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American Data Services Offers Clearwell E-Discovery Platform to Lower Processing Costs and Reduce Review Workload
Los Angeles, CA --- July 8, 2008 --- American Data Services now offers clients an innovative solution that significantly reduces processing costs by streamlining electronic mail and document discovery. The enterprise-class Clearwell E-Discovery Platform® automates the e-discovery process to enable legal, compliance, information security, forensics and IT teams to:
- Accelerate early case assessments from weeks to hours
- Lower processing cost and time by up to 80 percent
- Reduce review workload by up to 90 percent
- Solve investigations 10 times faster
- Gain control of electronic discovery
With rapidly increasing data volumes, early case assessment and data culling are critical steps to reducing processing and review costs. Clearwell enables us to provide our clients with powerful capabilities to handle early case analysis, search and cull down prior to full-scale review," said Joe Bernal, managing partner of American Data Services. "For example, a population of 500,000 emails and documents can be culled down using Clearwell to as little as 15,000. With 97 percent less data to review, a client can save $80,000 in processing costs and significantly reduce review time."
Intuitive web-based interface The Clearwell E-Discovery Platform is designed to seamlessly integrate with clients' current e-discovery processes. After American Data Services has loaded the emails, attachments and documents provided by the client, the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform indexes and analyzes the data to understand the context of the case across the entire data set. The resulting data provides in-house counsel, attorneys and paralegals visibility across more than 400 document types through an easy-to-use, web-based interface that requires no formal training.
Lowers review costs The Clearwell E-Discovery Platform has numerous features to allow for quick assessment and culling of data, such as filtering by email sender domain. Clearwell's relevance rank feature eliminates time-consuming redundant review of the same content by multiple people. By reviewing only relevant data, clients significantly reduce e-discovery processing and review costs.
Accurately respond to regulatory inquiries Email filtering capabilities and individual-to-individual, group-to-group, and email flow directional analysis capabilities allow legal teams to quickly turn over only the information requested by regulators.
Rapidly find the smoking gun By displaying chronological discussion threads, legal teams can immediately identify all participants and see who sent what to whom, and when. The Clearwell E-Discovery Platform's hit-highlighting capabilities quickly finds keywords in long documents and identifies all peripheral players, thus reducing classification errors and avoiding last minute surprises for counsel.
For more information about American Data Services's new Clearwell E-Discovery Platform, call American Data Services at 310-343-3486 or email Joe Bernal.
- Click here for the four page Clearwell E-Discovery Platform Product Data Sheet
- Click here for the ten page white paper Clearwell E-discovery Best Practices from Real-World Cases
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Starting as early as 1998, Mr. Browndorf utilized digital review modules for hard copy and electronic digital review of evidence and presentation of deposition and documentary evidence at trial. Mr. Browndorf has worked on such notable trials as the TYCO criminal prosecution, People v. L. Dennis Kozlowski & Mark Swartz, the Pennsylvania Tobacco Litigation, the Latex Glove Litigation, Asbestos Litigation, Dow Implant Litigation and numerous other cases involving the massive review and culling of electronic and traditional evidence for use in discovery, witness preparation and trial. Given his numerous experiences in the courtroom, Mr. Browndorf learned as a very early stage to approach the electronic discovery stage from the eye of the court room. Mr. Browndorf has acted as adjunct professor on the topics of litigation technology to The Pennsylvania State University-Dickinson School of Law, the Widener University School of Law and trained the Pennsylvania Attorney Generals Office on the use of technology in the courtroom. Mr. Browndorf is a frequent lecturer on the ABAs LegalTech circuit and has published and been quoted in numerous articles, including the National Law Journal and Legal Week in England and Wales.American Data Services adds prestigious member to Advisory Board
Matthew C. Browndorf had practiced law in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, England and Wales for over 10 years and is a pioneer in the understanding and use of litigation technology in the electronic discovery and trial phases of complex litigation. Mr. Browndorf was responsible for building the litigation technology platform at two AMLAW 100 Firms where he was a member of the Firms Commercial Litigation Departments—Buchanan Ingersoll, PC and Bryan Cave, LLP.
