Case Study: Drinker Biddle & Reath achieves shutdown of a fabricated whistleblower claim in 7 days with Relativity

Drinker Biddle Shuts Down Whistleblower Defense in 7 Days

Drinker Biddle & Reath was engaged to defend a publicly traded company after a fired senior executive alleged the company falsified quarterly financial reports. The firm used Relativity’s e-discovery platform—leveraging Analytics, clustering, keyword expansion and granular tagging—to immediately investigate one million emails and thousands of financial documents and determine the claim’s veracity.

Using Relativity, Drinker Biddle & Reath unraveled the facts in seven days: they uncovered emails and draft messages showing the whistleblower fabricated evidence, convinced opposing counsel to drop the case, and demonstrated to auditors that there were no accounting irregularities. The client spent $80,000 on the investigation and avoided an estimated quarter-million dollars (plus an additional six-figure audit) in traditional e-discovery and audit costs, eliminating the need for a costly independent financial audit.

Drinker Biddle & Reath

Bennett Borden

Chief Data Scientist and Partner