Case Studies

Language Expertise Combined with Predictive Ranking Equals Huge Savings

How Catalyst Used Language Expertise and Predictive Ranking to Cut Review Set By More than Half

Facing review of a set of mixed Japanese and English language documents, a major U.S. law firm wanted to use Predictive Ranking technology on the Japanese documents. If Predictive Ranking could identify the likely relevant Japanese documents, then the cost and time required for review and translation would be significantly reduced, enabling the firm to meet client-mandated budget constraints and court-mandated discovery deadlines.

60 Cases, 35 TB of Data, 125 Million Documents... One Satisfied Client

How a Global Technology Company Found the Perfect Platform to Power all its E-Discovery

Innovation drove this technology company to become a global leader. As a company defined by innovation, it had every reason to expect the same of its e-discovery partner. Finding itself embroiled in scores of IP lawsuits and regulatory matters—with new ones coming in waves—the company needed a discovery platform that would allow counsel to work together. One that would deliver control, efficiency, consistency and defensibility.

Protecting Documents Using Predictive Coding and Power Search

Catalyst Helps Brokerage Firm Screen 2 Million Documents for Privilege and Confidentiality

Protecting against the inadvertent exposure of privileged and confidential information is always a concern when a corporation becomes engaged in litigation. For a major brokerage firm, that task took on Herculean dimensions when it was hit with hundreds of class-action lawsuits and arbitrations after the collapse of a mutual fund that held mortgage-backed securities.

Using Predictive Ranking to Break a Discovery Deadlock

Catalyst Helps Resolve Impasse over Search Terms by Analyzing their Results

Cooperation is supposed to be the watchword for discovery, but reaching agreement between opposing litigants is not always easy. In a class-action lawsuit against a major investment firm, plaintiffs' lawyers insisted the firm use their set of search terms. The firm's lawyers, believing the terms were overly broad and imprecise, proposed their own set of terms. With the two sides at impasse, the dispute ended up before a federal judge.

Thousands of Automated Productions, Each on 24-Hour Turnaround

Catalyst Automated Production Module Helps Company Respond in Hundreds of Cases

For this major investment firm, it was a nightmare scenario. Crippled by the sub-prime lending crisis, once-lucrative mutual funds managed by the firm collapsed, virtually overnight. In short order, the firm faced regulatory investigations, class-action lawsuits, and multiple arbitration claims.