Case Study: Hire Counsel achieves eDiscovery cost certainty with OpenText Axcelerate

OpenText™ Axcelerate™ enables seamless merger of human and machine learning, eliminating the risk of cost overruns

Hire Counsel, a national leader in legal staffing and eDiscovery, was retained by an AmLaw 100 firm to review 1.65 million documents in a patent-infringement matter involving an international medical devices company. The team faced a hard 30-day production deadline, 11 issues plus privilege to code, and a fixed client budget that made accurate scope, timeline and cost estimates critical to avoid overruns.

Using OpenText™ Axcelerate™ and OpenText Professional Services, Hire Counsel applied advanced analytics, estimation sampling and continuous machine learning to prioritize review workflows and ensure coding consistency across a 40-attorney team. The process culled the corpus to an 800,000‑document review set, with the machine categorizing 522,000 as unresponsive so only 278,000 required human review; the team achieved 98.8% recall, a 58.08% efficiency score, met the deadline, and delivered a fixed price that was 65% below the client’s expectation, eliminating the risk of cost overruns.

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Todd W. Kunz

National Director for Managed Review Services