Managed Document Review

QuisLex has reviewed more than six billion pages, hundreds of thousands of hours of audio recordings, created privilege logs running into tens of thousands of entries, and worked on matters before courts in most major jurisdictions and regulatory agencies worldwide.

Document review often is one of the most time-consuming areas of work for our clients. QuisLex provides End-to-End Project Management and document review and analysis for:

• Litigation
• Regulatory
• Second Requests
• Internal Investigations 

We harness deep proficiency in AI-based technologies and powerful analytics to provide comprehensive, end-to-end project management. Our areas of expertise include:

• Complete end-to-end project management including review platform and workflow management
• Proprietary search methodologies and empirical algorithms
• Implementation and execution of Technology Assisted Review (TAR) workflows
• Complex issue coding
• Audit trails and defensibility analysis
• Privilege log creation
• Redactions for privilege, trade secrets, or data privacy
• Pattern and trend analysis
• Chronologies
• Deposition preparation
• Trial and witness preparation 

By partnering with Quislex as an Alternative Legal Services Provider for managed document review, both law firms and corporations can make their review processes more efficient, cost-effective and at a lower risk.

Contracts

QuisLex supports global clients, across 16 time zones and various jurisdictions, from industries such as Technology, Pharma, Retail, Finance, Insurance and Banking. QuisLex provides expertise and scalability as an extension of the client’s legal team. 

Our team has wide-ranging experience in contract review, analysis, abstraction, negotiation, and consulting. Our automated approach minimizes the burden on the internal legal team who continue to be involved in the process of resolving escalations and outliers. 

We work with our clients to identify tasks that QuisLex can assume in their contracting lifecycle, including:

• Triage contract requests based on criticality, risk profile, complexity and deviation from standard terms.
• Assign contracts to the right resource, whether in-house or external.
• Generate agreements from templates.
• Negotiate with third parties based on playbooks and guidance.
• Upload, extract, code, and maintain contract data in a repository for searching and reporting.
• Complete approval processes.
• Complete signature processes (e-signature or the old- fashioned way).
• Help desk to resolve questions about the contracting process or system.

QuisLex identifies:

• Process improvements to increase efficiency.
• Non-standard terms to expedite review by in-house counsel.
• Common deviations from baseline standards and suggest modifications to reduce negotiation cycle times.
• Bottlenecks and other cycle time issues for resolution.
• Additional KPI-driven process analysis to improve operational performance.

Our Subject Matter Experts are available to quickly resolve any questions about the contracting process.

Antitrust/M&A

QuisLex has reviewed more than six billion pages, hundreds of thousands of hours of audio recordings, created privilege logs running into tens of thousands of entries, and worked on matters before courts in most major jurisdictions and regulatory agencies worldwide.

Since 2004, our teams have supported global clients, across 16 time zones and various jurisdictions, from industries such as Technology, Pharma, Retail, Finance, Insurance and Banking. QuisLex is a highly acclaimed legal services provider delivering the benefits of operational excellence, process rigor, and expertise for complex legal work.

QuisLex’s antitrust experience is unrivaled in the managed document review industry. We have worked on hundreds of antitrust matters and are involved in roughly 15% of all second requests in a given year. We have even worked on both sides of the same Second Request on several occasions, with ethical walls in place as required. QuisLex’s exclusive use of permanent employees and deep, experienced bench of attorneys in the space uniquely positions us to meet our clients’ needs.

We work hand-in-hand with their case and technology teams, as well as with the review platform provider over the course of the review, including in the following areas:

• Search Term Development
• Contemporaneous & Statistically Valid Second-Level Review (“SLR”)
• Privilege Review
• Pre-Production Checks

Privacy and Compliance

At QuisLex, we know how challenging it can be to stay abreast of each new change in the regulatory landscape. QuisLex solves the challenges of resource constraint, cost management, flexibility, and scale for privacy, data breach and compliance engagements.

Understanding that privacy concerns are of paramount importance for all corporations, our Privacy Subject Matter Experts provide support in many areas, including:

• Data Protection
• The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• The Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL)
• The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
• California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)
• California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
• Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA)
• Colorado’s Privacy Act (CPA)
• Privacy Assessments
• DSARs - Data Subject Access Requests
• Commercial Agreement Support
• Product Development Assessment
• Standard Contractual Clauses 

Legal Operations and LPO

No matter the industry you’re in, running your legal department more like a business can help you control costs, improve workflows, and ensure more predictable outcomes. Our legal operations services help you expand the capacity of your in-house counsel or legal team. QuisLex can provide:

• Professional development: Your staff is your most valuable resource. We can design and implement employee training, rotation, or mentorship programs, as well as ensure your employees meet continuing legal education (CLE) requirements.
• Technology support: We help clients research, vet, and implement new legal technologies and platforms.
• Cost management: With e-billing support, onboarding tools, and processes for budgeting and benchmarking law firm rates, QuisLex simplifies vendor cost management.
• Reporting: We offer customized systems for tracking key metrics and performance indicators to help you make better decisions and use resources more efficiently.
• Knowledge management: We help you securely store company information and policies and manage your knowledge repositories effectively.

Legal Spend Management

QuisLex has expertise in designing and implementing the operational support (guideline development, bill review workflow, process rigor, and technological savvy) necessary to implement an effective legal spend management program that will:

• Review 100% of invoices with Six Sigma quality control measures in place
• Correctly and accurately identify non-compliant costs, and
• Provide the analyses needed to continually improve your external legal spend profile.

Our program will help legal departments:

• Moderate legal costs through effective billing guideline use
• Audit, track and reveal trends of legal invoice data
• Develop key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure return on investment (ROI), and
• Improve insights through predictive modeling utilizing legal spend history and associated data

We provide Legal Operations Support for Spend Management which includes:

• Pre-Assessment
• Review Client Billing Guidelines
• Appraise Internal Processes: E-billing and Legal Platform
• Data Analysis
• Baseline Results for Improved Future State Assessment

Data Breach Services

With systems under an unrelenting threat of attack by hackers, malicious entities, and even foreign governments, it is crucial that companies are prepared with a comprehensive strategy to manage a data breach.

QuisLex has extensive experience with data culling, managing PII reviews for cyber incidents and data breaches, and preparing notification lists tailored to meet matter-specific jurisdictional and industry regulatory requirements. We routinely partner with the leading cybersecurity and forensics providers to offer a seamless end-to-end solution when our clients believe their data has been compromised. We have also helped our clients design and implement workflows and templates that meet their unique needs in the event of a cyber incident.

Client benefits include:

• Scope of Review
• Scale and Timing
• Data Culling
• Identification of Notifiable PII
• Preparation of Notification Lists

Recognition and Awards

QuisLex has received the following awards and acknowledgments for our managed legal services:

• Band 1 ranking in Chambers and Partners’Alternative Legal Service Providers sector report for both Contract Lifecycle Management and Litigation Services
• 2021 Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Value Champion with NetApp, KP Labs, and LexCheck
• 2020 ACC Value Champion with VMware
• 2019 ACC Value Champion with Deutsche Bank
• 2018 ACC Counsel Value Champion with Ocwen Financial Corporation, and their law firms Hunton Andrews Kurth and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

QuisLex COO Sirisha Gummaregula has received multiple awards, including:

• Named to the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center’s distinguished Women of Legal Tech list of 2020
• Selected by Corporate Counsel as an honoree in the 2020 Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards in the Leadership Awards: Innovative Leadershipcategory
• Selected as a Top 50 COO at the 2022 OnCon Icon Awards

Office Locations

QuisLex has highly trained permanent staff members at offices around the world, including:

• New York City, NY
• Hyderabad, India
• Washington, DC
• Chicago, IL
• London, England
• San Francisco, CA
• Dallas, TX
• Berlin, Germany

Security Certifications

We are proud to hold several relevant industry certifications, including:

• ISO 27001:2013 (Certification for Information Security from the International Organization for Standardization)
• ISO 9001:2015 (Certification for Quality Management from the International Organization for Standardization)
• SSAE 16 (formerly SAS 70 Type II) Certification for Compliance
• HITRUST CSF (Common Security Framework) Certified
• HIPAA compliant

Contact QuisLex Today

When you need expansive legal support expertise that meets the challenges of flexibility and efficiency, choose an ALSP like QuisLex. With operations centers in Hyderabad, India, and New York, we serve clients all over the world. QuisLex is a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) company. To learn more, contact us today.