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 Announces Discovery360™ Enterprise

DALLAS, TX – July 17, 2012 – InterLegis, an innovator of litigation and electronic discovery technologies, today announced the release of their newest product in its line of end-to-end Discovery solutions, Discovery360 Enterprise.  Discovery360 Enterprise is an in-house, eDiscovery solution that allows corporations and law firms to protect data internally and perform eDiscovery early case assessment, processing, culling and/or review without the need to work with outside vendors.

“We are excited to offer our most powerful eDiscovery platform yet to the litigation support industry,” said Kevin Carr, President of InterLegis. “It is designed to handle very large volumes of data, while dramatically reducing eDiscovery costs.  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 legal teams the ability to quickly process and analyze large data collections.  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.   After analyzing and culling the data, users can export to any number of industry-standard load file formats, including:  InterLegis Reviewer, kCura Relativity, Concordance, Summation, iConect, delimited output, and more.

Discovery360 Enterprise will be formally launched on July 20, 2012. For more information on how your company can benefit from InterLegis’ newest solution, 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 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. For more information, visit www.InterLegis.com.

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.