Attenex Innovations Continue to Reduce the Expense and Risk of Electronic Document Review for Corporations and Their Law Firms
NEW YORK — Oct. 5, 2004 — Attenex® Corp., a developer of software for electronic document discovery in litigation and regulatory response, today announced the availability of Attenex Patterns® E-Discovery Platform version 2.5.
The latest version of Attenex Patterns enables the processing and review of Lotus Notes e-mail messages in their native format. In addition, new functionality for document tagging and an improved export capability enables customers to easily incorporate Attenex metadata into TIFF productions.
Responding to a discovery request is a costly, time-intensive process that is never without risk. The explosive growth of electronic documents, the mass adoption of e-mail and the ability to cheaply store large volumes of information has made a staggering impact on this process, rendering methodologies honed for the paper review of documents impossibly inadequate.
The Attenex Patterns E-Discovery Platform automates the bulk of the clerical and technical processing involved in the response process, while providing tools to dramatically speed document review and maintain a auditable chain of evidence that is more reliable than manual methods.
“The new features and enhancements in Attenex Patterns 2.5 were developed in direct response to customer feedback,” said Mike Kinnaman, vice president of marketing for Attenex. “This additional functionality further reduces the expense of electronic discovery for corporations while simplifying electronic document processing, review and production for law firms and legal service providers.”
Using Attenex Patterns 2.5, customers can process Lotus Notes e-mail messages in their native format without the unnecessary expense of first converting the messages to .PST, .TIF or .PDF format. Once processed, Lotus Notes messages can be reviewed in either rich-text (RTF) or text format.
“Lotus Notes remains an electronic discovery orphan. Software and service providers alike offer little in the way of solutions, and even those typically call for conversion to Outlook,” said George J. Socha, Jr. Esq. of Socha Consulting, LLC. “Electronic discovery solutions capable of handling Lotus Notes email are few and far between. Those that do it well are less common, and those that handle Notes in native form are even rarer.”
Document tagging, another new feature in version 2.5 provides review teams with the ability to create document tags for further categorization based on specifications, significant issues, privilege rationale or other requirements. Fully customizable, document tags and their associated rules are created in Attenex Patterns Workbench for use by document reviewers using Attenex Patterns Document Mapper.
Another feature designed to simplify electronic document processing and review is an updated metadata export capability that can be employed to streamline TIFF productions by incorporating Attenex Patterns metadata. When relevant documents are exported for production, an XML file including file information in addition to relevant document marks and tags can be generated. TIFF vendors can then use this XML file to incorporate Attenex metadata into a TIFF production.
Attenex Patterns 2.5 is available now through Attenex and select legal service providers. For a complete list of Attenex service providers, please visit www.attenex.com/LSPs.
About Attenex
Headquartered in Seattle, Attenex is a business-to-business software company that
provides tools to corporate legal departments and their law firms to improve the efficiency of document intensive processes, such as electronic document discovery in litigation and regulatory response. More information about the company and its products can be found at www.attenex.com.