Software offers litigation case management solution.
Press Release Summary:
With conceptual search tools, Merrill Lextranet(TM) v5.6 provides secure, web-based environment for multiple parties to quickly search, organize, evaluate, and share litigation-related information throughout case life cycle. Social networking module presents graphic display of relationships between different e-mail users to evaluate communication frequency and trends between key custodians, while Workflow Manager helps create and visualize document workflows.
Original Press Release:
Award-Winning Merrill Corporation Enhances Litigation Case Management Solution
Merrill Lextranet(TM) 5.6 Features Key Enhancements, Including Social Networking and Conceptual Searching
ST. PAUL, Minn., July 23 -- Merrill Corporation, a leading global provider of technology-enabled services for the financial, health care, real estate, legal and other corporate markets, today announced the release of Merrill Lextranet(TM) 5.6, the most robust edition of its litigation case management solution to date. Merrill Lextranet 5.6, part of Merrill's comprehensive suite of litigation support services, is used by top legal professionals, including those in the Am Law 200 and Fortune 500 corporations, to manage case-related information cost-effectively, from pre-discovery through trial. Merrill was honored to be ranked as a top provider in the 2008 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey Report.
The Merrill Lextranet case management system provides a secure, Web-based environment for multiple parties to quickly search, organize, evaluate and share litigation-related information throughout the case life cycle. Version 5.6 features key enhancements over previous editions, including social networking, expanded workflow tools and conceptual searching.
Social networking is a powerful module that allows users to visualize the relationships between document custodians. It presents a graphic display of relationships between different e-mail users within a configurable dataset of e-mails to evaluate communication frequency and trends between key custodians. "Social networking assists review teams in identifying potentially unrecognized relationships between custodians, to focus review efforts and make their discovery strategy more efficient and effective," said Daniel Pelc, senior director of product management for Merrill's Electronic Discovery Services. "The intelligence offered by social networking provides a distinct advantage to Merrill Lextranet clients."
Version 5.6 also features Workflow Manager, a document management tool that enables legal teams to create sophisticated document workflows and visualize the rules through a configurable data flow diagram. Users can map out document distribution, set up rules to move documents to the appropriate coding teams and push responsive documents to a timely and defensible production.
Both of these capabilities empower Merrill Lextranet users to stage and plan their reviews by leveraging powerful intuitive visual analysis and monitoring tools for proactive planning.
To improve early identification and review of key evidence, version 5.6 also features conceptual search tools, offered via a licensing agreement with Cognition Technologies, Inc. Unlike keyword searches, conceptual searching interprets the meaning of words within the context they are used to help computers "understand" concepts, significantly increasing the precision of the discovery results. "Cognition's Semantic NLP program is revolutionary in the methodology used to conduct complex searching through algorithms. The semantic natural language search component allows our clients to conduct more meaningful content searches and uncover relevant evidence more quickly," said Harold Leach, senior vice president of IT for Merrill's Electronic Discovery Services.
About Merrill Corporation
Founded in 1968 and headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., Merrill Corporation (http://www.merrillcorp.com/) is a leading provider of outsourced solutions for complex business communication and information management. Merrill's services include document and data management, litigation support, branded communication programs, fulfillment, imaging and printing. Merrill targets markets including the legal, financial services, insurance and real estate industries. With more than 5,900 people in over 70 domestic and 15 international locations, Merrill empowers the communications of the world's leading companies.
