Projects

A National Broadcasting Company

One of the largest document processing companies began this production job but soon it was realized that privileged documents had been produced due to a bug in their “state of the art” processing system which was unable to search certain types of documents. This led to an embarrassing episode between the law firm and its client, and provided valuable information to the opposition. The company was not able to determine how often this problem occurred and had no other suggestion but to re-review by hand all the documents.

Discovery Specialists was asked to analyze the documents produced. We were able to generate a list of documents where this problem occurred, search those documents for privileged information and provide a list of documents to the client to be clawed back from the opposition before the right was waived due to a time limit in the protective order. In addition on this project, a large number of documents had been previously mis-Bates labeled creating large overlapping ranges. The previous discovery company had not kept original images without Bates stamps on them so could only suggest regenerating the TIFF images and putting the new corrected labels on them. This process would have been time consuming and requiring reprinting of the entire document set.

Discovery Specialists was able to develop an algorithm to accurately locate the Confidentiality and Bates labels on each TIFF image, remove those labels and put the corrected labels in their place. All this was done without reprinting the entire production, resulting in important time and cost savings.