We helped an architecture firm respond to a subpoena issued by a contractor with a mechanics lien claim against the property owner. This presented a delicate situation, as the property owner was a client of the architecture firm and owed our client money. We negotiated favorable pricing with our firm’s e-discovery vendor and managed the ingestion of our client’s Electronically Stored Information (ESI) into the e-discovery review platform, efficiently oversaw review of the ESI to exclude privileged and irrelevant materials – working with our architect client’s professional liability insurer, including under the “pre-claim assistance” provisions of its policy – and helped our client to navigate the situation and to prevent it from being named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
