Today's issue of TL NewsWire covers a unified ediscovery platform that can collect responsive documents from cloud services in a manner that preserves privacy (see article below), an email service that seeks to challenge Microsoft Exchange, document comparison and collaboration software, and a virtual assistant service. Don't miss the next issue.
ONE APPLICATION FOR ALL PHASES OF EDISCOVERY
Parties and witnesses in litigation (custodians) no longer store all relevant evidence in file cabinets and on their hard drives. Instead, you also need to search for relevant documents in their cloud accounts. However, these custodians understandably feel reluctant to disclose their login credentials even to their own lawyer. A popular ediscovery platform has created a new technology that solves this problem.
CasePoint … in One Sentence
@Legal Discovery's CasePoint is a unified ediscovery software platform that also automates collecting cloud data.
The Killer Feature
The new version of CasePoint enables you to collect evidence from cloud sources without custodians having to disclose their login and password. Instead, custodians receive a link via email that when clicked authorizes CasePoint to collect data from their respective cloud accounts. This authorization is encrypted and secure — and verifiable in court because CasePoint uses the official protocol for each cloud service.
Supported services include Dropbox, Gmail, Google Drive, Office 365, OneDrive, and more. Custodians can continue to use these accounts during collection. When the litigation hold ends, custodians can remove their CasePoint authorization.
Other Notable Features
CasePoint offers tools for every phase of ediscovery — collection, early case assessment, culling, analysis, review, and production. @Legal Discovery's advanced research and development team built all of these tools from the ground up.
These tools include near duplication, email threading, predictive coding (a.k.a. technology assisted review), clustering, support for image and native document formats, and more. The new version opens documents 30 to 50 percent faster, which can add up to significant savings for document reviews.
Written in HTML5, the new version of CasePoint is "responsive," which means it runs in both desktop and mobile web browsers. Unlike competing cloud applications, CasePoint doesn't require any plugins. iPad users can alternatively use the CasePoint app, available for free on the App Store. The iPad app facilitates offline review (annotations and other work syncs with your CasePoint account when you're back online).
"We developed CasePoint to address and exceed all the ediscovery needs of legal professionals," Chief Executive Officer of @Legal Discovery Haresh Bhungalia told us. "As a result, CasePoint is a one-of-a-kind unified ediscovery platform that saves users time, enables them to conduct review on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices, and provides them with predictable pricing."
What Else Should You Know?
@Legal Discovery owns the datacenters in which CasePoint runs — a so-called "private cloud" infrastructure that results in greater security and scalability because of the physical control. CasePoint can handle cases of any size and accommodate hundreds of simultaneous users. You need not commit to a long-term contract. Pricing depends on how much data storage you need, and which value-added professional services you use. Learn more about CasePoint.
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