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Global, scalable and experienced teams combined with proven, comprehensive and defensible solutions, uniquely empowers Consilio to be a trusted partner for handling the voluminous and rapid-paced document productions that typically accompany a Second Request / SIR / Phase II.

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Strategic, Experienced & Expert Discovery Partner

By the Numbers:

Consilio has handled over 120 successful second requests/SIRs/Phase II investigations (including productions to the FTC, DOJ, CCB, EC, FCC etc.) over the past five years, including over 50 since 2022; we have experience handling more than eight second requests concurrently, including both sides of the same transaction on numerous occasions. Through these engagements, we’ve collected and processed petabytes of data, reviewed tens of millions of documents and we’ve made tens of thousands of productions to government agencies.

By Industry:

Our representative industry experience includes oil and gas; consumer products and manufacturing; aviation and transportation; chemicals and agriculture; healthcare, life sciences, medical devices and hospital systems; technology, media and communications; engineering; financial services and payment processing, and more including ITAR, HIPAA & GDPR regulated organization.

Informed Process & Strategic Approach:

Second Request analytics experts and discovery consultants offer collaborative knowledge sharing and institutional insight, along with the experience and expertise necessary to advise regarding the benefits and considerations associated with every potential approach to substantial compliance depending on our client’s ultimate goals, timeline and appetite for risk and cost.
- Informed modification negotiations
- Approved strategies for handling modern attachments, translations, mobile and chat data, unique and proprietary systems and file types, ITAR, GDPR, PHI, PII, and more
- DOJ & FTC vetted de-duplication, and TAR methodology and workflow documentation
Dedicated project management and review teams that are exclusively focused on handling Second Request engagements and financially incentivized based on the overall client experience and deliverables.
Thousands of experienced and vetted contract attorneys with scalable and robust QC/QA process empowers swift, efficient and qualitative document review.
Defensible and streamlined approach to privilege review and logs including proprietary iPriv process, name and title extraction tools and comprehensive anticipated deficiency checklists.
“All-inclusive” fixed cost per document and per custodian pricing models save our clients ~20-30% in overall costs on average compared to a more traditional “a la carte” pricing approach.

Comprehensive & Global Service Offering:

Large team of full-time forensic technologists strategically located around the world.
ISO-Certified, secure data centers in 11 different countries leveraging proprietary tools and technological innovations to efficiently and cost-effectively process, analyze, review and produce millions of documents.

eDiscovery Expertise Enables Faster Production for High-Stakes Second Request

Consilio Case Study

The Issue

A large telecommunications corporation involved in a merger investigation needed document collection, processing, hosting, review and production services for a large-scale and high-stakes second request antitrust matter.

Our Approach

Our specialists devised a client-specific, managed service solution with processes that accommodated:

Leverage of Brainspace™ by internal counsel for investigations
3rd party subpoena workflows w/ no outside counsel
95% consistency standard of review for all India-based review resources
Contract and workflow flexibility to accommodated changes under the managed service flag

The Results

Following the two-month review and Consilio’s successful production of documents, the need for an additional quick-turnaround production required immediately bringing back 40 of the original team’s review attorneys. This review team worked for seven straight days to ensure that all deadlines were successfully met on time and on budget.