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Exterro Fusion Adds New Modules Creating Custodian-Centric Workflow for E-Discovery
Modules Enhance Legal Hold, Collection, Planning Review and Metrics Management for a Comprehensive Audit Trail
| Source: Exterro
LAKE OSWEGO, OR--(Marketwire - June 19, 2007) - Exterro, a leading provider of advanced
discovery management technology to the legal industry, today announced a
three module expansion to Exterro Fusion, its integrated workflow platform.
The modules include -- Legal Hold Management, Collection Workflow
Management, and Review Planning and Metrics Management. Together, these
modules provide a comprehensive audit trail as well as defensible,
repeatable processes for discovery management.
Exterro will demonstrate its new modules at LegalTech: West Coast at the
Los Angeles Convention Center, June 20-21, 2007 in booth 527. To set up a
meeting at LegalTech: West Coast, please call 1-877-EXTERRO.
Exterro Fusion is the legal industry's first integrated workflow platform
for discovery management. Exterro Fusion helps law firms and corporations
mitigate risk, control costs, and speed responsiveness by creating a
consistent and repeatable workflow processes.
"Our clients have been asking us to help streamline the key risk areas in
discovery," said David Haines, EVP of Strategy and Development, Exterro.
"They want more robust workflow functionality for legal holds, collection
automation and review planning. These new modules fulfill this need by
providing reliable control and predictability for a volatile process
fraught with surprises."
Understanding the Contemporary View of Discovery
Over the past year, the percentage of companies with more than 50 pending
lawsuits has doubled. The need for pro-active planning is therefore
critical.
Corporations respond to discovery requests primarily through custodians or
key "record holders." They interview record owners, place legal holds on
their data, map the data, then track collection, processing, review and
production efforts. In this model, every employee is a potential document
custodian.
This contemporary view of discovery management has the ability to: predict
costs of discovery by custodian; understand which custodians will need to
be alerted in advance of the investigation or suit by "mapping" their data,
in advance; install litigation holds on custodians; track hold status of
custodians; and track the progress of collection, review and production by
custodians.
Exterro's new modules address these challenges by taking a
custodian-centric point of view of workflow that helps corporations manage
the process more effectively.
Specific features for each module include:
Legal Hold Management Module enables the management of multiple holds
across matters, the automation of the tracking and the management of legal
holds. Legal teams gain control over the legal hold process by also being
able to track legal holds with integrated custodial management.
Collection Workflow Management Module automates the collection process. The
module enables users to forecast varying volumes of custodian data, thereby
facilitating proactive budgeting. Other features include the tracking of
the preservation status of custodians, the progress of collection, review
and production by custodian and the tracking of custodian device inventory,
collected with defensible chain-of-custody.
Review Planning and Metrics Management Module highlights the preparation
and tracking of review schedules, the forecasting of the number of
reviewers needed to meet discovery schedule deadlines and assesses the
impact of cost and time. This module provides collaboration with outside
counsel on strategy decisions by real-time integration with review
databases and monitoring the reviewer's performance and cost per document
decisions.
Availability and Pricing:
The new modules in Exterro Fusion are immediately available to existing
clients as a value-added enhancement. Exterro Fusion is available in
several licensing options for law firms and corporations. More information
on Exterro Fusion is available on the corporate website at www.exterro.com
or by calling toll-free at 1-877-EXTERRO.
About Exterro
Headquartered in Lake Oswego, Ore., Exterro provides proven workflow
solutions for corporate and law firm counsel. Exterro helps legal teams to
gain control over discovery response processes and costs and automate the
discovery workflow by tightening collaboration between outside counsel,
in-house legal teams, service providers and experts. Built-in management
workflow provides cost controls, delivers time savings and reduces risks
throughout the litigation life cycle. Exterro's easy to use, quick to
deploy and simple to integrate workflow management platforms are built on a
patent-pending, open architecture that fits neatly with existing discovery
response processes and systems. It has offices in San Francisco, Chicago,
New York and Dallas. More information can be found at www.exterro.com