With the right team behind you,
you can take on BIG cases
and BIGGER opponents
We help small firms and solo practitioners
do litigation discovery
smarter, better, and cheaper
so you can stand up to the big guys
What does Spark do?
Think of us as a fractional senior associate who will get into the weeds of your case and your data with you, and provide the resources you need to expand your practice’s capacity and efficiency, so you can take on the big cases.
We rely on a decade-plus of practical litigation experience to provide accessible guidance and partnership to help you:
Use the right eDiscovery tools for your practice and your project.
Preserve, collect, and safeguard your clients’ data, avoiding costly fights over spoliation of evidence and improper collection, particularly with mobile data.
Review documents for responsiveness and privilege, whether you need to look through 1,000 emails or 1,000,000.
Identify the key and “smoking gun” documents early, using the best search and AI tools available.
Organize exhibits for depositions and trial.
We provide solutions for:
small law practices taking on a big case;
firms needing help to develop best practices and train staff and attorneys; and
companies and individuals looking for a cost-efficient way to answer subpoenas and government investigative requests.
Do you sell software?
Spark is an Everlaw partner, which means it can offer and support clients on our favorite cloud-based litigation document platform, designed with smaller and more agile firms in mind. Learn more about our Everlaw offerings. However, we can and often do recommend other tools and platforms based on your needs, and Spark can support work in those platforms as well!
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Attorneys: Increase Your Capacity Without Hiring
Spark is the tech-savvy of-counsel you’ve been looking for so you can take on more and bigger cases. Increase your capacity and spend more of your time doing the things you love by teaming up with Spark.
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Firms: Best Practices, Guidance, and Training
We know every firm does things a little differently. Spark will connect you with the right technology and work with your team to develop a responsible, secure, defensible, and effective eDiscovery process. We’ll train you and your staff on how to do what you need—and be there to answer the phone when you need a refresher.
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Companies and Individuals: Subpoenas and Investigation Demands
If your company is hit with a routine subpoena, government investigation demand, or records request, Spark will handle collecting, reviewing, and producing documents on time, within budget, and right the first time.
Why Invest in eDiscovery?
Adopting new technology and processes for electronic discovery is scary — but for all but the smallest disputes, it needs to be done.
Discovery is no longer the process of photocopying files and delivering them to opposing counsel in a few Bankers Boxes.
Your clients’ employees each send and receive hundreds of emails a day. Post-pandemic, both remote and office-based workers communicate through collaboration apps like Slack or Teams. Your clients may record or auto-transcribe Zoom meetings. Their voicemails are preserved as email attachments. Cases involving individual wrongdoing center around cell phones (text messages, yes, but also location and app data) and social media accounts.
The courts’ rules have evolved to meet this tidal wave of data, and so have opponents’ tactics. Courts increasingly assume that parties will negotiate ESI (Electronically Stored Information) Protocols that specify production specs and metadata to be included with digital files. Government subpoenas are accompanied by 10- or 20-page specifications for how documents are to be produced.
It’s time to get up to date, and Spark is here to help.
Spark’s blog, eDiscovery in Real Life, tracks some of the consequences for attorneys and clients of not keeping up to date with eDiscovery. But if you want to hear it from a judge, what about Delaware Vice Chancellor Travis Laster?
Professed technological incompetence is not an excuse for discovery misconduct. … Deliberate ignorance of technology is inexcusable. If a lawyer cannot master the technology suitable for that lawyer's practice, the lawyer should either hire tech-savvy lawyers tasked with responsibility to keep current, or hire an outside technology consultant who understands the practice of law and associated ethical constraints.
James v. Nat’l Fin. LLC, 2014 WL 6845560 (Del. Ch. Dec. 5, 2014) (internal citations omitted), discussing Model Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 1.1, which requires technological competence.