Case Study: Hoge Fenton achieves 67% operational savings for audits and compliance with Rubrik Sonar

Hoge Fenton Law Firm Drives 67% Operational Savings for Audits and Compliance with Rubrik Sonar

Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel is a Silicon Valley law firm that needed to tighten compliance and reduce risk across multiple offices and global matters. Relying on manual Excel-based processes and ad hoc teams to locate sensitive data for audits and e-discovery made searches slow, error-prone, hard to control, and exposed the firm to regulatory fines and visibility gaps under rules like GLBA, CCPA and GDPR.

By deploying Rubrik Sonar, Hoge Fenton automated granular, global searches across backups, applied predefined compliance policies, and adjusted retention to meet “right to be forgotten” requirements without impacting production. The firm cut time for search requests dramatically, achieving 67%+ operational savings and a 75% reduction in FTEs needed for the same tasks, while improving auditability and proving compliance.

Hoge Fenton

Seth Silapasvang

Director of Information Technology