LighthouseIQ Testimonial with Eric Wieder from Baker Botts

Hear how Eric Wieder and his team at Baker Botts uses LighthouseIQ and IQ Answers get more control over when and how they review data.

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Transcript:

Stacy Ybarra: Hi, Eric.

Eric Wieder: Hi.

Stacy Ybarra: Thank you so much for joining us today. I'd love to just hear a little bit about your role at Baker Botts and the type of matters that you oversee.

Eric Wieder: Absolutely. So I am Senior eDiscovery Counsel at Baker Botts. I've been working in the eDiscovery industry for over 20 years, and my role is across the spectrum of the EDRM, from collection through production with a focus on review and I've managed many large second requests, multi-district litigation, both civil and criminal cases.

Stacy Ybarra: I wanted to start out talking about Relativity and the announcement of server going away in January, 2028. And curious, how does that operationally affect your team and how you think about eDiscovery?

Eric Wieder: So, in terms to the transition from Server to RelOne, we're not looking to replace Relativity. We're looking for an AI platform that will extract intelligent data from our clients and seamlessly integrate into Relativity for the benefit of our matter teams. This is what LighthouseIQ does.

Stacy Ybarra: So tell me a little bit more, expand on that, on how LighthouseIQ will help you with that transition.

Eric Wieder: LighthouseIQ gives us more control over when and how we're going to review the data. It used to be you collect the data and you review it linearly. LighthouseIQ gives us the chance to break it up into parts and review in a prioritized way to the benefit of the case.

Stacy Ybarra: You've used IQ Priv for some of your cases. Can you share a little about that experience and how it's helped you?

Eric Wieder: Yeah, so we have used the GenAI component of IQ Priv to assist us with our privilege log. As you know, the burden of preparing a privilege log is costly, and expensive for our clients. We've been able to use the GenAI tool to more efficiently review documents and then perform a heavy QC so that we could submit a log that is less likely to be contested by the regulators.

Stacy Ybarra: I understand you've used IQ Answers for some of your matters. Can you just elaborate a little bit more on how you've used it and how it's helped support your team?

Eric Wieder: We have used IQ Answers on two different matters. One, a second request, a second one, a criminal litigation. In both instances, IQ Answers was very helpful in getting to the question of particular issues quicker than you would normally do just searching a Relativity database. Using an iterative process, we were able to get to the answer for the matter team in a short amount of time.

Stacy Ybarra: Eric, it's been great spending time with you today. Thank you so much for sharing your experiences with us. Really appreciate you and appreciate the partnership with Lighthouse and Baker Botts.

Eric Wieder: My pleasure. Thank you.