Case Study: U.S. energy company saves ~$140K per engagement on compliance audits with Everlaw
Key results
The challenge
A major U.S. wholesale energy marketing and services company had a three-person compliance team facing heavy document-review workloads. Manual review of customer communications in Microsoft Outlook could not handle complex chat data, costing weeks per dispute investigation and driving dependence on expensive outside counsel.
The solution
The team adopted Everlaw for its ability to ingest complex chat data formats and support compliance and discovery workflows beyond traditional litigation-focused tools.
The results, in context
On a representative matter, the team narrowed 300,000 documents to about 2,000 relevant records and cut effort from roughly 240 hours (about six weeks) to about eight hours, saving around 232 hours. Based on a $600-per-hour associate billing rate, the firm estimated about $140,000 saved per engagement, with follow-up inquiries dropping from weeks to under an hour.