You Can Have the Best of Both Worlds in eDiscovery

With so many eDiscovery technology offerings available today, it's difficult to decide which one is right for your organization.  Feature, functionality, and price are common criteria to look for in a hosted solution, but the need for an internal enterprise software offering is becoming paramount. 

InterLegis’ Discovery360™ eDiscovery Suite is one of the few offerings to provide both a hosted and enterprise workflow designed to minimize costs and maximize efficiency across the entire eDiscovery life-cycle.  Overall, both have their unique advantages and both will help your business save time and money. 

Discovery360 Enterprise is an in-sourced, onsite eDiscovery solution designed for businesses looking to reduce costs by bringing the eDiscovery process in-house, thereby:

• Reducing the data passed through the eDiscovery process
• Gaining easy, repeat access to targeted data 
• More effectively refining existing data, and
• Significantly reducing money spent on outside review

Discovery360 Enterprise also allows businesses to perform key functions such as early case assessment (ECA), processing (Extractor), culling (DataMapper) and review (Reviewer) without the need for multiple vendors and invoices. By utilizing the latest cloud database and processing technologies, Discovery360 Enterprise provides the ability to quickly process and analyze large data collections.  Licensed per server installation, clients can install the software on a single machine or across any number of networked servers to build scalability.   After analyzing and culling the data, users can export to any number of industry-standard load file formats such as InterLegis’ Discovery360 Reviewer, Concordance, iConect, Relativity, Summation, or a delimited output file.  

Discovery360 Hosted allows you to outsource your projects regardless of the starting data volume.  Much like Enterprise, it is also designed for early case assessment as well as for processing, culling and review in order to reduce the time and costs inherent in the eDiscovery process.  Discovery360 Hosted provides an all-inclusive, predictable pricing model that includes ECA, Extractor, DataMapper, and Reviewer, as well.  Our infrastructure can handle any project size, from just a few gigabytes to multiple terabytes of data.  And our experienced project managers and data analysts will shepherd your discovery data through the project life-cycle while communicating with you every step of the way.  Like Discovery360 Enterprise, All processed data can be exported to common load file formats including InterLegis’ Discovery360 Reviewer, Concordance, iConect, Relativity, Summation, or a delimited output file.     

Both offerings offer fast data processing, robust multi-faced search, and powerful culling tools designed to increase productivity during eDiscovery, all within a single platform thereby eliminating the need to utilize several solutions throughout the discovery life cycle.  Discovery360 provides businesses the option to strategically plan for how they intend to manage cases on a hybrid basis, as well. Each case can be measured for overall risk tolerance against relative data volume, time frame, and costs to determine which version the case should be managed through – Discovery360 Enterprise or Discovery360 Hosted.  Regardless of the selection, cases are accessed through a seamless desktop interface which significantly increases efficiency across the entire caseload.

For more information on how your company can benefit from InterLegis’ eDiscovery solutions, contact us at 214-468-8800, email info@interlegis.com or visit www.interlegis.com.

InterLegis Announces Discovery360 Partner Program

InterLegis, an innovator of litigation and electronic discovery technologies, today announced that it will be making its Discovery360 Hosted and Enterprise offerings available to service providers via its Discovery360 partner program.  Discovery360 is a complete eDiscovery workflow that gives service providers the ability to perform early case assessment, processing, culling, and review all within a single interface.

“A Discovery360 implementation enhances a service provider’s offering via an expedited, single-source workflow. In addition, our flat-fee pricing simplifies licensing expenses and invoicing, as well." said Kevin Carr, President of InterLegis. “Our newest solution is designed to handle very large volumes of data, while dramatically reducing eDiscovery costs.  Discovery360 Enterprise utilizes robust, multi-threaded, distributed processing technologies, making it perfect for internal, networked installations.”

By utilizing the latest cloud database and processing technologies, Discovery360 Enterprise provides the ability to quickly process and analyze large data collections.  The software can be installed on a single machine or across any number of servers on a network in order to build scalability.   After analyzing and culling the data, it can be exported to any number of industry-standard load file formats, including:  Discovery360 Reviewer, kCura Relativity, Concordance, Summation, iConect, and more.

For more information on how your company can benefit from InterLegis’ newest solution, contact info@interlegis.com or visit www.interlegis.com/partners

InterLegis Introduces Discovery360™ Enterprise at LegalTech 2013

DALLAS, TX – January 10, 2013 – InterLegis, a leading provider of electronic discovery technology and services, is pleased to announce the release of Discovery360 Enterprise at LegalTech 2013.  From January 29th through the 30th, the company will be demonstrating its end-to-end eDiscovery application, Discovery360, and sharing the latest updates with special emphasis on its Enterprise offering.

“Electronic discovery is an ever-evolving issue for both technology experts and legal practitioners.” said Kevin Carr, president of InterLegis. “The continued growth of business data makes this issue most pressing for IT and GC budgets in particular. In response to this reality, we developed an enterprise version of its Discovery360 Hosted application to help to manage the concerns of dealing with electronic data in litigation – InterLegis’ Discovery360 Enterprise.”

“What better place to share this new release with the market than at LegalTech?” said InterLegis’ COO, Hope Swancy-Haslam.  “For years, LegalTech has provided the ideal forum to exchange ideas about the risks business data presents to our community and the latest in best practices for how to manage with them. We’re proud to both support LegalTech and to contribute to the discussion.”  

To schedule a demonstration of Discovery360 Enterprise, sign up at www.InterLegis.com/LTNY or email InterLegis at info@interlegis.com. Each person that attends will be given a complimentary copy of InterLegis’ Discovery360 ECA module.

About the LegalTech Conference 

LegalTech® is the #1 resource for law firms and legal departments to get hands-on practical information for improving their law practice management. LegalTech® provides an in-depth look at what the technological world has in store for you and your practice and offers an expansive exhibit floor with the most extensive gathering of innovative products designed to meet your current and future technology needs.

About InterLegis

InterLegis, founded in 1998 and based in Dallas, offers a wide range of e-discovery technologies in a single end-to-end application: Discovery360™. Discovery360 is offered as either a software license or an outsourced service, and guides legal teams through the eDiscovery process from early case assessment, culling, data processing, review and production.  Its powerful analytic technologies provide a complete view of all documents based on document attributes such as text, concepts and metadata.

Corporate Contact

Richard Yager
Marketing Manager
InterLegis, Inc.
ryager@interlegis.com 
214-468-8800

Hope Swancy-Haslam Joins the InterLegis Team

InterLegis is pleased to announce the addition of Hope Swancy-Haslam as the company’s Chief Operating Officer.

In her role as C.O.O., Ms. Swancy-Haslam will contribute to the sales, marketing, client services, technology development, and thought leadership of the company and its flagship product, Discovery360™.    A veteran of over 20 years in the legal industry, she brings a wide range of expertise spanning legal publishing, forensics and advanced e-Discovery technology consulting. She is considered an expert on technology-assisted e-Discovery workflow, and frequently writes and speaks about advanced searching, Big Data technologies, and cloud hosting topics.

“We are very excited to welcome Hope to our team,” said Kevin Carr, President of InterLegis.  “She is a great addition to our team.  Her reputation in our industry is stellar, and her technological expertise and leadership will further improve the value Discovery360 offers our clients.”

In addition to Ms. Swancy-Haslam, InterLegis also recently expanded the company’s sales and project management staff.

For more information on InterLegis’ e-Discovery solutions, contact info@interlegis.com or visit www.interlegis.com.

Discovery360 Enterprise Now Available on Mac

InterLegis, a provider of litigation electronic discovery technology and services, today announced its flagship product, Discovery360 Enterprise, is now available for Macintosh operating systems.  The processing engine and database of the software can also be installed on Linux machines.

Discovery360 Enterprise provides legal teams the ability to quickly process and analyze large data collections cost effectively.  Clients can install the software on a single machine or across any number of servers on a network in order to build scalability as needed.  

“We are very excited to be making our eDiscovery solution available on all platforms." said Kevin Carr, President of InterLegis.  “This is a great solution for clients who either use Macs at work, or for those who work on Macs after hours from home.“

Legal teams that have licensed full versions of Discovery360 Enterprise can immediately analyze, process and cull electronic discovery collections into the platform’s Early Case Assessment, Extractor and DataMapper modules (for full data processing and culling).  All fully processed and culled data can then be migrated to Discovery360’s Reviewer module, or exported to common load file formats compatible with other review platforms, including: Concordance, Summation, and Relativity.

For more information on InterLegis’ eDiscovery solutions and how you can secure your copy, contact info@interlegis.com or visit www.interlegis.com. 

Cameron Spooner Joins the InterLegis Team

InterLegis is pleased to announce the addition of Cameron Spooner to our team.  His responsibilities will include business development and driving the growth of our Discovery360 Enterprise software.

Cameron brings with him over seven years of consulting experience in the electronic discovery field and over 18 years in sales and marketing. With a core belief that loyalty and integrity are at the heart of every successful relationship, he will be working on delivering powerful, scalable solutions to clients in the Dallas market and throughout the US.  InterLegis shares this core philosophy and it is reflected in their continued commitment to innovation.

“I am thrilled to be a part of the InterLegis team and introducing this exciting discovery software to law firms, corporations, and litigation support companies,” said Spooner.  “I am very familiar with the specific pain points of this industry and looking forward to helping organizations be more productive while driving down their discovery costs.”

For more information on InterLegis’ eDiscovery solutions, email info@interlegis.com or visit www.interlegis.com. 

Press Release - InterLegis Announces Free Standalone Early Case Assessment Module

DALLAS, TX – September 13, 2012 – InterLegis, a provider of litigation electronic discovery technology and services, announces a new standalone early case assessment (ECA) module that is offered for free to law firms and corporations. 

The ECA technology provides legal teams the ability to quickly understand and analyze the contents of collected discovery data prior to full data processing. Once e-discovery data is loaded into the software, users can generate reports on a wealth of information, including: metadata, authors, recipients, file types, dates, domains, and more. This allows users to not only understand the content of collections with no associated costs, but will also provide the ability to cull the data without having to process it. 

“Oftentimes, the first step in e-discovery is to understand what data has been collected,” according to Kevin Carr, President of InterLegis. “However, the challenge has always been finding a way to perform this analysis without any upfront investment. What if the collection wasn’t accurate? What if most of the data is irrelevant or mostly consists of system files? Why pay to process data that should never see the light of day? With our free ECA module, legal teams can first get a full understanding of what they are dealing with before developing discovery review strategy and accurate budgets.“ 

Legal teams that have licensed full versions of Discovery360 Enterprise can immediately migrate reduced collections into the platform’s Extractor and DataMapper modules (for full data processing and further culling, respectively) based on choices made in the ECA module. All fully processed and culled data can be migrated to Discovery360’s Reviewer module, or exported to common load file formats compatible with other review platforms, including: Concordance, Summation, and Relativity. 

For more information on InterLegis’ eDiscovery solutions, contact info@interlegis.com or visit www.interlegis.com 

About InterLegis 

InterLegis, founded in 1998 and based in Dallas, offers a wide range of e-discovery technologies in a single end-to-end application: Discovery360™. Discovery360 is offered as either a software license or an outsourced service, and guides legal teams through the eDiscovery process from early case assessment, culling, data processing, review and production. Its powerful analytic technologies provide a complete view of all documents based on document attributes such as text, concepts and metadata. 

Corporate Contact

Richard Yager
Marketing Manager
InterLegis, Inc.
ryager@interlegis.com
214-468-8800 x208

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Press Release - InterLegis Offers Predictable, All-Inclusive Pricing Model for Discovery360™ Hosted

DALLAS, TX – July 31, 2012 – InterLegis, an innovator of litigation and electronic discovery technologies, today announced they are making their pricing structure for their Discovery360 Hosted solution even more predictable.  Clients will now be charged a one-time, all-inclusive fee for all services related to eDiscovery services.  By offering this model, legal teams can now accurately plan their budgets by knowing exactly how much their project will cost.

“We know how critical it is for our clients to be able to accurately predict and budget all costs associated with eDiscovery,” said Kevin Carr, President of InterLegis. “And because we offer an end-to-end solution – data processing, culling, review and production – our clients can fully engage in the discovery life cycle without being limited by unbudgeted expenses.”  

The all-inclusive fee will include early case assessment, data processing, deduplication, DeNISTing, relevancy culling, reporting, and use of InterLegis' cutting-edge technologies — all with responsive, white-glove service.  All processed data can be exported to common load file formats compatible with other review platforms, including: Concordance, Summation, and Relativity.   Alternatively, this one-time fee can also include InterLegis' optional Reviewer module and all associated productions.

Earlier this month, InterLegis also announced the release of their newest high-speed in-house software, Discovery360 Enterprise.  Discovery360 Enterprise can be cost-effectively licensed to corporations, law firms and litigation service providers to protect data internally and perform unlimited eDiscovery early case assessment, processing, culling and/or review in a networked, multi-threaded environment.

For more information on how your company can benefit from any of InterLegis’ eDiscovery solutions, contact info@interlegis.com or visit www.interlegis.com.

About InterLegis

InterLegis, founded in 1998 and based in Dallas, offers a wide range of e-discovery technologies in one end-to-end application: Discovery360™. Discovery360 is offered as either a software license or an outsourced service, and guides the user through the eDiscovery process from collection, through early case assessment, culling, data processing, review and production.  Its powerful analytic technologies provide a complete view of all documents based on document attributes such as text, concepts and metadata.

Corporate Contact

Richard Yager
Marketing Manager
InterLegis, Inc.
ryager@interlegis.com
214-468-8800 x208

InterLegis' Digital Brochure Download

Discovery360™ from InterLegis helps you find smarter ways to cull, process, review and manage documents while creating substantial time and cost savings — all in an innovative application that’s easy to use. Discovery360 is unique to the electronic discovery industry in that it provides multiple document analytic capabilities combined with a native review and repository platform in a single solution. Previously, in order to match the comprehensive functionality Discovery360 offers, legal teams would need to utilize up to three or more standalone applications. This inefficient approach requires multiple processing steps, increases costs and lengthens the review schedule. Download our digital brochure and see how you can change the way you handle eDiscovery today, with Discovery360. 

Maximizing eDiscovery Workflow Efficiency

If you need to drive 500 miles from one city to another, which would you prefer?

     • Switching vehicles every 100 miles?
     • Or, using one vehicle for the entire trip?

The choice is obvious.  Switching cars multiple times would require stopping, moving all your belongings from one car to the another, ensuring you have enough gas in the new vehicle, understanding the new features of the car, getting your seats and mirrors in the right position, and then embarking on your trip again…only to repeat the process over and over.  This process creates wasted time, energy, and money.

Therefore, it’s clear that getting from point A to point B in a single vehicle is infinitely more efficient.

When litigation hits the discovery phase and data has been collected, there are certain steps that follow.  As you know, cases come in all sizes and vary greatly in the claims and issues within the litigation. These could range from breach of contract, employment disputes, investigations to government anti-trust matters.  However, the steps that lead to production to opposing counsel follow consistent paths.

Simply put, they are:

• Early Case Assessment – gaining a top-level understanding of the data before deciding to invest in the processes downstream.
• Data Processing/Extraction – normalizing all collected data to enable search and analysis.
• Culling – using searches and analytics to reduce the collection down to the smallest, most relevant set.
• Review – making determinations on specific documents as to relevancy, privilege and production.
• Production – providing responsive documents to opposing counsel in a unified format.

Oftentimes, legal teams will take this eDiscovery “journey” by utilizing multiple software solutions.  This is the equivalent of switching cars every 100 miles.  Not only is this inefficient, but it unnecessarily increases overall costs.  Aside from the notion that “time is money,” utilizing multiple software platforms requires multiple software licensing fees, dealing with multiple service providers and complicating the entire process.

The best way to maximize eDiscovery workflow efficiency is to perform all the steps above in a single software platform.  The problem is, there aren’t many software solutions out there that can do this.  Discovery360™ by InterLegis can.

In addition to offering an end-to-end eDiscovery platform, Discovery360 is also arguably the most cost-effective solution available today.  Not only can it ingest collected data and provide early case assessment, processing, culling, review and production capabilities, it also offers most of these tools free of charge.

Once you have culled-down your data to the smallest, most relevant data set within Discovery360, you are charged only for the data you need.  This means you don’t pay for irrelevant collected data.  Often, 80-90% of the original collection is filtered out.  With Discovery360 will dramatically slash your overall eDiscovery investment.

Discovery360 is free to install over your entire network.  It is also available as an outsourced hosted service.  In both instances, it is free to process, analyze, generate reports, and cull your data.  After a low gigabyte charge on the relevant data, everything else downstream is included (review and all productions).  Discovery360 can also export your data to any common load file format, such as DII, DAT, and CSV.

To request a free download of Discovery360, visit www.InterLegis.com.

InterLegis' "Bottom-of-the-Funnel" Pricing Model

With InterLegis' end-to-end eDiscovery solution, Discovery360, you are given a full suite of technologies at no cost.  Discovery360 can be installed for free -- on as many laptops, desktops and servers as needed. This allows you to create whatever capacity you need, whether that be 200 gigabyte or 10 terabytes. No machine fees. No user fees. And if you want the best of both worlds, you can use the same software to host your data locally or on our servers -- on a case-by-case basis. With Discovery360, you can build a powerful enterprise-wide discovery processing solution without paying a dime.

Once installed, you can load as much data as needed, process 100% of it, cull it down to what’s responsive, and generate reports on every step of the process ... all for free.  Once you've determined the data you need, you are charged a small fee for only your selected data. Once you've paid that all-inclusive fee, you get full use of our Reviewer platform, including all user access, custom index fields, reporting ... and all productions in either TIFF or native file format. Or, if you like, you can export your culled data to an industry-standard load file format for use in another review tool.  View our "bottom-of-the-funnel" pricing model below and experience Discovery, The Way It Should Be.

"Do-It-Yourself" eDiscovery

We’ve come a long way since the advent of eDiscovery.  Many years ago, all the technologies and services that cater to it were the domain of highly technical companies and their products.  For the most part, litigation support professionals relied heavily on the services of companies that either created eDiscovery technologies or sold the services around them.  But over the last few years, the gap between expert and end-user is closing.  Internal litigation support professionals and attorneys have increasingly become experts in this domain, enabling them to now perform eDiscovery workflows in-house.

Today when the time comes to send your data through the Discovery cycle, you have many options.  The size of your project will help determine if you should outsource these services or perform them in-house.

If you aren’t currently doing some of your discovery in-house, it’d be beneficial to investigate your options.  Particularly for smaller matters, there are now affordable, user-friendly tools designed to easily shepherd data through the eDiscovery process.  Included are tools that ably perform early case assessment, process all common file formats, effectively cull data, and help your team review and produce it to the other side.  With these advanced technologies, ‘do-it-yourself’ eDiscovery is quickly becoming a viable option.

By outsourcing, legal departments can leverage the depth, expertise, technical knowledge, and computer capacity of a team that does nothing but focus on eDiscovery project management.  And on many matters, particularly large or complex ones, outsourcing is an extremely viable value proposition.

However, with the right insourcing tools, legal teams can process, cull, review and produce discovery data in a fraction of the time it takes to create a Request for Proposal (RFP) in order to even begin the outsourcing process.  This approach also gives inside counsel the tools to complete their discovery objectives while saving valuable time and money.

For law firms, the right do-it-yourself technologies also help provide tremendous value to their clients.  And furthermore, since corporations are usually the entity that has the most to gain or lose in litigation, inside counsel and executives also want to be involved in the process.  In-house discovery technologies, if done correctly, allows this to happen.  They have also proven to help corporations reduce overall discovery costs.

Many firms still see value in outsourcing this work to litigation support companies in order to leverage the infrastructure, expertise, project management and data analysts provided as part of that service.  However, as collected data becomes more structured and better technologies are offered, more and more firms are finding insourcing a viable option.

Another advantage is that the ‘do-it-yourself’ eDiscovery route allows you to have complete control over your highly sensitive data – and gives peace of mind related to knowing how many people will be viewing the data and how many copies exist.  The unfortunate reality is that upwards of 95% of collected data is not relevant or responsive, and corporations find themselves unnecessarily sharing sensitive information that should have never been removed from the enterprise.  In addition, most vendor models charge to deal with that irrelevant data creating inflated costs associated with culling data to that which is most relevant.

By having the right technologies and resources in-house, both law firms and corporations can take collected data and immediately load it into their internal discovery processing, culling and review technologies.  In short, ‘do-it-yourself’ eDiscovery can greatly streamline the eDiscovery process while saving time, money, and keep you in the driver’s seat the whole way through.

InterLegis’ in-house solution, Discovery360, provides the widest range of sophisticated eDiscovery technologies in one application.  As an end-to-end discovery solution, it includes powerful analytic tools that provide a complete view of all collected data in order to intelligently cull it down to the smallest, most responsive set.  It also allows legal teams to choose – on a case-by-case basis – which matters they outsource or process in-house.  This means that legal teams can have a mix of cases hosted both internally and on InterLegis’ secure servers while accessing all within the same software.  And with its attractive, all-inclusive pricing, Discovery360 can help legal teams dramatically reduce discovery costs by paying for only what they need.

Discovery360 Desktop is available immediately and free to install. To apply for a copy of the downloadable software, contact info@interlegis.com or visit www.InterLegis.com.

Discovery360 Desktop Overview Presentation

Which eDiscovery Solution is Right for You?

Although they are separate solutions, both yield the same cost-effective pricing benefits. With Discovery360 Hosted, our skilled eDiscovery team will shepherd your project to completion, whatever the size. Discovery360 Desktop puts you in the driver seat and lets you cull and process data on your own machine or over a network. Which solution is right for you? Visit www.InterLegis.com to learn more.

eDiscovery Costs: “I Wish I Would Have Known”

Have you ever finished an eDiscovery project and realized you spent way too much money on the little amount of data you actually needed?  We all know eDiscovery is expensive and most pricing models create a situation where the total required investment is not known until the end of the project.

In short, once an agreement is signed and data is sent to the service provider, you are typically “stuck” in a situation where you are largely at the mercy of paying for irrelevant data, hourly charges, seat licenses, open-ended TIFFing charges and more.  And, if fees begin escalating above your budget, it’s not a situation where you can easily change midway through the project.  With court and review deadlines looming, you have to ride it out until the project is finished.  You – or your client – will typically have a big surprise waiting at the end of the project:  a total investment often double (or more) than originally budgeted.

Why are most eDiscovery pricing models so expensive?

There are a number of reasons.  The primary one relates to the need to process and cull data that will ultimately be deemed as irrelevant or unresponsive.  In other words, a significant portion of most eDiscovery pricing models require you to pay for data you don’t ultimately need.   You are forced to pay to process all data – relevant or not.  We call this “top of the funnel” pricing.  Oftentimes, upwards of 90% of collected data will never make it to review, but you are being charged for it every step of the way. 

Other cost factors relate to most models requiring payment of so many aspects of discovery, including fees for: project management, support, training, seat licenses, data loads, initial processing, culling, software licenses, and production charges.  This type of model is prevalent in the eDiscovery industry, and requires a great deal of investment into what normally ends up being a relatively small percentage of the original collected data. 

Our goal at InterLegis is to put an end to the practice of ‘nickel-and-diming’ and help our clients avoid paying for data they don’t need.

“I wish I would have known about you guys before.”

One of the most heard phrases from our clients after learning of our all-inclusive pricing model is, “I wish I would have known about you guys before.”  We’ve been able to consistently demonstrate the significant savings clients would have realized on previous projects had they used InterLegis instead.  This analysis normally results in a difference of tens of thousands of dollars – and often, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of savings.

What makes our model different?  In short, we only charge on relevant or responsive data and everything else is complementary or included. 

More specifically, our end-to-end Discovery solution, Discovery360™, allows clients to install the software, process and cull data for free and then pay a one-time, all-inclusive fee for other services, including productions.   Furthermore, if our hosted solution is utilized, all project management, support and needed training are included as well.  You only pay for the data YOU deem relevant and won’t pay for data that will never see the light of day.  We call this “bottom of the funnel” pricing.  Our pricing model is simple, which makes it easy to calculate budgets on your projects.

By not charging on irrelevant data, our clients are able to slash a substantial amount off their discovery costs.  With InterLegis, you can cull and process data with no investment whatsoever, therefore, there are no surprises when it comes to your overall investment. 

There simply isn’t a more cost-effective or productive solution available today.  To understand how InterLegis can impact your bottom line, request a Cost Analysis report at www.InterLegis.com. 

Press Release - InterLegis Offers Free eDiscovery Technologies

DALLAS – DEC. 13, 2011 – InterLegis, an innovator of electronic discovery technologies, offers free eDiscovery processing and culling software via a downloadable link. Discovery360™ Desktop is InterLegis' end-to-end solution that allows corporations and law firms to perform eDiscovery processing, culling, and/or review without the need to work with outside vendors. The software, customized installation, data processing, and culling are all free.

“One of the biggest challenges at the onset of eDiscovery is the need to first understand what data you have before making investment decisions,” said Kevin Carr, President of InterLegis. “By offering a cost-free way to process and cull collected data, legal teams can gain the intelligence needed to make productive resource decisions on discovery and review strategy -- without spending a dime.”

With its easy-to-use interface, Discovery360 Desktop offers the following benefits:

• A customizable in-house discovery solution
• FREE installation with data processing, early case assessment, reporting, and culling capabilities
• Streamlined processing of electronic data with deduplication capabilities
• Quickly understand the contents of collected data before making investment decisions
• Reduce the need for the time-consuming process of outsourcing
• Easy export into Discovery360 Reviewer or any common load file format
• Scalability across entire corporate or law firm network

Immediate Availability

Discovery360 Desktop is available immediately and free to install. To apply for a copy of the downloadable software, contact info@interlegis.com or visit www.InterLegis.com.

About InterLegis

InterLegis provides end-to-end eDiscovery technologies and services through its flagship product, Discovery360, which can be utilized as hosted service or installed on a local network. The technology ingests collected data and guides legal teams through the discovery life cycle, which includes data processing, early case assessment, culling, review and production. InterLegis offers an extremely cost-effective pricing model, which includes complimentary data processing, early case assessment, culling, productions, project management and support. For more information, visit www.InterLegis.com.

Corporate Contact:

Richard Yager
Marketing Manager
InterLegis, Inc.
ryager@interlegis.com
214-468-8800 x208

Press Release - InterLegis Enhances Discovery360 Desktop

DALLAS, TX – November 1, 2011 - InterLegis, an innovator of electronic discovery technologies, is pleased to announce the latest release of Discovery360™ Desktop.  Version 5.5 offers major enhancements, including faster and more powerful data processing.

“We are excited about the latest release of Discovery360 Desktop,” stated Kevin Carr, president of InterLegis.  “It further simplifies eDiscovery through a wide range of data extraction, indexing, culling, review and production enhancements.  And clients can use the same software to manage matters on their network or the cloud.”

With Discovery360, companies benefit from the widest range of sophisticated eDiscovery technologies in one application.  As an end-to-end discovery solution, it includes powerful analytic tools that provide a complete view of all collected data in order to intelligently cull it down to the smallest, most responsive set.  And with its attractive, all-inclusive pricing, legal teams can dramatically reduce discovery costs by paying for only what they need.

Features

InterLegis offers several advanced technologies in its end-to-end solution. With its easy-to-use interface, Discovery360 Desktop offers:

• An in-house discovery solution with the optional ability to host on the cloud
• Free local or network installation
• Free data processing, early case assessment, reporting, analytics, and culling capabilities
• The ability to quickly understand the contents of collected data without outsourcing
• Streamlined processing of electronic data with de-duplication capabilities
• Easy export into Discovery360 Reviewer or any common load file format
• Scalability across entire corporate or law firm network
• Unlimited users
• Complimentary product training and support

Immediate Availability

Discovery360 Desktop is available immediately and free to install. To apply for a copy of the downloadable software, contact info@interlegis.com or visit www.InterLegis.com.

About InterLegis

InterLegis, founded in 1998 and based in Dallas, offers the widest range of e-discovery technologies in one end-to-end application: Discovery360™. Discovery360 guides the user through the discovery life cycle from collection, through early case assessment, culling, data processing, review and production.  Its powerful analytic technologies provide a complete view of all documents based on document attributes such as text, concepts and metadata. InterLegis offers the most cost-effective pricing model available today, which includes complimentary early case assessment, data culling, productions, project management and support.

The End of eDiscovery Processing Fees

The discovery technologies industry, like any, is in a constant state of change. Each year, the subject matter at industry conferences bring a host of new “hot topics,” while providing a better understanding of old ones. What we like best about these conferences is being able to tighten up our view of where the industry is ... and where it may be going.

In the nearly 14 years InterLegis has attended these events, we’re always interested in learning how our competitors are pricing their technologies and services. Specifically, we’re most curious about what data/ESI processing providers charge for their platforms and services. Because, let’s face it, nothing downstream in the discovery life cycle can happen without the data first being processed. You can’t effectively understand the content of collections without being able to search, organize and analyze its processed data.

Without data processing, there would be nothing for legal teams to review. And therefore, there would be nothing useful to produce, unless you want to turn over all unfiltered collected data to opposing counsel. Nobody wants to do that. The processing of electronic data is essentially what kick-starts the core of discovery review.

Given its importance, this functionality has always needed to be paid for. And it can be quite expensive. Rates for this critical service range from up-front massive financial commitments, to per-seat licenses and per-gigabyte pricing ... often in addition to annual support fees.

THE COST OF OUTSOURCING

Through the years, we’ve seen outsourced eDiscovery processing priced as high as $4,000 per gigabyte for all collected data. And we’ve seen software installation fees range from six figure up-front commitments to thousands per machine. On one hand, per-gigabyte fees are a great way to pay on a case/client basis. Except for one thing. Nearly all pricing models out there ask you to pay at the “top-of-the-funnel” -- or for 100% of the collected data coming into the processing stage. Given that upwards of 95% of this data can be eliminated before the review stage (via keyword/attribute culling or early case assessment tools), you’re always paying for data that reviewers will never see.

So, the big question is: “Why would you do that?” It’s like paying to fill up your car’s gas tank, when you know beforehand that you’re only going to need to drive a couple of miles before you get rid of the vehicle! Except in the case of eDiscovery, the wasted expense is much more significant. When you look at it that way, it seems like a waste, doesn’t it?

To combat this, software and service providers might get creative and charge you a smaller fee on the incoming data (top-of-the-funnel) and a larger fee on the way out (bottom-of-the-funnel). This two-tiered pricing model is positioned as a way to reduce your costs. But with this model, you are not only paying twice for the same data, you’re still paying for data you don’t need. And truth be known, when the invoice arrives for a two-tier pricing model, you’ll often find yourself only saving a small percentage of the costs compared to the top-of-the-funnel model. That’s not nearly a significant enough reduction in costs.

THE COST OF INSOURCING

The only other option you have is to buy the software outright and bring it in-house. Going back to the changing nature of the industry mentioned above, this used to be pretty much out of the question unless you were a litigation support company. Corporate and law firm legal teams would normally outsource their eDiscovery work. However, thanks to the increased sophistication and knowledge over the years of those who work in discovery, bringing these technologies in-house has become extremely prevalent. But from a cost perspective, this model typically requires you to make significant investments up-front to install this technology across your enterprise before a single document is processed.

THE PRICING PITFALL

This identifies two big problems associated with nearly all software pricing platforms and service models:

• Installation Fees: You will spend a significant amount of money to buy capacity, without processing a single electronic file. And this issue is compounded if you need to bill processing charges on a case or client basis. How do you effectively amortize your up-front investments across future matters?

and/or (most likely “and”) ...

• Paying for Data You Don’t Need: You almost always end up paying for irrelevant/unresponsive data. For example, why must you pay to process collected Fantasy Football emails when all you care about is the correspondence related to the issues of the matter at hand?

When analyzed this way, it makes no sense. And through the years, the pricing models always seem to change, but the two problems above are always at play.

THE ANSWER

So what’s the answer? No matter what software service is used or what pricing models are offered, there’s only one solution to these two problems. The answer is: DON’T PAY FOR ESI PROCESSING OR SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FEES. Period. It doesn’t get any simpler than that.

But is it possible to avoid massive up-front installation fees and pay for only what you need? The answer is YES!

InterLegis’ Discovery360 does not charge for software or data processing. Also, it provides the flexibility of hosting your data on either your servers or ours on a case-by-case basis.

Here are those two issues again. Except this time, let’s point out the benefits Discovery360 delivers for each:

• Installation Fees: Discovery360 can be installed for free -- on as many laptops, desktops and servers as needed. It can be installed on every computer being used by litigation support teams, attorneys, and reviewers. And it can be custom-installed across your network. This allows you to create whatever capacity you need, whether that be 200 gigabyte or 10 terabytes. No machine fees. No user fees. And if you want the best of both worlds, you can use the same software to host your data locally or on our servers -- on a case-by-case basis. With Discovery360, you can build a powerful enterprise-wide discovery processing solution without paying a dime.

• Paying for Data You Don’t Need: Once installed, you can load as much data as needed, process 100% of it, cull it down to what’s responsive, and generate reports on every step of the process ... all for free. Once you’ve determined the data you need, you are charged a small fee for only your selected data. But the benefits continue after this one-time fee. Once you’ve paid that all-inclusive fee, you get full use of our Reviewer platform, including all user access, custom index fields, reporting ... and all productions in either TIFF or native file format. Or, if you like, you can export your culled data to an industry-standard load file format for use in another review tool.

Problems solved.

There’s a great deal of talk, articles and blog content out there discussing various strategies designed to reduce discovery costs. But no matter how creative the solutions are, there’s only one surefire way to significantly accomplish this goal. And that is to eliminate many of the costs associated with the discovery life cycle ... especially data processing. Again, it just doesn’t get any more simple than that.

Visit www.InterLegis.com today to request your free download of Discovery360. And start performing discovery, the way it should be.

What Does “Cost-Effective” eDiscovery REALLY Mean?

If you’ve been in the discovery business long enough, you’ve surely seen a wide array of pricing models for eDiscovery services.  Some may remember the day when ESI processing was as high as $4,000 per gigabyte!

Today, pricing has changed, but one thing hasn’t – the wide spectrum of pricing models offered.

MULTIPLE CHARGES: On one end of the spectrum, you might be “nickeled and dimed” for every little charge related to EDD, including: data loading, processing, project management time, culling, de-duping, reporting, export fees, reviewer load, user fees, training, support, production fees, load file creation fees, hosting … and the list goes on and on.

“FREE”: On the other end of the spectrum, there are -- in theory of course -- completely FREE services.  Zip.  Nada.  “We’re just here to make the world a better place.”  Obviously, that model doesn’t exist.  It can’t.  If professional services or technologies are involved, there needs to be a cost to cover overhead and expertise.  

The old adage of, “you get what you pay for” holds true in most things in life, particularly eDiscovery.  It’s too critical a service for your partners to not be compensated.  And even if the entire process was performed in-house, there are still costs associated, including: software licenses, machine resources, and staffing required to manage the process.  But this doesn't mean the more you pay, the more value you receive. There should be a balance.

So, what part of the ‘Pay for Everything’ vs. ‘Completely Free’ spectrum is realistic?

Ideally, you’d have a solutions partner who's pricing falls somewhere in the middle.  If that could be accomplished, then it’s plausible to call the service “cost-effective” discovery. 

But here’s the money question … literally.   If you had a choice between a solution that was marginally cost-effective and one that was extremely cost-effective, which would you choose?  The obvious answer is the latter – with one big caveat – as long as you don’t sacrifice quality and/or service with the cheaper solution. 

So, if you could utilize an eDiscovery solution that gave you the best of all worlds -- technology, service, quality, provides the smallest, most relevant data, and was extremely cost-effective -- that would be ideal, wouldn’t it?  Of course it would.

With InterLegis’ unique ‘bottom-of-the-funnel’ pricing model, we offer just that.

On the same spectrum as above, InterLegis falls closer to ‘Completely Free’ than any other eDiscovery partner.  It doesn’t mean our solution is completely free (however, some components are) -- just pretty darn close.

WHAT MAKES INTERLEGIS SO COST-EFFECTIVE?

In short, InterLegis does provide many early-stage components of the discovery life cycle for free.  Yes, free.  And then once you’ve identified the smaller, responsive dataset that needs to be reviewed, we charge a low, one-time, all-inclusive fee for all remaining services. Specifically, a fee is charged only AFTER you’ve processed and culled your original collections. 

So what’s included?  Everything you need.

First, here’s what’s free:

• Software installation - FREE
• Data processing – FREE (This easily saves many thousands of dollars)
• Early case assessment and culling – FREE

And then once you’ve culled your data to the smallest, most relevant set, you are charged a one-time fee on that data.  This all-inclusive fee covers everything else that remains throughout the discovery life cycle, including:

• Relevant Data Export
• Creation of a common load file format – OR- import into InterLegis’ Reviewer tool
• Full use of InterLegis’ Reviewer tool and technologies (no other software platforms needed)
• Unlimited data loads
• Software Upgrades
• Unlimited Users
• User Training
• Reporting
• 24/7 Support
• And ALL productions, native and/or TIFF – (also saves many thousands of dollars)

All the above is included in a single fee, resulting in potential savings of many thousands – even hundreds of thousands -- of dollars, depending on volume.  The only other fee you’ll encounter with InterLegis is a low monthly hosting charge – but only if you utilize our outsourced Hosted solution.  However, if you store data on your computer or network servers, there are no hosting fees.

Therefore, when determining a true definition of “cost-effectiveness,” it’s clear there isn’t a pricing model in the discovery industry today that provides the value that InterLegis does.

TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE?

When InterLegis released the Desktop version of Discovery360, we wanted to provide a truly unique solution to the discovery industry … from both a pricing and functionality perspective. Since launching this pricing model over three years ago, we’ve heard some questions from our clients:

Q: “What’s the catch?”

A: There is none whatsoever.

Q: “What am I missing here?”

A: Not a thing.

Q: “Will you put that in writing?”

A: Absolutely!

Q: “Productions are REALLY included?  Even if I TIFF everything?”

A. Yes.

Q: “This is unbelievable.  I wish I’d found this solution years ago!”

A: Us too!

Q: “Finally, a pricing model that is easy to understand.”

A: Hurray!

Q: “We are going to use InterLegis for all our projects from now on.”

A: Awesome!

Yes, it's true.  You won’t find a more effective discovery solution today. To see a real example of extreme cost-effectiveness, read our Case Study.

WHERE TO GET DISCOVERY360 DESKTOP

Discovery360 Desktop is available immediately and free to install. To apply for a copy of the downloadable software, contact info@interlegis.com or visit www.InterLegis.com. 

New Discovery Technologies - Cool Buzz or Irritating Noise?

Let’s face it. There’s a lot of noise out there in our profession as it relates to technology. This is typical of any emerging industry such as ours, and with this growth new advancements seem to hit the market every other day. However, many people are finding it all a bit overwhelming.

A walk through the exhibit hall at any large industry conference illustrates this the most. Big booths, flashing lights, worthless chotchky, a throng of people pressed against each other, and more ... all translates to visual and mental overload. Are we in Vegas? Might as well be. I’ll put $25 on black, please.

As you weave through the trade show chaos, have you ever found yourself trying your best to figure out what each vendor does, all while avoiding eye-contact with them like the plague? Admit it — of course you have. And I don’t blame you. You want to learn, not be sold to, right? These opposing interests between vendor and prospect only complicate the noise.

But the reality is that we cannot escape technology’s place in our industry.

We’ve gotten to the point where discovery collections have grown so large in both size and complexity that we NEED advanced technologies just to do our jobs. Without it, cases are oftentimes physically impossible to manage. We realize this so we dive in. But how does one get a handle on all the new whiz-bang tools available to help us work as efficiently and cost effectively as possible?

The cool thing is, despite the noise, there really are some great discovery technologies (and best practices on how to use them) emerging out there.

Some of the discovery technologies legal teams can utilize include: concept searching and clustering, duplicate and near-duplicate detection, metadata filtering, advanced data culling tools, e-mail thread analysis, visual mapping of data, native review and redaction, rules-based relevance and coding, early case assessment tools, high volume online document repositories, forensic collection solutions, email/data archiving, e-Discovery analysis and processing and many more. (Whew!)

So whatever your needs are, there’s likely an innovative technology that could streamline your tasks. However, a major risk we run is that with all these choices, information overload ensues. And because most learn about this stuff in bits and pieces, there are many walking around with just enough knowledge to be dangerous. This leads to the dissemination of erroneous information, mistaken understanding of the capabilities of various technologies, bad decisions, unnecessary expenditures, and further perpetuation of the “noise factor” mentioned above.

For example, I recently had a conversation with a big, really important title at a large firm who made the following statement, “I gave you guys ONE Outlook file to process and you give me back thousands of e-mails to review!”

My expert and eloquent response was something along the lines of ... “Huh?”

I tried to explain that an Outlook file is essentially a collection of e-mails (and other things) and in order to evaluate the contents it was best to “explode” the individual e-mails and attachments out of the file while maintaining all e-mail thread information. But unfortunately, he was set in his “expertise” and nothing I could say would change his understanding.

I’m not making fun; just making a point. It’s hard to get a grasp on things when there is so much information out there and it changes so quickly — especially if you are still climbing the proverbial technology learning curve. And with so many “moving parts” to all this technology sometimes there isn’t a black and white answer. Sometimes the answer lies in the grey areas. For example, take the Outlook scenario above. Is it possible to review the contents of a PST (Outlook) file without extracting the individual e-mails? Technically, yes. Is the most efficient way? Not usually, but it depends on the situation and technology choices available to the individual or organization.

So, how do we figure out what’s what?

First, we take a deep breath (a good thing to do often anyway!)

Second, take a 20,000 foot view of all the available technologies. The best way to do this is to plot where each falls on what I call the “Discovery Life Cycle.” That’s a phrase I use a lot. So, I’ll repeat it ... Discovery Life Cycle, or “DLC” for short.

The DLC is essentially comprised of 6 phases: Records Management, Collection, Processing, Review, Production and Resolution. A major problem is that there are different technologies that do different things throughout the DLC. There are a slew of solutions every step of the way, and they don’t always line up nice and neat into each “bucket”. In other words, there is some cross-over, and most do not take you all the way through the DLC. So a combination of solutions is likely necessary.

As you evaluate different technological solutions in the marketplace, your first task in understanding their usefulness to you is to simply plot where each lives on the DLC. This way, if you need a specific solution, such as e-Discovery processing platforms for example, then you can hone in on a short-list of vendors who can help. Doing so could arguably eliminate more than 80 percent of the noise.

Of course, you’ll still need to do further evaluation. This includes setting up demos, obtaining pricing information, ensuring proper compatibility with legal strategy, IT considerations, possible integration with existing in-house solutions and so forth, just to name a few. Still some work to do, but why evaluate the entire universe when only a single planet is relevant?

With proper perspective on your technology research, you can quickly ascertain the best fit for you, your organization and your cases. But to do so, it is important to become a student of the space and be a sponge for new information. Set a goal to become the go-to person in your organization who provides effective solutions to the problems your legal teams face. For example, when they ask, “Should we use a conceptual review tool?”, they should immediately respond with, “Call ____________ (insert your name here).”

Just be smart with your research. The key is knowing precisely what each available solution offers along the DLC timeline. Yes, it does take some work, but it’s worth it in order to filter through the noise and make sound decisions — and becoming a major asset to your organization.

Or, on the other hand, we could all just pack up our bags and head to Vegas where the noise is much more fun. Meet you there. I’ll be over at the slot machines with a cup full of quarters. C’mon sevens!