Litigation Hold & eDiscovery.
From trigger to defensible hold in hours.
When a matter triggers, the clock is already running. Leah ingests the trigger, identifies probable custodians, drafts and tracks defensible holds, monitors preservation across data sources, and routes discovery with a complete audit trail.
Hold management runs on email and spreadsheets. The risk is on the record.
Hold notices issued late, sanctions risk grows
The clock starts when a matter triggers, not when the GC has time. Days lost between trigger and issuance translate directly into preservation gaps, adverse inferences, and motion practice you do not want.
Custodian identification manual and frequently incomplete
Identifying the right custodians depends on tribal knowledge, org charts that lag reality, and email threads pulled by hand. Project participants, contract signatories, and adjacent teams are routinely missed at first issuance.
Preservation gaps surface during deposition, not before
Auto-delete policies, departed employees, decommissioned systems, and personal devices each create silent preservation failures. The first time anyone notices is on the record, when remediation is no longer possible.
Outside counsel discovery costs run uncontrolled
Document review billed by the hour, with limited visibility into volume, scope, or efficiency. Budget overruns surface at month end, and the levers to control spend are not in your hands.
Hold acknowledgment tracking patchy
Acknowledgments arrive by email, get filed in a shared drive, and someone keeps a spreadsheet that nobody fully trusts. Reissuing reminders, tracking departures, and proving compliance become recurring fire drills.
Cross-matter custodian overlap and spoliation risk unmanaged
When custodians appear on multiple holds, releases on one matter can inadvertently destroy evidence preserved for another. Without a unified view, the spoliation risk compounds with every active matter.
From trigger event to classified matter in minutes
Whether the trigger is a complaint, a regulatory inquiry, a subpoena, or an internal allegation, Leah ingests it, classifies the matter, tags jurisdiction, and estimates scope. The intake step that used to take days becomes a structured record the team works against.
“The intake queue alone changed how the team operates. Every matter has a structured record from hour one, and we stopped losing the first day to triage.”
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Five steps from matter trigger to defensible discovery
Leah integrates with the systems your legal team already runs. No rip and replace. Defensibility from the first matter.
Receive Trigger
Leah ingests the matter trigger from any channel, including complaints, regulator letters, subpoenas, and internal escalations. A structured matter record is created on first contact.
Classify Matter
Jurisdiction, matter type, governing preservation standards, scope, and urgency are tagged. Outside counsel and in-house owners are assigned against your matter routing rules.
Identify Custodians
Probable custodians are surfaced from contracts, project records, calendars, and communication patterns. Counsel reviews, adjusts, and approves the custodian list.
Issue & Track Holds
Hold notices are drafted from your template, issued to approved custodians, and tracked through acknowledgment, reminders, and departures.
Monitor & Audit
Data sources are monitored for preservation breaches, discovery review is routed with budget controls, and every action is logged in a defensible audit trail.
Got Questions? Get Answers.
No. Leah operates upstream of and alongside your existing eDiscovery stack. Hold management, custodian identification, preservation monitoring, and intake all run in Leah, while document collection, processing, review, and production continue in the platforms you already use. Leah routes work to those platforms with scope and budget controls preset, and pulls back the metadata needed to maintain the audit trail.
Defensibility is the design goal. Every action across matter intake, custodian identification, hold issuance, acknowledgment, preservation monitoring, and discovery routing is logged with timestamp, actor, source, and rationale. Counsel can produce a sworn declaration directly from the matter record, with each preservation step traceable to its evidentiary source. The audit trail is built continuously, not reconstructed under deadline.
Yes. Each matter is tagged with the jurisdictions in scope and the governing rules of procedure that apply. Hold templates, custodian scoping, preservation standards, and notice language adjust per jurisdiction. Cross-border matters with different data protection regimes (US discovery, EU GDPR constraints, UK rules, regulator-specific requirements) are handled with jurisdiction-aware scope and routing, not a single one-size template.
Leah builds a custodian candidate list from four evidence sources: contract signatories tied to the matter, project rosters and team membership records, communication graph patterns from email and collaboration tools, and reporting line proximity to the central facts. Counsel reviews the candidate list with the supporting evidence visible per name. Final inclusion is always a human decision; Leah's role is to make sure the right names are in front of counsel, including names the matter team would not have surfaced.
Once a hold is issued, Leah connects to the data sources in scope (email, file shares, collaboration tools, ticketing systems, chat platforms) and monitors actions that affect held data. Departures, retention policy hits, system migrations, and exception requests trigger alerts with proposed remediation. Counsel receives periodic preservation reports showing every monitored source and every flagged event. Gaps are addressed in operations, before they become a problem on the record.
Matter content does not train Leah's underlying models. Customer data is encrypted in transit and at rest, with private instance deployment available for customers with strict data isolation requirements. Privilege handling is built in: privileged communications, work product, and outside counsel materials are tagged and segregated, with access controlled at the role and matter level. SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 aligned, with data residency options for cross-border deployments.
