Today's issue of TL NewsWire covers an ediscovery culling and collection tool (see article below), a new flight search engine, an Autonomy Worksite add-on, a mobile web browser, and a dual-display laptop. Don't miss the next issue.
Cull Electronic Documents Where They Reside
In every disaster movie, the hero always asks the same question when he gets involved: What are we dealing with here? Litigators ask the same question about each new case. Because document discovery is the most costly component of complex litigation, it's especially important to get a sense of its scope as early as possible. However, even custodians may not have a good understanding of their own documents and email, which means that you as in-house or outside counsel have to guesstimate. Talk about a dicey situation that would benefit from software.
LexisNexis Early Data Analyzer … in One Sentence
LexisNexis Early Data Analyzer is a data assessment tool that enables litigation teams to understand the scope of discoverable documents, and reduce the amount of data they need to store, process, and review.
The Killer Feature
LexisNexis Early Data Analyzer aims to simplify the complex task of data assessment. It enables you to filter, search, and index data at the original source location — on network servers, computer hard drives, etc. This capability eliminates the need to spend money copying the files and moving them to a separate storage space for processing. Essentially, you can identify and process relevant data at its source in a defensible manner (it does not change document metadata or otherwise cause spoliation).
"LexisNexis Early Data Analyzer is another major step forward in our strategy of providing robust litigation workflow products to our clients," LexisNexis' Vice President of Litigation Tools, Services & Hosting Deborah Jillson told us. "Initial users report that it keeps their ediscovery costs in proportion to the size of the case. Just as importantly, this offering allows litigators to feel confident they have their hands on the most relevant electronic documents." LexisNexis claims that Early Data Analyzer can save up to 80% of the time and costs typically involved in ediscovery.
Other Notable Features
Early Data Analyzer doesn't just give you a sense of the scope of relevant documents, it also enables you to cull on the fly (eliminate irrelevant and duplicate documents using various filters such as date, file type, metadata, etc.). The software can process, on average, between 15 to 20 GB per hour per core depending on an organization's hardware.
LexisNexis does not charge per gigabyte. Various reports in Early Data Analyzer enable you to predict the costs and risks of a case so that you can decide how to proceed long before any pretrial conferences take place.
What Else Should You Know?
Early Data Analyzer integrates with LAW PreDiscovery, the latter of which you can use to combine electronic files with scanned documents to create a load file for your document review software. Learn more about LexisNexis Early Data Analyzer.
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