Catalyst has been building and hosting secure document repositories since 1998, first as part of a large law firm and beginning in 2000 as an independent organization. Here are several case studies from our early years.
In many cases, our clients have requested that we not use their names, and we have honored that request. We can say that they represent some of the largest companies in their respective industries and regularly act as references for serious inquiries.
Using Catalyst to Manage a Multi-Case, Multi-Party Oil and Gas Litigation
It was 1998. Catalyst was still a division of the law firm Holland and Hart, and one of our clients had been sued. Indeed, it wasn't just our client that had been sued. Rather, the suits involved just about every big name player in the Oil and Gas industry and the damages claims were for over a trillion dollars. The case was really dozens of cases spread across the oil patch. It was our clients' worst nightmare.
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Using Catalyst to Manage Multiple Construction Cases
In a city renowned for glitz, this was to be the crown jewel. As ground was broken for construction of what was to be one of the grandest resort hotels in Las Vegas, no one could have foreseen one of the most massive civil litigations in Nevada history looming on the horizon.
It took an army of contractors and subcontractors two years to build the hotel, at a cost of more than $1.5 billion. When the scheduled pre-millennium opening was delayed, it became clear that something was wrong. Subcontractors started complaining that they had not been paid, and the resulting tangle of suits and countersuits
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Using Catalyst for a Complex Criminal Defense
Lawyers and other legal professionals handling cases for the Federal Public Defenders office are no strangers to complex, high-profile criminal prosecutions. Their job is to represent defendants charged with federal criminal offenses who are unable to afford a private lawyer.
But when one office became involved several years ago in a high-profile trial involving highly sensitive information, the defenders assigned to the case feared that the sheer volume of discovery in the case would give rise to an unprecedented challenge in document management. Those fears were confirmed when the first batch of discovery documents arrived in the form of more than 2,000 CD-ROMs.
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