Strategic Keywords Reduced Review by 35% for a Construction Litigation​

See how Lighthouse reduced a construction litigation review population from 640K to 202K documents through strategic search term optimization, ensuring comprehensive coverage while cutting costs and review time.

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Key Actions​

  • Lighthouse collected and processed documents from 10 custodians (9 individual and 1 corporate). After initial data reduction, the review population was 640K documents.  ​
  • When outside counsel search terms yielded a review population of 310K, counsel turned to Lighthouse to further tune the terms. ​
  • Lighthouse linguists met with counsel to understand the subject matter. Then, they employed strategic search term testing and optimization methods to propose a new set of terms that reduced over- and under-capture (including RFP-to-search comparison analysis and linguistic-based search term and variant testing).​

Key Actions

Lighthouse searches reduced the review population by 35%, to 202K documents, while ensuring ample coverage of responsive subjects.