A leading international law firm, specialised in Corporate & Commercial matters asked us to advise on a redaction exercise involving 96000 pages. The review was conducted in paper form by a team of 5 solicitors and paralegals.
Within 24 hours of our first meeting, it has been decided on an in-house implementation of Concordance. We picked up 50 boxes of paper, organised an indexing manual, and started the documents scanning. Within 2 weeks, over the Christmas and New Year’s period, we scanned all the paper, and delivered back a Concordance database, with all the text searchable and allowing the users to filter the information by a number of parameters.
Following a few hours of training, all users were able to search the documents, save their results, tag documents for further use, and perform the redactions needed.
Given the deadlines imposed by the court, the volume of data, and the time of the project, our electronic review tool – Concordance – was the only way to meet the court and client demands. Today, the firms’ electronic disclosure capabilities, seen by many clients as a pre - condition when instructing solicitors, gives firms a competitive edge - even with large law firms.
