SEATTLE — Oct. 30, 2007 — Attenex Corp., a leading e-discovery software provider, today announced a new e-discovery case study that illustrates how Attenex® Patterns® E-Discovery Software can dramatically speed up and reduce the cost of e-discovery’s most expensive process, legal review.
The case study focuses on a U.S. corporation and its AmLaw 10 law firm handling a pre-merger antitrust review conducted by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a regulatory body charged with the enforcement of U.S. antitrust laws. The FTC issued a “Second Request,” a common practice that requires the additional collection and review of documentary material relevant to the proposed merger, and the legal team had less than six weeks to review nearly a million electronic documents that had been collected from 30 key individuals at the two merging companies.
The law firm tapped SQ Global Solutions, an Attenex Review Partner Program member and one of India's premier Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) firms, and their review attorneys used Attenex Patterns to find the emails and electronic documents relevant to the matter. Due to the software’s ability to cluster documents according to similar subject concepts, rather than rely solely on search, SQ Global was able to review the data in four weeks, representing a significant cost and time reduction for review. Using traditional methods and even other e-discovery applications, this process would have cost three or four times as much due to the need for a larger review team in order to complete the process in the same amount of time. For the full case study, please view the PDF.
“In countless real-world cases, Attenex Patterns provides dramatic speed and cost savings to customers, whether for litigation, investigations or regulatory requests,” said Mike Kinnaman, vice president of marketing for Attenex. “This case study is yet another example of why our unique offering has become the industry standard for e-discovery – trusted software that reduces the cost and time for legal review, and a global partner network that can scale to meet any needs.”
“Attenex Patterns enabled our team to review, on average, 2,500 documents per person, per day,” said Kimberly Williams, director of litigation services for SQ Global. “No other product on the market allows us to review data this quickly. Plus, with the project management tools within Attenex Patterns, we were able to review at this phenomenally fast rate and ensure accuracy for our customers. This not only helps dramatically reduce the cost of e-discovery, it allows our customers to focus on what’s really important -- case strategy.”
Attenex Patterns is an open software platform that lets corporations and their law firms establish standardized procedures for the processing and review phases of electronic discovery, providing dramatic reductions in the time, effort and costs associated with e-discovery. In addition to this case study, Attenex offers IT and legal departments with white papers, case studies and Webinars on best practices for e-discovery at the Attenex Website, www.attenex.com.
About Attenex
Attenex Corp. is changing the way corporations manage e-discovery. With an open software platform and industry expertise, Attenex enables corporations and their law firms to establish standardized e-discovery processes that reduce the risk, complexity and cost of litigation, regulatory requests and internal investigations. Whether deployed on-premise or as a hosted service through the industry’s largest network of global service providers, Attenex® Patterns® software provides corporations with control of e-discovery and the flexibility to choose the best solution for their needs. Attenex is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and more information is available at www.attenex.com.
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