Today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire covers software for processing electronic documents and creating load files (see article below), two online document storage and sharing services (one no frills and simple, the other with lots of features), an iPad app for trial presentations, and an IPad app for document review. Don't miss the next issue.
Process and Cull Scanned and Electronic Documents Faster
Listen up because you're about to learn everything you need to know about electronic discovery in a few hundred words. Step one involves collecting the discoverable data from the cast of characters (custodians/witnesses) who work for your client. This task is best handled by an expert who will create two forensically-sound copies of the data (think CSI except for data — the pros know how to prevent spoliation). One copy goes into a safe. The other copy gets sent to your law firm. Now that you've got all this raw data, how do you process it so that you can find all the privileged and relevant documents?
LAW PreDiscovery … in One Sentence
LexisNexis' latest release of LAW PreDiscovery enables you to process email and other electronic data collected for discovery faster, and convert it into a load file for Concordance and other litigation review platforms.
The Killer Feature
Processing data is like manufacturing. You start with raw ingredients and end up with a finished product. Accordingly, technology can have a dramatic impact.
LAW PreDiscovery's new Distributed ED Loader automates the creation of load files. It automatically detects the LAW PreDiscovery licenses on your network, and sends them data to process. You no longer have to manually assign jobs. Using the Management Console, you can monitor the various jobs. If a queue develops, you can assign priorities or purchase more licenses to speed up the processing.
Other Notable Features
LAW PreDiscovery removes duplicates, extracts metadata, uncompresses ZIP files, preserves email threads and attachments, and converts native files to TIFF format. You can take advantage of LAW PreDiscovery's search and OCR capabilities to cull obviously irrelevant material before creating a load file.
The new release of LAW PreDiscovery also features language identification. Thus, you can quickly see all the languages used in the data you've collected so that you can start recruiting the appropriate contract lawyers or translators for the document review phase that follows the processing phase.
You know about metadata, but what about hidden text? You're more likely to find a smoking gun in the latter. LAW PreDiscovery's new Hidden Text Detection technology identifies this material in Microsoft Office documents — for example, text inside shape controls as well as hidden paragraphs, spreadsheets, columns, cells, slides, etc. Documents with hidden text that appear in search results will contain a tag at the top alerting your document reviewers.
What Else Should You Know?
LAW PreDiscovery's revamped interface seeks to minimize the amount of training needed. As you would expect, LAW PreDiscovery works seamlessly with Concordance, but because it employs the EDRM standard, it creates XML load files for many competitive review products as well. Learn more about LAW PreDiscovery.
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