Case Study: Herbert Smith Freehills reduces review time and costs by 60% with Relativity

Reed Smith Cuts Contract Review Time by 70%

The global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills faced the challenge of managing 40 million documents for a client's energy sector contractual dispute. Under significant time and data volume pressure, they turned to Relativity and its Analytics and Assisted Review services to efficiently cull the document set and control costs.

By applying Relativity's analytics tools from the outset, the firm rapidly filtered the data. They used techniques like de-duplication and email threading to reduce the initial set for review to just 3 million documents. Utilizing Relativity's Assisted Review for a learning project further refined the pool. The final manual review involved only 172,611 documents, which resulted in a 60 percent reduction in both review time and associated fees for the client.

Reed Smith

Bryon Bratcher

Director of Practice Solutions