Atlas eDiscovery Cost Forecasting and Management

Gain more control over discovery costs

• Enable legal executives to control impending discovering costs across the portfolio.
• Improve coordinated expense timing and matter visibility with finance, legal and business peers.
• Continuously update discovery costs as matter facts change, enabling attorneys to optimize matter resolution.
• Help control costs and effectively negotiate smaller scope through history, forecasts and scenario analysis.
• Enable legal teams to balance risk and cost in making narrow versus wide discovery decisions.

Improve strategy decisions and help resolve matters earlier

• Quickly estimate discovery costs for a matter at its outset to make better strategy decisions earlier.
• Bolster case strategy with more reliable cost estimates on a continual basis to aid ongoing decision making.

Track continuous discovery costs

• Provide continuous cost assessment that enables optimal settlement decisions throughout the case.
• Define litigation profiles, costs and budget models for a company to measure and track discovery costs more accurately.
• Track actual matter facts automatically, including custodian pool, data sources and collection volumes. No data entry is needed to estimate costs.
• Predict discovery cost trajectory by using current matter scope and historical facts.
• Refine litigation and cost profiles by matter type for finer-grained views.

Improve negotiating power to reduce scope

• Improve visibility into discovery costs based on key matter facts, pricing and historical matter context to help calibrate the likely course of events.
• Create iterative scenarios and options to make more fully informed arguments and stronger recommendations. Save a scenario as the optimal stance on production scope.
• Use cost data offensively to reduce collection and production volume. Make more routine and compelling burden and cost shifting arguments sooner with on-demand reports.
• Publish graphical cost reports for counsel and courts.
• Use cost calculator to estimate the other party's costs and better prepare for settlement discussions.

Optimize fiscal period impact

• Detect potential future cost spikes from changes in custodian and collection volume by matter and by fiscal period.
• Present forecasts by fiscal period to finance and business partners to avoid surprises and improve collaborative decision making.