Large law firms manage discovery differently.
You may have an in-house litigation support organization, dedicated eDiscovery professionals and sophisticated workflows already in place. Your firm may run eDiscovery as a profit center, pass discovery costs through to clients, or invest in technology that lowers clients’ overall litigation costs.
Whatever your model, your platform has to do more than review documents. CloudNine gives large firms end-to-end eDiscovery technology and professional services, with both SaaS and on-premise deployment.
SaaS or on-premise · Processing built in · Professional services when you need them
eDiscovery Built for the Demands of Large Law
Large firms don’t just need a document review platform. They need eDiscovery infrastructure that can support:
- Large and complex litigation
- Many simultaneous matters
- Terabytes of data
- Hundreds or thousands of custodians
- Multiple data sources
- Modern communication applications
- Mobile and smartphone data
- Corporate collaboration platforms
- Complex processing requirements
- Large-scale document review
- Advanced analytics and AI workflows
- Redaction and production
- Client-specific security requirements
- Internal litigation support teams
- Matter-level and firm-level cost management
And those requirements keep changing. The data you collect and review today looks nothing like the email-centric discovery of the past.
Your eDiscovery platform needs to be ready for what comes next.
One Platform for the eDiscovery Lifecycle
The most effective eDiscovery workflows don’t run as a collection of disconnected systems. CloudNine supports the whole workflow, from the moment data is collected until the matter is managed to close.
01
Collect
Bring data from the relevant sources into your discovery workflow.
02
Process
Normalize, index and prepare data for review, with processing built into CloudNine Review.
03
Analyze
Use search, filtering and analytics to find what’s relevant and cut unnecessary review.
04
Review
Give attorneys, litigation support and other authorized reviewers one central review environment.
05
Organize
Tag, categorize and manage information throughout the discovery process.
06
Redact
Protect sensitive, confidential, privileged and otherwise protected information.
07
Produce
Prepare productions using workflows designed for legal requirements.
08
Manage
Keep control of discovery data and workflows for the life of the matter.
From collection through production, one connected technology and services ecosystem.
Turn eDiscovery Technology Into a Strategic Firm Capability
Many large firms have invested heavily in litigation support and eDiscovery teams. Those teams aren’t just users of technology. They’re part of how the firm delivers service.
Your litigation support organization may:
- Manage discovery internally
- Support attorneys across multiple offices
- Provide services directly to clients
- Operate as a profit center
- Pass discovery costs through to clients
- Manage outside vendors
- Standardize technology across matters
- Help attorneys build defensible discovery strategies
- Look for technology that improves client economics
Part of Your Internal Infrastructure
Your litigation support team uses the technology directly and keeps more control over discovery workflows.
An Extension of Your Team
When a matter needs more processing, technical expertise or professional services, CloudNine supplements your internal resources.
A Lever for Client Economics
Technology becomes part of the conversation when clients want to manage litigation costs without compromising discovery requirements.
Your litigation support organization stays in control, with more technology and service options.
Give Your Firm More Predictability Over Discovery Costs
For large firms, eDiscovery is an economic decision as much as a technology decision. Discovery costs may be absorbed by the firm, passed through to the client, built into matter budgets or managed under an alternative fee arrangement. The platform you choose can affect the economics of an entire matter, and even firm profitability.
Questions your platform should answer easily
- What will processing cost?
- What will hosting cost?
- How much data will the matter host, expanded and non-expanded?
- What will review cost, in hosting fees and reviewer time?
- How much can be culled before review?
- What will productions cost?
- What happens when the matter grows?
- How do technology costs affect the client’s overall litigation budget?
How technology helps your clients control costs
- Reduce unnecessary data before review
- Improve processing efficiency
- Search and filter large datasets
- Reduce manual review costs across the board
- Automate appropriate discovery tasks
- Manage modern data more efficiently
- Improve production workflows
- Keep more work within the firm
- Choose deployment based on matter requirements
eDiscovery technology can become part of your firm’s client value proposition.
Help attorneys deliver efficient, defensible discovery while giving clients more visibility into what it costs.
SaaS or On-Premise? Choose the Model That Fits the Matter
Large firms don’t all have the same requirements, and neither do their matters. Some matters suit SaaS. Others involve highly sensitive data, regulatory requirements, client restrictions or security policies that call for more control over the infrastructure. CloudNine intentionally offers both.
CloudNine Review SaaS
A cloud-based eDiscovery environment for firms that want a modern review platform without managing the infrastructure underneath it. Use SaaS when you want:
- Rapid case uploading and automated processing
- Cloud-based accessibility
- Less infrastructure to manage
- Flexible access for distributed teams
- A modern review environment
- Professional services whenever you need them
CloudNine Review On-Premise
For matters where the firm or client needs more control over the environment, the data or the cost of the case. Deploy within:
- Your firm’s own infrastructure
- A private cloud
- AWS or Microsoft Azure
- A hybrid environment
- An environment behind your firewall
Especially relevant when data residency, security, client requirements, infrastructure control or cost management come first.
Let the matter decide
Standard Commercial Litigation
Often a good fit for SaaS.
Highly Sensitive Investigation
May call for an environment with more infrastructure control.
Client With Specific Security Rules
Deploy where that client’s requirements say the data must live.
Large, Multi-Year Matter
Different economics than a short-term case, so the right model may differ too.
One firm doesn’t have to use one deployment model for every matter.
Keep Sensitive Data Under Your Control
Large firms routinely handle some of the most sensitive information their clients have, including:
- Confidential business information
- Trade secrets
- Financial information
- Personally identifiable information
- Protected health information
- Attorney-client communications
- Work product
- Executive communications
- Regulatory information
- Government information
- Investigative data
Security has to extend through the whole lifecycle: collection through processing, processing through review, review through production. CloudNine’s deployment options let your firm weigh its security and data-control requirements when deciding where each matter runs. When a matter needs more infrastructure control, on-premise deployment keeps the discovery environment inside your firm’s preferred infrastructure.
Security isn’t a feature at the end of the workflow. It’s part of the workflow.
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Built for Today's Data and Tomorrow's Evidence
Email still matters, but it’s no longer the only place evidence lives. Corporate communications now span:
- Microsoft 365
- Teams
- SharePoint
- OneDrive
- Slack
- Mobile devices
- Text messaging
- Collaboration apps
- Cloud applications
- Business systems
- Social and messaging platforms
- Specialized enterprise apps
And the next source of discoverable information is already emerging: AI-generated content, AI-assisted communications, new collaboration platforms, ephemeral messaging and new enterprise applications.
CloudNine supports traditional and modern data workflows, and it’s designed to adapt as new sources of electronically stored information appear.
Your eDiscovery infrastructure shouldn’t become obsolete every time the way people communicate changes.
Enterprise Scale, From Gigabytes to Terabytes
Large matters generate enormous volumes of electronically stored information. Your platform has to handle that volume without forcing your team to rethink its entire workflow.
Scale shouldn’t require giving up control.
Processing Built In
CloudNine Review handles high-volume processing itself, with metadata extraction, OCR, deduplication, filtering and support for 5,000+ file types. Large datasets move into review without a separate processing tool.
Reduce Data Before You Pay to Review It
Deduplicate, filter out irrelevant information, narrow by date range, custodian and file type, apply search strategies, and send only targeted datasets to review. For large matters, that has a real impact on matter economics.
Designed for Large-Scale Review
Millions of documents. Multiple review teams and offices, outside counsel, co-counsel, clients, experts and contract reviewers. CloudNine Review gives them one central environment to search, analyze, tag, redact and produce.
Process intelligently before committing resources to review.
Professional Services When Your Team Needs More Capacity
Even sophisticated litigation support teams run into matters that need more resources. CloudNine’s professional services supplement your internal capabilities without making your firm outsource its entire discovery operation.
- High-volume processing
- Specialized data handling
- Complex productions
- Additional technical expertise
- Temporary capacity
- Modern data processing
- Consulting
- Review support
- Matter-specific assistance
Keep strategic control in-house while adding capacity when you need it.
eDiscovery for Every Matter, Not Just One Type
Complex Commercial Litigation
Manage large datasets and many custodians across sophisticated matters.
Class Actions
Support large-scale processing and review across substantial data populations.
Investigations
Manage sensitive, fast-changing datasets while keeping control of the discovery environment.
Regulatory Matters
Handle significant data volumes, sensitive information and complex review requirements.
Intellectual Property Litigation
Manage large collections of documents, communications, technical files and other evidence.
Employment Litigation
Process email, documents, communications and other employee-related data.
Government and Highly Sensitive Matters
Consider on-premise deployment when the matter needs more control over infrastructure and data.
Why Large Law Firms Evaluate CloudNine
End-to-End Capability
Processing through review and production, without building every stage around disconnected systems.
Deployment Flexibility
SaaS or on-premise, based on the matter, the client, the security environment and the firm.
Large-Scale Processing
Process substantial datasets while controlling how data moves through the workflow.
Modern Data
Discovery that goes beyond traditional email and office documents.
Cost Management
More visibility and control over processing, hosting, review and production costs.
Data Control
Support for matters where the firm or client needs more control over the environment.
Professional Services
Extra capacity or expertise for your litigation support team when a matter calls for it.
Long-Term Infrastructure
A technology ecosystem built for the changing nature of electronically stored information.
What to Ask When Evaluating Enterprise eDiscovery Software
Large firms should evaluate more than a feature checklist.
- Can it handle our largest matters? Look at processing capacity, review performance, data volumes, concurrency and scalability.
- Can it handle the data we collect today? Look beyond email and office documents.
- Can it handle the data we’ll collect tomorrow? Consider mobile, collaboration, cloud apps, AI-generated content and new communication tools.
- Can we choose where the data lives? Check whether SaaS, private cloud, on-premise and hybrid options are available.
- Can our litigation support team manage it? Technology should support your professionals, not create administrative work.
- Can we control matter economics? Understand processing, hosting, review, production, infrastructure and services costs.
- Can it support many matters at once? A large firm needs technology for a portfolio of litigation, not one big case.
- What happens when a matter becomes enormous? Ask about performance, processing architecture and technical support.
- What happens when we need more help? Evaluate the availability and depth of professional services.
- Can we explain the economics to our clients? Your technology should support conversations about efficiency and litigation budgets.
Bring us your toughest matter, and we’ll walk you through how CloudNine would handle it.
Frequently Asked Questions About eDiscovery for Large Law Firms
Large firms typically need eDiscovery software that can handle substantial data volumes, many matters, numerous reviewers, modern data sources, security requirements, complex productions and sophisticated litigation support workflows. CloudNine provides eDiscovery technology and professional services built for those requirements, with both SaaS and on-premise deployment.
Yes. CloudNine Review has high-volume processing built in, using the same processing engine as CloudNine LAW, CloudNine’s long-established processing platform, together with a review environment designed for large collections. For a specific matter, talk with CloudNine about data volume, data types, processing requirements, concurrent users and workflow so we can recommend the right configuration.
CloudNine’s technology is designed for high-volume processing and large datasets. The right architecture and workflow depend on the matter, data types, processing requirements and review environment, so large matters should be scoped with CloudNine’s technical team.
Yes. CloudNine Review is available as a SaaS platform, and CloudNine Review On-Premise is available for organizations that need more control over the deployment environment. On-premise deployments can run in a firm’s own infrastructure, a private cloud or supported cloud infrastructure such as AWS or Microsoft Azure.
A firm may choose on-premise eDiscovery when it needs more control over its infrastructure, data environment, security architecture, deployment model or cost structure. It can also matter when a client has specific requirements for how sensitive data is stored and managed.
SaaS removes much of the infrastructure and operational work of running an eDiscovery environment internally. It gives teams fast access to a cloud-based review environment and makes it easier to support distributed litigation teams. The right choice depends on the matter, client requirements, security considerations and the firm’s technology strategy.
Yes. Internal litigation support teams can use CloudNine’s technology to manage discovery workflows, process data and support review, and bring in CloudNine’s professional services when they need more capacity or expertise.
eDiscovery costs depend on data volume, processing, review, hosting, productions, services and matter duration. CloudNine helps firms reduce data before review, manage discovery workflows and choose between SaaS and on-premise deployment, which firms can use as part of their matter-level cost management.
Yes. CloudNine supports traditional and modern data, including corporate communications, collaboration data, mobile data and other electronically stored information. Because application and communication formats keep changing, confirm support for specific data sources with CloudNine before a matter begins.
Yes. CloudNine’s professional services can supplement an internal litigation support organization or provide extra help on matters that need specialized expertise or capacity.
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From high-volume processing to document review. From traditional documents to modern communications. From SaaS to controlled on-premise deployments. From self-managed workflows to professional services.
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