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As the legal landscape evolves, one thing is sure to remain constant, your need to react quickly and judiciously to your litigation needs. Whether your matter is small or large, having an On-Demand eDiscovery review platform that is responsive to your discovery requirements will ensure you stay compliant. Changing rules like the revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure place greater strain on internal and external resources.
CaseCentral™ was developed specifically to help you control these challenges. It simplifies case coordination and management, decreases business interruptions, speeds the discovery process, and drives down litigation costs.
Sophisticated Data analytics provides customers with multiple tools with which to expedite and streamline the review process, the most expensive step in eDiscovery. Using our integrated concept search, reviewers can quickly inspect large volumes of documents and emails using extensive search capabilities, such as Boolean, concept, fuzzy, proximity and phonetic searches in a single, intuitive interface. Conceptual searching allows for refinement beyond standard key word searching, giving reviewers true insight into the actual theme of each document.
Review related documents and emails quickly via near-duplication, email thread analysis or concept identification. These processing steps greatly increase reviewer efficiency by reviewing and coding documents side-by-side or only review the differences between documents in a simple, powerful interface. Your reviewers gain a more complete understanding of case data in less time which leads to reduced review costs, early case analysis and faster overall case resolution.
Our sophisticated reduction of data review functions include advanced de-duplication in one integrated workflow, dramatically reducing the information that has to be reviewed. Up to 90% of collected electronic content can be non-responsive and to combat that issue, our tightly integrated culling and search activities are critical components of our efficient processing strategy. Culling removes irrelevant content programmatically, while search identifies content that is most likely relevant and requires review.
Our De-Duplication is performed to eliminate redundant data and insure that only one instance of the data is actually retained for analysis and review, significantly reducing the time and cost burden. We will also apply advanced near-duplication capabilities that consolidate similar content to the smallest possible set for review. Since 30-50% of email and document repositories represent near-duplicates, their grouping radically optimizes the document review process. CaseCentral leverages de facto standard Equivio technology to manage near-duplication of similar data. Surpassing standard implementations, CaseCentral's integration delivers such industry firsts as sophisticated side-by-side review comparison and consolidated display of similar information.
Our Customizable Document Viewer provides the ability to configure a reviewer's environment to maximize efficiency. Administrators can configure their review pane so users can have any combination of metadata, coding sheet and the document open on one screen or across dual-monitors. CaseCentral also supports image, native or html reviews equally.
Document assignment to a specific reviewer is simplified and those assigned documents automatically appear as links on reviewers' home page, thereby simplifying their work and reducing time spent not reviewing documents. Leverage best practices and provide completed templates for your case. Select a template to get up and running immediately on your new matter.
- Automated workflow — Enables documents to flow from one review phase to the next, allowing teams to work real-time and in parallel. Documents can be production-ready within an hour of starting review. This speeds review, increases efficiency, and eliminates administrative overhead.
- Compound and Embedded Document Support — Restores all files embedded in compound documents, including PST files. As documents are indexed, embedded files are extracted, and image-conversion is completed across hundreds of files types so that reviewers and attorneys can search and find documents regardless of how they are stored. Audit reports and full quality-control metrics are made available throughout the process.
- Integrated Information Rights Management (IRM) — Capabilities for additional protection post-production, which is especially valuable for highly sensitive data.
Secure Multiparty Capability and Joint Defense support offers a Secure Multiparty option, which enables any combination of corporate counsel and outside firms to operate in independent workspaces, with the same set of documents — as allies or adversaries — sharing costs without compromising confidentiality and security. The Joint Defense support provides secure access to a shared eDiscovery review platform accessible to all firms in the joint defense team. CaseCentral's defined schema delivers high performance access to tens of millions of documents. Parties have the ability to keep work product separate and secure, while sharing the cost of storing the information. CaseCentral administers access as a shared service to the parties, ensuring no one firm has greater rights than the other. And extensive collaboration functionality can provide shared work product when desired. Many Joint Defense Groups share some document coding, while securing other work product to be viewed only by their team.
