The centre provides an extremely secure, high capacity environment from which off-site support is provided to all legal and corporate clients of UNIFIED and Project Counsel. The relationship brings together two industry recognised experts in their respective fields creating a comprehensive and robust managed review service to provide for the rapidly growing demand in this area.
Staffed by experienced document review attorneys who are highly trained, multilingual, and fully vetted, UNIFIED and Project Counsel also ensure they are qualified in the jurisdiction of the particular matter to be reviewed in order to provide familiarity and compliance with local disclosure rules and obligations.
A full reporting platform developed by UNIFIED completes the service offering with 24 hour on demand client access to overall project progress, productivity, accuracy and cost.
In terms of technology the centre operates a particularly flexible and scalable infrastructure with extremely short lead times for commencement of new projects and highly flexible review platform configuration to tailor to the most demanding and complex workflow requirements.
The service can provide an ‘end to end’, ‘collection to review service’ including all technology and resource in a bundled and therefore predictable price (measured by document reviewed or by other agreed metric). In line with the flexibility of the rest of the service this can be unbundled to meet the client requirements with alternative review platforms and/or a subset of services, for example ‘review without processing’ being available.
“Our comprehensive range of legal technology and outsourced support services has been specifically designed to support law firms, corporations and public sector agencies. The growing demand of our clients for us to manage the complete eDisclosure process led us to develop our managed review offering. Having worked successfully with Project Counsel on such projects it was a natural progression for us to formalise and extend our capacity to provide what we believe to be a market leading document review centre. The key to successful review projects is without doubt the three C’s: communication, co-ordination and collaboration between the law firm, corporate client and ourselves and we found that with a reliable partner such as Project Counsel providing unrivalled access to the most important component, high quality people, we cemented the firm foundation of our service. ” said Paul Mankoo, Chief Executive Officer of UNIFIED. “We can handle the smallest and as well as the largest, most complex project in a robust, defensible and timely manner to an extremely high and consistent quality”.
For Project Counsel the centre marks a further and exciting expansion. “We have been staffing e-discovery document reviews in Brussels, Frankfurt, London and elsewhere in Europe (and Asia) for over three years as in-country review has taken hold”, said Gregory Bufithis, Esq., founder and managing director of Project Counsel. “We have a review centre in Brussels with one to open soon in Hong Kong but we thought it be best to have a review centre in London in partnership with a premier technology partner that has the in-depth experience to deliver a highly specialised, bespoke service. Our database of highly trained lawyers, interpreters, translators, and researchers with multi-language abilities and multi-discipline backgrounds works perfectly with the needs of UNIFIED and our own clients’”.
Bufithis added: “We will also be joining with UNIFIED, to offer basic e-discovery training … a sort of ‘E-Discovery 101’ as it were … at our document review centre. This was driven by discussions with our corporate clients as well as our aim to expand the pool of qualified and experienced attorneys in the London market. We’ll be releasing more details in a subsequent press release”.
About UNIFIED
UNIFIED is a leading, UK/EU headquartered provider of legal technology and outsourced support services to clients involved in the conduct of a range of legal matters. Focusing on the full range of e-discovery/disclosure services from advice in identifying harvestable data, forensic collection and the processing of both electronic and paper sources through supporting the review and production process it has both the technology and the human expertise.
UNIFIED brings a fresh ‘outcome based’ approach in providing truly effective support which translates into always meeting our clients’ requirements and enabling them to execute their matters in the most efficient, practical and cost proportionate manner.
Led by Paul Mankoo and Noel Kilby, highly experienced and recognised experts in the sector, UNIFIED provides these highest quality, integrated legal support and technology services to the legal, corporate and government markets. These solutions are provided through the use of both ‘best in class’ 3rd party technology as well as proprietary tools developed in house.
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For more information, contact: Paul Mankoo, CEO, UNIFIED OS LTD, +44 (0) 800-567 79 80 pm@unif-id.com
About Project Counsel
Project Counsel is a specialized international attorney referral and staffing agency, with e-discovery and data support capabilities. Our company provides highly trained lawyers, interpreters, translators, economists, IT professionals and researchers with multi-language abilities and multi-discipline backgrounds, on a cost efficient basis for temporary projects, long and short, in Europe, the Persian Gulf, and in the Asia-Pacific region. We have attorneys experienced in many practice areas. Our specialized units include, but are not limited to: antitrust and competition reviews; legal forensics; bankruptcy litigation; corporate restructuring; complex financial litigation; WTO disputes; EU data protection; government administrative and regulatory reviews; import/export documentation. Our sector-specific experience includes but is not limited to: pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, transportation, banking & finance, media & communications, and the metals industry.
For further information about Project Counsel please contact Gregory Bufithis at info@projectcounsel.com, by phone (in London at +44 (0)20 8133 7919 or in Brussels at +32 (0)2 537 7779) or visit our website at www.projectcounsel.com
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