Antitrust legal support
Second request review
A second request is a review problem with a merger clock attached. We staff it per thousand documents against the specifications as written, with calibration up front, privilege escalation lanes, and daily throughput reporting so the substantial-compliance date stays reachable.
- Published price
- $800–2,000 / 1,000 docs
- Turnaround
- 48 hours
- Without us
- $2,500–5,000 / 1,000 docs
Fixed per unit, not hourly. No minimum engagement. Quoted before we start.
What you receive
Documents coded for responsiveness and privilege against the second request's specifications.
Volume brackets apply above 50,000 documents. Dedicated-team staffing and extended-hours coverage are available and quoted with the job.
- Coding against each specification, tracked so per-specification completeness is provable
- Responsiveness and privilege coding with the basis recorded for every withheld document
- Privilege log entries generated as the review runs, not reconstructed afterwards
- Near-duplicate and family consistency across the whole population
- Daily throughput and completion reporting against the compliance date
- A QC sample report with the measured agreement rate
What it costs, and what it replaces
Both figures are published ranges for the same unit of work. Ours is fixed before we start; if our process gets faster, that is our gain and your price does not move.
How engagements are structured →- Adnah Legal
- $800–2,000 / 1,000 docs
- Typical cost without us
- $2,500–5,000 / 1,000 docs
Roughly 63% lower at the midpoint of each published range.
How the work runs
01
Specification mapping
Each specification is mapped to coding criteria before review starts, so completeness can be demonstrated per specification rather than asserted for the population as a whole.
02
Calibration
A calibration set is coded and reviewed with your team, and the manual is corrected before the population is touched. On a second request there is no schedule available for a re-review.
03
Review with escalation lanes
Privilege candidates and low-confidence calls route to qualified lawyers immediately rather than queueing, and log entries are drafted at the point of the call while the context is present.
04
Daily reporting
Throughput, completion by specification and QC agreement rates are reported daily, so a schedule risk becomes visible days before it becomes a compliance problem.
What we need from you
- Platform access under your accounts, with the processed population loaded
- The second request specifications and any negotiated modifications
- Privilege criteria and the counsel name list
- The substantial compliance date and any rolling production agreement
What we check before delivery
- Per-specification completion tracking, not just aggregate document counts
- Second-level lawyer review on every privilege call before it is recorded
- Rolling QC samples scored during the review with the agreement rate reported
- Family and near-duplicate consistency enforced across the entire population
When firms send us this
- HSR second requests with a fixed substantial-compliance date
- Civil investigative demands with comparable volume and structure
- Overflow capacity where the existing review team cannot reach the date
- Cost-constrained reviews where per-document pricing is a client requirement
Questions about second request review
Can you scale quickly enough for a second request?
Yes, and the constraint is usually calibration rather than headcount. Tell us the population size and the compliance date and you get a staffing plan with the quote.
Is the privilege log built during the review?
Yes. Entries are drafted at the point of the privilege call, while the reviewer has the document and the context, rather than reconstructed weeks later from metadata.
How is completeness demonstrated per specification?
Coding is mapped to specifications from the start, and daily reporting shows completion against each one, so substantial compliance can be shown specification by specification.
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Second request review at $800–2,000 per 1,000 docs, 48 hours. No minimum, no scoping call, no onboarding cycle.