TransPerfect Legal

Overview

Founded in 2003, TransPerfect Legal is a global leader in eDiscovery and litigation support services. With over 120 offices worldwide, TransPerfect Legal leverages an extensive network to deliver comprehensive, high-quality solutions for complex legal matters.

TransPerfect Legal operates a global network of state-of-the-art facilities and secure data centres across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, the Americas, including; the UK, the Netherlands, Dubai, India, China, Hong Kong, Australia, the United States, and Canada. With a robust team of over 500 full-time professionals, TransPerfect Legal provides defensible and efficient eDiscovery solutions, ensuring clients receive local expertise with global reach. Additionally, TransPerfect Legal’s mobile disclosure servers are deployed in jurisdictions with strict data privacy laws, ensuring all data remains secure and compliant with local regulations.

Main Areas of Practice

Digital Forensics

TransPerfect Legal’s Forensics Technology & Consulting (FTAC) division includes over 60 full-time forensic experts working from 14 laboratories worldwide. These specialists, with backgrounds in professional services and law enforcement, provide defensible forensic services for complex legal matters. The FTAC team provides clients with technical and strategic guidance regarding litigation readiness, digital forensics, and disclosure. Where required, they support court testimony, expert witness, and affidavit/witness statement preparation.

Technology Consulting

TransPerfect Legal’s Technology Consulting team, led by certified experts, specialises in managing complex eDiscovery workflows. The team excels in deploying advanced analytics, including Technology Assisted Review (TAR) and multilingual investigations. TransPerfect Legal’s consulting team is experienced in providing custom solutions, applications, and scripts for Relativity and Brainspace to offer the market’s most robust Relativity experience. The team prides itself on guiding lawyers through the review process in as efficient a manner as possible, using categorisation, concept searching, clustering, threading, near-duplicate detection, and TAR.

Strategic Consulting and Information Governance

TransPerfect Legal’s consultants include former practising lawyers and certified data protection experts from litigation, competition/antitrust, and in-house counsel backgrounds. With first-hand experience advising on legal matters in construction, financial services, energy, and more, this team provides strategic advice on disclosure and discovery, particularly in large and complex cases, addressing region-specific industry challenges and legal nuances. The team also advises on data transfers under inter-jurisdictional data protection rules, the approach to technology, court applications, inter-partes correspondence, generative AI workflows, and negotiating tech protocols for AI/analytics. TransPerfect Legal’s consultants work extensively with firms, general counsel, and teams to improve workflows, efficiency, and innovation in the legal function.

Project Management

TransPerfect Legal’s dedicated eDiscovery Project Management division is ultimately responsible for the quality and timeliness of each project. They are involved from the beginning, advising clients on initial scoping of the project and best practices for document analysis, review, and production, including the application of search terms, management of multilingual datasets, and the appropriate use of machine learning and TAR.

Managed Review and Legal Staffing

TransPerfect Legal offers industry-leading managed review and legal staffing services. With a global recruitment network, TransPerfect Legal sources paralegals and lawyers with the required subject-matter expertise and language skills for document review projects. TransPerfect Legal’s real-time rating system ensures only the best candidates are assigned to projects. Whether the task involves small-scale domestic reviews or large multilingual teams for cross-border matters, TransPerfect Legal has the resources and expertise to meet any challenge.

Technological Solutions

Digital Reef:

TransPerfect Legal’s proprietary eDiscovery platform, Digital Reef, is designed to meet the needs of the most demanding legal matters. Capable of processing 17 TB of data per day, Digital Reef delivers unmatched speed and efficiency. TransPerfect Legal integrates advanced pre-review analytics into Digital Reef, focusing on reducing data volumes early in the process to streamline review and cut costs. By identifying and filtering out irrelevant data at an early stage, Digital Reef enables legal teams to focus on pertinent documents, providing strategic advantages in complex cases.

Reef Review:

Reef Review, launched in 2024, is the latest addition to TransPerfect Legal’s technology stack. Developed to provide an intuitive and user-friendly review experience, Reef Review offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional platforms. TransPerfect Legal’s Reef Review integrates seamlessly with Digital Reef, allowing for efficient management of document review projects. This tool provides real-time reporting, sophisticated search functionalities, and compatibility with AI-driven workflows, enhancing the overall review process.

AI and Machine Learning Solutions

TransPerfect Legal leads the charge in AI and machine learning innovations within eDiscovery. TransPerfect Legal leverages TAR and predictive coding models to enable efficient reviews, particularly for multilingual and complex datasets. The AI Portal, integrated directly into Relativity, enables on-the-fly machine translation, significantly reducing the time and cost associated with foreign-language document reviews.

Virtual Data Room Solutions

TransPerfect Legal’s proprietary technology, Sterling Virtual Data Room, provides secure data hosting and collaboration for matters that do not require the full functionality of linear review platforms. With tailored features shaped by client needs, the Sterling Virtual Data Room supports deal management and complex collaborations while maintaining the highest security standards.

Multilingual Workflows & Solutions

As the world’s largest language services provider, TransPerfect Legal offers seamless integration of multilingual capabilities into its eDiscovery workflows. By combining proprietary machine translation tools with expert human review, TransPerfect Legal manages complex cross-border matters involving diverse language requirements.

TransPerfect Legal’s multilingual consulting division specialises in navigating linguistic challenges to deliver solutions that meet the highest standards of accuracy and efficiency. TransPerfect Legal’s AI-enabled workflows for language detection and translation preserve data integrity, while reducing costs and accelerating turnaround times. These solutions include custom-built translation plugins for Relativity, language-specific TAR models, and comprehensive support for multilingual predictive coding.