While Australia may be the driest inhabited continent in the world, it’s an ocean among global markets—representing the sixth largest country by area and twelfth largest global economy. And we’ve seen plenty of evidence of this strength at Relativity. Since 2019, our first full year operating RelativityOne in Australia, the region’s data center has grown thirteenfold. In fact, it held an average of 177 terabytes each month in 2023.
Scott Gillard, Managing Director at FTI, notes that the country continuously “presents new and interesting challenges. Whether it is managing emerging data sources for legal disputes, investigations, compliance, and regulatory matters, or PII identification and review as part of cyber incident responses.”
In our first article highlighting RelativityOne’s community across the globe we took a look at the broader APAC region. In this article, and with Spotlight: ANZ right around the corner, we home in on Terra Australis itself—and the community of partners who, every day, help customers solve tough legal data challenges.
Keeping Data Proportional
“Faced with a potential review of 250,000 documents after deduplication, our client was after ways to deal with this volume of data in a short period of time. Our first step was to run early case assessment, a cost-effective solution equipped with analytics to help them understand case evidence. By analysing the data with the client and removing irrelevant file types—including an amazing 123,000 logo files—we reduced the data set to around 62,000 documents. The remaining documents were then promoted to a review workspace and fed into an active learning queue in RelativityOne’s Review Center, which enabled the client to ignore a further 15,000 documents that were deemed to be irrelevant by Relativity’s AI technology.”
Phillip Buglass, Director Consulting & Document Review at Law In Order
“With RelativityOne, we were able to trim the review population by nearly 45 percent (down to 40,000 documents from the initial 90,000 document set) using customisable near-duplicate identification functionality and narrowing the review population to only the most inclusive emails via email threading. RelativityOne also swiftly organised and grouped related emails and documents, which minimised redundancy so that reviewers could focus on unique content.
Moreover, RelativityOne’s active learning capabilities dynamically re-prioritised documents in real-time as reviewers’ analysis at the outset of the review clarified which of the remaining documents were the most relevant.”
Abbas Hammoud, Project Manager At Elevate
Unique Legal Needs
“A barrier to native review has always been the difficulty to redact and produce in PDF format in a streamlined manner. The recent improvements around PDF workflows for the Australian market has been pivotal in streamlining document review workflows in RelativityOne. Being able to not only render to PDF but also import PDFs into the platform using the new Import/Export function within the web browser without having to pivot to an application outside of RelativityOne, and be able to handle those PDFs natively for find and redact and other workflows, is proving to be a significant enhancement to document reviews and workflows.”
Scott Gillard, Managing Director, Technology at FTI
One Country Among Many
“Our client is involved in a years-long litigation in multiple jurisdictions related to the same general subject matter and covering many of the same custodians. The challenge was to keep maintain operational efficiency, reuse documents across workspaces, and recycle work product across matters. We proposed a repository workspace in RelativityOne for all processing and separate workspaces for each jurisdiction. This setup allowed us to efficiently share files and work product across workspaces using Relativity’s integration points. This workspace design ultimately improves operational efficiency by not having a copy of each native file in multiple workspaces, but also leverages the benefits of cold storage for matters that go inactive for a period prior to disposition. We could not have accomplished these same results in the same efficient manner as we did without RelativityOne.”
Kevin Flynn, Senior Director at Morae
“Translate in RelativityOne has become the ultimate push-button solution in our toolkit—it’s lightning fast and incredibly accurate. Now, we can get to work straightaway on foreign language documents, without adding significant cost.”
George Schwalbe, Associate Director, Client Services at Epiq
“Recently, we managed discovery for multiple aligned defendants on a large litigation. Using integration points and a series of customised dynamic objects, we were able to reduce technology costs by 60 percent and facilitate the sharing of specific work product between our clients, delivering efficiencies without undermining the ability of each firm to have access to its own dedicated, secure document repository.”
Roman Barbera, Executive Director, Forensic at KordaMentha
Final Thoughts
These testimonials highlight the depth of legal data challenges that Australian professionals face all the time. Keeping in mind I’ve got a healthy distance from the day-to-day work, one of the joys of curating this set of testimonials has been seeing how our partners, community, and customers have all worked together to make hard things easier.
Whether it’s applying technology developed to do just that or relying on the flexibility and extensibility of the platform itself, it takes a village to deliver truly innovative outcomes.
