Case Studies
A large gaming company faced multiple, ongoing matters involving vastly different issues and originating in numerous jurisdictions, yet the same key custodians were relevant to most of the cases. Its legal team understood the excessive costs involved with recollecting and reprocessing the same information for each case and set out to find a solution that would enable the reuse of processed data.
Continuous Active Learning (CAL) from FTI Technology Aids Baker McKenzie
Baker McKenzie was challenged to quickly and cost-effectively conduct a legal review of more than 200,000 documents to help determine case strategy. The law firm was on the cutting edge of using various technologies and processes – from visual analytics to offshoring legal review to lower-cost review lawyers in other countries – to build in efficiencies and keep e-discovery costs low for clients.
Radiance Visual Analytics Helps Law Firm Answer Government Inquiry
Assess the size and scope of potentially responsive documents within 12 terabytes (TB) of unstructured data in response to a government inquiry in one month. The data set included more than 6 million documents and e-mail from a bankrupt company that had acquired bankrupt companies - leaving investigators with many questions and few starting points.
FTI Reduces Reviewable Contract Population by 90% to Beat Data Deadline in Corporate Restructuring
FTI’s contract intelligence team was tapped to assist a global company with its corporate restructuring, requiring scoping of hundreds of thousands of contracts within a six-week timeframe.
How to "Find Facts Fast" in an Internal Investigation
Advanced technology – continuous active learning (CAL) – and a seasoned team of "find facts fast" investigators work in tandem to find key data quickly.
FTI Consulting Showcases Second Request Expertise with RelativityOne
FTI Consulting—a global advisory firm with decades of experience handling the riskiest and most complex matters in e-discovery—has an impressive track record for managing huge, multinational projects. When they applied RelativityOne to their global playbook for Hart-Scott-Rodino second requests, they achieved a speed and scale that exceeded expectations.
A large international financial services organization, with operations throughout Europe, needed to collect, review and produce relevant data to opposing counsel.
Retail Industry Merger Aided by FTI Technology’s Second Request Expertise
Prepare for and respond to antitrust regulators in the United States, Canada and Europe.
Flextronics was countersued by a former business partner and the main evidence for the countersuit was an email allegedly sent to Flextronics that no one had seen before. Sensing that the key evidence may have been fabricated, Flextronics and their Counsel turned to FTI Consulting’s Technology practice for digital forensic expertise.
Forensic Data Collection From Mobile Devices
When our client, a global financial services institution, needed to quickly investigate a suspected security breach which required data from over two hundred of its employees’ mobile phones to be collected and reviewed, our computer forensic experts were able to help.
A leading international real estate information company suspected its data had been stolen and sold by a competitor. FTI Technology’s forensic experts teamed with local law enforcement to conduct a search and seizure, performed forensic imaging on close to 300 computers and devices and documented every step while adhering to the collection laws of the Philippines.
FTI Technology’s Antitrust Expertise Aids in Energy Merger
A large energy industry company planned to acquire a competitor. Given the size of the companies and the likely impact of the deal across the market, the companies anticipated regulatory scrutiny in the form of a Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust “Second Request” investigation.
FTI Technology Helps Build a Better Case for Merger between Two Manufacturing Companies
A large US manufacturing company announced an acquisition of a competing company based in Europe, and faced antitrust investigations from both US and European regulators. The data spanned the globe and a number of formats, including cloud-based Microsoft Office 365.
Defensible Remediation of “Dark Data”
Many companies are wasting money on storage or exposing themselves to data breaches by supporting massive amounts of "dark data." Learn how you can get your dark data under control with this FTI Technology case study of our information governance services.
Respond to a “second request” issued by the federal trade commission in 60 days, and prepare for impending antitrust litigation.
FTI Technology Crafts Solution to Remedy Health Care System’s Data Ills
Understand corporate data residing on various networks and Sharepoint sites to proactively reduce data footprint and reduce future risk and exposure.
Antitrust agency approves usage of e-discovery technique for a Canadian merger case.
FTI Customizes E-Discovery Process to Save Entertainment Service $600K
1.7 M documents quickly reduced to 25,000 despite unfavorable search terms.
A proposed merger between telecom giants generated a Hart Scott Rodino Second Request action that resulted in considerable difficulties for the parties involved.
FTI Assists Client in Uncovering Employee Fraud in Europe Through Mobile Investigations Unit
A global law firm contacted FTI to assist in the investigation of unusual activities between employees in two different European offices. Data from key custodians needed to be collected, processed and reviewed so that investigators could determine whether fraud was occurring, and if so, who else was involved or knew about it, how much was involved and what legal action could be taken.
Lovells Reduces E-Discovery Costs and Time by 75%
Lovells, the sixth largest international law firm in the world, was tasked with evaluating potential conspiracy and fraud claims arising out of a complex multi-party transaction. During the investigation stage, the firm set out to review thirty-five gigabytes (two million pages) of restored e-mail data under tight staffing and cost controls.
FTI Responds Immediately on Refco Matter
FTI’s Computer Forensic consultants were deployed within minutes to collect, process and analyze complex transactional and document data at the request of Refco’s board and outside counsel. Within just three days of the initial collection, FTI provided an initial report to the board on money transfers and accounts outside of Refco.
JMBM Finds Key Documents Among Millions For Millions
JMBM had very little time to review millions of pages and needed an easy, efficient way to search and manage all of the information required for depositions, motion practice and trial preparation. To find the most relevant documents in a large collection of electronic information within an established four month timeframe, JMBM sought the help of high-powered discovery technology.
Proactive Management: Fortune 1000 Company Takes Control of its E-Discovery Process
A large Fortune 1000 company, with billions in revenue, was tasked with implementing an efficient, cost effective, defensible and reasonable document review tool when the company was facing a large-scale litigation. The legal team recognized the need for a system that was sophisticated enough to produce high caliber results yet simple enough to explain to opposing counsel and the court how those results were reached.
Six Weeks, Five Productions and Millions of Documents
How Ringtail & Attenex e-discovery software enabled Bartlit Beck to create five productions in six weeks from millions of documents.