Extract from Amy Bowser-Rollins and Rajsri Kundu’s article “Multi-Matter Management Strategies That Deliver Search Workflow Efficiencies”
Corporate counsel routinely deal with lawsuits related to liability, negligence, and breach of contract. For example, if a product safety issue arises, a manufacturing company can face multiple lawsuits filed in multiple jurisdictions. Many of these lawsuits have similar injury patterns or rely on similar theories of liability. Executing multi-matter management strategies is crucial for product liability matters or any matter when the fact patterns have similar facts and data. A corporate legal department typically has the following goals:
- Prepare a consistent response across all the matters
- Drive the matters to resolution quickly
- Control costs throughout the lifecycle of a matter
A cloud-based legal technology platform like Casepoint is able to assist in meeting the goals of a corporate legal department. Let’s walk through how leveraging a multi-management search workflow will be helpful.
By way of illustration, there might be 10 workspaces, each one representing an individual matter. Each workspace contains documents received from the plaintiff as well as internal documents collected from custodians within the corporation in response to discovery requests. As you can envision, there is a lot of redundancy in the custodians’ internal documents across the matter workspaces.
