Case Study: R1 Public University Shortens FOIA Response Times with Everlaw

R1 Public University Shortens Response Times for FOIA Requests

R1 Public University, a public R1 doctoral university, needed a faster way to handle a high volume of FOIA requests with a small legal team of ten attorneys and three legal assistants. Before adopting Everlaw, the office of general counsel relied on manual, multi-step workflows to convert emails and attachments, review for exemptions, and prepare responsive documents, often taking days and creating backlogs.

Using Everlaw’s cloud-based eDiscovery and review platform, the university streamlined FOIA processing by uploading emails in context, coding documents as withholding or disclosing, applying redactions, generating Vaughn indices, and producing PDFs with Bates numbers. Everlaw helped the university sort emails and attachments correctly in seconds, shorten response times, and reduce litigation risk, while supporting requests ranging from 10 to 1,000 emails.

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