How a leading defense firm—with an embedded DecoverAI team that built a bespoke production workflow to the subpoena's exact spec—ran relevance, confidentiality, privilege, Bates stamping, and redaction across 30,000 documents, returned a complete response in under a week, and faced regulators with the winning edge.
A prominent defense firm faced a demanding challenge: reviewing over 30,000 documents tied to a complex tax credit investigation. The matter required not only thorough document review, but a complete production—privilege logs, Bates stamps, and targeted redactions—all under tight deadlines and intense regulatory scrutiny.
By leveraging DecoverAI, the legal team rapidly organized, reviewed, and produced all 30,000 documents—surfacing strategic insights and key evidence at scale, with unprecedented speed and accuracy, and ultimately strengthening their defense strategy.
The difference was a partner, not just a platform. The DecoverAI team embedded with the defense and built the production workflow to the subpoena's exact specification—relevance, privilege, Bates, and redaction wired together against the deadline. Returning a complete, defensible response in days rather than weeks let the firm meet regulators from a position of control instead of catching up.
Tax credit investigations involve dense, highly technical documentation—financial records, correspondence, internal memoranda, and privileged communications. The defense team needed to:
Document review, privilege identification, Bates stamping, redaction, and privilege log generation—all within a single platform.
Advanced filtering and semantic search surfaced case-altering information that might have gone unnoticed in manual review.
Encrypted processing and storage met stringent confidentiality standards for sensitive personal and professional client data.
AI-driven analysis let the team work with greater precision—beyond eDiscovery best practice—in a fraction of the time.
For this 30,000-document matter, DecoverAI compressed both cost and turnaround against manual attorney review and the firm's prior eDiscovery vendor.
| Metric | Manual Attorney Review | Prior eDiscovery Vendor | DecoverAI This matter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost per document | $5.00 | $0.75 | $0.10 |
| Total matter cost (30K docs) | $150,000 | $22,500 | $3,000 |
| Turnaround time | 4 weeks | 2–3 weeks | 3 days |
Against the firm's prior eDiscovery vendor, DecoverAI saved roughly $20,000 on a single matter—a 30%+ reduction in total client cost—while compressing turnaround from weeks to three days.
What used to take weeks of manual review, privilege logging, and Bates stamping was completed in three days—and we were confident nothing was missed.
DecoverAI surfaced contractual clauses and deposition inconsistencies in a five-week jury trial.
Medical chronologies, record reviews, settlement demands, and interrogatory responses—all streamlined.
Over 1 million documents processed in a complex healthcare fraud and anti-kickback investigation.
Full remediation with corrected Bates numbering, privilege logs, and metadata under federal scrutiny.
See how DecoverAI delivers complete productions in days, not weeks.
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