Lawyer-led eDiscovery expertise in your corner

eDiscovery vendors approach your case as a data processing problem — they run broad collections, load the files, manage the review queue as air-traffic control.

Spark’s approach makes legal strategy the driver of all the technical decisions to follow. Sara Jones is a practicing litigator who has managed discovery on document-intensive matters at major firms, which means she's thinking about what the evidence means for your case, not just how to move it through a pipeline. 

The difference shows up in practical decisions from the outset: what to collect and what not to, how to negotiate your ESI Protocol to your advantage, which documents to prioritize early, and where the other side is likely to have something worth pushing on. We’re not just batching out documents for review – we’re deciding whether to review full families, what date range will contain the most important documents, whether we can use machine learning to deprioritize review of documents unlikely to be responsive, and which reviewer is most appropriate for the material.

Yes. Sara is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, but most eDiscovery work — advising on protocols, coordinating collection, managing review, supervising productions — doesn't require local bar admission. Sara works as a member of your litigation team on matters across jurisdictions, supporting the attorneys of record.

Spark has worked with offshore and London-based colleagues, and on U.S. cases in California, Arizona, Oklahoma, Florida, New York, New Jersey and across Massachusetts.

If local admission matters for a specific role on a specific matter, we'll tell you upfront. If Sara is working under your supervision, you may have to add her to your professional liability insurance for the engagement.

Spark works across civil, commercial, and criminal matters — including business and IP litigation, insurance coverage disputes, employment litigation, international arbitration, white collar criminal defense, and government and internal investigations. We also work pre-litigation: when a dispute is on the horizon but hasn't been filed yet, early preservation and collection decisions can set you up for a potential case down the road.

The common thread is document-intensive work where having a litigation-trained lawyer thinking about the discovery — rather than a vendor running a process — actually makes a difference.

Because Sara is an attorney, your firm can engage her as an outside vendor OR as an hourly contract associate. Your firm bills her time to the client at your standard associate rates; Sara's contract rate sits below your billing rate; the client gets another qualified litigator at an associate rate, and the spread belongs to the firm.

For matters billed hourly where associate time on discovery is expected, this model converts eDiscovery from overhead into a revenue line — without adding headcount, benefits, or long-term costs. Contact us to discuss rates and whether this model fits your matter.

Spark is designed for small and mid-size litigation practices taking on matters with meaningful document volume — typically solo practitioners or firms without dedicated eDiscovery staff. If your case requires collecting more than a few hundred documents or unfamiliar data types, or if the other side is producing a large “data dump” you need to make sense of, Spark is built for your needs, and you will benefit from our services.

We've managed reviews ranging from a few thousand documents to millions. The key isn't the size of the matter — it's whether you want someone with litigation experience to work as part of your team and run point on discovery, rather than handing it to a vendor and hoping for the best.

No. Spark is a certified Everlaw partner and it's our preferred platform for most matters because of its ease of use and accessibility. However, we recommend the right tool for each job. We hold certifications in Relativity as well, and we're comfortable working in several other platforms.