HaystackID: A Snapshot Overview


Firm Overview

HaystackID solves complex data challenges related to legal, compliance, regulatory, and cyber events. Core offerings include Global Advisory, Data Discovery Intelligence, HaystackID Core® Platform, and AI-enhanced Global Managed Review powered by its proprietary platform, ReviewRight®.

Repeatedly recognized as one of the world’s most trusted legal industry providers by prestigious publishers such as Chambers, Gartner, IDC, and Legaltech News, HaystackID implements innovative cyber discovery, enterprise solutions, and legal and compliance offerings to leading companies and legal practices around the world. HaystackID offers highly curated and customized offerings while prioritizing security, privacy, and integrity.

HaystackID is a trusted partner to corporations, law firms, and governmental agencies, supporting targeted audits, complex investigations, and civil litigation matters with a dedicated global team of cybersecurity, information governance, and legal discovery experts. Applying the potential of artificial intelligence, the precision of data science, the power of machine learning, and the practicality of expertly trained and managed reviewers, HaystackID provides clients with secure, defensible, and flexible capabilities to address the most complex and time-sensitive eDiscovery-centric challenges.


Matter Expertise and Vertical Industry Experience

HaystackID provides clients with expertise and experience in key matter types across multiple industries. Examples of matter expertise and industry experience include:

Matter Types

  • Civil Litigation
  • Class Action
  • Data Breach and Incident Response
  • DOJ/FTC/SEC Investigations
  • Global Antitrust Litigation
  • Healthcare
  • HSR Act Second Requests
  • Intellectual Property Theft
  • Patent/Intellectual Property Litigation
  • Product Liability
  • Securities Litigation
  • Wrongful Termination/Discrimination

Vertical Industries

  • Construction
  • Energy
  • Financial
  • Government
  • Healthcare
  • Insurance
  • Manufacturing
  • Retail
  • Technology
  • Telecommunications
  • Transportation
  • Utilities

HaystackID Service and Advisory Portfolio

HaystackID serves clients by delivering customized Cyber Discovery, Enterprise Solutions, Legal Discovery, and Global Advisory services. 

HaystackID Cyber Discovery services provide clients with proven tools, techniques, and talent to address cybersecurity and data breach challenges. These services combine machine learning with extensive legal and regulatory discovery and review experience to provide insight and intelligence to inform data breach incident response and post-breach data-driven decisions and responses. Key Cyber Discovery services include:

  • Data Breach Incident Response
  • Post Data Breach Discovery and Review
  • Information Governance Data Mapping
  • Data Privacy Management
  • Data Mining and Remediation

HaystackID Enterprise Solutions can support clients with fully managed, defensible, and cost-predictable discovery management programs. Additionally, HaystackID Core, a discovery management platform for discovery intelligence, provides a robust suite of software, platform, and infrastructure services that combine HaystackID Discovery Intelligence with best-of-breed technology, security, and privacy platforms, processes, and protocols to deliver complete eDiscovery capabilities without upfront or additional investments in hardware, software, and support personnel.

HaystackID Legal Discovery services support clients through the customized application of Forensics First, Early Case Insight, and ReviewRight Services. Key Legal Discovery services include:

Forensics First Services

  • Computer Forensic Collections and Analysis 
  • Computer Forensic Expert Witness Testimony
  • ESI Identification, Collection, and Preservation 
  • Mobile Elite Discovery and Analysis Lab (MEDAL)
  • Departing Employee/Employer Protection Program

Early Case Insight Services

  • ESI Ingestion and Processing
  • ESI Assessment and Analytics
  • ESI Hosting
  • Managed Services
  • Legal Discovery Consulting and Management

ReviewRight Services

  • ReviewRight Virtual (Secure Remote Review) 
  • ReviewRight Match (Reviewer Qualification and Sourcing)
  • ReviewRight Automate (Technology-Assisted Review)
  • ReviewRight Manage (Managed Review) 
  • Artificial Intelligence Enabled Managed Attorney Review

HaystackID Global Advisory features specialized industry experts and teams organized into practices and optimized to help customers purposely plan, assess, report, and manage complex and critical tasks, projects, and programs. Global Advisory practices include:


Offices: Worldwide Reach. Local Expert Touch.

With its worldwide reach and local expert touch, HaystackID provides clients with the scale, control, reach, and security necessary to support global operations with an unlimited virtual secure reach backed by offices, data centers, review centers, and teams* deployed internationally. 

U.S. Office

  • Chicago

International Office

  • Dublin

Data Security: Confidentiality, Availability, and Integrity

HaystackID maintains the highest levels of security to protect the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of client data. We do this through a three-fold information security approach that includes physical security layers, network security layers, and security policy layers. These layers of information security are applied to both internal and external environments and include active and passive protection measures. This approach has also been validated by certifications, attestations, and compliance audits, which include:

  • ISO 27001 Certified
  • SOC 3 Certified (Five Trust Services Criteria)
  • SOC 2 Type 2 Certified (Five Tryst Services Criteria)
  • HITRUST Certified
  • HIPAA and HIPAA HITECH Act Compliance
  • General Data Protection Rule (GDPR) Adherence
  • EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Certifications
  • International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) Compliance
  • NIST 800-17DFARS Compliance
  • PCI DSS Compliance

Firm Details

  • CEO: Hal Brooks
  • Website: HaystackID.com
  • Number of Employees: 300+
  • Founded: 2011

General Contact Information

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