-- Consider strategies, perform analysis, evaluate liability and eliminate irrelevant data. -- Analyze any given data set to cull down to only relevant and responsive data before moving into active review. -- Collaborate securely with inside and outside counsel without compromising any active litigation reviews. -- Ability to collect preservation metadata related to the legal hold (i.e. case name, sources, file paths, time and date of collection, applicable retention policy, etc.) -- Employ file extension filtering and NSRL database filtering (de-NIST) -- Utilize keyword or conceptual term search filters and conceptual classification across terabytes of data with 100% fully indexed metadata, full email thread support, duplicate management and near-duplicate identification. -- Based on active attorney designations, re-evaluate and modify/remove keywords, custodians and concepts to cull irrelevant documents during review. (i.e.: keywords with low responsive rates may be dropped from collections.) -- Create content profiles to quickly locate potentially privileged and confidential content, as well as segregating non-relevant documents. (i.e.: create a 'smart folder' for spam content.) -- Report metrics regarding data volumes, data types, custodians and collection metadata. -- Classify documents by potential treatment (aka: potentially privileged) and move them directly into active review.About CaseCentral Founded in 1994, CaseCentral is the leader in secure, on-demand eDiscovery software for corporations and law firms to simplify and take control of eDiscovery. CaseCentral enables repeatable, defensible and measurable business processes that significantly reduce eDiscovery risk, cost and time. The CaseCentral eDiscovery review platform integrates early case assessment, processing, analysis, review and production capabilities, enabling customers to succeed with a single matter and seamlessly migrate to multi-matter, multi-party, multi-repository support within the same software platform. CaseCentral pioneered the use of process analytics, providing real-time measurement of review rates, quality rates and costs per document -- by matter, firm or user. CaseCentral has served more than 31 of the Fortune 100 and more than 82 of the AmLaw 100. For more information, call 1.800.714.2727 or visit www.casecentral.com. Read 'Case in Point' cartoons, the lighter side of eDiscovery, at: http://www.casecentral.com/case-in-point/.
CaseCentral Extends eDiscovery Review Platform With Industry's First Integrated Early Case Assessment
Integrated ECA Delivers Close Proximity to Active Review, Brings Collaboration to ECA and Offers Radical New ECA Pricing Model
| Source: CaseCentral
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - June 22, 2009) - CaseCentral, the leader in secure,
on-demand eDiscovery software for corporate counsel and law firms looking
to simplify and take control of eDiscovery, today announced the release of
the CaseCentral Early Case Assessment (ECA) offering, which is the
industry's first ECA product to seamlessly integrate with active litigation
review and production software. CaseCentral's integrated, multi-purpose
eDiscovery review platform enables clients to start with ECA and extend
through analysis, review, production and post-production re-use,
facilitating collaborative assessments of new case merits and liabilities,
application of first pass review, and real-time transfer to active review
if required, all at a price point that shatters the current ECA pricing
model.
"Many of the current Early Case Assessment tools are designed only for the
matter at hand. They also frequently require a data export to another tool
for active review," said George Socha Jr., Esq., founder of Socha
Consulting. "An approach that treats ECA as an integrated part of the
overall review and analysis process has the potential to improve both
transparency and consistency, decreasing risk and benefiting both inside
and outside counsel."
Integrated, Multi-purpose Review Platform
The CaseCentral review platform delivers ECA with close proximity to active
review, meaning that no export of data to other tools is required. Clients
may rapidly create a new case for active review directly from within the
ECA application, increasing consistency and decreasing cost and time.
CaseCentral delivers these benefits with centralized data management and
enterprise-class security, reducing the risks typically borne by
corporations when they transmit proprietary and confidential data outside
the firewall to multiple law firms and service providers. The CaseCentral
ECA offering is useful to provide first pass review at the time of
preservation, post-collection in preparation for 26(f) meet and confer or
for performing scenario testing and risk forecasting on large data sets,
benefiting both inside and outside counsel.
Designed for Collaboration
The CaseCentral review platform uniquely supports the virtual teams that
are typical in eDiscovery review -- corporate legal potentially located in
multiple states and time zones, law firms doing review work outside the
corporate firewall and often outside review houses or LPOs performing
critical review from locations across the country and even from other
countries. This collaborative environment provides critical transparency of
the review process to both inside and outside counsel and speeds the time
to resolution.
Enables Use of Context from Previous Matters
Existing early case assessment products are usually designed only for the
matter at hand, not to take advantage of previous matters. The CaseCentral
review platform allows clients to manage multiple matters and enables
re-use of work product or context from prior matters, including searches,
production history and coding history, to aid in either Early Case
Assessment or active eDiscovery review activities, increasing consistency
and decreasing risk, cost and time.
Radical New ECA Pricing Model
Pricing for CaseCentral early case assessment starts at $10/GB/month or
$120k/TB/year, which is two orders of magnitude less than competitive
products, enabling clients to cost-effectively consider much larger data
sets for ECA during first pass review. CaseCentral ECA pricing also takes
away unpredictability making it easier to budget for ECA activities.
Contemporary early case assessment tools charge clients a significant
premium for perceived value, often starting at $100k/100GB, which equates
to $1,000/GB. ECA can be about small data sets (Gigabytes) or about very
large data sets (Terabytes) and current pricing discourages or limits the
amount of data that can be considered during early case assessment before
ultimately culling down the data set to a smaller amount for active review.
This approach forces inside and outside counsel to take risks to limit the
data set for ECA and active review.
"CaseCentral has taken the visionary step of treating Early Case Assessment
(ECA) like just another phase of the review process," said Steve d'Alencon,
chief marketing officer, CaseCentral. "This approach, coupled with
CaseCentral's radical new ECA pricing model, moves the value equation for
clients away from tactical, independent tools and towards an integrated,
multi-purpose eDiscovery review platform."
CaseCentral ECA functionality allows attorneys to: