RISK & COMPLIANCE SUPPORT
Legal Hold &
Compliance
Programs
Legal hold and compliance programs are easy to launch. Keeping them operational, defensible, and aligned to modern data environments over time is where complexity starts to build.
Lineal designs and operates preservation programs with the structure, oversight, and technology to stay defensible over time
Built for Programs That Need to Hold
Up Over Time” to “Programs That Hold
Up Over Time
Tools change, custodians move, and regulations expand, but the program has to stay defensible through all
of it. That’s the scale Lineal manages every day.
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All Four
Relativity partner designations, including Relativity Legal Hold deployment expertise.
A Practical Approach to Long-Term
Preservation Management
Effective preservation programs need more than just notices.
They need consistent operations across changing custodians and systems.
Lineal integrates legal hold tech, preservation strategy, and daily management for immediate
response and long-term support.
STEP 1
Define the Trigger and Scope
Strong preservation programs start with clear ownership, defensible scope, and alignment across legal, compliance, privacy, and business stakeholders from the beginning.
- Identify triggering events, regulatory obligations, custodians, and relevant data sources
- Define scope boundaries, retention considerations, and preservation requirements
- Coordinate across legal, compliance, privacy, HR, and outside counsel teams
Result:
A clearly scoped preservation framework aligned to the matter, investigation, or compliance obligation.
STEP 2
Design the Program
Long-term preservation requires more than workflows. It requires a structure that can scale as matters, systems, and obligations evolve over time.
- Build notice, acknowledgment, escalation, and reporting workflows aligned to organizational needs
- Integrate with the client’s enterprise environment, using APIs and connectors to identify and preserve data directly within their systems.
- Align preservation activity with retention, privacy, and downstream discovery operations
- Define release, rollover, and continuation processes before matters expand
Result:
A repeatable preservation model designed for consistency across matters and regulatory requirements.
STEP 3
Run the Program with Preservation In-Place
Modern preservation strategies work best when they integrate directly into the systems organizations already rely on every day.
- Apply preservation in-place across M365, Google Workspace, Slack, Teams, and structured systems
- Manage notices, acknowledgments, reminders, and escalation workflows.
- Monitor custodian movement and synchronize preservation populations through HRIS-connected workflows
Result:
Continuous preservation management with operational visibility and reduced administrative burden.
STEP 4
Defend the Program
When questions arise, organizations need clear visibility into how preservation decisions were managed, maintained, and documented over time.
- Maintain records of preservation activity, notices, acknowledgments, and operational decisions
- Support audits, investigations, sanctions response, and regulator inquiries with defensible documentation
- Transition preserved data into downstream collection and review workflows as matters progress
Result:
A defensible operational record that supports preservation oversight from trigger through release.
Why Lineal
Designed for How Preservation Actually Runs
Legal hold and compliance involve more than legal teams. They require technical expertise and operational oversight. Lineal combines Relativity experience with program management.
Relativity Legal Hold Expertise
Lineal holds all four Relativity partner designations and deploys Relativity Legal Hold across M365, Google Vault, and HRIS-connected environments.
Preservation In-Place by Default
Keeping data where it already lives reduces movement and overhead while preserving business context, without giving up defensibility.
Operational Visibility Across the Program Lifecycle
Lineal maintains visibility into acknowledgments, escalations, custodians, exceptions, and release activity across the life of the program.
Connected to Discovery and Information Governance
Preservation aligns directly with downstream discovery, privacy, retention, and governance operations, so workflows stay connected rather than running as separate processes.
Technology in Action
Built on the Platforms Where Your
Data Already Lives
Consistent preservation takes more than one tool, so Lineal runs workflows inside the platforms
organizations already use.
Relativity Legal Hold
Centralized preservation in-place across M365 and Google Vault with HRIS synchronization, notice workflows, real-time tracking, reporting, and scalable preservation management inside Relativity.
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery
Lineal manages Purview preservation workflows across Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams, helping organizations maintain defensible search, hold, and export processes without creating additional burden on internal teams.
Google Vault
Lineal supports preservation across Gmail, Drive, Chat, and Meet with targeted holds, administrative search support, audit visibility, and ongoing operational management throughout the preservation lifecycle.
Amplify™ Suite of Tools + Relativity
Amplify™, Lineal’s proprietary suite built in Relativity, moves preserved data into downstream processing and review without unnecessary handoffs.
Industry & Role Applications
For Teams Managing Ongoing
Preservation Responsibilities
Designed for legal, compliance, privacy, and information governance teams responsible
for maintaining defensible preservation programs across modern enterprise environments.
In-House Construction & Infrastructure Legal
Legal teams managing recurring matters and overlapping holds need operational consistency without relying on manual tracking or disconnected workflows. Lineal helps organizations scale preservation management across matters and custodians.
Compliance, Privacy &
Information GovernanceRegulatory preservation obligations often extend across departments, systems, and jurisdictions. Lineal supports ongoing preservation programs aligned to GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and broader governance initiatives.
Outside Counsel
Lineal supports outside counsel with defensible preservation operations, clear workflow ownership, and documentation that aligns to litigation, investigation, and regulatory response requirements.
Case Studies
- Read the Case Study
Industry: Corporate
Accelerating Multi-Jurisdiction Competition Audit Review
Challenge:
Seven countries. Nine languages. 8.6 million documents. A competition law audit that traditional review could not finish in time.
Outcome:
Audit completed on time. Out of 8.6 million documents loaded, only 87,000 required human review. Defensible, regulator-ready results across every jurisdiction.
8.6M
Documents loaded across seven countries and nine languages.
~87K
Documents actually reviewed. A fraction of the total population.
7 Countries, 9 Languages
Consistent, defensible relevance determinations across every jurisdiction.
- Read the Case Study
Industry: Financial services, Investigations
Anti-Money Laundering Investigation for a Global Bank
Challenge:
A major global bank faced an AML investigation requiring review of 12+ million documents under a strict 3-month deadline. High-risk data patterns needed precise identification, and the cost of a traditional review approach was not an option.
Outcome:
Lineal reduced review volume by 97%. Fewer than 3% of documents required manual assessment. Deadline met, defensible results delivered, fixed fee.
97%
Review volume reduced with less than 3% of documents touched by human reviewers.
12M+
Documents processed using AI-powered categorization and clustering.
3 Months
Regulatory deadline met with no delays.
- Read the Case Study
Industry: Pharmaceutical
Defensible Scope Reduction in High-Stakes Pharmaceutical IP Litigation
Challenge:
A Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company needed to review a large, complex document population under litigation pressure. Traditional first-pass review models would have been too slow, too expensive, and too inconsistent.
Outcome:
Lineal eliminated first-pass review entirely. Over 95% of the document population was reduced before a human reviewer saw a single document. Full defensibility maintained.
95%+
Review volume reduced before human review began.
70%
Additional reduction post-Amplify™ through AI-assisted relevance assessment.
100%
Defensible decisions with documented, SME-governed coding logic.
- Read the Case Study
Industry: Law Firms
Document Review in Criminal Investigation
Challenge:
52,795 FBI-provided documents for the Andrade criminal investigation. A status conference deadline. The case team needed to move beyond linear review and organize the full universe by concept.
Outcome:
Amplify™ tools covered 98% of the document universe. Textual Near Duplicate Identification handled 68%. Lineal Images addressed the remaining 30% of image file types. Deadline met.
52,795
FBI-provided documents reviewed for the status conference.
68%
Document universe addressed by Textual Near Duplicate Identification.
30%
Image file types addressed by Lineal Images classification.
- Read the Case Study
Industry: Law Firms
Efficient Data Management for a Complex Legal Dispute
Challenge:
3 million documents from 140+ custodians, transferred from a previous vendor. The data needed to be verified for completeness, then the legal team needed a fast path to the evidence that mattered.
Outcome:
The full Amplify™ Suite of Tools cut through the volume. Email threading, BotDetector, PrivFinder, Snippets, and Lineal Images each took a layer off until the legal team had a clear path to relevant evidence.
3M
Documents processed from 140+ custodians.
641,098
Documents reduced through email threading alone.
731,681
Documents ring-fenced for targeted privilege review with PrivFinder.
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