Perkins Coie’s E-Discovery practice professionals form long-term partnerships with many Am Law 100 law firms and our Fortune 100 company clients. Leading companies rely on our efficiency and forward-thinking approach as well as our in-depth, client-specific knowledge.

Client-dedicated technologists and attorneys make it a priority to understand our clients’ businesses and intellectualize the nuances of the matters for which the firm provides e-discovery services. We are proud to provide e-discovery services to high-profile clients for their most important and complex cases. Our in-house ESS attorneys and technology professionals offer a scalable and comprehensive range of legal technology solutions and services, including:

• Meticulous, defensible document reviews
• Consultation, project management, budgeting and cost shifting
• Predictive coding and analytics
• Rule 30(b)(6) deposition and Rule 26(f) conference preparation
• Litigation readiness
• E-discovery response plan and toolkits
• Legal hold implementation
• Document collection and retention
• Records and information preservation and management
• Data mapping
• Legacy data management
• Records inventory
• Protocol, policies and procedures development
• Corporate due diligence
• Internal investigations and audits
• Non-litigation email and document review and analysis

Cost and Risk Reduction

We use practices and procedures that are comprehensive, repeatable and defensible while pairing the right technology with experienced professionals skilled at controlling costs, minimizing risks and improving client service. We have delivered as much as 85% cost savings over typical linear review services.

Efficiency

Our services eliminate the upfront learning curve that outside vendors require. We know our clients and their data. Because our team is educated in our clients’ culture, processes and preferences, the entire e-discovery process is simplified and customized to each specific client.

Quality Assurance

Perkins Coie review attorneys and technology professionals are excellent at what they do. We select and assign specifically trained legal professionals who share a deep interest in the field and take pride in their specialized talents. Targeted legal results, flexible approaches and consistent excellence are key to maintaining our high standards of quality.

Technologically Driven

Deploying technological advancements to benefit clients’ timelines and budgets is the foundation of the ESS practice and allows our team to work at the top of their game and maximum efficiency. We readily provide nonlinear, subject-matter based reviews and use repeatable and defensible production techniques. Our use of technology is intelligently leveraged and in alignment with the goals of our legal professionals and clients.

Practice Technology Services

Technology is only as good as the user. We know the technology. Perkins Coie’s technology professionals are a valuable part of the E-Discovery Services & Strategy team. Technology consultants and project managers serve as advisors who coordinate with clients' information technology resources to understand our client’s infrastructures, data practices and policies. This allows us to gather the needed information to inform and consult on best data preservation and collection methodologies, provide guidance in outlining the best technology solutions, develop workflows for the discovery process, manage the review attorney resources and engage and manage appropriate third-party service providers for individual matters.

Data analysts serve as the primary technical resources for the E-Discovery Services & Strategy practice and the firm for managing and maintaining our in-house technology support. Our analysts serve as secondary resources for external hosted solutions. ESS trial specialists provide planning and logistics coordination, war room design and set up and courtroom technology support. ESS graphic designers consult with legal teams and our clients on the strategic use of graphic and design specific presentations to enhance our clients’ position.

Seattle, Chicago and Phoenix Discovery Centers

Perkins Coie’s Discovery Centers in Seattle, Chicago and Phoenix employ experienced review attorneys who attend to a variety of projects involving the review and analysis of electronically stored information in a variety of litigation and non-litigation contexts, under the direction and assistance of our clients’ legal teams and technology professionals.

ESS Industry Advancement and Involvement

New rules, evolving case law, increasingly sophisticated technology and exploding volumes and types of electronic data are among the complexities every e-discovery services provider must address. Perkins Coie’s ESS specialists are ahead of the curve in each of these areas. Viewed as industry thought leaders, we make it a priority to publish updates on new rules and cutting edge case law when possible. Our practitioners are frequent speakers and sponsors of leading industry conferences.

ESS Leadership

Perkins Coie serves as an official law firm sponsor of The Sedona Conference^® Working Group Series SM, where several of our attorneys serve on current Working Group drafting teams. Additionally, we participate in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model and are members of ARMA International^®, one of the leading information and records management professional organizations. We sponsor and are actively involved with the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) as well as a number of other important organizations that endorse disruptive technology to solve our clients’ problems.