ediscovery & Forensics

Are you clear on the difference between Native and Tiff Production in ediscovery? Or how about a Native File versus NSF file? A new Production Glossary of technology terms used in the practise of eDiscovery has been released for public comment by the Legal Technology Professionals Institute (LTPI), a US legal tech industry association.

kCura, developer of the e-discovery software Relativity, has unveiled Relativity 9.3 will become available on November 23 and provide a reimagined interface that gives users control over how they see and interact with their data, so they can better analyse their information and find what they need faster.

Nuix is making the Context user interface and other capabilities from Nuix Incident Response available with its Nuix Investigator and Nuix eDiscovery products. The new functionality will be included in the next minor release of the products, due early in October.

EDRM, the standards organization for the e-discovery market, has released the sixth in its collection of budget and cost calculator tools for the electronic discovery process. The collection of calculator tools addresses varied aspects of e-discovery budgeting and cost tracking, and all were developed by industry experts based on their practical experience.

Recommind has announced Axcelerate 5.5, the latest version of its cloud-based eDiscovery platform. Axcelerate now enables analysis of instant messaging (IM) data with smart processing technology that can be applied to a wide range of platforms, including Instant Bloomberg, the dominant messaging platform for the global financial industry, Skype and Google Chat

Electronic Discovery (eDiscovery) as a process is not limited to discovery in legal disputes. The use of the term eDiscovery has now become synonymous with the process of handling large volumes of electronic data and goes far beyond the traditional definition.

Brainspace has announced an addition to its text analytics platform with the launch of Brainspace Discovery 5.2, adding adding supervised machine learning for document classification.

Nuix has launched a new Corporate Investigation Suite, a product bundle that makes end-to-end digital investigation capabilities accessible to non-technical users.

The legal industry has come a long way in the shift to a paperless world, with many processes during the litigation lifecycle including the filing of documents, electronic discovery and document review being managed electronically.  In Federal law matters for example, an electronic filing facility called “eLodgment” can be used for the lodgment of applications and supporting documents. In Victoria, the Supreme Court has developed an electronic filing and case management system known as “RedCrest”.

Kroll Ontrack has announced enhancements to its Relativity product to allow an automated approach to applying redactions to sensitive documents in ediscovery. The company claims it will simplify the manual redaction process and reduce the risk of inadvertent disclosure.

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