Applied Discovery Review Performance Module Changes E-Discovery Review Management Landscape

BELLEVUE, Wash., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Discovery, a global electronic discovery leader that offers multinational collection, analytics, processing, review, and production services for law firms, corporations, and governmental entities engaged in audits, investigations, and litigation, today announced the introduction and availability of the Applied Discovery Review Performance Module, a new review management service that allows litigation support professionals to see, understand, and maximize review project performance by providing an online capability for real-time monitoring of key review measurements to help users make informed real-time decisions that can positively impact project time and cost.

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"More and more corporations and law firms need granular, actionable metrics around the review stage," said Christine Taylor, Analyst at Taneja Group. "But wanting and getting are two different things. Applied Discovery is coming out of the gate with a mature module for actionable and sustainable review management that tracks quality and quantity by review and project, enables what-if scenarios for process optimization,  and monitors status and looming deadlines in real-time. This level of review management controls costs and improves outcome of e-discovery's most complex and expensive stage."

"The task of document review conducted by legal reviewers usually is the most time consuming and costly of all the core electronic discovery tasks with reviewer staffing costs typically being at least four times greater than the cost of analytics and processing phases," shared Jon Resnick, vice president of field operations and marketing at Applied Discovery. "With the Review Performance Module, electronic discovery professionals can now rapidly and accurately leverage pre-review, ongoing review, and post-review metrics [i] to plan, estimate and adjust review activities to achieve desired cost, time, and quality outcomes."

Accessible from the Applied Discovery Online Review Application, the Review Performance Module provides users actionable capabilities to include:

• Analyze real-time document review metrics.
• Capture budget allocation at project outset, and track through life of the project.
• Track accuracy for each reviewer.
• Investigate time to completion based on actual review rates and staffing levels.
• Optimize review capability by modeling staff, time, and cost scenarios.
• Note project deadlines and monitor real time project status in relation to deadlines.

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About Applied Discovery

Applied Discovery is a global electronic discovery leader that offers multinational collection, analytics, processing, review, and production services for law firms, corporations, and governmental entities engaged in audits, investigations, and litigation. Based in Bellevue, WA, with East Coast headquarters in New York City and regional offices in Washington, D.C., Chicago, Dallas, Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Toronto, Applied Discovery has served clients as part of the LexisNexis® portfolio of legal services since 2003.

LexisNexis® is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic markets. LexisNexis originally pioneered online information with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. A member of Reed Elsevier (NYSE: ENL; NYSE: RUK) (www.reedelsevier.com), LexisNexis serves customers in more than 100 countries with 18,000 employees worldwide.

[i] Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), What Can Be Done with Review Metrics? http://kuex.us/82f3

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