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StoredIQ Releases Desktop Agent

StoredIQ has released the StoredIQ Desktop Agent, a central management console that collects e-mails and files from remote offices and mobile users. The network-friendly storage agents can be uninstalled after the e-discovery project is completed. Full release here.

Act Litigation Adds New Data Processing Lab

Act Litigation Services has opened a 14,000 square-foot facility in its California headquarters to help it process more data. The company says the lab triples the number of Windows 2003 servers and increases the number of SAN and NAS storage devices. Full release here.

DTI to Sponsor Ga-CLE Event for In-House Counsel

Document Technologies Inc. has announced that it will sponsor a Ga-CLE event called "Corporate ESI & E-Discovery" on June 26 in Atlanta at the Villa Christina resort. Six CLE credits may be earned at the event. Full release here.

FTI Webinar on Search Technology for EDD

FTI Consulting Inc. has announced that its FTI Technology division will hold a webinar on June 23 at 1pm. The webinar, "The Myth and Promise of Search Technology for E-Discovery" will feature Vivian Terro of IDC and Joe Looby, senior managing director of FTI Technology as speakers. Full release here.

Forensics Consulting Solutions Offers Clearwell's 4.5 EDD Platform

Forensics Consulting Solutions announced the addition of Clearwell's upgraded 4.5 e-discovery platform and the Clearwell Mobile Solution to its offerings. Clearwell's upgrade includes support for multiple languages during processing as well as "stop word indexing" to help with search and analysis. Full release here.

ABA Releases Latest Edition of Kroll Ontrack's Book

The American Bar Association has released the newest edition of Electronic Evidence and Discovery: What Every Lawyer Should Know Now. The book, by Kroll Ontrack’s Michele Lange, director of legal technologies, and Kristin Nimsger, president, provides legal professionals with a guide to the legal and technology issues involved in e-discovery. 

Providing analysis of new case law and e-discovery cases, it helps provide a guide for e-discovery cases to come. Lange and Nimsger also discuss how legal and IT teams can collaborate to manage e-discovery requests. Full release here.

iConect Adds In-House TIFF-On-The-Fly

iConect Development has added TIFF-on-the-fly and in-house .tiff production capability to reduce review time. The company says that the TIFF-on-the-fly and native file viewer streamline workflow by helping legal teams annotate and redact native files without needing to create .tiff files first. 

A dedicated TIFFing server and iConect’s Offline Proudction program help users print or package production sets outside of iConectNxt, so that Nxt system performance is not affected. Full release here.

kCura Releases Relativity 5.0

KCura has released version 5.0 of its Relativity document review and management tool. The upgrade adds improved analytics and clustering based on Content Analyst’s CAAT technology. Users now have the ability to sort documents and then browse the results of a search by concept. 

The upgrade also adds an integrated transcript viewer, which helps users search transcripts along with other documents. The company says that the transcripts will also have a hyperlinked word index in the viewer. Custom layouts, views, and searches help reviewers maintain their own search and code interfaces. Full release here.

LitWorks Offers Custom Web-Based Training

DTI’s LitWorks has announced its custom web-based team training in addition to its existing training program. The cmpany says that the course is designed for both large and small litgation support departments and is custom-designed to focus on the areas most important to each class. 

The company’s traditional courses include Certified Litigation Support Professional Training, for staff with one to five years of litigation support experience and a three-day Certified Litigation Support Manager Training course. Full release here.

Iris Data Releases Unify 2.x

Iris Data Services has upgraded its Unify 2.x document review platform. Joseph Ziegler, the company’s director of technical services, says that the upgrade replaces the software’s search engine with a distributed enterprise indexing engine. 

Ziegler also says that the engine creates targeted indexing, which helps to pre-index data and then update the index on the fly based on changes during the review process. He also says that each project is isolated in its own database with a dedicated server cluster, which can help them grow from small projects to large projects. Full release here.