Electronic Discovery Solution: Fios and Special Counsel

Two great companies, one great solution

With shrinking corporate litigation budgets and client demands for predictable costs and alternative fee structures, the need for gaining control over e-discovery costs is acute.

The new Fios-Special Counsel offering, announced at the October Association of Corporate Counsel Meeting in Boston, addresses precisely these concerns with an "all in" processing, review and production offering at very affordable per gigabyte pricing. Corporations and law firm wanting to simplify e-discovery management will also like the single, point of contact and project management aspects of the offering.

Fios-Special Counsel solution

Fios and Special Counsel have formed a partnership to address corporate counsel and law firm needs to control electronic discovery costs and to inject cost predictability into the complex discovery process. The solution spans the processing, review and production phases of e-discovery, and is offered at very attractive pricing. Fios, a veteran e-discovery leader, provides rapid processing across multiple platforms and file types, advanced reporting and review platform and production services. Special Counsel conducts the legal review through document review litigation management and access to efficient, high-quality review teams.

Cost control and predictability

The Fios-Special Counsel pricing approach provides clients with reduced costs and greater certainty in cost estimates. With our project management competencies and pricing model, we can help you predict what your costs will be for the project over time. This means no more surprises in monthly legal bills, a prime concern of corporate legal departments.

Simplified management and communications

Many corporate law departments and law firms are exasperated with the task of managing multiple vendors, review teams, technologies, stakeholders, deadlines and deliverables. The Fios-Ajlon solution takes those headaches away. Clients have one point of contact for requests, communications, reporting and accountability. A single phone call or email gets you the information you need.

Outsource to focus on legal strategy, not data and review management

Fios is an expert at handling the complexities of processing and producing electronic evidence in litigation and investigations. After managing over 3,000 e-discovery matters over the past 10 years, we have encountered just about every data processing challenge you can imagine. We have methodologies and processes to efficiently handle format and file type complexities, and culling strategies to reduce the review data set. Processing and productions are core Fios’ competencies. We take care of these aspects of e-discovery, so you can focus on case strategy and the law.

Special Counsel is an expert in litigation management and document review. We conducted reviews for over 400 clients in 2008 alone. Our tried-and-true resource planning, workflow processes, review methodologies and quality control audits result in high-quality, cost-effective legal reviews. We service law firms and corporations that would rather have their legal teams focus on the case strategy and client needs, than on the mechanics of review management. We train and monitor reviewers on first-pass review, relevance, privilege, foreign language review and quality control. As part of Adecco Group, the largest human resources company in the world, we have the ability to harness Fortune Global 500 resources for personal, tailored solutions to any client need. To best serve your legal staffing needs we provide only the very best legal talent.

Learn more about Fios-Special Counsel e-Discovery Solution