Everlaw: Win More Cases By Getting The Most Out Of eDiscovery [Sponsored]

Uncovering the important facts of a complex case has always been a challenge, but the struggle has gotten significantly harder as the volume of data in a typical case has grown exponentially. The introduction of new file types seemingly every day makes review even more complicated. Getting through your files can be daunting enough, let alone trying to make sense of them and glean important insights into your case. Antiquated and clunky eDiscovery software often just leaves attorneys thinking that there has to be a better way.

Fortunately, there is, and it’s called Everlaw. The folks at Everlaw are taking eDiscovery to the next level, with an elegant, integrated platform designed to work the way you work when you’re handling discovery or preparing for litigation. With Everlaw, the work doesn’t stop when you’ve reviewed your last document. Everlaw’s platform does much more than just simplify standard eDiscovery — it helps you handle complex file types, get more insights out of your data, and then use that information in a useful way to help you win your case.

Everlaw is driven by the lofty goal of revealing the truth in order to promote justice, and they’ve managed to create a product that does just that.

Essential eDiscovery, Simplified

There’s no getting around the core tasks that come with initiating and managing the eDiscovery process, so why not make them easier? Everlaw’s robust platform offers a highly automated way to get up and running so you can start making sense of your data as quickly as possible.

Importing your files for review is as simple as dragging and dropping.

You can also import files directly from any cloud source, like Dropbox. Once your files are in, the tedious steps usually involved in processing the data are all automated — deduplication, decryption, deNISTing (removing useless system files), OCRing, and rendering text searchable are all done without you having to think about it.

You can apply any production protocol you need, no matter how complicated — things like numbering, stamping, and redacting can be specified up front. Everlaw will even automatically generate a privilege log for you or modify your production if you identify clawbacks.

When you’re done reviewing, you can package your production however you want with the help of a wizard that will walk you through the process. Downloading the production is simple, or you can share it directly through Everlaw, which allows you to track who downloads it and set an expiration date on downloads.

With Everlaw, all the tedious but crucial technical aspects of eDiscovery are automatically done for you, so you can focus on winning your case.

Demystifying Dark Data and Revealing Hidden Insights

eDiscovery used to involve plowing through a mountain of documents. Today, though, discovery involves a number of different file types that have been notoriously difficult for attorneys to adequately handle and review. Referred to as “dark data,” these file types used to be a nightmare — but not with Everlaw’s hard core computer science.

Everlaw is a master at handling dark data. Take Excel spreadsheets, for example. If you’ve ever been involved in eDiscovery, you know what a pain they can be. But with Everlaw, you can review and redact them as if you’re viewing a normal spreadsheet, formulas and all.

You can also view videos right in the Everlaw platform. If there’s accompanying audio, it’s automatically transcribed. You can even search for and jump to keywords in the audio and leave notes at the important time stamps, rather than having to spend an hour listening to a recording just to catch one crucial sentence.

Everlaw has similarly simplified all complicated data types for review. Slack chats appear like a normal chat screen, rather than a jumble of unusable raw data like you typically see in other review platforms. Foreign language documents are automatically translated to English.

A useful data visualizer offers a graphic representation of your file set, sorted by factors such as date, so you can easily spot patterns in your data. And at all times, predictive coding is automatically running in the background, so as you continue to review documents, Everlaw will assign a score of 0 to 100 to your remaining documents, allowing you to focus first on the ones that are most likely to be interesting or relevant.

Even basic review functions like word or name searching are simplified and enhanced by a drag-and-drop interface that makes it easy to sort by document types or other parameters.

You can automatically find foreign language documents or identify repeating patterns such as personally identifiable information and do a bulk redaction across your entire data set.

With Everlaw, there’s finally an easy way to get at all the information buried in that mountain of complex data.

Turning eDiscovery Into Useful Information

Once you find the information you need, how do you turn it into useful work product? Traditionally, eDiscovery software has existed entirely separate from the rest of the case, meaning translating your efforts into trial prep involved lots of extra work, logistics, and assembly lines.

Everlaw solved that problem by allowing you to build your case directly in the same platform where you handle your eDiscovery. Everlaw’s ingenious StoryBuilder feature is a set of integrated tools designed to take you beyond review. Your team can use your files to do things like build in-depth chronologies tied to actual files and enhanced with information on issues, dates, people, locations, and more. Basically anything crucial to your case can all be linked together in one place to build out the full picture of your case.

When the time comes for senior attorneys to start building a case through deposition outlines or motions, they can work right in the same platform where the reviewers did all the foundation work, making for seamless collaboration and communication with the review team. No more time-consuming back and forth to answer questions and add documents to an outline. Because everything exists in one place, all the information you’ll ever need can be pulled directly into what you’re working on.

The entire Everlaw platform was built around the concept of collaboration, and it shows. Everlaw works the way lawyers and teams work when they’re handling a litigation or investigation. And with new releases to the cloud-based product being rolled out every four weeks, Everlaw just keeps getting better.

In litigation, you need to be able to collaborate and adapt to changes. Everlaw makes that not just possible, but easy. Give Everlaw a try, and say goodbye to clunky eDiscovery software forever.

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