Over the last 12 months around half of our customers are using eDiscovery software for the first time.

For lawyers wanting to adopt eDiscovery into their mandates, it can be confusing as to why an eDiscovery platform is needed. As a service provider we tend to focus on all the recent Artificial Intelligence developments and overlook the original fundamental features that benefit legal teams.

Here is a short list of the benefits that an eDiscovery platform brings to a mandate. It saves time, and therefore costs, by:

1. Simplifying the physical management of all classes of documents throughout the course of an investigation, dispute, or legal matter. Documents can be automatically re-ordered by date, author, organisation or in machine AI order based on the issues to the matter.
2. Allowing the faster identification and removal of duplicate or irrelevant documents, leaving the potentially relevant documents to be reviewed.
3. Providing a much faster, more sophisticated, and more reliable search and retrieval capability than manually searching through documents manually. Also, complex searches can be saved and re-run in the event that new issues arise, or new documents are added to the platform.
4. Proving the ability to organise key documents into specific electronic files by reference to the issues in the investigation or dispute, witnesses, experts, or other topics.
5. Enabling the manipulation of documents screen, such as enlargement, enhancement, highlighting and annotations (redactions too). All of which can be searched and retrieved.
6. Allowing the simultaneous use of the platform by a number of people and the sharing of highlighting and annotations between them. This improves efficiency and co-ordination across the team.
7. Allowing for the faster and easier preparation of documents such as, list of documents, exhibits, productions and bundles.
8. Giving external access (with restrictions, if necessary) to co-counsel, witnesses, experts, and clients. This saves on the copying and circulation of multiple copies of documents and ensures that everyone is instantly updated with the same information whenever a change is made
9. Facilitating remote working, the platform can be accessed anywhere in the world subject to internet access, avoiding the inconvenience, expense, and security risks of making multiple local copies of the documents.

If you have a project or a scenario you would like to discuss, please do not hesitate to contact us: info@legaltechinnovations.com