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E-Discovery Services & Strategy
Complex legal, data, and business challenges call for novel solutions.
Our world and how we communicate have changed, and the resulting proliferation of data presents an evolving risk and cost landscape for our clients. Our team merges legal insight with next-gen technology to solve today’s big-data challenges.
Discover Efficiency®
Perkins Coie’s E-Discovery Services & Strategy (ESS) team solves modern problems with legal acumen and advanced tools. In a world of ever-growing data, we guide clients through the evolving risks and costs. Whether it is e-discovery for complex litigation, investigations, or transactions, we use cutting-edge technology and generative artificial intelligence (AI) to help clients address their most pressing concerns.
How we help clients
- E-Discovery & Information Governance
- Deals & Diligence
- Data Insights & Analytics
- Secondments
Our Team
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We leverage cutting-edge technology and AI to manage large-scale data and provide expert guidance in data governance and discovery strategies for clients nationwide and globally.
E-Discovery & Information Governance
Our team counsels clients from litigation preparation through investigations, mediation, arbitration, or litigation. Seasoned practitioners of both law and technology, Perkins Coie lawyers have served as national discovery counsel on some of the most sophisticated cases in modern history, including an ongoing group of matters involving 62 million records. We provide the following support to clients:
- Discovery counseling.
- National discovery counsel services.
- Defensible, efficient discovery strategy, including use of generative AI
- ESI orders and stipulations.
- Rule 26(f) conferences.
- Rule 30(b)(6) depositions.
- Information governance.
- Litigation readiness planning.
- Data retention, mobile device, and acceptable use policies.
- Legal hold drafting and policy-making.
- End-to-end e-discovery.
- E-discovery consulting and project management.
- Data processing, hosting, and production.
- Forensics consulting and data collection.
- Analytics and technology-assisted review workflows, including generative AI.
- Managed review.
Deals and Diligence
We go beyond e-discovery. Our lawyers use AI-powered contract analysis and machine learning to support clients on projects ranging from pre-merger due diligence to securities analysis. We assist client in the following areas:
- Due diligence and deal support.
- Contract drafting, review, negotiation, and management.
- Lease review and abstraction.
- Cryptocurrency securities analysis.
- Corporate governance tracking.
Data Insights and Analytics
Perkins Coie’s data insights team leverages its deep knowledge and experience in multiple programming languages, including Python, .NET, and Transact Structured Query Language (T-SQL), to customize dynamic solutions specific to client data. Data insights professionals work with stakeholders to ingest structured data and translate it into the right format for the purpose. We offer customized solutions to meet requirements that have no clear solution elsewhere. Our group works with case teams on matters such as individual employment claims, large corporate class-action defenses, regulatory compliance and monitoring, commercial litigation, and financial services.
Secondments
Our lawyers are frequently sought out for secondments with clients across industry sectors, including technology and communications, manufacturing, fintech, digital media and entertainment, and gaming and sports. Our lawyers work closely with clients’ legal teams, efficiently helping them scale to meet their business needs.
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Insights
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