Pillsbury Launches PEARL™ to Contain Companies’ Litigation Costs and Improve Results

Corporate legal departments face numerous challenges, but few cause as much frustration as escalating costs and accountability concerns associated with e-discovery. In response, Pillsbury is launching PEARL™ (Pillsbury’s E-Discovery Alliance of Resource Leaders), a transformative single-source solution to integrated discovery management to ensure predictability, defensibility and transparency at lower cost.

PEARL provides experienced guidance and a unique strategy for managing the entire e-discovery process from identification and collection of data (Protiviti); processing (ACT Litigation Services, Integreon); review and production (ACT, Discovery Services Inc, Integreon), including document translation and foreign language depositions (TransPerfect Legal); and court certification (Pillsbury). Its systematic approach leverages the respective strengths and capabilities of each alliance provider, and under Pillsbury’s clear legal guidance, offers a team of experts with diverse capabilities who collaborate to deliver efficient, streamlined results at per-page or per-gigabyte rates that create significant costs savings for clients regardless of size, scope of inquiry or location.

“PEARL provides a single point of contact and unified billing, eliminating the ad hoc, multi-vendor arrangements that are often cobbled together in a frenetic rush to meet the e-discovery obligations associated with a lawsuit. Working collaboratively with each Resource Leader, Pillsbury has streamlined workflow processes and reporting structures to reduce interruptions, expenses and errors—especially in the critical early days of a lawsuit,” said Pillsbury litigation partner Wayne Matus, the head of Pillsbury’s E-Discovery Practice, who originated the PEARL concept. “Engaging PEARL across multiple matters frees up corporate litigation departments and allows the company’s trial counsel, whether it be litigators from Pillsbury or another law firm hired for their subject matter expertise, to focus on case strategy and trial preparation rather than the administration of e-discovery-related tasks.”

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