Case Study: 100 GB document review

Compare the advantages of the Stratify Legal Discovery™ service to in-house and traditional ASP tools based on the aggregate attorney review times that drive TCR.

Assume a law firm needs to review 100 GB of data, or roughly 1.5 million documents (i.e. 3,000 “bankers’ boxes” of hard copy pages), in four weeks. The blended hourly rate for review attorneys is $200 per hour. How can the firm achieve significant cost, time, and labor savings for the matter while improving the quality of its work product?

Cost Savings

Using an internal review tool or traditional ASP-based search solution, the firm would incur between $5M and $10M to review the document collection, not including processing costs. This is primarily due to the low-review rates expected from these linear review tools. However, if the firm leveraged the Stratify Legal Discovery service it could expect much higher review rates and save between $4M and $9M – just in billable hours alone.

Labor Savings

Both in-house and traditional ASP systems require a significant number of reviewers. But a firm can dramatically reduce that number – without sacrificing accuracy – by taking advantage of the efficiencies of the Stratify Legal Discovery service. Firms can complete the review with 75 to 85% fewer reviewers in the same amount of time, or, alternatively, complete the review 75 to 85% faster using the same number of reviewers. Either way, the time and cost savings are significant.

Time savings

While internal review tools and traditional ASP systems may appear faster, the Stratify Legal Discovery service outperforms them in just one week. Setting up the Stratify review site and processing the first batch of data takes a few more days than with traditional tools, but by the end of the first week, Stratify reviewers will have examined many thousands of documents more than the traditional reviewers. Over time, this gap widens even further.