LegalTech West Coast: the focus on early case assessment and document relevance

As we have reported in several posts these last few months, early case assessment (ECA) is the key technology to reducing the cost of e-discovery.  There have been multiple vendors in this space with Clearwell Systems the leader (click here).

Most new ECA platforms have been standalone applications that required users to import and export data depending upon what other eDiscovery technologies that they were utilizing. 

But now we have CaseCentral (click here) stepping to the plate by integrating ECA into their offering and enabling users to now start with ECA and extend through analysis, review, production and post-production re-use, facilitating collaborative assessments of new case merits and liabilities, application of first pass review, and real-time transfer to active review if required, all at a price point that changes the current ECA pricing model.

And in the area of “document relevance” is Equivio which is the hands-down leader in near de-duping and email thread management technology. They have just launched Equivio Relevance^TM which provides:

• Early case assessment: facilitates rapid assessment of the key issues and concepts in a case.
• Culling: ahieves high levels of recall and precision, helping overcome the challenges of over and under-inclusion that characterize traditional keyword methods.
• Review prioritization: By organizing the review set according to relevance rankings, Equivio enables prioritization of document review. This allows attorneys to immediately focus on the most relevant documents.
• Review quality assurance: By identifying discrepancies in the responsiveness designations vis-à-vis the human review team, the application helps find responsive documents missed in the detail review. Similarly, the discrepancies can be used to locate documents incorrectly marked by the human review team as responsive.

We’ll have more on other technologies in another post during LegalTech West Coast.  For our full coverage of LegalTech West Coast click here.