CASE STUDY Law Firm | United States
Am Law 50 firm Meets “Voluminous” Discovery Demands With Lean Review Team and Epiq AI™
Client Need
- Review of tens of thousands of documents tied to 100 production requests.
- Determine responsiveness and privilege, then queue documents for production to opposing counsel.
- Control cost and team size while meeting discovery obligations.
Client Solutions
- Cull likely nonresponsive documents before human review using Epiq AI™ for Review.
- Staff a lean team of Epiq reviewers for first-pass review at scale.
- Route small batches for quality control (QC), with the model refining its decisions after each round.
- Report in detail what the model ingested and how it responded to input.
- Manage the engagement through a single firm contact to draft the protocol, train reviewers, triage questions, and run QC.
Why Epiq
- Build on the law firm’s established use of Epiq Document Review Services.
- Align with the firm’s client who already relies on Epiq for document review and storage.
- Work with responsive teams to clarify terminology early and keep the process streamlined.
This is the future. In the same way that email and electronically stored information changed discovery, AI is changing discovery, the landscape is shifting. It’s better to be on the leading edge of that movement and understand the technology and leverage it...than to be behind the curve and not use the technology when the other side probably is.
—Associate
Am Law 50 Firm
Results and Benefits
Full, timely compliance for 100 production requests.
Smaller review teams after using Epiq AI for Review to reduce the volume of documents requiring human review.
Fewer review batches, with nonresponsive documents falling from 70% to 30% after two rounds, and to almost 0% by project end.
Lawyer time reallocated to higher-value work, with Epiq reviewers completing the review in three days, which would have taken the firm’s lawyer two weeks.