Streamline E-discovery with FTI
For many corporations and law firms, the legal review process is broken. Many organizations are stuck with a piecemeal approach. They use multiple vendors and service providers with grand hopes of reducing costs. But the strategy increases risk and induces skull-grinding project management headaches. Even worse, it reduces accountability, collaboration and cost predictability.
There is a smarter way, and it doesn’t even involve ibuprofen. Enter “Integrated Document Review,” a relatively new concept within the e discovery and document review industries. It is designed to align incentives correctly, to maximize the value of outside counsel’s work, and to create systemic efficiencies that overcome the limitations of piecemeal approaches, where costs are shifted but not reduced.
The essential element of a successful all-in-one review offering is the level of integration. Under the ideal approach, the integration of review services and technology should have three dimensions: First, integrate two or more vendors into one accountable provider. Second, integrate outside counsel’s role and guidance into your overall review process. And third, integrate review technology with your review processes and methodologies.
Acuity is the all-in-one legal review offering that streamlines e-discovery for both corporations and law firms. E-discovery experts Sophie Ross and Manfred Gabriel of FTI Consulting outlined the key components of Acuity, including a collaborative workflow and predictable pricing model, in this webinar.
“Acuity has attracted corporations and law firms, many of them for repeat business, because of its value proposition: predictable pricing and defensible, integrated legal review from one reliable partner,” said Manfred Gabriel, managing director of FTI Technology.
In addition, Manfred Gabriel authored “The End of Piecemealing – Improving Upon All-in-One Document Review Offerings,” a white paper to help counsel develop a better integrated document review plan.
FTI is a proud sponsor of the 2011 Legal Technology Leadership Summit. Thought leaders and decision makers will be attending the summit in September to learn about and discuss the ever changing impact of technology on the legal world.
“We are pleased to participate in the 11th Annual Legal Technology Leadership Summit,” said Gabriel. “This is an ideal forum for discussing the key methods helping Fortune 1000 and AMLAW 200 firms gain greater control and budget predictability over e-discovery.”
