LighthouseIQ Testimonial with Christian J Mahoney

Hear what Christian J Mahoney, Partner at Cleary Gottlieb, has to say about LighthouseIQ in this interview with Lighthouse CMO, Stacy Ybarra.

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Transcript:

I have been the head of Cleary's eDiscovery Group for a number of years now. I have been at Cleary for about 20 years leading a team of over a hundred attorneys. We handle very large antitrust matters, litigations, other types of government investigations. We are dealing with really large data sets and so our partnership with Lighthouse is incredibly important to us. Together, we've built a lot of great, tools and especially AI tools to help us, manage a lot of the challenges of these matters. Case strategy is really important for us at the start of matters.

Prior to, a tool like this, we didn't really have an efficient way to get to key documents early that might make a difference in how we approach the case. From a strategic perspective with case strategy, we now have a much more efficient solution than manual review and boole and search terms to arrive at a really precise, useful population of key documents that helps us understand how to proceed in the case. A big example for me from the past few months is a contract dispute. our client had a dispute with one of their customers regarding cancellation of a contract. Our client felt that they had damages under the contract for the cancellation, but they wanted us to test their theories of damages. They also wanted us to use information from their dataset to help substantiate their damages claimed and arrive at a calculation using, case strategy.

We were able to ask a number of prompts, arrive at some really good reporting and a population of around 6, 000 documents to, review to substantiate that claim and to arrive at a damages calculation that's backed up by data. We actually benchmarked that against older standard processes and what a review would've looked like without case strategy and found that we would've had to review at least five times the amount of documents. So the savings are huge, but it's not just about the savings. We are actually able to find information that we probably would not have found without search terms. And, today's a huge day for us because just today, this matter settled. thanks to the work we did in case strategy.

Our client was able To obtain really favorable monetary settlement, and as importantly, they were able to avoid, the court process in order to get that settlement. We were getting pressure from the government regulator to make productions very quickly, so we were trying to identify portions of that responsive set, that could go out without any worry that we are producing concerning documents without fully understanding them. We ran these prompts over potential productions and were able to identify many documents that were potentially concerning and hold them back from production. While we considered their importance, this was extremely meaningful to the client because although we eventually have to produce those documents, we really want to be able to understand and tell their story to the opposing party at the time of production.