Case Study: Reed Smith achieves rapid contract review to save a multibillion-dollar deal with Relativity

How Analytics and Reed Smith’s Creativity with the Relativity Platform Supported a Multibillion-dollar Deal

Reed Smith, an international law firm, was engaged by a global financial client facing a multibillion-dollar sale and needed rapid, accurate analysis of tens of thousands of contracts in multiple languages to determine which business units could be divested. With less than a month to deliver multi-layered review decisions for nearly 300 stakeholders across 33 countries, Reed Smith turned to the Relativity platform to manage the scale, complexity, and global collaboration required.

Using Relativity, Reed Smith loaded 10,000+ contracts, ran Relativity Analytics for language identification and clustering, and leveraged Relativity’s dynamic objects to build custom review questionnaires in about 15 minutes before batching work to specialist review teams worldwide. The solution enabled the team to answer the client’s questions and close the deal within the one-month deadline, likely saving millions in review costs (they estimated it would have taken twice as many lawyers without Relativity) and preventing the loss of the multibillion-dollar transaction.

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Sharri Wilner

Litigation Technology Services Coordinator