This is big. Now you can search images like you search text.

For decades, eDiscovery has predominantly focused on navigating massive quantities of text based data, leaving vast repositories of visual information largely unexplored and cumbersome to analyze. However, we’re entering a transformative phase thanks to advances in generative AI, enabling legal teams to seamlessly search and interpret visual data with unprecedented speed and accuracy.

If We Build It, Will They Come? A Cautious Perspective on Legal AI

The question around AI in the legal industry isn’t whether it can be useful—it clearly can. The real question is how best to use it. In fields like law, where precision and judgment are essential, it’s not about finding “magical” solutions but practical, dependable applications that can support legal professionals in their day-to-day work. At lucent, that’s what we’re looking for.

Do we need Pinkerton’s or not? A comprehensive data triage for exiting employees.

We recently helped our client, a large corporate real estate firm, in implementing a comprehensive triage procedure to review all data related to exiting employees. The goal being to determine if any potential litigation or suspicious activity existed, and return equipment to use as quickly as possible based on investigation results.


Processing over 9.5 terabytes in a two-week period.

Our client, a law firm, was working on four related complex litigation cases for a large energy company. There was a maze of 255 different custodians and a whopping 9.5TB of data to deal with. The stakes couldn’t have been higher in the cases, as the total client exposure was north of $200 million.