Briefing: RenewData

On Wednesday, LTN news editor Dan Howley and I enjoyed a phone briefing with RenewData chief scientist Andy Kraftsow and Joe Garber, assistant vice president of marketing. They discussed the company's inception in 2001 as a tape processing vendor and evolution to a technology services provider once their clients started taking a proactive approach to e-discovery.

RenewData provides services for the discovery, archiving, and governance of electronically stored information, which primarily spans the middle section of the Socha/Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Reference Model including processing, review, analysis, and collection.

During the discussion, Kraftsow explained that the vast number of documents collected during e-discovery often burdens attorneys. Adding to the attorneys' plight, he said, is the fact that some 80% of those documents are usually not relevant to the litigation at hand. For Kraftsow, eliminating non-relevant data is the "holy grail" of the EDRM. To combat this growing issue, the company introduced Anagram Keyword Development in June.

As an alternative to the traditional human-driven keyword method (i.e. yellow pad and thesaurus), the content filtering tool enables users to choose keywords from a "synonym ring" containing every word in the document collection during litigation.

For more information on Anagram Keyword Development, look for Sean Doherty's review in our Test Drive column in the August issue of Law Technology News.