What would you do with some extra time in your day? That’s a question many RelativityOne customers have been asking themselves—and answering—as they’ve adopted automated workflows.
Automated workflows leverages the power of the cloud to eliminate manual intervention that used to be required for some key processes in RelativityOne. Over the past six months, customers have seen an average of over 5,500 clicks saved and got over 160 hours of work time back by leveraging this capability.
With the time they’re not spending clicking and babysitting queues, they have been able to focus on work that drives real value for their organizations and their customers, all while having a little extra time in their day to focus on, well, themselves!
Read on to see the real stories of how our customers have derived value for themselves and for their organizations by leveraging automation.
1. Cooley saw the end of long to-do lists
Joy Thornhill and Phil Anton, litigation support analysts at Cooley, often found themselves feeling bogged down by their checklists when it came to the case set-up process. The cases they work on are complex, with one case requiring 25 separate search term indexes that couldn’t be updated with a script, requiring manual updating each time new documents entered their workspace. Keeping track of all the associated tasks took a lot of mental energy, making it hard for Joy and Phil to ever feel truly done with their work.
By leveraging automated workflows, Joy and Phil no longer need their tedious checklists. Instead, they can ingest their data and then forget it until they get an email. It also enabled near real-time keyword reporting analytics index updates in a case involving daily collection of data, without interrupting or slowing down review. As they’ve scaled their RelativityOne data footprint, this has been immensely helpful in allowing them to work smarter, not harder.
By leveraging automated workflows, Phil has a little more time in his day to focus on the things he loves, like cooking a delicious dinner. Automated workflows was the breath of fresh air they both needed to say goodbye to long to-do lists and take back control of their days.
2. icourts reduced manual tasks and ramped up high-value advice
When Ashley Ackary and Sarah Peterson from the icourts evidence management team used to get new data to load into RelativityOne, the post-import process involved a number of manual tasks like updating search term reports, analytics and dtSearch index builds, conducting OCR, and updates to other key features their lawyers required for review.
With the power of automation, they are better able to streamline their project management tasks while ensuring consistent output. Plus, their clients have access to all the tools they need to enhance their review processes at their fingertips from the outset.
This has allowed Ashley and Sarah to serve as better consultants to their clients by providing higher-value advice and insights to help them more deeply understand the data in their case.
3. The MCS Group cut back on evening work
Most of The MCS Group’s requests for case setup come in the afternoon and evening. Before they had automated workflows, this meant working after hours so that case teams would have what they needed in the morning.
By leveraging automated workflows’ pre-defined templates, Hank, a project manager at The MCS Group, no longer needs to do that evening work. From start to finish, automated workflows can transition from process to process with very minimal intervention by the project team. An automated email notification keeps the team apprised on progress. And during the day, he and the team can focus on the client experience, which is providing insights and strategic advice on cases.
Stephen Ehrlich, the CIO at The MCS Group who oversees Hank and the project management team, says that this change has been great for morale since they’re no longer spending the ends of their days on tedious tasks.
4. A&L Goodbody created more strategic invoices
Andrew Lyons, an e-discovery technical specialist, can’t even remember the steps of his case setup process before he implemented automated workflows. Just a year ago, his team was spending a lot of time on manual tasks like setting up email threading and name normalization.
Now, his workflows have completely shifted from a hands-on approach to a QC approach when setting up cases. He said that he’s noticed a real difference in the invoices he sends to clients—where they were once filled with manual tasks, they’re now filled with strategic, billable advice.
And in his personal life, Andrew appreciates having a little extra time in his morning to savor his cup of coffee before he jumps into his case work.
5. Internal matters at Freeport-McMoRan are running more smoothly than ever
As a system administrator at Freeport-McMoRan, Michelle Martinez is always looking for more ways to keep their legal work in-house without needing to rely on external vendors. One of the reasons they decided to adopt RelativityOne is that it would help them do just that.
They’ve been using automated workflows ever since they set up their RelativityOne instance, and it’s empowered their lawyers by automatically setting up the tools that are essential for understanding the facts of their case, like email threading, name normalization, and cluster visualizations.
As a small litigation support team, Michelle is able to work smarter, not harder, on her cases and take on even more without her workload becoming unmanageable.
Automated workflows can give you back time for yourself and for more strategic work for your clients. Are you taking advantage of automation in RelativityOne?
Andie Linker is a member of the product marketing team at Relativity.
