In today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire, lawyer and legal technology legend Dennis Kennedy covers new e-discovery review tool, an online backup service, and a free blog hosting service. Don't miss the next issue.
Below you'll find one of the three articles from today's edition:
E-Discovery Goes Native
By Dennis Kennedy
The new electronic discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures sounded the alarm for many lawyers. Among other things, the new rules place a strong emphasis on review of files in their native formats. In other words, Word documents should be reviewable as .doc files, not scanned and produced as .pdf or .tiff images. Native file format is uncharted territory for many litigators.
ACCESS Litigation Support Services' NatiVIEW Analytics 2.0 seeks to provide you with a toolbox for handling native file review. In doing so, it addresses the criticism about native file review not being practical. Indeed, ACCESS claims that NatiVIEW Analytics 2.0 costs less than traditional image-scanning in cases of all sizes, including those involving a massive number of documents.
NatiVIEW Analytics 2.0 grew out of ACCESS's experience handling hundreds of millions of pages of data in large litigation matters. Built on .NET and SQL and housed in a data facility with multiple redundancies and virtually unlimited bandwidth, NatiVIEW Analytics 2.0 is a secure, Web-based tool with review, search, annotation, and categorization tools designed for the average lawyer, not just power users. At its heart lies a native file review platform for large collections of documents.
Features include a centrally-managed rules-based workflow system with complete control over access rights, "smart auto-tagging" that groups related documents, customizable workspaces that enable you to view everything you need for a given task, the ability to search specific metadata fields, one-click translators for more than fifty languages, and the ability to append comments to documents in a thread-like manner and receive alerts when someone else adds to the thread.
NatiVIEW Analytics 2.0 works like an electronic container for your documents and corresponding metadata. You can even customize a view to display a document with the relevant metadata, tags, and comments, or search specific metadata fields. Language translations are stored as comments that you can easily compare to the original text.
Administrative features enable you to set up roles and permissions to control a user's rights to work with documents, monitor workflow, and provide a secure way for multiple parties to review the data collection. Reporting and audit tools facilitate project management and tracking.
For more information about pricing, including data hosting options, contact ACCESS Litigation Support Services. Learn more about NatiView Analytics 2.0.
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