eLitigation Software
elaw licenses and supports market-leading, latest generation software for eDiscovery and eTrial phases of the eLitigation lifecycle.
eLitigation Software is a key element of elaw’s eLitigation services. elaw licenses and supports market-leading, latest generation software for eDiscovery and eTrial phases of the eLitigation lifecycle.
To be effective, eLitigation Software must be the right solution for the task, the matter, the evidence set, and the user. As we offer and support a range of litigation software programs, our expert team is uniquely qualified to recommend the software environment that best meets your needs.
About eLitigation Software Solutions
eLitigation involves managing and analysing electronic evidence from many sources to meet legal obligations and to support your case. eLitigation also encompasses the electronic processes that courts, and other bodies, have adopted to manage disputes involving digital evidence.
The eLitigation lifecycle encompasses the earliest stages of litigation planning through to the ultimate resolution of a dispute at settlement or trial.
eLitigation Software is used throughout the eLitigation lifecycle for a variety of purposes. These include:
- Evidence (Data) collection
- Evidence processing
- Evidence filtering
- Evidence management
- Evidence analysis
- Evidence review
- Evidence categorisation
- Evidence discovery production for litigation or regulatory compliance
- eTrial or settlement preparation
- Evidence presentation
No matter the purpose, eLitigation Software should adopt industry best standards and must produce defensible results for the purpose it is used.
There is no single software platform that meets all of these needs.
Some eLitigation Software is designed to be used by technical specialists and data analysts, drawing upon their specialist technical know how and experience. This software includes specialist forensic data collection tools.
Other software is designed for use by litigators, litigants and others involved in the litigation process. This software includes software focused on evidence review and analysis for broad eDiscovery purposes, and software focused on the preparation of evidence for presentation and evidence presentation at eTrial or Arbitration. In each case, eLitigation professionals play a critical role in guiding and supporting clients to make best use of the right software functionality for the task.
elaw’s team of qualified, certified and experienced lawyers, consultants, technical specialists, litigation support project managers, data analysts, developers and paralegals are recognised as market-leading experts in the niche litigation consulting firm sector.
Our team uses a suite of software tools for a range of purposes, including commercially produced software and custom developed applications. We have certifications across a wide range of environments and have applied these software tools to literally millions of records of data.
Litigation Software for Litigators and Litigants
elaw has software licensing and support arrangements with a range of international software vendors.
For client eLitigation needs, we offer clients access to the latest version of a range of leading Software as a Service (SaaS) delivered environments including:
SaaS is a cloud-based model. In a SaaS model, clients license software on a subscription basis and can access their data from any device with an internet connection and a web browser. Clients do not need to download software to their device or network.
As our arrangements with vendor partners ensure that we have current release environments at all times, our clients have guaranteed ongoing access to:
- the latest functional advances
- greatest data security protection; and
- highest environment speeds.
Importantly and relevantly, because we have partnerships with a range of providers, we can recommend and support flexible, best-fit solutions rather than a restricted offering. We recognise that matters, firms, clients and evidence collections have different requirements and that one size does not fit all.
Among other things, litigators and litigants can use eLitigation Software to:
- Access their evidence in a web-based database that can be collaboratively accessed by all members of the litigation team from any geographic location
- Filter out irrelevant or technically unusable evidence
- Review and code evidence for relevance
- Categorise or tag evidence to legal or factual issues or categories
- See evidence in the context of its various relationships, including family groups, email threads, and duplicate and near-duplication groups
- Undertake privilege review
- Redact and annotate evidence
- Produce chronologies
- Generate eDiscovery lists and production for litigation or for investigations / regulatory compliance
- Identify and manage evidence for experts and witnesses at trial
- Create electronic trial/courtbook bundles
- Present and manage evidence at eTrial or Arbitration.
Typically, litigators and litigants do not need any special technical skills to work with current generation eLitigation Software, however they do need to understand the software’s functional capabilities and the most efficient and effective ways to use that functionality. elaw’s consultants provide software training and expert guidance on a daily basis. Our service includes the tailoring of review workflows to ensure that our clients’ efforts are reliable, efficient and defensible.
eLitigation Software Key Benefits
For clients, the key benefits offered by eLitigation Software are:
- For many matters, eLitigation Software is the only way to effectively manage and analyse electronic evidence and to comply with eDiscovery orders or a regulator’s notice to produce
- eLitigation Software provides a collaborative environment for team access to the evidence set and a central repository for capture of all team analysis
- eLitigation software highlights and secures relationships between documents such as host and attachment relationships, email threads and near duplicate relationships
- eLitigation Software allows for documents to be bundled together for a multitude of purposes, such as briefs to Counsel, exhibits for witnesses, evidence that is responsive to specific discovery categories and subsets of documents for eTrial or arbitration
- eLitigation Software supercharges human review efforts by offering options for actively learning human coding decisions and applying those decisions more broadly to other evidence
- eLitigation Software incorporates core functionality such as advanced searching and mass coding of documents that helps litigators to find and categorise evidence faster and more reliably than would otherwise be possible
- The right eLitigation Software provides better evidence review, more effective understanding and analysis of evidence, a superior eTrial experience, a flexible approach and it delivers genuine time and cost savings.
For every engagement, elaw Consultants work closely with our clients to make sure that they know how to get the most from the selected litigation software program and we develop tailored workflows to ensure that software tools are used effectively and defensibly to meet our clients’ objectives.
Software Overview
elaw has software licensing and support arrangements with a range of international software vendors to best meet our clients’ needs while delivering best value for money. We are:
- a RelativityOne Bronze Partner and five-time Relativity Best-in-Service Partner with an extensive list of Relativity and RelativityOne certifications and experience
- the developer of Ostentus, an application that can be seamlessly integrated into RelativityOne to extend its use to evidence presentation at deposition, trial or investigation
- a Nuix Partner, working with and supporting Nuix Discover. We have a ten-year Nuix relationship and are Australia’s first vendor partner Nuix Discover Master
- a Delium originating partner, with direct access to Delium development capability and unparalleled Delium expertise and experience in eDiscovery, eHearings and virtual trials and arbitrations.
Across these Cloud-based environments, we support clients with matters of all types and sizes. We have expert knowledge of data collection, data processing, data analysis, review workflows, structured and conceptual analytics, data production and eTrial evidence presentation capabilities.
We recognise that matters, firms, clients and evidence collections have different requirements and that one size does not fit all. We will always take the time to recommend the best fit for your team and matter – it’s part of the elaw difference. You will also find us flexible. Whether you’re looking for support at every step or want to take control yourself, we’re happy to work your way.
RelativityOne is an internationally recognised best-of-breed litigation support environment that delivers particular benefit for very large and complex electronic collections.
elaw strongly recommends the use of RelativityOne for collections that will benefit from the use of Relativity Analytics, which includes near duplicate detection, email threading and concept searching/analysis.
In appropriate cases, elaw also recommends the utilisation of Relativity Active Learning (a type of predictive coding analytics) to prioritise the review of likely relevant documents and, potentially, to reduce the need to review irrelevant materials. elaw is a five-time Relativity Best-in-Service Provider and RelativityOne Certified Partner.
To find out more, visit the Relativity website.
Nuix specialises in transforming massive amounts of messy data – from emails, social media, communications and other human-generated content – into searchable, contextualised information.
elaw has been a Nuix partner since 2010 and has processed millions of documents using the powerful Nuix processing engine. Nuix Discover is a complete ediscovery solution that combines data processing, case management and document review in a single platform. The application incorporates powerful data analytics and visual review tools that dramatically increase the productivity and efficiency of legal review.
Key features include:
- Powerful ingestion and processing
- Flexible Layouts
- Concept Clouds
- Social and Map Analytics
- Continuous Active Learning
- Comprehensive Reporting.
To discover more, visit the Nuix website.
Delium has been designed to replicate the way litigators think and work. Delium is an excellent solution for small to medium-sized evidence collections, representative of over 90% of all litigation.
Delium’s intuitive interface and analysis tools are easy to set up and once documents have been uploaded to Delium, Users find that they are easily able to search, review and analyse documents without ongoing consultancy support. Users can self-sufficiently administer their own cases, including:
- Adding further documents to the Delium case
- Creating new users, fields and field choices
- Generating protocol compliant discovery.
Beyond its pre-trial capability, Delium is an acclaimed evidence presentation environment, delivering unique capability that is changing the face of the trials internationally.
Delium’s patented presentation functionality makes it the only eTrial and arbitration software in the world that can provide a truly paperless electronic courtroom capable of being run by the legal teams. Delium replicates the best elements of the traditional trial processes and workflows. Delium allows litigators to work seamlessly with public and private versions of the evidence during hearings.
Everything you need at trial can be loaded and available in Delium – Evidence, Procedural Documents, Witness Statements, Transcript, Pleadings, Orders and Rulings, Notices/Filings, Cited Cases, Counsel’s Notes, Demonstrative Aids, Aide Memoirs and Submissions. Delium provides a comprehensive record of the interaction with evidence during the trial. Whether you are a sole litigator wanting to present your evidence more efficiently or a courts administrator looking to introduce an evidence presentation platform in your jurisdiction, Delium can help.
To learn more, visit the Delium website.