July 1, 2011 – Inventus, a Relativity Premium Hosting Partner, recently announced the launch of inVerito, a workflow used within Relativity to help legal teams quickly sort out large amounts of irrelevant data early into the review phase of e-discovery. Combined with Inventus’s recently released integration of their own data processing software with Relativity, the workflow allows users to further improve the speed and quality of document review, while reducing costs.

To read the full press release, click here.

June 28, 2011 – De Novo Legal, a leading provider of integrated e-discovery solutions, recently announced that they have been named a Relativity Best in Service partner for a second year. kCura is pleased to recognize De Novo Legal’s outstanding commitment to the service and support of Relativity, and we’re also proud to have them offering Method as an on-demand solution for legal hold management.

To learn more about De Novo Legal’s Relativity and Method offerings, click here.
 

June 27, 2011 - Custom software solutions developers Milyli recently released Relay, an application that allows users to import documents and data directly from a processing engine into Relativity. Relay eliminates many of the manual configuration steps typically required during the import process to save time, lower the risk of error, and simplify the transition between e-discovery processing and document review.

By connecting Relativity to external processing engines, Relay eliminates the need to export and import load files. Relay can be scheduled to automatically import data into Relativity on a recurring basis, providing users with documents as they’re ready for review. It also tracks imported documents and creates error logs to help users quickly identify issues.

A securable application integrated with Relativity, Relay is an example of the many ways in which developers are leveraging Relativity’s APIs to solve problems beyond review.  For more information about Relay, please click here or contact sales@milyli.com. 

June 22, 2011 – kCura’s president and CEO, Andrew Sieja, was recently profiled in About.com’s Entrepreneurs Guide. In the profile, Andrew discusses kCura’s transition from consulting firm to software development company, the motivation for changing kCura’s business model, and his future plans for the company. He also offers a few tips to fellow entrepreneurs.

To read the full profile, click here. For more about kCura, check out this video.

June 20, 2011 – Interested in learning more about best practices for planning defensible legal holds? Please join kCura on Wednesday, June 22 at 1:00 p.m. CDT for a complimentary, educational webcast sponsored by Method, kCura’s legal hold management application that runs on Relativity.
 
This 60-minute webcast will feature insight from a panel of industry experts on steps to consider before sending a legal hold notice. The session can help corporate counsel and e-discovery attorneys to develop best practices for recognizing legal hold obligations, understanding the scope of legal holds, and building a defensible plan for managing holds. Highlights include:

•    Identifying the litigation hold trigger
•    Determining key custodians
•    Interviewing system administrators who may deal with relevant data
•    Figuring out how information is being stored
•    Setting up an economically viable preservation plan
•    Presenting the preservation plan to opposing counsel

Panelists:

•    Aaron Crews, e-Discovery Counsel, Littler Mendelson P.C.
•    Ken List, Product Manager - Method

Enroll today at West LegalEdcenter. CLE credits are available for attending the webcast.

June 15, 2011 - As of last week, Relativity 7 is available. This release requires users to install a new Relativity viewer and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0. To make the upgrade process as smooth as possible for you and your users, both the viewer and .NET 4.0 should be installed before upgrading to Relativity 7.

You can download the Viewer Installation Kit here or from the Relativity Customer Portal to install both the viewer and .NET 4.0.

The new viewer engine improves native file viewing through better rendering of PDFs and certain types of email files, as well as allowing for expansion of hidden columns in Excel spreadsheets.

If you have any questions about installing the viewer or .NET 4.0 to upgrade to Relativity 7, please contact kCura Client Services by phone at (312) 676-5099 or email at support@kcura.com.

 

June 14, 2011 – In Monday’s SearchITChannel.com article, titled “Managed Services Meets e-Discovery,” John Moore described the growing trend of organizations bringing e-discovery in house to mitigate litigation costs. One way he mentioned that corporations and law firms are doing this is through Relativity Certified Resellers, Relativity partners who offer Relativity as an in-house solution. Resellers provide their clients with flexible deployment and support options, along with local training, maintenance, and project management services.

Click here to read the full article. Click here to learn more about the Relativity Certified Reseller program.
 

June 14, 2011 – UnitedLex, a Kansas-based e-discovery services provider, posted a press release about their recent successes with Relativity and how they are using the platform to help clients.  As a Relativity Premium Hosting Partner, UnitedLex offers hosting and document review services to law firms and corporations worldwide.  For more information, click here to read the entire press release.

June 13, 2011 – Evidence Exchange, a New York-based provider of e-discovery services and a Relativity Best in Service partner, recently released a case study describing the benefits they provided to a client by integrating Equivio’s EmailThreads tool with Relativity.

Entitled “Reuniting Scattered Documents for More Efficient Review: An Evidence Exchange Case Study,” the article explains how Evidence Exchange used Equivio>EmailThreads to identify and group related email conversations among 250,000 records, prior to e-discovery review. This process reduced the number of unique document clusters by nearly 70%, drastically cutting down on review time and improving the accuracy of coding decisions made in Relativity.

The integration of Equivio>EmailThreads with Relativity was seamless, and Evidence Exchange now provides the software integration to multiple clients to help them speed and simplify document review.

To view the full case study, click here (PDF link).
 

June 9, 2011 – In a recent MSPmentor article on e-discovery software options for managed services providers (MSPs), John Moore explains how kCura’s independent software vendor (ISV) partners are leveraging Relativity to solve a wide range of e-discovery challenges beyond review, analysis, and production. By using Relativity’s APIs to integrate their products with the platform, these ISVs are able to combine best-of-breed solutions to optimize the e-discovery experience.

To read the full article, click here. To learn more about the Relativity Developer Program, click here.