We’re a specialist eDiscovery and analytics firm. We serve discerning clients looking for better service, more expertise, and true flexibility.
Only what you need
A lack of litigation readiness is often discovered too late, generally after something has happened requiring you to identify custodians and data sources from which you need to collect data. For those going through this for the first time, it can be quite disruptive and daunting. Depending on your litigation profile, you may or may not need a litigation readiness/preservation plan but if you do, we can help you with it. Our team will work with your internal departments to identify data sources and existing processes and procedures to come up with a plan to manage and/or update your litigation related processes. We can assist with the documentation and deployment as well. Give us a call to discuss what we can do for you.
For our enterprise clients, being litigation ready and having solid processes and workflows for preserving data can go a long way in controlling your litigation spend. Identifying current processes, areas of concern, and developing a plan that works for your needs is vital. We will work with you to devise a right-sized process that works for your situation and help in the documentation and deployment of the process. Our goal is to partner with our clients in finding a proportional solution for their needs – data preservation is not a one-size-fits-all challenge.
Our work in this area has encompassed working with mature clients to enhance and update their legal hold process to ensure that they’re keeping up with changes within their technology infrastructure as well as developing, from scratch, new programs for clients who do not yet have these processes in place.
Having a documented process is a good start but doesn’t mean much without implementation and management of the program and we can help with that. For example, we can assist the internal IT team in catching up on data preservation of machines assigned to former employees which may be subject to legal holds; tracking these collections; and integrating the data into the client data repository for current or future use (see information on data repository services).
In our experience, clients with active litigation portfolios often have data sources that are relevant to multiple matters and may find themselves paying for the collection and processing of the same data, multiple times. We have a solution for this. Our team can design and manage a repository of data collected and data processed. This will allow you to leverage data from prior matters and, if necessary, perform only a supplemental collection of data (e.g., new custodians, expanded time frames for existing custodians, etc.) for new matters.
Further, review calls made on prior reviewed data can provide insights on data that may be helpful in the new matter and have a positive effect on the spend for document review. If this sounds like something you’ve struggled with, call us. We would love to explain how we have done this for several of our current clients and what we can do for you.
At Lucent Discovery Early Case Assessment is synonymous with being smart about the data you have and finding the best way to identify the most potentially relevant data quickly. There are times when the processing and loading of all data is appropriate but, more often than not, that’s not the case. Let our team of project managers and data analysts work with you to determine the best approach and devise a workflow and methodology to get you where you need to be.
Whether it is utilizing defensible custom tools to deduplicate large amounts of data prior to processing (see our White Paper on the deduplication of 18 TB of data down to 700 GB prior to loading), having our data analysts analyze the content of the processed data to help you figure out what’s most relevant, or something as simple as identifying key custodians and prioritizing the processing and delivering potentially relevant data to you first, we will work with you to minimize the spend, maximize the value, and develop a custom workflow just for you.
Lucent Discovery offers full ESI processing and reporting. Our team will work with you to identify whether there are additional pieces of information, apart from our standard reports, that are important to you. We want to make sure that we provide comprehensive information that you need to feel comfortable about the status of the processing.
Our goal is to strive to ensure that there are no surprises resulting from this process. We will keep you informed of any extraordinary information or issues discovered during the data preparation and processing. As soon as we know, you’ll know. Surprises are not our thing. This may include simple issues such as a data set which is outside the expected data size to the discovery of proprietary data types which require special handling. Our validation and QC processes and controls are designed to satisfy defensibility expectations and ensure completeness.
Between our reporting, audit logs, and AI visualizations we provide a complementary suite of reporting on every byte provided to us.
Our primary hosting and review tool is Relativity – both Server and Relativity One. The hosting environment is ISO27001, 27017 and 27018 certified, ITAR complaint, HIPAA compliant, PCI DSS compliant and SOC2 type 2 certified. If Relativity is not your thing, we have alternative applications available for your use. Give us a call and we can discuss your needs and our options.
Most tools are only as good as the craftsman wielding them. And, with analytics and AI, that is definitely the case. An experienced analytics analyst can make a big difference in the application of analytics for your project. Our professional services folks are well trained in the use of analytics and can assist you to maximize the use of this tool and the efficiency of your analysis and review.
Lucent Discovery can utilize these tools to assist you with understanding the scope and content of your project’s data as well as manage the workflow for analytics related functions such as a Continuous Learning Review. Our professional services team has deep knowledge and experience in all aspects of data analytics including communication and metadata analysis; conceptual and structural visualizations; technology assisted review; active learning; and CMML.
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We’re a Relativity shop. It’s the industry standard software, and for good reason.
Stability. In our opinion, the best thing about Relativity is the stability it provides to the industry. It allows our team to gain more and more fluency with a single platform, and that translates to better results.
Familiarity. Given the ubiquity of the platform, we’ve found that users rarely require training, and if they do, that training is minimal. This allows projects to ramp up quickly and without delay.
Expertise. A true Relativity expert doesn’t just run the program, they are able to bend the software to their will, making it do precisely what is required for each individual matter. Brilliant.
