Bryan Cave has long been recognized as being on the cutting edge in terms of identifying and implementing or developing technologies that solve our clients’ most pressing legal problems. Indeed, CIO Magazine has recognized Bryan Cave as one of the top 100 companies (not just law firms) in the world for this kind of attention to client needs.

Bryan Cave’s eDiscovery Services Group leverages these capabilities to provide cost effective, state-of-the-art discovery management. We offer clients “A to Z” electronic discovery management, including strategies for litigation holds, data preservation and collection, early case assessment to narrow the universe of documents that go to the review stage, and best practices for maintaining defensible search, review and production protocols. We deliver these services by utilizing leading edge technology tools—like conceptual data analysis, search and review software—to make the document review process faster and less expensive without sacrificing quality.

The Accelerated Review Team, a core group of trained Bryan Cave eDiscovery lawyers  is directed by an experienced litigator, and managed by a seasoned litigation support and technology specialist with more than 25 years of experience. We have vast experience in production of electronic data to hundreds of private entities, individual plaintiffs, and governmental and other investigative entities.

Our group thinks outside the box to maximize savings for clients, through strategies like alternative fee arrangements, internal data processing, preferred pricing relationships with vendors who have passed Bryan Cave’s stringent quality control testing, and internal hosting of document review and case management platforms.

Our Strengths

Flexibility and Speed to Review:
Many of our matters start fast and require extraordinarily rapid ramp-ups of document review teams. We start with our Core Team of eDiscovery Attorneys who are full time Bryan Cave employees and fully dedicated to serving our clients’ eDiscovery needs. In a matter of days, we can expand our team to up to 50 or more contract project lawyers--and provide them with secure office space, computers and other logistical support.

On-Shore, On-Site Economics:
We control costs by staffing our eDiscovery teams in St. Louis–one of the lowest cost metropolitan centers in the United States. Our eDiscovery Annex is located within our St. Louis offices–not off-site at a remote, temporary location that makes supervision and quality control difficult. Constant interaction with our internal project managers allows our eDiscovery teams to conduct reviews for Bryan Cave attorneys and clients located throughout the United States.

Representative Projects

• For a criminal antitrust investigation brought by the Department of Justice, we established a low-cost document review team in our St. Louis eDiscovery Annex to support a core defense team of Washington, D.C., and New York lawyers. The review team consisted of 30 project lawyers who worked in conjunction with five Bryan Cave supervisors. Working in a three-tiered review format to ensure the highest level of quality, the team reviewed approximately 4 million pages (800,000 documents) of electronic information for responsiveness and privilege.
• In defending a consumer class action against a major insurance company, we collected approximately 1,000,000 documents and supervised a team of 30 contract lawyers in our St. Louis eDiscovery Annex to provide a low-cost supplement to our own attorneys and paralegals, and completed review and production in less than 30 days.
• In defending a four-year class action, we assembled a series of low-cost document review teams that included as many as 40 lawyers, paralegals, law clerks, and project attorneys – plus contract translators. The teams reviewed nearly 500,000 documents (including documents in Japanese, French, and German) and produced over 200,000 documents.