HOUSTON, November 1st – LIT Group, Inc., a technology-based professional services company offering a comprehensive array of services for legal information management, and Attenex Corporation, a business-to-business software provider for the legal services industry, today announced an alliance to deliver a full service solution in matters requiring electronic discovery.
The alliance creates substantial cost savings and greater control for litigators by bringing together LIT Group’s wide-ranging suite of discovery services, and LIT.net, LIT Group’s secure Web repository, with the Attenex™ Patterns® E-Discovery Platform, a concept-based document processing and visualization tool. The result is a full service and customizable electronic discovery solution from one provider, thus eliminating the need to engage multiple vendors for data management during complex litigation.
“This new offering puts LIT Group in rare company”, said Steve McNew, Chief Operating Officer for LIT Group, Inc. “We believe, in fact, that no other litigation-support company in the world has the breadth of offerings and expertise that we have. With the addition of our Attenex collaboration, we are increasingly able to focus on our continual quest to bring the best-of-breed to our Electronic Data Discovery Process while delivering incredible value to our client partnerships.”
Said Kalani Munden, Practice Support Manager for Jackson Walker LLP; "LIT Group's Electronic Data Discovery services have always been leading edge. The addition of conceptual review to their process is simply another example of their desire to remain the technical leader in this industry. At Jackson Walker, we see this tool as a way to offer our clients a more streamlined and efficient way to manage electronic information."
Skip Walter, CEO of Attenex, underscored how excited Attenex is to work with LIT Group in their quest to find more efficient ways of managing the discovery process; “As electronic discovery matters get ever larger and more complex, it is critical for law firms to engage service providers who are using the best application tools to provide a full-service solution. We look forward to a long-standing partnership with LIT Group to help corporations, law firms and their clients dramatically reduce their discovery and review costs.”
About LIT Group, Inc.
Founded in 1995, LIT Group is a Litigation Information Management company that specializes in effective and efficient information management through creative consultation and effective solutions. More information about the customized offerings of LIT Group, Inc. can be found at www.litgroup.com.
About Attenex Patterns E-Discovery Platform
Attenex’s Patterns software transforms the efficiencies surrounding the process of electronic discovery by pairing computer power with lawyers’ brain power to substantially reduce the time spent on clerical and technical tasks associated with discovery. Instead of treating electronic documents solely as bodies of text that can be indexed and keyword searched, Attenex Patterns approaches them as collections of concepts. The software then displays them in the aggregate as a visual map showing clusters of conceptually related documents. This allows attorneys and legal practitioners to review and make high-quality decisions on a much higher volume of documents per hour, quickly separating the clearly relevant from the clearly irrelevant documents. These efficiencies provide law firms and corporations with a way to proactively manage the time and cost associated with the review of potentially discoverable documents.
About Attenex Corporation
Attenex was formed by Preston Gates & Ellis LLP as a result of the firm’s 10-year technology initiative to discover new ways to manage costs, improve efficiencies, and provide better service to their clients through the use of innovative technologies. Headquartered in Seattle, Attenex Corporation is a business-to-business software company that provides tools, and best practices to corporate legal departments and their law firms to improve the efficiency of document intensive processes, such as electronic document discovery in litigation and drafting of complex legal documents. More information about Attenex and its products can be found at www.attenex.com.