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Review Tools
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survey's by leading industry analysts indicate that 70% of the cost of
eDiscovery is consumed in the review process. Therefore, it
is important for you and your organization to choose the right
partners and the right technologies to suite your specific
requirements.
The eDiscovery experts at eDiscovery Solutions Group have years of
experience with most of today's leading Document Review Tools and can
provide you with an unbiased opinion in regards to which technology
will best fit your needs.
Once we have chosen the best solution, we have a ESG consortium
partners worldwide to support the solution of your choice.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
 
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iCONECT's award-winning litigation support software is used by
prestigious Am Law 100 firms, corporate legal departments, Fortune 500
corporations, and government agencies for litigation document review,
mergers and acquisitions, and multi-party international cases.
Through ESG
consortium partners that are certified iCONECT application service
providers, ESG can provide support for all of your iCONECT
needs.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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More than 92% of AmLaw Top 200 firms turn to Concordance® for help in
managing the immense amount of paperwork generated in a trial.
Through ESG consortium partners that are certified Concordance®
service providers, ESG can provide support for all your Concordance®
needs.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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CT Summation offer Enterprise and Online
Review Tool (ORT) Solutions
CT Summation Enterprise combines the award-winning technology and
time-tested functionality of our integrated CT Summation iBlaze and CT
Summation WebBlaze litigation solutions with the scalability of a
Microsoft® SQL Server database to master the massive amounts of
information generated by today's voluminous cases. CT Summation
Enterprise gives you the power to collaborate via your network or the
Web, meet deadlines and litigate large cases with confidence.
Both iBlaze and WebBlaze have the
same familiar look, feel, and integrated workflow of other CT
Summation products; however, CT Summation Enterprise offers new
features for managing mega-cases, including enhanced tools for volume
document coding, improved production tools, and field-level security.
Through ESG consortium partners that are certified CT Summation
service providers, ESG can provide support for all your CT
Summation needs.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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For more than a decade, many of the largest corporations and law firms
in the world have chosen Catalyst as their preferred repository
provider for electronic discovery and other complex legal matters.
Through ESG consortium partners that are certified Catalyst service
providers, ESG can provide support for all your Catalyst needs.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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Early
Case Assessment
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 Recent
survey's by leading industry analysts indicate that 70% of the cost of
eDiscovery is consumed in the review process. Therefore, it
is important to reduce the amount of data that needs to be reviewed through
a new process called Early Case Assessment (ECA).
ECA technology will enable you to search, filter and analyze your Electronically
Stored Information (ESI), remove duplicates and cull the data down to
the ESI that is actually relevant to the requirements of your
case. At this stage in the evolution of eDiscovery, ESG believes
that it is the most important step in the eDiscovery process to reduce
costs and increase your rate of success.
The eDiscovery experts at eDiscovery Solutions Group have experience
with most of today's leading Early Case Assessment tools and
technology and can provide you with an unbiased opinion in regards to
which ECA solutions will best fit your needs.
Once we have chosen the best solution, we have a ESG consortium
partners worldwide to support the solution of your choice.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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Equivio addresses the challenge of redundant data. Redundant data
hampers document-intensive business process, such as litigation,
internal investigations, regulatory compliance and intelligence
analysis. To address this challenge, we offer software products for
grouping near-duplicate files, building email threads and identifying
unique data.
By grouping similar documents,
Equivio users gain a decisive competitive advantage -- Equivio cuts
through the redundant data, enabling users to focus directly on the
unique information they need to win.
ESG is a certified Equivio reseller and has the technical resources to
integrate and support the Equivio technology within your current
document management platform.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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The OrcaTec Information Discovery Toolkit is an easily deployed
software appliance that provides an integrated collection of
information analysis and management services. Current modules
include:
- Near Duplicate Clustering
- Concept Search (includes
Boolean)
- Language Identification
- Interesting Phrase Finder
- Email Threading
These modules are distributed as an rPath-based
software appliance, making them very easy to install and to maintain.
A software appliance is an application that is distributed with its
own operating system and all systems needed to run and maintain it. It
runs on commodity servers (x86 based systems with up to 64 GB of
memory). The appliance includes its database and data management
tools. It exposes its functionality through a RESTful XML or JSON API.
Like hardware appliances, it requires virtually no care or maintenance
from database administrators or operations personnel. The appliance
comes with an automatic installation script, with which it installs
itself on a bare commodity server. Installation and all maintenance is
done through an easy-to-use web interface. Administrators should never
have to access the component parts. Software appliances are known for
their easy upgradability, easy integration and easy maintenance.
Most data centers already include a
number of hardware and software appliances, such as routers,
firewalls, and VPNs.
All of the OrcaTec Information
Discovery Toolkit components are based on language modeling. A
language model captures the patterns in language use and makes use of
those patterns to detect, classify, and cluster information. The
OrcaTec modeling approach is derived in part from years of basic
research in information retrieval and cognitive science, in particular
on investigations of dolphin biosonar.
The modules are priced on a
per-server basis. We impose no limits on the amount of data that may
be processed on a single system. Version 2 supports a data ingest rate
of up to 2 million documents per day.
ESG is a certified OrcaTec reseller and has the technical resources to
integrate and support the OrcaTec technology within your
current document management platform.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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earlyCASE
® is an application which runs on your local PC and analyzes the ESI
that your computer can access without the data ever leaving your
computer or network. earlyCASE ® allows you to see and understand
(early case assessment) all of your data before it is processed for
discovery. It supports multiple languages, extracts emails,
attachments, metadata, generates hash values, detects duplicates and
creates a local inventory database of documents and emails. earlyCASE
® allows users to make informed discovery decisions and easily cut
down the size of data sets through filter and culling before going
into the discovery process and review.
ESG is a certified earlyCASE reseller
and has the technical resources to install and support the
earlyCASE technology within your organization.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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Venio Systems is a cutting edge Electronic Discovery software solution
created to save legal, government and corporate industries time and
money. Venio FPR™ allows forensic units, attorneys and litigation
support teams to analyze data, provide an early case assessment, a
total case assessment and a first pass review of any size data set.
Unlike other E-Discovery management platforms, Venio FPR™ can export
to ALL industry standard litigation support applications while
providing extensive reporting options.
Venio FPR™ is available as a licensed application to both
corporations and service providers.
ESG is a certified Venio Systems reseller
and has the technical resources to install and support the Venio
Systems technology within your organization.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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Rated as a "Strong Positive" (highest possible rating given) in Gartner's 2008 E-Discovery MarketScope Report and voted a Top 5 E-Discovery Software Provider by the 2008 Socha-Gelbmann survey, the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform is the first enterprise-class e-discovery solution that manages all legal matters, regulatory inquiries, and corporate investigations in a single application. Leading companies have chosen Clearwell to process, analyze, review, and produce ESI. As a result, they accelerate early case assessments, cull-down data by up to 90%, increase review throughput, reduce movement of data across multiple tools, and improve the defensibility of their electronic discovery process.
Through ESG partners that are certified Clearwell application service
providers, ESG can provide support for all of your Clearwell needs.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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EDD
Processing
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 The
processing of electronic data, commonly referred to
as EED (Electronic Evidence Discovery)
or ESI (Electronically Stored Information),
has historically been referred to as EDD (Electronic Data
Discovery).
EDD involves taking native ESI such as emails and
Microsoft office documents, removing all of the embedded files and
extracting the meta data into a format that can be loaded into a
Document Review tool for lawyers and/or paralegals to review.
With today's technology, this may seem like a fairly easy task.
However, with over 500 file types, multiple languages and layers of
embedded files, EDD processing not done properly can prove to be the
weak link in your eDiscovery process.
The eDiscovery experts at eDiscovery Solutions Group have experience
with most of today's EDD processing tools and
technology and can provide you with an unbiased opinion in regards to
which solutions will best fit your needs.
Once we have chosen the best solution, we have ESG consortium
partners worldwide to support the solution of your choice.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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LAW PreDiscovery is an imaging and electronic discovery application
that allows litigation teams to pre-review and cull hundreds of
e-discovery and scanned documents prior to reviewing and process.
LAW PreDiscovery software combines production-level imaging and
electronic discovery processing in one robust and easy-to-use
application allowing you to produce and organize both paper and
electronic files. LAW PreDiscovery allows you to cull non-responsive
data to increase productivity, allows you to reduce costs and gain
greater control over your electronic discovery.
Through ESG consortium partners that are certified LAW PreDiscovery
service providers, ESG can provide support for all your
PreDiscovery needs.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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IPRO eCapture is a distributive
software application designed for large scale electronic discovery
processing. eCapture is designed for speed, accuracy, flexibility and
stability utilizing SQL server, modular development, asynchronous
multi-threading technology, self aware agents and distributive
discovery, processing and export. Processing stations work without
user intervention and all projects are managed from a central control
station, allowing virtually unlimited processing power without
additional labor costs.
Through ESG consortium partners
that are certified iPro eCapture service providers, ESG can provide
support for all your iPro eCapture needs.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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Chain
of Custody and File Transfer Security Solutions
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 Chain
of Custody has been a foundational concept and practice of the
criminal and legal community for many years. However, with the
advent of the Internet and the accelerating volume of Electronically
Stored Information (ESI), the basic security of transferring files and
the associated Chain of Custody requirements have become significant
issues for corporations worldwide.
The eDiscovery experts at eDiscovery Solutions Group have experience
with data security and Chain of Custody technology tools and
best practices and can provide you with an unbiased opinion in regards to
which ECA solutions will best fit your needs.
Once we have chosen the best solution, we have ESG consultants consortium
partners worldwide to support the solution of your choice.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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TruSeal™ is a simple, convenient and cost effective way to safeguard
the evidential strength and integrity of your company’s digital
data.
A unique digital fingerprint and time
stamp can be seamlessly applied to any digital data residing on any
file system. This may include application documents, imagery, video
and audio files to verify authenticity, detect tampering and maintain
compliance at any time, anywhere, by anyone.
Whether web-based, standalone or
seamlessly integrated into your existing business processes, TruSeal™
provides an efficient, flexible and convenient information integrity
solution.
ESG is a certified TruSeal reseller
and has the technical resources to integrate and support the TruSeal technology within your current document management
platform.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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Become
a Partner
eDiscovery Solutions Group
is always on the look out for new partners with the skills and
expertise to support individual components of the eDiscovery
lifecycle and an advanced sense of business integrity to join the
consortium. However, please note that we are developing a
partner submission page and plan to have it done within the next
couple of weeks.
In the mean time, please submit your inquires to become a member of
the eDiscovery Solutions Group via email at partners@ediscoverysolutionsgroup.com.
Please provide you contact information, an overview of the
eDiscovery services, consulting and technology that you offer along
with the geographic region your organization can support.
For
immediate assistance please call 866-611-7522
Partner
Certifications
eDiscovery
Solutions Group partners are among the best consultants, service
providers and technology providers in the eDiscovery market.
Collectively, the consortium has attained the following industry
certifications:
Industry
Updates
Through
the members of the eDiscovery Solutions Group Consortium, we have
excellent and up-to-date data about the current state of the
eDiscovery Industry. Please feel fee to utilize our website as
a source of information.
Please contact us at 866-611-7522 with any articles, Blog postings
and/or whitepapers that you would like us to publish.
 Download
Fulbright’s
Sixth Annual Litigation Trends Survey Report
Initially launched by Fulbright in 2004, their annual survey has
become the largest canvas of corporate counsel on litigation issues
and trends in the world.
For additional information on the Fulbright report or to
schedule a conference call with one of eDiscovery Solutions Group
Consultants to discuss how your organization compares to the
international trends in the eDiscovery market, please contact
eDiscovery Solutions Group at 866-611-7522.
eDiscovery
Studies and Research
 Radu
Stancut and Professor Gerard Becker from the Department of
Management and Information Technology, the School of Continuing and
Professional Studies, New York University asked me to invite
professionals from the eDiscovery industry to participate in an
online research study of the effects the changes to the Federal
Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) have had on the relationship between
corporate clients and their respective outside counsel. Click
Here to participate in the study.
eDiscovery
Whitepapers and Articles
Concept Search in
eDiscovery
by Dr. Herb Roitblat PhD at Oractec
Concept search has been receiving increasing attention from legal professionals
and the courts. Despite many years of use, a lot of misunderstanding still seems
to be prevalent about what concept search is and what it does. There is a lot of
unnecessary fear, uncertainty, and doubt about concept search, which this paper
seeks to dispel.
Click here
to Download the paper
Hash
Functions in eDiscovery
by Dr. Herb Roitblat PhD at Oractec
This paper addresses questions regarding using hash functions in electronic
discovery.
Recent developments in research on hashing functions, particularly the MD5 hash
function, have led some people in eDiscovery to wonder about their continued
use. These concerns are addressed in this paper.
Click here
to Download the paper
Evidence
Based Search Evaluations
by Dr. Herb Roitblat PhD at Oractec
In this paper, we consider the evaluation of search efficacy from a practical
perspective. The “proof” of the adequacy of a search, indeed of an entire
review process, is in the documents that were retrieved. The main expertise that
is required to evaluate search is to ensure that this evaluation is done fairly,
accurately, and inexpensively.
Click here
to Download the paper
Keyword
vs. Concept Search
by Charles Skamser at eDSG
Having grown up in the enterprise class solutions world with relational
databases, I am very comfortable with SQL query based searching. And, over the
past several years, with my focus on the litigation market and litigation
technology, I have now become very familiar with keyword searching against
scanned and OCR'd document files. However, with with my passion for
"leading edge" technology and/or solutions that can meet the demands
of a market going through a paradigm shift, I have not been overly excited or
impressed with the state of search technology in eDiscovery.
However, that has all changed with the emergence of conceptual search
technology. As such, I have spent a tremendous amount of time researching
conceptual search and how it compares from both a technology standpoint and from
as business value standpoint. And, although I have come to the early conclusion
that there is room and a need for all three, I have also determined that there
is still a tremendous amount of confusion in regards to concept search vs.
keyword search technology and the best use of both.
Click here
to view the entire article
Early
Case Assessment (ECA)
by Charles Skamser at eDSG
Just before the Christmas holidays in 2007 I was teaching a CLE on the
“Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP)”. There had to have
been 150 litigators, litigation service providers and consultants in the room
listening to me preach about this unchartered new world called eDiscovery. My
initial morning session was an overview of the current status of paper based
litigation processing, how the accelerating increase in the volume of
Electronically Stored Information (ESI) was steaming down the eDiscovery tracks
like an out of control locomotive, how the changes to the FRCP would effect us
all and what they all needed to know that day to get ready. One of topics that I
touched on was the need to become more familiar with key word search methodology
and the new technologies that would enable the legal industry to better manage
the process of finding relevant data and assessing cases early on in the
eDiscovery lifecycle. The reason that I am recalling this CLE seminar was
because I will always remember the comments from an older litigator that packed
up his belongings during the first break, walked up to the front and announced
that, “all of this fancy new technology was never going to replace good old
fashion legal hard work, understanding the relevant facts and key information
for case wasn’t as complicated as I was making it sound and therefore he
wasn’t going to stick around for the rest of my session.”
Well, the remainder of 149 attendees stayed and I hope that they all walked away
with a better understanding of the importance of understanding key word search
methodology and the new technologies that would enable the legal industry to
better manage the process of finding relevant data and assessing cases early on
in the eDiscovery lifecycle. Over the subsequent 18 months, key word became a
big issue in the eDiscovery lifecycle and spawned a whole new technology arena
called Early Case Assessment (ECA) that focused on reducing the amount of
“relevant” data that had to ultimately be reviewed by a lawyer. And, having
just completed another CLE this past week on ECA, I think that “most”
eDiscovery professionals understand the keyword search methodology and the new
technologies that enable them to better manage the process of finding relevant
data and assessing cases early on in the eDiscovery lifecycle.
However, just when we thought we had it had it all figured out, a study from the
Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) indicated that the keyword method tends to miss
most of the relevant documents, while yielding mainly irrelevant documents. As a
result, only a fraction of the relevant documents make it to the detailed review
stage, while most of the documents that are submitted to review are in fact not
relevant.
Moreover, the study also found that the keyword approach is typically binary,
meaning that documents are either included or not. There is no graduated scale
of relevance. This rigid approach does not allow for relative ranking of
documents, making it extremely difficult to manage and prioritize document
review.
However, as with any market that is going through a paradigm shift looking for
its center and trying to normalize on some standards, the litigation technology
vendors have been all over the keyword search issue and are starting to release
their new solutions into production. One of the very first players in the
industry to address the issue of document relevance is Equivio, a leading
provider of near de-duping and email thread management technology. They have
just launched Equivio>Relevance™, an expert-guided system that enhances the
eDiscovery process through automated document prioritization.
Getting back to the comments of my lawyer friend that walked out of my CLE back
in 2007, fancy new technology may never replace good old legal hard work.
However, in today’s new world of Terabytes of potential evidence in even some
of the small matters, we need all the technical help that we can get. And, it
appears that Equivio is stepping up and offering us all at least a fighting
chance to find the documents that we need successfully mange our cases.
Click here
to view the entire article
Online
Presentations eDiscovery
Solutions Group has Online Presentations that cover a variety of
topics. Please click on the link for the presentation that you would
like to play. Please note that you may need Adobe Flash to
view these presentations:
ESG
Partnership: Generating Incremental Review
Overview
of eDiscovery Solutions Group, its consortium business model and how
ESG partners and independent sales consultants can make incremental
revenue from their current client base.
2010
Technology Webinar Series  eDiscovery
Solutions Group (eDSG) is sponsoring the 2010 New eDiscovery
Technology Webinar Series.
In conjunction with our technology partners, eDSG plans to
introduce relevant new eDiscovery and GRC technologies and related
topics to the world through 20-30 minute Webinars.
Topics
will include:
Early Case Assessment (ECA)
Complex Data Analytics
Automated Review
Social Network Analytics
Enterprise Legal Hold Management
Cloud Based Data Integrity
Cloud Computing in eDiscovery and GRC
International Data Management Issues
Cloud Based Data Archiving
Appliance Based Data Harvesting
To Register for upcoming Webinars, click on the appropriate
link:
Minimize
Review and Maximize eDiscovery
by Charles Skamser at eDSG
The accelerating growth in the volume of Electronically Stored Information
(ESI), the recent and ongoing amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedures (FRCP) and the increase in the number of lawsuits and
regulatory inquiries have all combined to create a significant challenge
for legal departments.
"eDiscovery costs too much."
Industry Analysts have concluded that the most expensive part of
eDiscovery is document review. Therefore, in order to meet the
requirements of the law and stay financially competitive,
corporations need to increase the speed and efficiency of identifying,
collecting and processing ESI and reduce the amount of data that has to be
reviewed. The lower the number of documents that have to be
reviewed, the lower the overall cost of eDiscovery.
"The problem is that legacy eDiscovery technologies were designed to make document review easier
and therefore have
very little if any impact on the total cost of eDiscovery."
These tools were designed to support a
linear review of "all documents" and therefore do not support
the concept of true Early Case Assessment (ECA) and the systematic and iterative
process of analyzing and culling your data set down to those documents
that truly need to be 'reviewed"
eDiscovery Solutions Group understands this dynamic and more importantly
understands which eDiscovery tools and what ECA processes and best
practices will actually reduce costs. In
our trusted advisor role, we would like to invite you to attend a 30
minute private Webinar with our eDiscovery professionals so that they can
show you what many eDiscovery tool vendors don't want you to know.
 Learn
the Difference Between Early Case Assessment and Document Review  Learn
the value of Iterative vs. Linear Review
 Learn
the Metrics and Cost Savings of Searching, Analyzing and Culling Data Before
Review
 Learn
What Advanced Technologies you should be employing
 Learn
How to Be More Productive and Reduce Your Costs at the Same Time
Register for an Upcoming Webinar
Thu, Mar 4, 2010
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM MST
Thu,
Mar 11, 2010 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM MST
Thu,
Mar 18, 2010 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM MST
Thu,
Mar 25, 2010 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM MST
Thu,
Mar 25, 2010 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM MST
For
additional information about the Webinars, to schedule a private
Webinar or discuss having your technology included in our 2010
Webinar series, please contact Michael Mulcahy at mmulcahy@ediscoverysolutionsgroup.com
or at 562-822-7141.
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