Managed Document Review www.lawinorder.com Our client was
representing a large infrastructure company in proceedings with
their lead contractor regarding disputed payments of variation and
extension of time claims, among other issues. Like many
construction projects, the volume of documents was significant. In
addition, the ten disclosure categories were very complex, many
turning on the circumstances of individual disputed events.
Following application of keyword searches and other measures to
reduce the overall document set, an initial set of 105,000
documents was identified for review.
The biggest obstacle to meeting the disclosure deadline was the
review and identification of relevance to the disclosure categories
and their subcategories (one category having over 35
subcategories). The client had initially proposed that the
documents should be reviewed by each category, which would require
the documents to be potentially reviewed ten times for each of
