eDiscovery News Flash

Summation® has released of Summation® Blaze LG/iBlaze® Version 2.6, featuring a new dimension in electronic evidence management. Summation iBlaze seamlessly batch imports electronic evidence acquired and processed by eDiscovery vendors and service bureaus in both native electronic and image formats. The nucleus of the new import capability are enhancements to Summation's DII batch load file format, which now embeds extracted text into the DII file.

While Summation's popular eDiscovery console gives law firms the capacity to internally process common forms of native electronic evidence (e.g., Outlook email mailboxes, Lotus Note email mailboxes, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and individual native eDoc files), service bureaus provide a much broader spectrum of electronic evidence processing capability for large volumes. For example, many electronic evidence service bureaus provide:

• High quality processing of large volumes of Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes email.
• High quality processing of large volumes of native-file formatted electronic documents.
• Large volume de-duplication.
• First order winnowing via key word and concept filtering engines.
• Content text, embedded text, fielded data and metadata extraction.
• Large volume "petrification" (conversion to image file formats) for review, redaction or presentation.
• Customizable spreadsheet processing options.

Read on to see how eDiscovery vendors, service bureaus and Summation are already teaming together to facilitate the loading of electronic evidence into your Summation cases.

Summation and LAW + Z Print eDiscovery Bundle

San Francisco, CA - April 7, 2004 -- The enhanced DII import facility in Summation® Blaze LG/iBlaze Version 2.6, together with Image Capture Engineering's LAW+Z-Print Electronic Discovery Bundle, vastly improve the process to deconstruct and load electronic evidence and images into Summation.

ICE has seamlessly integrated their Z-Print and LAW software to provide the new Electronic Discovery Bundle. Now it is even easier to extract, convert, print, QC, endorse, and produce load files for popular litigation databases and trial presentation applications. In addition, users can easily share their project across multiple machines and eliminate the need to manually select files for each system.

Service bureaus and law firm office services departments that have selected the LAW software suite, can now empower their litigation team customers to effectively handle, not just survive, the explosion of electronic evidence in day-to-day litigation and regulatory matters. With the LAW / Z-Print bundle, service bureaus can export processed eDiscovery into a DII file using new extensions specifically crafted for eDiscovery, for immediate load into Summation.

For more information, see our entire press release.

Summation and Attenex

New York, NY - February 2, 2004 -- Attenex® Corporation, an electronic discovery software provider for the legal services industry, today announced version 1.7 of the Attenex® Patterns® E-Discovery Platform. Attenex Patterns is an integrated software solution that enables corporate legal departments and law firms to efficiently manage the process of electronic discovery in litigation. Attenex Patterns 1.7 offers new features and significant enhancements to increase user productivity and further reduce the risk, time and expense of electronic discovery.

"Today, complex litigation requires attorneys to effectively manage hundreds of gigabytes or even terabytes of data in a single matter,” said Skip Walter, CEO of Attenex Corporation.

“Traditional approaches to electronic discovery are no longer practical or efficient. The new features and enhancements in Attenex Patterns 1.7 enable review teams to make more document decisions per hour and provide lawyers with more control during the review phase of electronic discovery."

"Enabling integration with popular litigation support and document repository software is one more way to help litigators and legal service providers control the time and expense of electronic discovery," said Jim Henderson, executive vice president, Summation.

"Reviewers using Attenex Patterns can rapidly review and mark the responsive, privileged, and other identified documents in a matter and then seamlessly export it to leading evidence management and organizational tools like Summation's iBlaze® and our new pure-browser product, WebBlaze™."

See Attenex's press release for more information.

Summation and Discovery Cracker

San Francisco, CA - January 30, 2004 -- Summation's enhanced eDII import facility in iBlaze Version 2.6, together with DocuLex's Discovery Cracker Version 4.5, facilitates the expanded processing and loading of electronic evidence and images into Summation iBlaze.

Discovery Cracker Version 4.5 includes refined utilities for exporting processed electronic discovery in eDII files and content media that can be seamlessly batch loaded into Summation. Other vendors are following Discovery Cracker's lead in this mode of electronic evidence processing. Clients can thus take advantage of iBlaze Version 2.6's modern facilities for reviewing, searching, and producing native format electronic evidence files or electronic files converted via service bureau imaging and text extraction processes.

Service bureaus that have either upgraded to Discovery Cracker Version 4.5, or developed their own Summation compatible utilities, can now empower their customers to effectively handle, not just survive, the explosion of electronic evidence in day-to-day litigation and regulatory matters. With the Discovery Cracker or other Summation compatible utilities, service bureaus can export processed eDiscovery into an eDII file.

For more information, see our entire press release.