecessary cost.

The Clearwell Solution: Early visibility to build case strategy and reduce costs

Clearwell provides early visibility into the facts of the case so legal teams can focus on developing case strategy. Designed for the unique challenges of e-discovery, the solution provides a single application for the entire e-discovery lifecycle, bringing corporate clients and firms closer together throughout the process while reducing overall costs. Accordingly, law firms are able provide a higher level of service to their clients and gain a substantial competitive advantage.

Clearwell provides key benefits for law firms including:

• Rapidly analyze large volumes of electronic documents to gain insight into case facts and determine case strategy
• Provide detailed data metrics at the onset of a case, enabling accurate estimation of case budget and timeline
• Provide guidance on custodians, keywords, topics, and discussion threads relevant to the case
• Identify potential smoking gun documents and determine who knew what, and when
• Present results to clients quickly using web-based application, eliminating the time lag needed to move data manually
• Standardize review quality and enforce a standard set of classification criteria across multiple reviewers
• Simple and intuitive interface enabling legal users to be productive immediately, with little to no training
• Consolidate the entire e-discovery process using a single application that removes the need for load files and moving data between multiple disparate tools