About Celerity

In an ever-changing world, experience is king.

Celerity projects span from litigation support to corporate compliance to technical consulting:

Production Management

Celerity handled all tactical aspects of a four million page, multi-party production effort including:

• Gathering paper and electronic documents in 1,000 custodian visits over a nine-month period.
• Coordinating multiple vendors to process the documents within an aggressive set of deadlines.
• Hiring and managing contract attorneys to perform the relevance review.
• Facilitating multiple relevance and privilege reviews with our client’s in-house counsel and two outside counsel law firms.
  
• Producing the documents to 17 different parties.

Data Collection

Celerity gathered email and electronic documents from numerous sites across the United States. Document sources included backup tapes, hard drives, CDs, laptops, desktops and corporate servers. Celerity coordinated weekly productions to multiple parties for several related investigations.

Relevance and Privilege Review

Celerity hired 25 attorneys to augment the client’s review team and managed the 50-attorney team through a five million page review for relevance, privilege and key issues. The client had chosen a third-party electronic review application and Celerity incorporated that tool into its process to deliver a seamless solution. In addition, Celerity provided productivity analyses and schedule updates – information that the tool did not provide.

Data Request Analysis

Our client was subpoenaed with 30 data requests pertaining to hundreds of specific documents. We analyzed the requests, distilled them into manageable categories and pulled together a team within 24 hours to interview potential witnesses and gather the responsive data.

Data Processing

Celerity automated a spreadsheet redaction task that saved hundreds of hours in fees, ensured redaction accuracy and also allowed client attorneys to experiment with different redaction strategies until they hit upon the right one.

Privilege Review

Celerity provided facilities and our OLIVER^SM Online Viewer to enable a team of attorneys from two law firms to perform a three-week joint privilege review. Of particular note: attorneys had been working with a well-known online review tool and switched to Celerity’s tool because of our custom review categories and dual-screen review capability.

Document Coding

Celerity received sudden notice of a new project deadline the week before Christmas. Working with our proven staffing partners who did an initial interview, Celerity screened over 150 candidates within a two-week time frame to obtain 92 temporary employees to perform an analytical review of technical documents.

Document Storage and Retrieval

Celerity maintains a joint defense repository that was created in 1997 to support 28 law firms across the country. The repository currently holds 320,000 records consisting of two million pages. We continue to provide flexible support via staffing levels that increase and decrease based on the volume of document requests from multiple parties. Celerity splits the billing among the defendants.

Trial Support

Celerity supported several Markman hearings for a leading law firm that argued the design patent claim construction on behalf of an international printer technology company. Prior to the hearing, Celerity prepared a significant amount of evidence, which was loaded into an exhibit-tracking database. We then worked directly with the attorneys, experts, and graphic artists to translate the evidence into an integrated and paperless presentation system. We also set up a war room and rehearsed with the lead attorney, refining the evidence and presentation, prior to court appearance. Our trial support team worked closely with the attorneys and supported them for many last minute requests, including Eleventh Hour modifications to demonstratives.

Statewide Documentation Audit

Celerity conducted an audit of 70,000 records located in 19 different offices throughout California to confirm the client’s compliance with a regulatory order. Celerity staffed the audit teams, coded and data-entered the audit results, and analyzed and reported on results. This information allowed the client to proactively address the issue and avoid further investigation.

Contract Reconciliation

A large client identified a group of contracts that were not up-to-date in the contract management and accounting system. These “uncured” contracts represented a liability and needed to be resolved to reduce the company’s litigation risk. Celerity gathered 25,000 contracts and supporting documentation, scanned and numbered the documents for control, coded 10 to 70 relevant data points on each contract and data-entered this information into a database. Celerity then analyzed the data, reported on potential exposure and recommended a priority for reconciliation.

Data Processing in Support of Damages

At the direction of counsel for a nationwide bank, Celerity consultants developed an analytical database from hard copy bond payment coupon schedule reports. This database was utilized by a “big four” accounting firm to calculate a financial damage amount. Celerity personnel managed the data entry, which included double-keying 300,000 records over a four-month period and performing validation. Double-shifts were required to maintain the schedule and the total team consisted of 45 data entry clerks.