DOAR Supports Victory for Marsh McLennan Executives

LYNBROOK, N.Y., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- DOAR Litigation Consulting LLC has supported the legal defense teams which obtained the acquittal of three former Marsh McLennan executives during their 11-month trial before Judge James Yates in the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan. The law firms representing the 3 defendants were Blank Rome LLP, Hinshaw & Culberson, and Driscoll & Redlich.

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On October 26, 2009, following an eleven month trial, New York State Supreme Court Judge James Yates acquitted three former Marsh executives of felony charges stemming from alleged bid-rigging, price-fixing, and collusion activities. Defendants Greg Doherty, Kathleen Drake & Joseph Peiser were indicted in 2005. They were among eight former Marsh executives charged with colluding with brokers at insurance carriers such as American International Group (AIG), Zurich, and others to obtain intentionally, non-competitive or fake quotes for other corporate clients to suppress competition.

DOAR was initially retained four years ago to assist the defense teams in receiving, managing and reviewing over 22 million pages of electronic documents produced by the New York Attorney General's office. This included analyzing and organizing the government's productions and the use of an analytics-based document review system, Inference Data, to allow the defense firms to categorize the document productions and significantly streamline the review of the relevant categories of documents. As the trial, which began on December 1, 2008, approached opening statements, DOAR worked with the defense lawyers to prepare their trial exhibits, develop graphic presentations, configure Judge Yates' courtroom with presentation technology and present evidence on a nearly daily basis over the course of the past 11 months. Prior to summation, DOAR's graphics consulting team, led by Director John Hicks, coordinated with attorneys from the three law firms to develop concepts that would form the backbone of a 1,000 slide graphics presentation.

DOAR's trial consulting team was led by Raymond McLeod, a Director at DOAR, who has spent the better part of the past three years in Judge Yates' courtroom including a prior nine-month trial that began in April 2007 of two other Marsh executives who were represented by Proskauer Rose LLP and Cooley Godward. Commenting on the trial, Ray states, "I am extremely privileged to have worked so closely with all of the defense teams and am very happy that the judge ruled in our clients' favor."

Jerry Bernstein, a partner with Blank Rome and one of the lead trial lawyers, states, "The

DOAR team worked relentlessly to support our efforts and was simply magnificent."

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