New Version of Concordance Evolution from LexisNexis Offers Integration with LAW PreDiscovery

Global News

20
Aug
2013

Editor

LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of content and technology solutions, today announced the release of a new version of Concordance® Evolution that supports the direct import of files from LAW PreDiscovery™, significantly reducing time, costs and storage needs by streamlining electronic discovery workflow.

Concordance Evolution is the next generation of a fully installed enterprise review software product for electronic discovery and litigation document management. LAW PreDiscovery is an advanced imaging and electronic discovery software application from LexisNexis that offers litigation teams the ability to filter and cull non-responsive e-discovery and scanned documents before review.

“With the release of the latest version of Concordance Evolution, customers no longer have to export data from LAW PreDiscovery before loading it into Concordance Evolution,” explained Steve Ashbacher, vice president for Concordance at LexisNexis Litigation Tools & Professional Services. “The integration between the two applications enables users to directly import databases, fields and tags from LAW PreDiscovery, then point to the underlying documents, text and images in LAW PreDiscovery. We believe that, with this integration, customers can save time and reduce their previous data storage requirements by as much as 50 percent.”

In addition to the time, cost and storage savings gained by eliminating the need to export data out of LAW PreDiscovery before loading it into Concordance Evolution, the integration of the two software applications helps users by:

• Reducing time and risk – setting up fields within Concordance Evolution, users can now  directly import fields from LAW PreDiscovery, substantially reducing the time (as much as eight hours per matter) and risk of human error associated with manually setting up fields for a new case;
• Easier importing and customization of tags – users can now directly import file tags from LAW PreDiscovery into Concordance Evolution and then choose advanced customization options to map specific groups of tags into new tags within Concordance Evolution; and
• Accessing powerful e-discovery processing engine – rather than relying on a limited internal processing engine, Concordance Evolution customers can now leverage LAW PreDiscovery’s market-leading processing engine for filtering non-responsive documents before review.

“The integration between Concordance Evolution and LAW PreDiscovery simplifies and accelerates the workflow from processing to review, a crucial and costly phase of the electronic discovery process,” said Ashbacher.

Concordance Evolution handles e-discovery management for cases of any size and is specifically designed for large-scale, complex litigation. The software helps law firms, government agencies, litigation service bureaus and application service providers reduce their overall e-discovery cost and boost their litigation workflow productivity while managing the largest and most complex cases. Concordance Evolution is available with a base cost for the software application and a per-seat licensing fee; in addition to the fully installed version, Concordance Evolution is also available from LexisNexis in a fully hosted environment.