LighthouseIQ Testimonial with Bryan Marra from Arnold & Porter

Hear how Bryan Marra of Arnold & Porter uses IQ Case Strategy to get to insight faster.

Watch the full webcast recording here to learn more about LighthouseIQ, IQ Case Strategy, and hear from additional LighthouseIQ customers.

Transcript:

Stacy Ybarra: Hi Bryan.

Bryan Marra: Hey Stacy.

Stacy Ybarra: Good to see you. Why don't we start out by just sharing a little bit about your role at Arnold & Porter and the types of matters that you handle.

Bryan Marra: So my practice focuses on merger investigations, second requests, antitrust conduct investigations from the government, and also merger litigation, and other antitrust litigation. My specialty is really driving the eDiscovery process, helping clients use technology to drive more efficient outcomes for them in eDiscovery, and complying with these government requests.

Stacy Ybarra: Why don't you share a little bit about your use of LighthouseIQ, how it's helped you with your clients?

Bryan Marra: Sure. So I used IQ Case Strategy. It was an antitrust litigation and we were facing trial in federal and state court in a matter of months. It was a very aggressive deposition schedule. We had over 30 depositions coming up in a matter of weeks, and we had a production population of over 23 million documents to look through. So how are we going to tackle that? We could have done this the old fashioned way. Hired an army of contract attorneys or used firm attorneys to basically sift through millions of documents, maybe use search terms to winnow it down, but then look at the results. It would've taken a long time. But instead we used IQ Case Strategy. So we worked with a small team of experts, linguists, technologists, and we trained them on basically what they were looking for in terms of documents, what the case themes were about the witnesses, and they started delivering documents to us in a week. They kept up a weekly schedule, basically, to keep up with the depositions. They ultimately did depo prep kits for over 30 depositions and it worked well. I mean, out of 23 million documents, they surfaced thousands of the key documents and they surfaced them early enough for us to get insights and use them for prep in advance before the depositions.

Stacy Ybarra: You mentioned using linguists and our Lighthouse team. How did pairing Lighthouse expertise with our LighthouseIQ technology help have a better outcome for you?

Bryan Marra: The team we worked with, they basically developed classifiers and linguistic models using your technology to essentially identify key documents and it ended up being a really a seamless process. We thought the documents they came up with were relevant and were key documents and we thought it was an excellent use case.

Stacy Ybarra: Maybe share a little bit—what was the biggest impact of using LighthouseIQ?

Bryan Marra: It was definitely the cost and time saving that was involved. We basically avoided having to do a massive document review effort, which would've cost the client a lot of money. And so by using this technology, we were able to short circuit having to do that and do things in a more efficient and focused way to get actionable intelligence that we could use right away with our depositions and for the litigation strategy.

Stacy Ybarra: So now that we've rolled out other applications, I know you've used some of them, but what are your overall thoughts of like using LighthouseIQ more broadly in the future?

Bryan Marra: Yeah, I definitely see use cases to use more of LighthouseIQ technology. How I use AI is really to make eDiscovery more efficient for my clients, to save money, to do things in a more focused way. And I can see use cases for IQ Answers. I'm looking forward to using that application for early case assessment to help clients find out what's in their documents at an early point, to help focus the case strategy ahead of time.

Stacy Ybarra: Maybe share a little bit more about how early insights really helps you and your teams.

Bryan Marra: Definitely. So, in merger investigations, finding out what's in your documents at an early point can be crucial. Oftentimes you produce like a million documents to the government and you don't really know what's in them ahead of time. But if you can know what's in your documents at an early point, it can really help you drive case strategy ahead of time.

Stacy Ybarra: I know you've used it on some large matters, but think about how would you use it on small matters or how you're thinking about the use of AI in the future.

Bryan Marra: So I think size isn't really the main factor. Clients are always looking to save money and they're always looking to find out more intelligence about their documents at an early point. And I think even in smaller matters, smaller investigations, this could be a way to see what's in your documents at an early point to drive case strategy. I look forward to using IQ Answers to do that, what I've seen of it that looks great and, and I think will help me in my practice for my clients.

Stacy Ybarra: That's great. Why don't you share a little bit about how you think about the use of AI in your practice?

Bryan Marra: Really, AI helps you move from broad-based review solutions towards more focused actionable intelligence. And that's what we're trying to do in my practice. To help clients use technology to find out more about their documents ahead of time to get through what would've been a massive costly undertaking much faster and more efficiently by using AI. That's how I see my role is sort of being someone that uses this technology to drive these outcomes for my clients.

Stacy Ybarra: Thank you so much for your time, Bryan. Really a pleasure to have this conversation with you.

Bryan Marra: It was great speaking with you.