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- Leonardo da Vinci
EDT is a cutting-edge legal software platform for eDiscovery, litigation and investigations.
At EDT we think eDiscovery has become over-engineered and ineffective, inflating the costs of litigation and investigations.
EDT puts a stop to that by integrating data processing, analytics, review and production on one, easy-to-use, affordable platform that can also be used to prepare for trial and present in court. Read about EDT features here.
Many international law firms, regulatory agencies, corporations and service providers use EDT as a complete end-to-end solution.
Others use EDT for processing and Early Case Analysis, exporting culled data into load files for third party review platforms.
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In Henry VI, Part 2. Shakespeare famously said, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." Are computers doing just that? In June of 2012, the Wall Street Journal ran a now watershed article entitled Why Hire a Lawyer? Computers Are Cheaper, which reported on the extensive use of computers for pretrial document review in the Landow Aviation hangar rooftop collapses litigation.
ReadThe 2019 eDiscovery Buyers Guide provides key comparison data to help legal professionals select innovative new eDiscovery products quickly and inexpensively. A review of EDT is included in the guide’s 3rd edition. The guide was created to deliver detailed analysis of the primary categories of litigation support products and services.
ReadDavid Clark is the IT Director at the Utah Bar, which is the regulatory organization for all of the attorneys who practice in one way or another in the State of Utah. David is very active in ILTA at both the local and national levels. He has been in technology since 1985 where he worked for one of the first Novell Distributors and became one of the first CNE's and the very first CNI from Novell. David has been supporting law firms and legal entities since 1989. He has been involved with document management systems since 1990 when SoftSolutions got their start integrating with Wordperfect 5.1. He has done work in many of the largest law firms around the country and was the IT Director for two of the largest law firms in Utah since 1999. In this interview, David discusses the conference and what he is seeing both in changes over the years and new features at ILTACON19 as well as the technology level of current law firms.
ReadI spent last week at the ILTACON19 conference in Orlando with Team Zebra of #EDT software. Prior to the show, I had written a blog about what I was looking forward to this year and it seems to me now that most of my post was accurate. But rather than do a point by point comparison, I thought I’d use this blog to highlight the main features of the conference. I was struck on the second day there how much I felt at home at #ILTACON19 and I realized that the similarities to life in New Orleans was striking.
ReadIt’s July and that can mean only one thing. Okay, besides the celebration of America’s independence, the baseball All Star game as well as hurricane season in New Orleans, it means ILTACON is just around the corner.
ILTACON19 is being held this year from Aug 18th through the 22nd at the Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort in Orlando, Florida. Four days of peace and music...no, wait, that was Woodstock. This is four days of what ILTA describes as “...leaders, managers and decision-making legal technologists from small to large sized law firms, corporate and government law departments, academia and the Global 100 firms to discover and evolve successful legal operation strategies for today’s transforming legal industry.” I just describe it as the best technology conference in the world.
I’ve noted in several blog posts recently that much of my consulting practice involves asymmetrical cases where one side, typically corporate defendants, has the vast majority of discovery. And since my experience is not untypical, what we see in eDiscovery practice is a heavy focus in the eDiscovery world on defense strategy, both in actual practice and educational conferences. Often left out of the discussion is any concept of a strategy for the Plaintiff’s bar.
ReadData Privacy and Security is now part of every organisation’s compliance requirements. The requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) impose rigorous obligations on and compliance is required if those organisations have an establishment in the EU, if they offer goods and services in the EU, or if they monitor the behaviour of individuals in the EU.
ReadCommentators have bemoaned the fact that legal technology conferences are becoming mostly about solutions for and discussions between the world’s largest law firms and corporations. Most recently, Bob Ambrogi made that point in his column in Above the Law: Legal Tech For The Legal Elite: Observations Of Two Conferences but added in an additional point. Bob noted a tweet from Jeffrey Carr, General Counsel of Univar, that said… “... how about asking what the customer wants - not what residents of #LawLand want or need? Customers want results & outputs — not activity and inputs. They want Delivered Value — Effectiveness + Efficiency + Experience (customer’s)
ReadJo Sherman and Tom O’Connor spoke on a webinar entitled “What’s Wrong with eDiscovery Today?” We didn’t want this to be another discussion of how TAR or analytics aren’t be used effectively but, rather, a look at the failed promises of technology as well as the human failures of eDiscovery. Both Jo and Tom felt strongly that the overall problem was indeed human, due to the way professionals approach eDiscovery in today's litigation world. Finally, they wanted to discuss how those problems could be fixed.
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EDT is a truly impressive “single” system -from processing to review. The single back-end database manages data end-to-end, giving the flexibility to stage things if we want to, from the Processing to the Analyst module, to validate and cull, before releasing datasets for review. It’s super easy.
Gyorgy Pados, White & Case LLP, Global Technology Solutions Lead, NYC.
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EDT Software is one of the few solutions offering A to Z litigation and eDiscovery support (from data ingestion, ECA, processing, review, and analysis through production) within a single platform; and without the need to export and import, or acquire different modules to benefit from a complete solution.
Dominic Jaar, Forensics Technology Services – KPMG Canada
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In large litigation matters, early case assessment is important tool to assist in the setting of realistic objectives. This involves an assessment of all relevant facts and issues, including understanding the likely volume of documents to be discovered, reviewing critical documents and speaking to critical witnesses in order to make an early assessment of likely outcomes. A realistic estimate of the costs will ensure more informed decisions are made about both managing and/or resolving litigation.
Susan Bennett, LLM (Hons), MBA, Principal & Director, Sibenco Legal & Advisory
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Our New Zealand clients want discovery solutions with affordable, predictable and transparent pricing. They understand the need to do early case assessment (“ECA”) to reduce data volumes early and keep costs proportionate. We chose EDT because it not only puts the ECA process firmly in the hands of the legal team but also because the ECA features are integrated into a full featured review platform. That means no load files and we don’t need to shuffle data around from a processing & ECA platform to a separate review platform. That reduces complexity and saves our clients time and money.
John Minn, Director – SLS
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EDT is a powerful ECA platform for Relativity. It gives deep insight into the collected data and enables litigators to make informed culling decisions at the very beginning of the case. They can see the impact of their proposed keywords, date, document type and other filters before they are applied by showing the numbers of responsive documents and enabling them to drill down into the content of those documents. They can iterate through alternative filters many times over until they settle on those they wish to apply. This really puts ECA in the hands of the legal team. It delivers enormous savings because intelligent culling and prioritization takes place prior to the creation of the Relativity load files and that, in turn, means lower processing and data hosting costs, not to mention enormous reductions in review time and cost.
Shawn Huston, Founder & CEO, Legal Support Partners
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Our firm has used EDT for a number of years and we have gradually used the platform more and more across the full life cycle of investigation and litigation projects. In my view it’s an excellent value proposition given its full feature set and the easy, transparent pricing model that allows multiple users and processing machines without any additional charge.
Darren Hopkins, Director - McGrathNicol
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The defining moment was when the lawyers realized we didn’t need to incur the cost of processing to create a load file prior to the review. The efficiencies were enormous.
Christopher Redlich, Litigation Support Manager, Allen & Overy LLP
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EDT is a full featured platform. It combines indexing/ingestion speed, and its multi-server setup allows a lot of flexibility as you can have multiple concurrent processes running – ingestion, review and exporting. While we initially proposed to use it for processing and ECA platform but we’ve been pleasantly surprised to see our lawyers also embrace the EDT review functionality. They found it really easy to use.
Matthew Golab, Legal Technology Manager, Gilbert + Tobin
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We chose EDT's software because it is a single, full-featured and affordable product.
David Lapresie, Discovery and Litigation Support Manager, Phillips Lytle
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EDT is a game changer. It offers early data culling capabilities that dramatically reduce costs and the insight it provides into the facts at an early stage in the case positions our firm to help settle cases earlier and with great outcomes.
Anne Kershaw, CEO of Reasonable Discovery, Adjunct Professor, Columbia University
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Our innovative approach to discovery review is perfectly aligned with EDT’s flexible architecture. Our emphasis on iterative analysis throughout the discovery review is supported by EDT’s workflows and functionality. By implementing best practices, the efficiencies are considerable. It is a breath of fresh air to work with a software provider that thinks differently and fully supports ground breaking processes.
Crystal O’Donnell, CEO and Senior Legal Counsel, Heuristica Discovery Counsel
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Our lawyers loved the control and insight into the data they obtained during the early analysis phase. They were able to cull enormous volumes with confidence.
Christopher Redlich, Litigation Support Manager, Allen & Overy
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