In today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire, lawyer and legal technology legend Dennis Kennedy covers the new version of a popular e-discovery program, a Web site monitoring service, and an online court rules service. Don't miss the next issue.
Below you'll find one of the three articles from today's edition:
Bring Order to the E-Discovery Chaos
By Dennis Kennedy
Ask any member of a corporate legal team, IT department, law firm, or legal service provider how they would describe e-discovery — "chaotic" and "expensive" would likely emerge from their mouths. E-discovery usually involves many steps, short response times, and too many cooks in the kitchen. Sensitive corporate data ends up in too many places, costs continue to grow and legal teams tire of the constant fire drill.
Attenex Patterns e-discovery software was designed to bring order to this chaos, enabling legal teams to develop standardized, repeatable processes that reduce the risk, cost, and time associated with e-discovery. The latest version of Attenex Patterns — version 4.0 — includes more than 50 new features and enhancements in the areas of e-discovery data processing, review, and project management.
Some of the key new features include the re-use of documents previously processed and reviewed — including valuable work product such as document marks and annotations. For large enterprises and firms, this re-use can eliminate costs associated with the same documents being examined multiple times to fulfill similar requests.
New project management capabilities and reporting options provide customers with improved insight into reviewer productivity rates and project status. Because Attenex Patterns clusters similar documents together, the new reporting tools enable a manager to verify that all similar documents were marked the same. These reporting tools also provide transparency to project managers who need to know the progress of a matter. Attenex Patterns also now supports the clustering and review of both electronic files and scanned OCR and TIFF documents in 23 languages.
Attenex Patterns' patented email suppression function enables reviewers to de-dupe or eliminate duplicate email messages in a string, dramatically reducing the number of emails to review. Users can also now extract embedded Microsoft Office and PDF files from email messages, ensuring the review of all documents and reducing the risk of disclosing sensitive data embedded in an Excel spreadsheet.
Attenex Patterns provides flexible deployment options unique in the industry. You can deploy the software on-premise, in a hosted environment managed by an "Attenex Advantage" partner, or in a customized combination tailored to the demands of the customer's environment.
Additionally, Attenex Patterns can integrate with virtually any litigation support software thanks to the new Attenex Patterns Software Development Kit (SDK). Thus, once you complete a review, you can easily export your work product and your final document set to case analysis software, trial presentation software, etc. Learn more about Attenex Patterns 4.0.
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