Why Clearwell for E-Discovery?

Fortune 500 companies, law firms, and government agencies have accelerated early case assessments, culled-down data by up to 90%, increased review throughput and consistency, reduced movement of data across multiple, disparate tools, and improved the defensibility of their e-discovery process using the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform. All of these customers have achieved a significant ROI—often after only a single case.

In one real-world example, a large financial services customer recently utilized the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform to analyze the data for 10 custodians, which amounted to 456,448 documents and 50 gigabytes. By utilizing Clearwell’s market-leading cull-down and analysis capabilities in-house, the company was able to easily cull-down the case data set from 456,448 documents (50 gigabytes), to 600 documents (5 gigabytes) in only 2 days. As a result, Clearwell saved the company $81,000 in processing costs.

These results and more are similar to the value realized by other Clearwell customers such as British Petroleum (BP), Cisco, Coca-Cola, Del Monte, FedEx, Johnson & Johnson, NBC Universal, and Transatlantic Reinsurance. In addition to the hard-dollar cost savings from lower processing costs, Clearwell also delivered the following benefits to the company:

• Faster early case assessments: The Clearwell E-Discovery Platform can be shipped overnight and be installed and up and running in 25 minutes. Moreover, Clearwell’s rapid processing enables legal and investigative teams to start analyzing the data within just a few hours.
• Lower review costs: Clearwell’s cull-down and analysis capabilities not only lower processing costs, but they also lower review workload and affiliated cost. Reducing review workload has been proven to be more effective in reducing review cost than trying to increase review speed.
• Increase reviewer productivity: Clearwell’s review features are designed to accelerate the document review process by increasing the number of document actions per hour and improving consistency.
• Consolidate multiple, disparate tools: Clearwell provides filtering, processing, analysis, review, redaction, and production in a single, integrated product, eliminating the need for import and export of data between multiple tools, reducing manual errors, and lowering the overall cost and duration of e-discovery.
• Enhance defensibility of e-discovery: Clearwell’s unique Transparent Search features enable a more defensible and collaborative e-discovery search process—a critical benefit given recent cases such as Victor Stanley v. Creative Pipe.
• Ease of use: Feedback from in-house counsels, attorneys, paralegals, and contract reviewers across all of our customers has been unanimous: they love the easy-to-use user interface. They are able to be productive immediately without days of training.
• Lowest total cost of ownership: The Clearwell E-Discovery Platform is a turnkey appliance that includes all the hardware and software needed for e-discovery. The integrated solution requires very little ongoing maintenance, and is supported by a world-class support organization.