E-Discovery Lab: Litigation Technology
Unlike many firms, Freeborn & Peters has developed an e-Discovery Lab where we process our clients' mailstores and electronic data in-house. Our lab is highly developed and supervised by a technology professional at the director level. Two Certified Computer Examiners are on staff to direct computer forensic examinations and all technicians are certified in e-Discovery processing. We do not charge our clients for the processing or storage of electronic data - we charge only for the time our e-Discovery professionals incur in overseeing this process.
Throughout the past two years, we have processed more than 1.5 terabytes of electronic data resulting in a savings of more than $1,000,000 to our clients compared to vendors' costs. For example, we processed 250 gigabytes of e-mails from backup tapes for $56,000 when outside vendors quoted $375,000 for the same service. Our litigation technology team collects client data in a forensically sound manner, processes the data in our secured processing lab and hosts the data for attorney and client review on our secured servers. In addition, our technicians created customized scripts to manipulate data and create unique database fields that result in attorney document reviews that are 2.5 to 5 times faster than standard reviews ensuring a substantial savings to our clients.
