Case Study: Hausfeld achieves rapid, accurate review of 10M+ corrupted, foreign-language documents with Everlaw

Hausfeld - Customer Case Study

Hausfeld, an international commercial law firm handling complex antitrust matters, faced an enormous discovery challenge when it received over 10 million documents (more than 5 TB) for an opt‑out damages case. Many files were corrupted or missing searchable text and a significant portion were in foreign languages, yet only a small review team was available. Hausfeld turned to Everlaw, using the Everlaw platform (including its instant language translation) and Everlaw’s support services to tackle the volume, corruption, and multilingual hurdles.

Everlaw worked with Hausfeld to recover or recognize text from corrupted files, provided rapid support and spreadsheets outlining issues, and helped craft production requests to opposing counsel. The Everlaw platform’s ease of use enabled targeted searches, rapid isolation and bundling of relevant document categories, and machine translation that removed the need to engage separate foreign‑language reviewers. As a result, Hausfeld’s small team located the key documents needed to advance the case, despite the 10 million‑document production, and benefited from Everlaw’s responsive support and transparent pricing.

Hausfeld

Michaela Spero

Associate