Attorney-led Innovation in eDiscovery

The fundamental reason is a failure to align the technical aspects of eDiscovery with the legal expertise that’s required to generate the greatest efficiency and value. In a complex litigation, a company typically will hire an eDiscovery provider to deal with the technical aspects of discovery. At the same time, the company will retain a law firm to create and execute a strategy for the specific matter. There is communication between these two teams – the technical and the legal – but it’s narrow in scope and very transactional. Without a free flow of knowledge and information, opportunities for efficiency are lost and costs continue to rise. What’s worse, the strategic value of the work product typically falls short of expectations.

Dilijint unifies the technical and legal aspects of eDiscovery to unleash data’s strategic value, which can help to strengthen your company’s position in a litigation while also saving money. Our lawyers activate our distinctive “Continuous Case Assessment” technique to reduce the number of documents requiring review (by as much as 25% in some cases), with a corresponding reduction in cost. They apply their knowledge to review as many as 200 documents an hour, compared with the 50-70 seen across much of the industry. Most important, they create feedback loops that can identify and plug holes in your litigation strategy while minimizing your long-term risk. In essence, Dilijint delivers efficiency and quality in the near term – and can fortify your company’s legal initiatives over the long term.

Here’s the issue: The eDiscovery companies have technical knowhow, but not legal expertise; the law firms have legal expertise, but not technical knowhow; and the document reviewers have limited knowledge of either area. Dilijint has taken the time to build a team of full-time, experienced lawyers and who also have mastered today’s leading eDiscovery technologies. By melding these strengths, we can move more quickly, with greater ability to see and seize ways to improve efficiency – and we can bring otherwise overlooked risks and opportunities to the surface.

You can get predictable pricing for both review and hosting—in fact, you can get one price that covers both. Companies that know their technology and their review teams can provide predictability on pricing. At Dilijint, we can give you one pricing that covers all your review and analytics. Contact us to find out if it makes sense for your company.

Document review has been a burden for companies for many years because it’s the most expensive part of the eDiscovery process, and yet delivers persistently disappointing results. The main reason for these realities is that the eDiscovery companies – not the law firm – source and hire the temporary lawyers who perform the document review. As you would guess, the primary skills these temps possess are technical – are chosen for their ability to use the hiring company’s system and coding procedure. But, their limited legal experience and by-the-numbers linear-review method result in a slow, laborious, expensive process.

Simply put, when experienced and empowered litigators use eDiscovery tools in a sophisticated way, they can identify trends in documents in real-time – and immediately identify and remove those that do not add value to the process. It takes experience to discern the nuances between versions, and judgment to know which documents are most relevant. With this combination of discernment, experience and technological fluency, our lawyers are able to review perhaps 400 to 500 documents per hour, compared with the industry standard rate of about 50 per hour. This approach gives our clients an ideal blend of cost savings and a superior work product.

Continuous Case Assessment is a well-known concept in which digitally collected documents are reviewed manually, and relatively early on, by lawyers seeking insights to help guide their case. Conceptually, this approach has merit, but it is hindered by the vast number of documents that must be looked through. With our approach, Continuous Case Assessment, seasoned lawyers combine their knowledge with technology tools to greatly reduce the number of documents that need to be reviewed (reductions of as much as 25% in some cases). This “assessment” is done carefully, in a legally defensible way, which mitigates risk while resulting in a significant cost reduction.

When eDiscovery companies apply a privilege filter, they tend to deliver results that exemplify two extremes, with neither being advantageous to the client. On one side, they capture a vast number of documents to avoid excluding any that might potentially be privileged. This “too many” approach compounds the review task, requiring more time and raising client costs significantly. On the other side, these filters are not intelligent enough to capture the right information, but rather center upon dozens of slightly different versions of the same high-interest documents. As a consequence, they bring forth “too few” of the documents that might actually be privileged. Our approach – which we call the Goldilocks Privilege Filter – strives to avoid these two extremes. Our lawyers are experienced in both the dynamics of privilege and the strengths and failings of today’s technology. They create, apply and refine our privilege filter to avoid the problems and price of “too many” and “too few” – delivering a result that is “just right” (just like the fairy tale).

If your company manages a lot of cases, a lot of time and energy is spent on recreating the wheel. Even when someone catches an important detail in a certain case, the detail must be found anew in the next case. This kind of “back to the starting line” approach is stressful and costly. With Dilijint, this type backtracking is eliminated. The critical details we catch in the first case are preserved so they can be employed in subsequent case. This way, every case you assign to us adds another layer of value to what you get from our work. We call this effect “Hardening Fortresses with Positive Feedback Loops” because the cumulative effect of our involvement it to make your position stronger through accumulated knowledge and vital case details.

Dilijint experts – including our technically experienced and empowered attorneys – work with our clients closely to glean new insights from data, including what’s made available to us through discovery processes. This includes improving how future investigations and matters are addressed, and also includes our industry-leading recommendations to reengineer your firm for the better.