Case Study: Shepherd Data Services culls over 90% of a 1.2M document collection and halves review costs with Relativity ECA and Investigation

Shepherd Data Services Culled Out More Than 90% of the 1.2m Document Collection Using Relativity Eca and Investigation

Shepherd Data Services, a certified woman‑owned eDiscovery and digital forensics firm, partnered with a city entity that needed to respond to a public records request tied to pending litigation involving a 1.2 million‑document collection. Shepherd recommended using Relativity ECA and Investigation to quickly and defensibly identify and prioritize relevant materials.

Using Relativity ECA and Investigation, Shepherd leveraged dashboard visualizations and iterative search terms with filters to cull the corpus to under 100,000 documents in one week—eliminating more than 90% of the original collection—and cut the project’s overall cost by roughly half.

Shepherd Data Services

Benjamin Legatt

VP of Client Consulting