Case Study: Cozen O'Connor achieves rapid discovery of smoking-gun documents among 2 million and a 10x settlement increase with Relativity

Cozen O'Connor Finds the Smoking Gun Among 2 Million Documents

Cozen O’Connor, representing a staffing agency in a 2015 trade-secret suit, faced an expedited schedule and a last-minute dump of more than two million documents just two weeks before a key deposition. Working on contingency with a small team, they turned to Relativity—using its Analytics and Assisted Review—to quickly prioritize and organize the massive production and identify the most relevant materials.

Using Relativity, Cozen O’Connor seeded Assisted Review with FBI/DOJ files known to be relevant, then applied search terms, near‑duplicate detection, email threading and categorization to focus the review. In ten days and with just three people they found 100 “hot” documents (50 for deposition use, 10 decisive exhibits), prompting the opposing side to increase its settlement offer tenfold and leading to a same‑day settlement after a successful deposition.

Cozen O’Connor

Dave Walton

Labor & Employment Department