As a discovery counsel law firm, we are able to provide our clients a full spectrum of discovery services, from initial consultation and first-pass reviews to final privilege review and discovery management. Because we are able to go beyond the provision of legal support services, our discovery model typically saves our clients substantial legal fees compared to law firm and vendor partnerships, with our attorneys taking on much of the legal work that would otherwise be performed by expensive associates. By entrusting us with their discovery, our clients are able to rein in their litigation spend without sacrificing the quality of the work product they need to develop their case. Their responses have been overwhelmingly positive.
We guide our clients’ discovery with careful planning, comprehensive training, thorough quality control and reviewer accountability. Tanenholz & Associates works with you to outline the specific goals of the production and review. Our discovery plans’ timelines and cost projections allow our clients to better manage discovery deadlines and budgets.
We partner with and support trial counsel, providing constant management of the discovery process at lower billable rates while our partner firms focus on the remaining substantive aspects of the case, such as written discovery, depositions, legal research, motions, hearings and trial, and settlement strategy. Simply put, our model is the gold standard for management of the discovery process.
Tanenholz & Associates, PLLC never begins a project unprepared. For document production and discovery management, proper preparation requires thoughtful analysis of all stages of litigation and a thorough assessment of the role the different types of documents will play throughout the litigation. We carefully plan the specific goals of the production and review. Our discovery plans include timelines and cost projections so our clients can manage discovery deadlines and budgets accordingly.
Draft a budget including all aspects of collection, processing, coding, quality controls, reporting, and production.
Our collections are carefully planned to withstand challenges from opposing counsel. We design reliable collection protocols consistent with our clients’ discovery obligations and objectives. Our extensive experience in the execution of complex electronic collections allows us to conduct collections with minimal disruption to daily business operations. Let us guide you through the collection process.
Coordinate and conduct collections of paper, email, databases, and other electronically stored information;
We provide our clients a full spectrum of legal document review services, from first-pass reviews to final privilege review, with built-in legal oversight. Our attorney review teams often perform high-level review work that would otherwise be performed by expensive big firm associates.
Management of documents rarely ends with the final depositions, motions, or productions. We help our clients bridge the gap between the initial document review and the ultimate disposition of the case.
A well-managed review process ensures a smooth and efficient progression from discovery through trial, and beyond.
Cull and/or summarize key documents for the development of factual themes, motions practice, preparation of witnesses and ad hoc projects;
“[The firm] provided us excellent legal and practical advice on our discovery issues. We are fortunate to have access to their in-depth expertise and unique discovery management experience.”
“Tanenholz has been a life saver for me over the last year. I have used the firm on several very complicated document reviews and continue to use them as new matters come up. At one point, the firm was handling three different matters of mine at the same time. David has worked hard to meet every deadline we’ve had – which is not an easy task, particularly when we had the same deadline for production in two separate matters.”
“Tanenholz & Associates assisted us with several multi-level reviews in a nation-wide, complex pharmaceutical litigation. The firm quickly assembled a strong team of attorney reviewers who learned the products, litigation issues, key themes, and privilege criteria right away. I was especially impressed by the team’s efficiency in channeling questions through an experienced team leader so that the frequency of communications was optimized and also so that our piecemeal feedback became integrated into the overall protocol in a systematic way. This sort of on-the-fly intelligence builds enormous trust and value.”
“The Tanenholz team was charged with reviewing all of our documents, roughly 500,000 pages, developing best practices for record creation, establishing a document hierarchy linking structure to connect the documents based on a number of factors and performing quality control to ensure accuracy of the documents. This project was and remains massive in scope and complexity and the Tanenholz team was diligent, thorough and creative in working through the numerous issues that arose. David was very hands on during the project and bent over backwards to make sure all of our needs were met in the most accurate, efficient way possible.”
“All told, [the firm] executed a superior review at less than 1/3 of the cost we had originally projected, and freed our team to focus on the merits and litigation of the case. Our client was delighted with [the firm’s] performance in every respect, and was sincerely grateful to us for bringing them into the case not only in terms of lowering cost and adding value, but in bringing expertise to the representation.”
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