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Litigation: Pharmaceutical Average Wholesale Price Suit

Celerity’s client was sued for allegedly reporting inflated average wholesale prices for drugs they manufacture. Celerity provided initial discovery advice to help the client successfully negotiate search terms to limit the amount of data processed and reviewed. Celerity also advised on custodian identification and collection methodology. Celerity then fielded a team to another state to interview custodians and collect hard copy and electronic data using targeted and forensic approaches as necessary. Data was loaded into OLIVERsm – Celerity’s web-based platform – for the relevance and privilege review. Additionally, Celerity coordinated the extraction of sales transaction data from SAP and Oracle and loaded it into a SQL database to be produced to Plaintiffs as a “reasonably usable format” under Rule 34 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Celerity’s advice and streamlined approach is estimated to have saved the client hundreds of thousands in processing and review costs.

Services:

Discovery Strategy
eDiscovery: Preservation and Collection
OLIVERsm Hosted Review
eDiscovery: Production

Litigation: Electronic Components Joint Defense Lawsuit

Celerity has multiple clients that are the defendants in an electronic components price-fixing lawsuit. Celerity has provided a unique central repository solution in the form of OLIVERSM – Celerity’s web-based platform where each defendant group has equal but private access to all of the discovery documents and the ability to maintain their own private notes and tags. Currently, over 140 users from 17 different parties are using the system which contains almost 2 TB of data. Celerity developed the repository by importing data sets associated with about 550 productions from over 100 vendors in various formats which required significant normalization prior to import. Celerity also provided customization support to make search and review easier, for example enabling review of inordinately large documents ranging from 100MB to 1GB in size. Celerity’s solution collectively saved the parties involved an immense amount of time and cost by consolidating all data into a single, web-based solution.

Services:

OLIVERsm Hosted Review
eDiscovery Analysis

Litigation: Price-Fixing Suit

Outside counsel hired Celerity to support an international electronics manufacturer being sued for price-fixing. Initially, Celerity advised on the defensibility of the post-processing culling approach instituted by a previous discovery vendor which was under question due to inadvertent production of privileged documents. Then Celerity was asked to review and scope an issue with the review platform whereby Asian-language text was not interpreted correctly. Celerity determined the previous processing vendor had exported data in a format inconsistent with that required by the client’s review platform and necessary for correctly reading the numerous documents in Chinese, Korean and Japanese. Celerity offered several alternatives to correct this issue and the client chose to import 1.5 TB of data into OLIVERsm – Celerity’s web-based document review platform capable of handling Asian languages as well as being customized to suit the specific review requirements of the case. Ultimately, Celerity’s advice and technology allowed the client to quickly fix a significant flaw in the review process, thus avoiding sanctions, and produce over 253,000 documents.

Services:

Discovery Strategy
eDiscovery OLIVERsm Review Platform

 

Risk and Compliance: Executory Contracts Analysis

Celerity was retained to help a client confirm that customer account information was correct and current, to review executory contracts and to analyze the amount of customer refunds and reimbursements due. Celerity organized and fielded 20 teams to collect thousands of maps and records from offices around the state. These maps and documents were reviewed and coded by Celerity to identify the correct account and service information. This data was input into an analytical database that Celerity developed in order to calculate accurate refund and reimbursements due. Celerity also documented the process and trained client employees on how to perform the review. Celerity’s rapid, large-scale support allowed the client to quickly quantify their exposure and take corrective action where necessary.

Services:

Records Gathering and Review
Data Analysis

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