How Ferguson Case Orr Patterson Uses Technology to Put Document Review Into Overdrive
This Ventura County Law Firm Processes Thousands of Documents. Everlaw Helps Them Do It Faster.
The litigation paralegals and attorneys at the Ventura County law firm Ferguson Case Orr Patterson focus on litigation – and managing documents.
Jennifer Perez, a litigation paralegal at Ferguson Case Orr Patterson, manages document review, with the help of modern ediscovery tools provided by Everlaw. "As a paralegal at our firm, I manage the documents that come in from clients," said Perez. "I also manage the documents from opposing counsel and have been doing actual document review. I'm utilizing the Everlaw platform to help us advance in our review and not just depend on PDF format."
Whether it's the speed of moving through documents, the ability to collaborate with attorneys, or the power of generative AI, Perez said she and her team value Everlaw's user-friendliness and ease of use throughout their case lifecycle.
“We're able to search terms, organize documents, cipher through what's more relevant than not to build your story, create that timeline, export just a smaller batch of what is actually relevant,” Perez noted. “It's been a very helpful program."
A ''One-Stop Shop'' for Legal Services
Thirty-five years ago, attorneys Michael Case and John Orr founded the precursor of Ferguson Case Orr Patterson in Ventura, California. A "one-stop shop," the firm handles a wide variety of cases involving business, employment, and construction litigation, intellectual property, trusts and estates planning, taxation, appeals and pre-trial strategy, family law, criminal defense, environment and natural resources, real estate, personal injury, and more.
Document volumes associated with matters vary – one day, it could be 30, the next day, 30,000. Ferguson Case Orr Patterson sought a scalable ediscovery technology that allowed the case teams to handle both their largest and smallest matters, to coordinate and communicate on the fly, and to bring them the latest in ediscovery technology, including generative AI through EverlawAI Assistant.
"Everlaw is becoming a key program in our firm,” Perez explained. “With the new AI technology and where it's heading, I can see how helpful Everlaw's tools will be to our firm's future growth."
"I think Everlaw's approach to AI is pretty amazing," said Perez. "Everlaw is a tool. AI is a tool. And yes, you shouldn't rely only on what it will spit out. You still need to use your head and read through things. It gives you an outline, a starting point, essentially a time saver. It's a great tool for the future."
With Everlaw, the Ferguson Case Orr Patterson team saves time filtering through documents, running a production, separating what's relevant from what's not, protecting privileged information, and producing documents in less time. "Being able to save time and money for clients and using your time in a smarter way allows us to focus on other things," said Perez. "It helps our job."
