And because it allows more detail to be included in documents, searching for specific topics should become more accurate, avoiding many of the accidental mismatches.

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It had one employee, Larry Chrisco, who was responsible for searching for and collecting documents documents related to ongoing litigation.

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Debevoise deployed 100 lawyers and 110 support staff who billed 582, 000 hours, while Deloitte put 1, 300 staff members on the job, who worked 949, 000 hours searching 40 million bank documents and reviewing 127 million accounting records.

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