Complex Litigation

how Jumper 2.0 won a case and helped save a valued client.

A large law firm faced a class action lawsuit that was potentially devastating to a long-standing client. This multi-party litigation presented a number of challenges to their complex litigation group. The potential liability demanded aggressive management of all pre-trial discovery information. The complexity and volume of evidence made successful conduct of this large case difficult.

The case involved many claimants and damage issues involving long time periods and multiple variables. In addition, there was a network of law firms with regional capabilities and firms that specialized in specific aspects of the law. There was also in-house counsel that resided in numerous global offices. Coordinating evidence, knowledge, and strategy across all these participants created a tremendous challenge.

The firm hired an outside pre-trial discovery company to extract all the structured data and documents from the defendants many locations and partners, deployed a leading integration platform to link documents and cleanse data. There were approximately: 2 million records, 2.7 million documents, 2600 witness statements, 5500 pages of transcript and 11 schematic diagrams.

All documents were stored in a comprehensive document management system that used basic metadata to link it to other documents so that the system could display any exhibit or transcript and reference it to any other relevant document. But how could they link these documents to data records stored in a database? How could they connect them to legal strategy documents and case notes in an intelligle and easily searchable manner? The failure to understand and master all this pertinent information could seriously damage their client's interests.

What this law firm found was Jumper 2.0. A knowledge management solution that allowed the firm to categorize, summarize, annotate, and link all this information together electronically so that it could be efficiently searched and shared across all partners. Jumper provided the platform to easily search all case information, draft briefs, document productions, evidence notes, even meeting notes and returned the knowledge and insight with the search results so that it could be effectively leveraged once the case had begun and the pressure was on.

Complex Litigation & Jumper

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Pre-trial discovery is the center of gravity in modern litigation. Roughly 97 percent of all civil cases are resolved without ever reaching trial, and the settlement terms depend largely on developments during pre-trial discovery. An effective, efficient, and flexible Knowledge management strategy in pre-trial discovery is critical. Where literally a single document can be the smoking gun finding this needle in a haystack can be the difference between winning and loosing. If you didn’t know what you were looking for when you started reviewing all the documents in discovery you would never be able to find it once the case changes and the arguments change.


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