SELECTION OF RELATIVITY FOR ONLINE DOCUMENT REVIEW
NEW YORK, NEW YORK–April 1, 2009–The following evaluation matrix was used by Evidence Exchange to select Relativity as its platform for Online Document Review:
Design and Architecture
- Access anywhere
- Secure network
- Applications do not need to be installed on local machine in order to open native files
- No plug-ins
- Ability to use dual screens
- Intuitive layout of review/coding screen
Review and Production
- Tiff and/or native review
- Tiff “on the fly” for redactions or printing
- Automatic identification of foreign language documents
- Reviewer can easily return to last document coded; can track place in assigned batch
- Accommodate multiple firm/case review
- Different review panes
- Different redactions
- Different productions
- Bulk tagging
- Multiple levels
- Families
- Email threads
- Ability to add security to this feature
Duplicates
- If deduplicating within custodian, duplicates can be tracked across custodians to allow for:
- Coding document once
- Redacting document once
- Producing it multiple times (once for each custodian)
- Producing metadata that would be specific for each custodian, such as file path and would be tracked in the master record in the review database
- Identify / update duplicate custodian information as new data is added
- Ability to View Near Duplicates
Redactions
- Exact duplicates are automatically redacted
- Ability to modify redaction stamp language
- When creating a redaction, the redaction box should be translucent on review images
- Single touch to finalize and lock redactions
- When redactions are burned in for production, the redaction box should be a white opaque box with the stamp on it
Ability to highlight text (different colors) for
- Privilege terms
- Attorney names
- Search terms
Notification Pop-ups to Reviewers when
- Responsiveness or confidentiality designation has not been selected prior to moving on to the next document
- Redactions or redaction reason have not been saved or selected prior to moving on to the next document
- Document has been marked as privileged, but privilege reason has not been selected
Ability to create or help create privilege log
- Standardize names
- Split out email threads to multiple entries
- Combine fields for final output
- No additional steps or alternate modes needed to create/edit priv log descriptions
Ability to collect and view email threads
Identify unsupported and/or non-searchable files on the site
Ability to create/print any document to PDF
Security
- Review panes
- Redaction tool
- Duplicates
Easily identify documents that are part of a family (icon, links to other family members)
Option to code by family or by document
Ability for tool/vendor to update metadata when documents are redacted to ILB
Tracking multiple productions
- Date, volume, Bates range production images with Bates, confidentiality, and redactions burned in
- Tiffs vs. Native Review
- Production
- Project Management
- Training
- Tiff "on the fly" / Native File Download
- Printing
Suffice it to say that Relativity’s current or planned functionality meets all of our requirements. Since adoption, Evidence Exchange has received "rave" reviews for our Online Document Review Services, powered by Evidence Exchange’s custom implementation of Relativity.
Contact us for more information.
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