Bridgeway Legal Hold 3.0 Puts In-House Legal Departments In Control

HOUSTON, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Bridgeway Software, the leading provider of legal enterprise management solutions, which includes eDiscovery, matter management, litigation management, and corporate governance, today delivered version 3.0 of its industry-leading Legal Hold solution.  The latest release from Bridgeway features enhanced workflow, customizable custodian response analysis, and unparalleled scalability and advanced reporting to offer legal departments even more control of the legal hold process. Bridgeway Legal Hold enables legal departments to efficiently comply with evidence preservation obligations, interviews and collections through centralized management with the goal of remaining compliant and avoiding costly sanctions. Legal Hold 3.0 can be deployed as a stand-alone solution or in conjunction with Bridgeway's full eDiscovery offering, which integrates the entire eDiscovery process – preservation, collection, processing, review and production – into one seamless in-house solution.  

Bridgeway Legal Hold 3.0 builds on the company's comprehensive approach to legal hold by incorporating a fully customizable questionnaire module to allow for a new level of accountability.  With the questionnaire module, the hold administrator can create a customized set of questions and responses per matter and per recipient response type. The questionnaire strategy helps legal departments determine if the recipient is a custodian, instead of simply allowing the recipient of the notice to make that determination in order to more fully put the control in the hands of the hold administrator.

Bridgeway Legal Hold 3.0 also provides advanced response analysis capabilities, which can filter the responses received based on the answer set. Depending upon how the questions are answered, the legal department can take immediate action and route the recipients to interviews or take them straight to collections. This advanced response analysis dramatically improves the efficiency of workflow processes and routes information to the appropriate stage in discovery faster.

"Our customers need solutions that can integrate seamlessly with their business while providing the detailed information and intelligence needed to stay on top of any possible litigation they may face," said Rich Hall, vice president of eDiscovery Solutions at Bridgeway. "The enhancements in Legal Hold 3.0 deliver unmatched features and functionality at a price our customers can justify.  With Legal Hold 3.0, in-house legal departments can just as easily manage 10,000 recipients as 10 recipients."

Additional enhancements in Bridgeway Legal Hold 3.0 include:

• Expanded Reporting Catalog – Bridgeway has added new reports to its catalog to bolster the legal department's ability to analyze the matter specific data as well as prove compliance with the legal hold. The reports can be narrowed down to specific legal hold requests or generated system wide.
• Manager Escalation – Notices can now be routed to the respective managers, based on configurable parameters, if the initial respondent is unable to respond in a timely manner.
• Simple and Intuitive Interviewer and Collector Workflow – The collector can now review the actual preservation notices that went to the custodian so that the collector knows what information/documentation the custodian is supposed to preserve.
• Enhanced Dashboard Functionality – The legal hold administrator has more options available in the centralized matter dashboard making the process of managing holds easier and more intuitive in Bridgeway's Legal Hold 3.0.

Specifications and Availability

Bridgeway Legal Hold 3.0 integrates both the application and workflow of the preservation process with Bridgeway's eCounsel® or LawManager® Matter Management solutions. Users of Bridgeway's premier Matter Management solutions can launch legal holds, review legal hold status and view all matters with legal holds directly from the matter management system, providing them with complete legal enterprise management.  Additional details can be found on the website at http://www.bridge-way.com/products/legal-hold

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About Bridgeway

Bridgeway is dedicated to providing software solutions and professional services to implement best practices for the offices of the general counsel and corporate secretary. Leading corporations and government agencies optimize productivity and reduce risk with Bridgeway's integrated technology approach for complete legal enterprise management. Bridgeway implements systems in the areas of electronic discovery, matter and case management, electronic invoicing, cost management, corporate governance, contract management, litigation risk assessment and entity management. Founded in 1989, the company is headquartered in Houston, Texas with representative offices in Philadelphia and Toronto. More information about Bridgeway eDiscovery, Bridgeway Legal Hold, eCounsel®, LawManager®,  Smart Invoice,  Corridor™ ,  Secretariat®, and Bridgeway Diligent Boardbooks™  is available at www.bridge-way.com or by calling 888-272-4699.

SOURCE Bridgeway Software