Reviewing (and understanding) hundreds of thousands of documents in a complex case can be quite a bear. E-discovery systems have made things a bit easier. Companies scan and OCR the documents, which are then available for attorneys to review and search via web-based systems. I've encountered two such systems, Amici, LLC and CaseVault. Still, rather than boxes of documents to manage, you still have lots of documents online that must be organized somehow. Enter Stratify Legal eDiscovery. The company has evidently created a new system to visually map complex sets of emails, "identifying critical relationships." It's true that emails can be tough to wrangle, considering all the recipients and respondents, replies, attachments, etc. There's so much information duplicated, and identical emails appear in the document collections from many key individuals in cases. This sounds very helpful. I'd like to see visual mapping for more than just email, though I bet emails make up the bulk of documents when dealing with modern companies. I couldn't find any pictures showing how the system works, and you may need to sign up for a demo on their website. But it sounds a little like how Kartoo.com works. That would be super-cool if we could really do something like that, getting visual maps of the universe of documents in a case. Even better if the system could do it intelligently, without requiring too much extensive meta-tagging of documents for key terms, topics, individuals, etc. Perhaps this will be possible. I've already been very impressed with the OCR advancements I've seen on other systems. Anyway, I have always been intrigued by Concept Maps, and would love to see new ways of applying them to legal document review and analysis during eDiscovery.Referred by Law.com.
