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Clearwell University (CWU)
Sept. 7-9, 2010
Atlanta, GA

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Sept. 8-9, 2010
London SW7 4LH, UK

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Latest Press Releases

GameFly Deploys Clearwell For In-House E-Discovery
August 31, 2010

Fortune 100 Company Signs $3 Million Software Agreement With Clearwell Systems For In-House
E-Discovery
August 24, 2010

Clearwell Enables Faster and Larger-Scale Review With New Release of Clearwell Review Module
August 17, 2010

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Clearwell in the News

	Clearwell Provides Non-Linear Review, Wants to Streamline eDiscovery Workflows 08.20.10—Streamlining workflows is all the rage these days when it comes to eDiscovery. Clearwell’s new Review Module is no exception. It lets users simplify the process of reviewing data by not confining it to one tool at a time.



	A Look Into the Crystal Ball: E-Discovery Predictions and Trends 08.04.10—As many organizations continue to strive to limit costs in response to the recession, they are changing the ways in which they conduct electronic discovery, moving away from a predominantly outsourced approach and bringing core elements of e-discovery in-house. Cover Story by Dean Gonsowski, Esq.



	The Changing Business of Litigation: Early Case Assessment Rises in Prominence 08.04.10—While the legal landscape is fraught with misconceptions about early case assessment (ECA), it is the very thing driving significant changes in how cases are litigated. Clearwell's Dean Gonsowski, Esq., examines this shift and why it is so crucial in e-discovery.



	iClearwell Takes eDiscovery Mobile 07.14.10—Clearwell Systems recently launched iClearwell, a product designed to meet the evolving needs of the enterprise, where the demands of mobile access and security are ever increasing. Not only is it a convenient method for accessing information while on the go, but it also helps to increase efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness, associated with the e-Discovery process.



	How I Got Here: Venkat Rangan, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Clearwell Systems 07.07.10—Through the years, Venkat Rangan has seen it all and from two countries -- and has gained some fascinating insights into advancing up the career ladder, creating an entrepreneurial company, and being an early pioneer in developing software solutions for electronic discovery.



	E-Discovery Is Integral To the Enterprise 07.03.10—Several major forces are driving the e-discovery market, including increases in litigation and the growth of ESI. “As a result, the ad hoc e-discovery processes that were typical in organizations five years ago have been replaced by core processes that are a normal part of business now,” says Kamal Shah, VP of products and marketing at Clearwell. “E-discovery has become a critical business process in the enterprise.”



	Balancing People and Processes with Technology in E-Discovery 06.15.10—Technology is often seen as the savior that will quickly and painlessly fix the problem at hand. Dean Gonsowski, Esq. evaluates the interplay of market-leading technology with the equally important pillars of people and processes in litigation and e-discovery.



	Clearwell Keeps Scaling Its Product and Payroll For Doubled Enterprise Customer Growth 06.10.10—Clearwell Systems leapfrogged its competitors in recent years by creating a whole new market opportunity with its e-discovery appliance. The new product category, early case assessment (ECA), is used by general counsel to cut attorney review costs by culling evidentiary data before handing it off to law firms. ECA's success vaulted the newcomer into enterprise sales, while its e-discovery rivals struggled to gain corporate traction from an early base in law firms.



	Clearwell Upgrades e-Discovery Platform, Adds New Templates 05.26.10—At the beginning of February Clearwell Systems announced that it was in the process of upgrading its e-Discovery platform. That upgrade is now complete and recently v5.5 was released with a number of pre-built templates designed to make e-Discovery relatively easy.



	Clearwell’s Five Storage Landmines to Avoid in E-Discovery 05.21.10—Santa Clara, Calif.-based Clearwell Systems is one of the market leaders in the burgeoning e-discovery software business. There are many aspects to this kind of specialized search which can take legal folks through mountains of stored data, including email, photos, video, financial documents, human-resource records, health records, sales and marketing documents and many others.



	Clearwell Systems Intros Major E-Discovery Blunders to be Avoided by IT Departments 05.18.10—Clearwell Systems, Inc. has announced to introduce a list of the top five e-discovery blunders that enterprises must avoid from an IT and storage perspective.



	TiE Announces TiE50 Winners 05.10.10—TiE, the organizer of TiEcon 2010, the world's largest conference for entrepreneurs, announced the winners of the TiE50 Awards. Selected from among nearly four thousand nominees, and after almost 100 thousand votes, the winners represent the most enterprising companies in five sectors that are driving today's economy: BioSciences, Cleantech, Internet, Software and Wireless. The winners of the TiE50 will be showcased at TiEcon 2010.



	Clearwell’s All-Hands Meetings Help to Elicit Applause 04.30.10—Every two weeks, every employee at Clearwell Systems Inc.’s headquarters in Mountain View stops what they’re doing, leaves their office and gathers around.



	Why TREC Matters to Electronic Data Discovery 04.01.10—The National Institute of Standards and Technology has made significant advances into search technology through the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC). Venkat Rangan, Clearwell co-founder and CTO, addresses the ways in which TREC specifically impacts the e-discovery industry.



	Confusion Carries the Day in E-Discovery 03.22.10—E-discovery vendors are in a difficult spot, trying to differentiate their services from the hundreds of competitors crowding the space. Software vendor Clearwell Systems recently announced its latest software release can processes data at an average rate of 46 gigabytes per hour or 1.08 terabytes per day on a single appliance.



	Simplyfying Risk and Compliance Challenges 03.01.10—Dean Gonsowski, Esq. explains the top cost, risk, and regulatory issues facing the legal industry, as well as a few promising strategies expected to ease the burden.



	Clearwell Views E-Discovery With Ease 02.08.10—"The more I worked with V5.0 the more I was amazed of Clearwell's ability to provide unique insight and transparency to the often mysterious data sets under review in e-discovery. The most noteworthy additions appear in the new pre-processing and review tools."



	Clearwell Systems Offers New Version 02.04.10—This week Clearwell Systems, Inc. announced version 5.5 of its Clearwell E-Discovery Platform, noting the new version can process data at the speed of 1 terabyte per day and scales to 100 million documents on a single appliance. The company says additional appliances can be easily linked together into a Clearwell Cluster and centrally managed via a single, unified interface.



	eDiscovery Appliance Can Process up to 1 Terabyte per Day 02.01.10—What’s faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive and capable of leaping tall buildings in a single bound? Superman, of course, but when it comes to processing data at the speed of 1 terabyte per day and scales to 100 million documents on a single appliance – that’s version 5.5 of Clearwell eDiscovery Platform.



	Clearwell Extends E-Discovery Reach 02.01.10—Clearwell Systems, a provider of appliances for processing e-discovery requests, today will extend the scalability of its core architecture with an upgrade that allows each appliance to handle 100 million documents that can be processed at a rate of 1TB a day.



	Clearwell releases E-Discovery Platform 5.1 01.25.10—Clearwell Systems announced this week the release of version of 5.1 of its E-Discovery Platform product. The newest version helps companies cut down on manual processing time and includes increased support for forensic graphic files, also known as E01 files and Logical Evidence Files (or LEFs). Brian Babineau, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group says companies are looking for ways to bring this type of processing in-house.



	Constellation Energy and Clearwell Systems--Real World Solutions 01.20.10—This week Clearwell Systems, Inc. announced that Constellation Energy, a provider of energy products and services to wholesale and retail electric and natural gas customers, is expanding the use of the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform. Constellation Energy owns a diversified fleet of generating units located in the United States and Canada, totaling approximately 7,100 megawatts of generating capacity, and is among the leaders pursuing the development of new nuclear plants in the United States.



	Microsoft Picks Clearwell for In-House e-Discovery 01.12.10—Clearwell Systems notched a fair-sized win Jan. 12. The company that positions itself as an "intelligent" e-discovery provider, announced that the world's largest software company, Microsoft, has deployed its e-discovery platform as a component of its own in-house e-discovery strategy.