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EED Announces Enhancements to Discovery Partner®
New Version Adds Near-Duplicate Detection Technology from Equivio and Establishes a Review Workflow Built Around Duplicate, Near-duplicate, and Email Thread Relationships to Increase Reviewer Productivity and Consistency
LEGALTECH 2007, NEW YORK (Jan. 29, 2007) - Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc. (EED), one of the eDiscovery market leaders, today announced the availability of a new version of its Discovery Partner hosted review tool designed to expose hidden document relationships and help reviewers consistently code electronic data collections in the most efficient manner. The newest version pre-organizes electronic data into relationship groups by analyzing for duplication, near-duplication and inclusion in email conversation threads. By building a review workflow around the resulting document relationships, corporations and their outside counsel can significantly reduce review-related time, cost and error during litigation.
The combination of related document handling features in the new version of Discovery Partner, including near-duplicate detection technology from Equivio, establishes the most efficient and consistent review workflow available. Reviewers can now harness “The Power of Comparison” ™ to quickly establish relationships and address high volumes of related documents within a review environment.
“Reviewers are now able to take a coding decision that was made against one document and quickly test whether that same decision can be applied to each document in the universe of related items,” said Regina Chepalis, EED’s Chief Operating Officer. “By focusing the reviewer’s attention on the differences between documents, the result is more document decisions per hour and vastly improved coding accuracy.”
A critical consideration in the design of EED’s new related document handling features is the presentation of easy-to-understand relationships to reviewers. There is great benefit in exposing these relationships to the review team early in the review process:
- A large majority of documents in most collections are related through duplication or conversation threads. Near-duplicates typically make up 20% - 50% of document collections and, therefore, are extremely valuable in accelerating the review process, but are difficult to identify without advanced analysis tools.
- Items with large relationship groups can be prioritized, enabling the team to complete the review of enormous volumes of data early in the project.
- Reviewers have immediate access to all related documents, even across multiple custodians, so that they can focus in on key players or relationships.
- Reviewers focus on document differences rather than the comprehensive analysis of each document in the collection, dramatically increasing review speed.
- Review Managers can evaluate coding consistency within related document groups — a powerful quality control tool.
“We didn’t want reviewers spending time trying to figure out why their software reported a relationship between two documents,” said Ken Sokol, Product Manager for EED. “Some classification technologies such as concept search have that issue. They find relationships that may not be obvious and, therefore, require further investigation. In Discovery Partner, by the time a document reaches a reviewer’s screen, relationships are obvious. They are duplicates, email threads or revisions of the same document.”
“The way EED has integrated related document handling into the reviewer workflow is very powerful and should save law firms and their corporate clients a tremendous amount of time and money,” said Warwick Sharp, Vice President of Equivio. “We are very pleased to be a part of this solution as a technology partner to EED.”
The related document handling features of EED Discovery Partner are available immediately for new projects through EED’s hosted services.
About EED
EED is the industry's standard-setting electronic discovery leader, offering straightforward, technically-enabled eDiscovery solutions delivered by exceptional client-focused professionals.
Founded in 1987, EED combined the expertise of a variety of practices — law, technology, process improvement and project coordination to form a new discipline that addressed the unique challenges of electronic discovery.
In addition to the data operations and hosting center at the company’s headquarters in Kirkland, WA, EED operates two regional conversion centers located in New York and Washington D.C. Regional sales offices are located in Atlanta; Boston; Chicago; Cleveland; Dallas; Houston; Los Angeles; Minneapolis; Wilmington, Delaware; Miami; New York; San Francisco and Washington D.C.
For more information visit our website at: www.eedinc.com
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