Managed Review
With the vast amounts of data that are often part of modern litigation and investigation matters, eDiscovery teams are constantly seeking faster, more efficient, and more cost-effective ways to review documents. Gemean offers comprehensive managed review service solutions for supporting complex legal document reviews. We assemble and lead experienced teams for any type of matter. Every reviewer is a licensed, screened attorney to provide the most efficient and defensible review of your documents. Experienced Gemean consultants work with document review managers to oversee the review process. Our experts integrate our managed review services solution with analytics, AI, and other technologies to streamline the process, resulting in substantial cost and time savings. Gemean is also dedicated to providing quality results. Our integrated approach to quality control allows us to manage document review to the highest standards in the industry.
Licensed Attorney Review Teams
Every reviewer on a Gemean managed review team is a licensed, screened attorney. This is not a standard that every managed review provider meets, and it matters. Licensed attorneys bring legal judgment to the review process that non-attorney reviewers cannot, improving the accuracy of relevance and privilege determinations and reducing the risk of errors that create downstream problems in the matter.
Experienced Consultant Oversight
Gemean's managed review engagements are overseen by experienced consultants who work alongside document review managers throughout the process. This senior oversight layer ensures that the review is properly scoped, consistently executed, and continuously monitored for quality, giving clients and their counsel confidence that the process is being managed by professionals who understand what is at stake.
Analytics and AI Integration
Gemean integrates PythAI and advanced e-discovery data analytics into every managed review engagement, applying technology to reduce the volume of documents requiring human review, improve coding consistency, and surface the most relevant material earlier in the process. The result is a review that is faster, more thorough, and more cost-effective than one conducted through purely manual means.
Integrated Quality Control
Quality control at Gemean is not a final checkpoint. It is an integrated process that runs throughout the review from beginning to end. Our enterprise eDiscovery services team uses PythAI and advanced analytics to identify coding inconsistencies, flag outliers, and continuously validate the accuracy of the review as it progresses. The result is a quality-controlled work product that is defensible from the first document coded to the last.
Scalable Review Teams
The demands of a document review can change quickly as a matter develops. Gemean's managed eDiscovery service is structured to scale review teams up or down in response to changing volumes, timelines, and priorities, ensuring that the review maintains momentum without unnecessary cost during slower periods or becoming a bottleneck when volumes increase.
Cost and Time Efficiency
Gemean's integrated approach to managed review, combining licensed attorney reviewers, experienced consultant oversight, PythAI, and continuous quality control, produces substantial cost and time savings compared to conventional review approaches. Our ediscovery forensics experts design every engagement with efficiency as a core objective, ensuring that the review delivers the results the matter requires at the lowest defensible cost.
TESTIMONIAL
Gemean understood the legal context as well as the forensic one. They knew what the regulators would focus on, what outside counsel needed, and how to structure the findings to serve both. That combination is not easy to find.
Licensed Attorney Reviewers
Senior Consultant Oversight
AI and Analytics Integration
Continuous Quality Control
A well-managed review delivers better results at lower cost.
Every time.
What is managed review and when is it needed?
Managed eDiscovery services provide organizations and law firms with a fully supported document review solution, combining experienced review teams, proven technology, and integrated quality control under the direction of expert consultants. Managed review is needed when the volume of documents in a matter exceeds what internal resources can handle efficiently, when the complexity of the review requires specialized expertise, or when the stakes of the matter demand a level of quality control and defensibility that a self-managed review cannot reliably deliver.
Why does it matter that Gemean's reviewers are licensed attorneys?
Licensed attorneys bring legal judgment to the document review process that non-attorney reviewers cannot. Relevance and privilege determinations require an understanding of the legal issues in a matter, the applicable law, and the strategic context of the review. Gemean’s requirement that every reviewer be a licensed, screened attorney ensures that these determinations are made with the legal expertise they require, reducing the risk of errors that create downstream problems for the matter.
How does Gemean integrate analytics and AI into its managed review process?
Gemean integrates PythAI and advanced e-discovery data analytics into every managed review engagement. Before the human review begins, analytics are applied to reduce the volume of documents requiring review, organize the document population into coherent groups, and surface the most relevant material. Throughout the review, PythAI and active learning workflows continuously improve the accuracy of document classification and flag inconsistencies for quality control. The result is a review that is faster, more consistent, and more cost-effective than a purely manual approach.
How does Gemean handle quality control in a managed review?
Quality control at Gemean is integrated throughout the review process rather than applied as a final check. Our enterprise eDiscovery services team uses PythAI and advanced analytics to monitor coding consistency, identify outliers, and validate the accuracy of the review on a continuous basis. This approach surfaces issues while they can still be corrected rather than after the review is complete, producing a work product that is defensible from beginning to end.
How does Gemean scale a managed review team to meet changing demands?
Gemean’s managed eDiscovery service is structured to accommodate the changing demands of a matter as it develops. We maintain the relationships and infrastructure needed to expand or contract review teams in response to shifting volumes, timelines, and priorities, ensuring that the review maintains momentum without unnecessary cost during slower periods or becoming a bottleneck when the pace of the matter accelerates.
What types of matters does Gemean support with managed review?
Gemean supports managed review across the full range of complex legal matters including commercial litigation, regulatory investigations, internal investigations, government enforcement matters, and cross-border disputes. Our global eDiscovery capabilities and experienced review teams make us well-suited to handle matters of every size, complexity, and subject matter, including those with international data sources and multilingual document populations.
How does Gemean's managed review approach reduce the overall cost of eDiscovery?
Cost reduction in managed review comes from three sources: reducing the volume of documents that require human review through analytics and AI, improving the efficiency and consistency of the human review itself through experienced oversight and integrated quality control, and avoiding the rework and downstream costs that result from a poorly managed review. Gemean’s integrated approach addresses all three, producing substantial cost and time savings compared to conventional review approaches while maintaining the quality and defensibility standards that the matter demands.