Complex Litigation & Discovery Center
Innovative & Cost-Effective Solutions to Meet Today's eDiscovery Challenges
When clients need e-discovery assistance for their matters, they're looking for innovative, efficient, and cost-effective solutions. Steptoe's Complex Litigation and Discovery Center (CLDC) helps meet the demands and challenges our clients face.
The CLDC, based in Rockville, Maryland, consists of a team of experienced lawyers and other professional staff dedicated to our clients across a number of different practice areas, including:
- Litigation
- Antitrust and Hart-Scott-Rodino compliance
- Transactional due diligence projects
- White-collar criminal defense
- Internal investigations
- Government subpoenas and investigations
We bring a wealth of e-discovery experience and subject matter insight that comes from the successful hands-on management of more than 500 document reviews and e-discovery matters.
To deliver projects on time and within budget, we take a strategic approach to our matters and leverage the latest technology to help reduce the volume of documents and improve the overall efficiency of our reviews. These include technology-assisted review, email threading, foreign language identification, clustering, and other review analytics and technologies to greatly improve results and deliver high-quality work product for our clients.
For each client matter, an experienced associate manages the review for the duration of the project. We appreciate that each client matter is different, so at the inception of each e-discovery project we develop a comprehensive review plan, including a cost and schedule estimate, tailored to meet the parameters, objectives, and volume of documents subject to review.
Every matter receives multiple levels of quality control checks, including processes to ensure productions are complete, contain no privileged and/or other materials that should be withheld, and comply with the matter requirements and specifications. Throughout the review process, we actively manage and continuously monitor the review so we're able to quickly address and resolve any potential issues to improve results and avoid significant impact on the project's budget or schedule.
We take pride in providing transparency and regular updates to minimize unexpected surprises and to ensure that reviews run as efficiently as possible. For each matter, we provide regular reports on progress, key metrics and developments, and matter-specific updates. At the end of the project, we also provide a final report highlighting the work performed and the goals achieved.