EDD Update

Recommind Upgrades Insite Legal Hold

Recommind has upgraded Insite Legal Hold 2. Press release here.

CT Summation Releases iBlaze 3

CT Summation has upgraded its iBlaze e-discovery software to iBlaze 3. Press release here.

KPMG Partners with Archer, Thomson, & Guidance

KPMG has created several new partnerships:

* With Kansas-based  Archer Technologies (www.archer.com) which provides governance, risk and compliance software and services. The pairing is designed to help organizations improve risk controls. The alliance leverages KPMG's experience with business processes, and Archer's automated services, the two companies note.

* With Thomson Reuters (www.thomsonreuters.com). KMPS now provides Paisley GRC software to clients, helping them manage internal audit, governance, risk and compliance processes.

* With California's Guidance Software. Under the alliance, KPMG offers Guidance’s EnCase eDiscovery software as part of KPMG's Forensic Technology Services. EnCase helps users with early case assessment, identification, preservation, collection and processing of electronically stored information.

Anacomp and Cohen & Grigsby

Cohen & Grigsby has purchased Anacomp Inc.’s CaseLogistix litigation support software to help organize, review, and produce electronically stored information. Kevin Sullivan, the firm’s director of technology, said that the firm chose CaseLogistix based on its ability to manage documents in their native file formats. He also pointed to the advantages of the software’s Unicode capabilities, which will help the firm process foreign language documents for international clients.

The firm also purchased Anacomp's CaseProduction, the system's production module. It helps users manage document production, and can handle native file, image-based or mixed productions. It  features formatting options and image endorsements,  including the ability to add Bates numbering, redactions or confidentiality statements.  It is capable of rule-based, high-volume metadata export into any format. 

Anacomp Inc. (www.anacomp.com) is headquartered in California; Cohen and Grigsby (www.cohenlaw.com) is based in Pennsylvania. Press release here.

Avanstar & Recommind

Minnesota's Avantstar (www.avantstar.com) has announced a partnership with California's Recommind (www.recommind.com). Under the terms of the deal, Recommind will use Avantstar’s desktop file viewing program, Quick View Plus, to provide a viewing feature for its Axcelerate eDiscovery software.  The combination will aid the e-discovery process by creating an on-demand window into document review. 

Avantstar's Quick View Plus helps users view desktop files, convert content, and publish business information to websites.

iConect & D6 Consulting

California's iConect Development (www.iconect.com) has partnered with Texas-based D6 Consulting, (www.d6llc.com), which offers e-discovery and forensic technology services. Under the accord, D6 will provide iConect’s ConectnXT software to its clients, helping corporations and law firms with web-based hosting, review, and collaboration services.

IConectXT features native file and e-mail review tools, bulk tagging, concept searching and clustering.  The scalable software can import, search, organize, and review more than 250 languages, including Chinese, Russian, and Arabic.

D6's e-discovery services include processing, productions, and complex data analysis and preservation. It also provides computer forensic examinations and data collection. Press release here.

CCH Products Liability Library

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business has introduced the CCH Products Liability Integrated Library, a research tool to help users prepare for litigation. Resources include case law, analytical materials, and news alerts.  The library consists of two components that may be purchased together or separately. The compliance component includes full-text laws, regulations and published standards and guidelines from the CPSC, ANSI, and others. 

The litigation unit covers a variety of resources, including news, federal laws, regulations, and case law. A "Smart Chart" helps users compare products liability issues across all 50 states, with discussions and links to relevant treatise material.  Professionals also can choose to purchase the CCH Medical Devices Reporter and/or CCH Food, Drug and Cosmetic Reporter. 

Epiq Systems Incorporates Equivio > Relevance Into IQ Review

Epiq Systems has incorporated Equivio > Relevance document prioritization into its IQ Review system. Full release here.

Océ Upgrades CaseData ASP

Océ Business Services has upgraded its CaseData ASP document review system. Full release here.

Enterprise Bank Chooses Mimosa's NearPoint

Massachusetts' Enterprise Bank (www.ebtc.com) has purchased  Mimosa NearPoint, from California's Mimosa Systems (www.mimosasystems.com). NearPoint captures e-mail, files, Microsoft SharePoint content, instant messages, and other data. It can be used to support legal search workflow, employee supervision, mailbox/message recovery, and disaster recovery, Mimosa explains.

Paul Rosseau, the bank's vice president of technology services, said CA and EMC were considered, but ultimately Mimosa won the deal because of ability to support e-mail archiving. The bank, which as 16 branch offices, recently migrated from Novell GroupWise to Microsoft Exchange. NearPoint for Exchange was installed in the bank's virtualized infrastructure, and the bank plans to add SharePoint archiving support in the near future, he said. It is being used to provide content archiving, e-discovery (including individual-item level legal holds), and user searches, among other functions.

Catalyst Introduces Fast Track

Colorado-based Catalyst Repository Systems has introduced its Fast Track integrated processing software. With Fast Track, users can submit multi-language Exchange pst, Lotus Notes NSF, and other electronic files directly into Catalyst CR, the company’s web-based search and review software, says CEO John Tredennick. Full release here.

Kroll Ontrack Upgrades Advanceview and Inview to 6.1

Kroll Ontrack has introduced the latest versions of its early case assessment software, Ontrack Advanceview 6.1, and document review program, Ontrack Inview 6.1. The upgraded versions add statistical sampling functions, new analytic reports, and enhanced searching and sorting capabilities. Full release here.

 

CompuLaw Adds 288 Rules Updates

CompuLaw reports that, so far this year, it has added 288 rules updates to its calendar/docket management software. Full release here.

Cognition Technologies Releases Syntactic Parser Module

California-based Cognition Technologies says its new Syntactic Parser Module helps users conduct semantic searches. Full release here.

Nuix Upgrades to Nuix 2.20

Nuix, based in Washington, D.C., has upgraded its namesake technology that can be used for
e-discovery and electronic investigations. Nuix 2.20 helps users process Guidance Software’s EnCase Enterprise collections. Full release here.

Mimosa NearPoint Supports Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

Mimosa Systems reports that its Mimosa NearPoint supports Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. NearPoint archives e-mail, files, and SharePoint content, says the California company. Full release here.

 

Informative Graphics Launches News Brava! and Redact-It Versions

Arizona’s Informative Graphics has launched Brava! Enterprise and Redact-It Enterprise for Microsoft SharePoint 2007. The company also announced the released Redact-it for IBM FileNet Capture and Brava for IBM FileNetP8. Full releases here and here. 

Levit & James Releases Best Authority 2.6

Virginia’s Levit & James has released the latest upgrade of its Table of Authorites production software. Best Authority 2.6 adds several new features, including new options to classify citations based on text matching criteria. For example, users can automatically assign citations to a specific TOA group, such as “Supreme Court Cases. Full release here.

Wave Software Upgrades Trident Pro

Wave Software’s Trident Pro 6.2 adds interactive searching and filtering capabilities to help users view search results quickly, and make earlier decisions on search terms and criteria by providing a report on keyword lists. Full release here.

PSS Systems Unveils Atlas Compliance Automation 2

California-based PSS Systems says its Atlas Compliance Automation 2 development software helps PSS users integrate the Atlas Suite with their information repositories to improve electronic data discovery workflow. Full release here.

Huron Consulting Group Opens New Document Review Center

Huron Consulting Group has opened a new document review center in Washington, D.C. It also relocated its Rock Hill, S.C. facility to Charlotte, N.C. Full release here.

Reliable Partners with Digital Reef

Reliable is now using Digital Reef’s software to power its EDD processing services. Full release here.

Millberg Selects kCura's Relativity

Milberg, which pursues federal class actions and complex cases, has selected kCura's Relativity to help manage and review EDD. Full release here.

Oracle Chooses Exterro's Fusion Software

Oracle has chosen Exterro's Fusion electronic data discovery software to automate and manage its litigation processes. Full release here.

Kraft Kennedy Provides Consulting/Integration for Equivio

Kraft Kennedy will provide technology consulting and integration services for Equivio’s products, under a new partnershpi  Full release here.

Clearwell Integrates Information Graphics' Brava!

Clearwell has integrated Informative Graphics’ Brava! electronic redaction technology into the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform 5. Full release here.

CaseCentral & StoredIQ Offer EDD Software

CaseCentral has partnered with StoredIQ to provide EDD software tto help users handle all aspects of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model. Full release here.

Huron Opens D.C. Review Center

Illinois’ Huron Consulting Group has opened a document review center in Washington, D.C.

It also announced the relocation of its Rock Hill, S.C. center to Charlotte, N.C. Full release here.

Ji2 Becomes Alliance Partner with Catalyst

California-based e-discovery and forensics company Ji2 has become a Catalyst Repository Systems Alliance Partner.  Full release here.

StoredIQ Intelligent Information Management Platform 5.0

StoredIQ Intelligent Information Management Platform 5. is the latest version of Texas-based StoredIQ’s (www.storediq.com) content management software. It helps organizations manage EDD, records, information governance, and storage — and bridges the needs of  IT and legal departments. New features include data access control, a scalable storage architecture, and automated event notification. Full release here.

CAAT 3.5 Adds De-Duplicate Identification

Virginia’s Content Analyst reports that CAAT 3.5 search and text analytics software adds new algorithms to help users form clusters of one million documents in minutes. A categorization-from-search feature offers rapid categorization from an existing search index. The upgrade also identifies near-duplicate documents. Full release here.

Socha and Gelbmann Relaunch EDRM Website

Minnesota-based George Socha and Tom Gelbmann report that the Electronic Discovery Reference Model website has been upgraded and advancements made on the eight EDRM projects. Among updates: a Production Pack 'n Go Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that outlines stages of production; a refinements to an XML schema; new metrics tools; and tips to help employers recruit and retain e-discovery personnel. Socha is a member of the LTN Editorial Advisory Board. Full release here.

Lextranet Transcript Repository

The Merrill Lextranet Transcript Repository helps users search video depositions and synch transcripts with the videos. Users can search video depositions for keywords and find all instances of their use across a case. The display window synchronizes the location of keywords on both the transcript and the video. Annotations can also be searched and synchronized. From Minnesota-based Merrill Corp. Full release here.

Precision Discovery Launches The Case Dashboard

New York-based Precision Discovery says its web-based The Case Dashboard helps users manage e-discovery projects. Users can access processing and document review progress reports, document coding statistics, and budgeting information at each stage of the Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Reference Model (www.edrm.org). Full release here.

Ipro eReview 2.1 Helps Users Select Custodians

Ipro eReview 2.1 document review software helps users select custodians and search for only files containing the specified custodians. Users can tag result sets, and if a conflict exists in a tag group, a prompt will appear for the user to resolve conflicts. From Arizona's Ipro Tech. Full release here.

Discovery Partner Now Processes Bloomberg E-mail

Daticon EED reports that its Discovery Partner e-discovery software can now natively process Bloomberg e-mail, to help financial services companies involved in litigation.
It is compatible with Bloomberg Email 1.6 or later, including Instant Bloomberg, Bmail, Internet Mail, and Bloomberg on iPhones, BlackBerrys, and Windows Mobile devices. Full release here.

OrcaTec Debuts SocialStor

California-based OrcaTec has debuted  OrcaTec SocialStor, a new service that helps organizations collect, manage, and store messages on social networking services including Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

Full release here.

Altep Upgrades Inspicio

Litigation support software company Altep has upgraded its Inspicio software.

New features include Box Views, which provide additional sorting and filtering options for document subsets with native files. Users with the appropriate permissions can view document lists by file type, native path (where the file was located during collection), creation date, or modification date. Full release here.

Global EDD & eZoom

Ohio’s Global EDD has added eZoom data analytics to its Intelligent EDD e-discovery services. Full release here.

Kroll Ontrack Collaborates with NYLPI

Minnesota's Kroll Ontrack has partnered with New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (www.nylpi.org), a non-profit civil rights law firm. Kroll's consultants are providing 80 hours of pro bono expertise to help the firm manage its ESI litigation caseload.

The consultants are reviewing and analyzing NYLPI’s current data management practices to help establish proper procedures when processing ESI. Full release.

SuperiorGlacier Launches ESI Spy

The new web-based portal provides clients with early insight to case data helping them make decisions about their data and better manage e-discovery projects reports SuperiorGlacier. The ESI Spy portal lets clients create customized reports based various factors including file extension, duplicate items and file sizes.  Here for press release. 

Ringtail QuickCull

Just when you thought that everyone is getting out of the hardware and infrastructure offerings and headed for the clouds, FTI Consulting recently announced the launch of Ringtail QuickCull. QuickCull is an appliance (Dell Enterprise Server using Windows Virtualization Server) that, like the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform, aims to help organizations come down to earth and cull and analyze data on site to provide an early case assessment of information that may be responsive to litigation.

The FTI technology in QuickCull is not new. You may remember the name from an ealier announcement. It is presently used in FTI's hosting service. In Q4 2009, it will come to a theatre near you, in the QuickCull appliance, for the price of the box and a per gigabyte cost in data processing.

QuickCull is designed to deploy "out-of-the-box" and begin to index data, deduplicate it, and present it for early review. One box is capable of culling through and anaylzing 100 gigabytes of data per day -- additional units can accelerate that throughput. End point: Reviewers can search the indexed material using all the usual suspects, such as keyword and Boolean queries, as well as mark and tag documents and export them for further processing into FTI's Attenex Patterns or other platforms via the EDRM XML standard.

Kroll Ontrack Launches Document Review Service

Kroll has launched a Document Review Service to help clients manage discovery projects. Full release here.

Guidance Software E-Discovery Training Program

Guidance Software has launched its EnCase Certified eDiscovery Practitioner program. The program certifies e-discovery professionals in e-discovery planning and project management, as well as in Guidance Software's EnCase. Full release here.

KPMG Upgrades File Preservation Program

New York-based tax and advisory firm KPMG has unveiled a new version of its File Preservation Program that helps users connect remotely and collect electronically stored information from Microsoft Office SharePoint sites. It performs targeted collections, rather than process full forensic images, to reduce the amount of non-relevant data collected. Full release here.

Tusker Group Introduces Early Case Assessment

The Tusker Group has debuted its Early Case Assessment Service, which helps users sample documents in the early stage of discovery. It helps users identify relevant and privileged documents, to develop a refined, tested search term list. Full release here.

DOAR Launches DOAR Direct

Doar Litigation Consulting has integrated the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform into Doar Direct, its e-discovery software-as-a-service. Full release here.  

Dechert Installs Anacomp's CaseLogistix

Dechert is using the CaseLogistix litigation review software to help legal teams quickly collect, organize, review, analyze and produce relevant ESI. Here for press release.

3BView Selected By Nixon Peabody

Nixon Peabody is using the 3BClean system to provide policy-based and automated meta data removal throughout the firm's 17 offices in North America, Europe and Asia. The server-based 3BClean system helps users extract metadata from documents sent by e-mail or contained within an enterprise content management system. Full press release.

Canadian Firm Chooses Recommind Products

Stikeman Elliot has jumped on the MindServer Search and Matters & Expertise bandwagon to help support staff collaborate and view firmwide matters, deals, cases and repositories reports Recommind. Access release here.