Clearwell Systems: Making Pain Go Away in eDiscovery
August 27, 2008
I have had some experience as an expert witness. One thing I learned: real life law isn’t like TV law. The mind numbing tediousness of document review, discussing information germane to a legal matter, and talking about data have to be experienced to be understood.
When I saw a demo of Clearwell Systems last year, I was impressed with the company’s understanding of this brain killing work in eDiscovery; that is, the process of figuring out what info is buried in information generated in a legal matter.
Clearwell Systems has introduced a new version of its content analysis system, and it adds some additional and useful features to a good product. You can read about the new version here. In a nutshell, the most important features for me are:
- Improved search reports. This feature makes it possible to show where information came from. Clearwell talks about “black box” searching; that is, you enter terms and documents come out. The “transparent” approach produces an audit trail. Very useful.
- Tweaks to make the appliance go faster.
- Training wheels for formulating a query. Legal eagles are smart, but Clearwell adds training wheels to reduce the chance for a lousy query.
For more information, navigate to Clearwell Systems at http://www.clearwellsystems.com.
Stephen Arnold, August 27, 2008
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Stephen: As you know, e-discovery is a super-hot topic, and lots of players like Clearwell are bringing out solutions. I have a big-picture observation to share. I believe e-discovery reflects the natural collision of technology and legal practice. As an enterprise creates an ever-growing mountain of records, adversaries of course want access to it. Knowing that litigation and e-discovery are inevitable, I argue an enterprise can use technology proactively to make records more benign. What do you think? –Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2008/05/nix-smoking-gun-e-discovery.html
Benjamin Wright,
Excellent points. As the US Security & Exchange Commission shifts to international standards and litigation in the US continues at a record pace, eDiscovery may well become the de facto approach to search. I want to think about this. Thanks for your remarks.
Stephen Arnold, August 28, 2008