Inside the SFL - November/December 2008

David Swider Joins SFL Electronic Discovery Team
Want to decrease the time you spend on data review and lower your production costs? Our new team member can help you do just that. Electronic Discovery Solutions Consultant Dave Swider brings 25 years of experience in data collection, review and production to SF Legal, along with certifications in multiple data hosting solutions. Find out why Dave's known in the industry as "Mr. Data Hosting" (and how he can zip from our offices to yours at record speeds astride 500 pounds of German style).

The Myth of Total Cost vs. Unit Cost
If you select your electronic discovery services provider purely based on unit rates for services like per-gigabyte data processing/hosting fees, per-custodian fees or per-hour data collection fees, you may be missing the real cost driver. To effectively control litigation expenditures, you must focus on controlling data volumes – not unit rates. In this insightful article, SF Legal CEO Christian Lawrence reveals the true relationship between unit cost and total cost. Find out here if you're looking at the trees instead of the forest.

New Real-Time Solutions Series Details Real-World Scenarios
At SF Legal, we focus on controlling your costs, improving your process management, and reducing your risk. Check out our new series of mini case studies - Document Production Processing and Data Collection & Analysis - that describe the exact same challenges that many of you face every day. In these vignettes, we describe the situation, detail the process, and summarize the benefits. If you find you're facing a similar challenge, call us. After thoroughly analyzing your situation, we'll suggest a custom solution that could significantly speed up the process and cut costs, too.

Government Investigation Data Review Costs Slashed 85%
A Bay Area corporation represented by an Am Law 50 firm was involved in a government investigation into their product development process. Half a terabyte of data was harvested from backup tapes, file shares, workstations and the company's Exchange server. Learn how we helped the corporation and their law firm cull data and respond to the investigation in a cost-effective manner.

Law Firm Uses Process Management to Reduce Production Time for Seven Million Images A leading, global technology corporation headquartered in Asia was involved in a high stakes patent infringement litigation matter. Data had been harvested and culled, and was in the process of being reviewed by a team of attorneys. The corporation's counsel was working with a vendor to produce images for production to opposing counsel on a rolling basis. Unfortunately, this vendor wasn't meeting deadlines or providing adequate progress reports. The law firm called on us to process seven million images. Get the details on why our client said, "Because of SF Legal's efficient process management, I was able to manage my rolling productions with ease. Add me to your list of references!"

Law Firms' Client Saves $150,000+ by Facilitating 100 GB Environmental Data Review Two law firms were defending a state utility involved in an environmental law suit. Even after a keyword-based targeted collection, the firms still had 100 GB of data to review. How could they best get to the documents that mattered in a defensible, logical and cost-effective way? Their initial idea was to de-duplicate the documents and run a linear review using their in-house platform. SF Legal's Discovery Solutions Team suggested a more efficient process that removed nearly 90 percent of the data. By using Clearwell's tools to cull out 4,000 documents per hour, the law firms' review team only spent time with the documents that were most likely to be relevant. Read how the law firms' client saved more than $150,000 on data processing, hosting and review costs, thanks to SF Legal's approach.

Tales from the Trenches: Great Work by Repro Team!

The call from a prominent law firm came around 3 pm to pick up a brief. An associate needed 12 bound copies of the thick brief immediately. The SF Legal Repro Team processed the job in 20 minutes and ran it back up the hill. The client made the filing deadline and sent us this email: "I got the print job just in time to give it to the messenger. Super turnaround and great work! I really appreciate the extra effort and, as usual, will use SF Legal for all my copy job needs."

Happy Holidays from SF Legal!
Your litigation services requirements don't stop for the holidays and neither does our support. We'll be open 24 / 7 throughout the holiday season. Rely on SF Legal to be here when we're needed. Our best wishes to you and yours this season and throughout the coming year.