Case Oriented eDiscovery

In today’s complex environments, eDiscovery technology should be invisible to the legal reviewers and legal supervisors. Kazeon’s Case-oriented eDiscovery delivers an intuitive, straightforward user interface that emulates existing workflow to streamline and accelerate case management.

Corporations are facing an increasing number of litigations and are being forced to address their litigation challenges with reduced budgets. The answer, of course, lies in the trend that has already started in the industry – bringing eDiscovery in-house, and in effect, reducing the dependence and spending on legal service providers. However, there are many challenges amongst the eDiscovery solution options that exist in the market today – they do not scale enough or perform fast enough or worse, do not offer end-to-end capabilities for in-house eDiscovery. In addition, most eDiscovery software solutions do not offer a workflow that mimics the usage patterns of the in-house legal staff, such as a case-oriented approach to handling in-house eDiscovery.

Kazeon’s eDiscovery solution combines an elaborate fully-functional legal workflow with the best-in-breed end-to-end case management for legal users. Practically, all functions of eDiscovery are supported in a detailed manner supporting a variety of roles in the organization such as case administrators, legal supervisors, lead attorneys, paralegals etc. The case administrators/legal supervisors/lead attorneys can create cases and perform all the initial processing and collection stages without the need to involve IT staff. The rich capabilities of the processing and collection engines can auto-code the documents as they processed or collected to minimize the documents required to be reviewed. In addition, legal reviewers can utilize the case management functionality to perform analysis and review of documents for each case, both collected and in-place at the source repositories. The review and analysis part of the legal workflow provides a distributed, multi-site, collaborative review platform to support multiple reviewers spanning across the globe. The broad-range analytics supported help the legal users analyze the content to identify relevant/responsive documents for their cases. Special attention has been given to support legal hold starting from legal hold identification to enforcement both in-place and at preservation locations. The legal hold dashboard can show a breakdown of legal holds by ESI sources, custodians among others for each case.

1. Case initiation: creation of a new case, identification of  sources to be processed or collected from, assignment of reviewers, assignment of workload to reviewers; easy identification of relevant content based on ESI sources, custodians, key words and date-ranges among others; documents can be processed in-place
2. Preservation & collection: Enforcement of legal hold in-place or in target repositories, single-step targeted collection
3. Processing: Exhaustive filtering options, de-duplication, exception reporting, PST/OST file processing, auto-coding
4. Analysis: Detailed analytics with email threading, results groupings, query analysis with term expansion, hit-highlighting, search within search, and iterative search filtering to facilitate early-case assessment and cull-down of content
5. Review: Distributed and collaborative native and non-native reviewing, with interactive and configurable fast tagging and/or bulk-coding
6. Export: Final responsive dataset can be sent electronically or via a physical storage device to an external law firm or service provider utilizing the rich capabilities for load file creation, native file copying, meta-data and full-text exporting

Kazeon’s case-centric management of the end-to-end eDiscovery process brings the following key benefits to corporations, law firms and service providers:

1. Legal Cost Reduction: the full eDiscovery flow is performed in-house with an integrated platform that can manage multiple cases and a large amount of documents via a flexible workflow to support the various user roles in an organization
2. Efficiency: eDiscovery workflow that matches legal staff’s workflow
3. Ease of use: Role-based management of eDiscovery – legal supervisor, reviewer, super-user (e.g., General Counsel)
4. Security: each case can be handled as an entity unto itself, and each reviewer can have their own workspace to manage their case matters
5. Productivity: maximum reviewer productivity with fast tagging, bulk auto-coding, non-native as well as native viewing, as well as load file creation and exports at the tip of reviewers’ fingers
6. Accuracy: 100% accurate search and analytics, and maximum relevance for each case matter, with the flexibility to analyze and review by custodians and date ranges across emails and files

The case-oriented eDiscovery workflow management provides legal supervisors and reviewers the ability to start by creating a case and managing the entire litigation process through Kazeon’s case manager. The Case Manager provides a dashboard view of all case matters to make quick status checks on ongoing legal matters, and provides maximum efficiency for end-to-end in-house eDiscovery at the lowest cost

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