LOS ANGELES, Calif. – January 27, 2021 – ProSearch, a leading provider of comprehensive discovery and compliance solutions to corporate legal departments and law firms, will offer two legal technology sessions as part of the Legalweek(year) 2021. Legalweek(year) will bring together thousands of legal professionals for a series of innovative virtual legal events that provide actionable insights to help legal leaders restructure, rebuild and reinvigorate today’s law firms and legal departments.

The one-hour panel discussion “TAR Solutions for a New Decade: A Data Science Approach” will be presented virtually on February 3, 2021, at 3 p.m. EST.

“Ever-growing data collections demand faster, more accurate ways to identify responsive material for discovery review,” says Gina Taranto, Ph.D., director of applied sciences and accelerated learning solutions at ProSearch. Taranto will moderate a panel discussion to explore the landscape of technology-assisted review options and reveal how data scientists are advancing sampling techniques and statistical methods to create the future of TAR. The panel of eDiscovery and litigation experts will include:

  • Jennifer Hope Bernstein, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
  • Staci Kaliner, Managing Director, Redgrave LLP
  • David Li, Ph.D., Manager of Linguistics, Analytics and Data Science at ProSearch

ProSearch data privacy expert Ryan Costello will host a facilitated discussion on data privacy and cybersecurity, on February 3 at 10:15 a.m. EST. The virtual session “Like Juggling Sand – Mitigating data privacy risk in Discovery” will explore how data privacy regulations have increased complexity in eDiscovery and solutions for mitigating data privacy risk.

Event agendas, registration and CLE information are available on the Legalweek(year) website.

 

About ProSearch

ProSearch enables corporations and law firms to meet eDiscovery, fraud investigation, compliance and IG requirements at scale with precision and ease. The ProSearch team of consultants, data scientists, linguists, project managers, attorneys and discovery specialists collaborates with clients to execute their matter strategies and ensure on-target, on-budget, on-time delivery. Because discovery is a business process that can be measured, managed and improved, ProSearch offers an Enterprise solution tailored to align with an organization’s business goals by providing operational excellence that transforms its discovery processes. To learn more visit ProSearch.com.

/by Brian Meegan

iManage, the company dedicated to transforming how professionals work, today announced that Bennett Jones LLP – a top Canadian law firm with more than 500 lawyers and 6 offices across Canada and the United States – has extended its deployment of iManage Work by adopting iManage Knowledge Unlocked, an AI-based enterprise search solution which enables firms to gain more from knowledge management. Having deployed the solution to its legal professionals in June of 2020, the firm has established the foundation to leverage the transformative power of knowledge management across the firm, for the benefit of all their clients.

 

Bennett Jones selected Knowledge Unlocked as a replacement for its previous enterprise search solution, which wasn’t keeping pace with innovation. The firm was particularly drawn to the innovative and collaborative approach of the iManage team and the powerful indexing capabilities of the solution. The Knowledge Unlocked index powers the iManage knowledge graph, which enhances critical connections and builds relationships across its data to securely deliver search results with increased relevancy, contextual accuracy, and speed.

 

The Knowledge Unlocked solution has been branded internally by the firm as ‘Insight Search’. The solution enables Bennett Jones to surface key information from the firm’s most valuable systems like their iManage document management system (DMS), knowledge bank, collection of closing books, and intranet, creating a more streamlined and effective user experience.

 

“At Bennett Jones, we’re thinking long term,” said Kate Simpson, National Director of Knowledge & Practice Innovation at Bennett Jones. “We’re asking: How do we create a tech stack that that allows Bennett Jones to be the best it can be, and to know what it knows? The iManage platform plays a prominent role in providing that foundation and Knowledge Unlocked only strengthens and expands what we’re able to do. Knowledge Unlocked is the first step in an ongoing journey of how we connect and unlock insights across the organization; the opportunities are multifold.”

 

Since launching Insight Search to its legal professionals, Bennett Jones has continued to pilot new functionality from iManage that the firm will be able to take advantage of in coming quarters to deepen its ability to leverage organizational knowledge.

 

“Bennett Jones’ usage of Knowledge Unlocked is fully keeping in spirit with its longstanding investment in knowledge management and technology infrastructure to promote collaboration, increase productivity, and drive efficiencies for its clients,” said Alex Smith, Global Product Management Lead, iManage RAVN. “With Knowledge Unlocked, Bennett Jones can easily surface precedents, insights, and best practices that give clients access to the full depth of knowledge and expertise of the firm – delivering value to clients in new and efficient ways.”

/by iManage

As the proponents of policy and creators of contracts, it’s well understood that the legal department’s job is, first and foremost, to manage risk. This involves identifying potential legal and regulatory issues as soon as possible, developing a profile of potential legal risks, avoiding those risks with compliance programs, and dealing with the ones that slip through the cracks.

What is perhaps less well understood is how dramatically the concept of “risk” has evolved in recent years. Between digital transformation and technological innovations, new data privacy laws, cyber vulnerabilities, and an increasing spotlight on corporate culture, values and diversity practices — risk management today is not your grandmother’s limitation of liability clause. For today’s legal departments, risk management goes hand-in-hand with data stewardship. What type of information is retained or destroyed is becoming just as important as how information is organized and leveraged. Yet, data disparity is on the rise.

/by Onna

Organizations today use hundreds of apps to communicate, collaborate, and get work done. Each app, however, has become a knowledge silo, making it difficult and time-consuming to find and use the information you need. It also leads to increased legal operational, and regulatory costs and risks.

Onna’s Knowledge Integration Platform enables you to make your enterprise knowledge accessible, useful, and private. Onna connects to all your favorite apps, unifying the information from each into a single platform. Through powerful indexing, classification, machine learning, and natural language processing, our platform helps you identify key information instantaneously.

/by Onna

When we set out with the goal of enabling knowledge workers across dispersed enterprise teams to gain control of their data, we didn’t start small. We knew that if we built a solution that worked for the most onerous, meticulous, and urgent use cases, like eDiscovery, we were on to something.

That’s why we’re thrilled to receive the LegalTech Breakthrough Award for eDiscovery Solution of the Year.

LegalTech Breakthrough selected our Knowledge Integration Platform for its representation of “a new category of legal tech products that doesn’t just “collect data,” but connects, centralizes, indexes, and processes it — transforming data into accessible, secure, and private knowledge.”

/by Onna

Find the data you’re looking for no matter where it lives.

Organizations today use best-of-breed apps to communicate, collaborate, and get work done. While this boosts productivity, it has also created scattered knowledge silos. This makes it difficult and timeconsuming to produce data quickly when faced with discovery requests, litigation, internal investigations, regulatory mandates, and audits. Onna connects to all of the apps you need to collect from, unifying the information from each one into a single Knowledge Integration Platform. Through powerful indexing, classification, machine learning, and natural language processing, you can quickly identify what you need.

Onna eDiscovery powers defensible, targeted data collection across cloud applications, including Slack, GSuite, and Microsoft 365. This means you can confidently collect, search, tag, archive and preserve data for specific users, as well as run custom exports.

/by Onna

Forms, passports, driver’s license, scanned images: ProSearch Privacy Suite uses #deeplearning models built on the latest advancements in #NaturalLanguageProcessing and computer vision techniques to identify protected private information. #DataPrivacy

/by Brian Meegan

Employment disputes are often a driver of DSAR requests: wide in scope, potentially expensive. A new ProSearch white paper offers practical tips to solve the employee DSAR challenge.   #DataPrivacy

/by ProSearch

The LegalVIEW® BillAnalyzer spend evaluation provides a full assessment of your legal spend by identifying strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for cost savings and compliance improvements within your bill review program. By leveraging LegalVIEW, the industry’s benchmark datasets with $140B+ in legal spend, you can be confident in your results. We work with customers of all sizes, from those who have less than $5M to those with greater than $750M in legal spend.

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ZyLAB Insights Added to eDiscovery Platform
New Artificial Intelligence-based functionality automatically performs entity extraction of case data

TYSONS, Virginia, January 25, 2021: ZyLAB, manufacturer of ZyLAB ONE eDiscovery, today launched ZyLAB Insights, a major new enhancement to its solution offering allowing for the automatic extraction of entity information from unstructured datasets.

“ZyLAB Insights represents a major milestone in our ongoing commitment to bring the latest in data science to our customers,” said Dennis van der Veeke, Chief Executive Officer of ZyLAB. “The ability for legal professionals to be able to identify people, places, organizations and other entity types mentioned within their documents and have those references automatically flagged or redacted will greatly enhance the speed with which document review is performed while reducing the risk of unintentionally releasing sensitive or privileged information.”

Named-entity Recognition (NER) or entity extraction is an artificial intelligence-based methodology that locates and classifies named entities mentioned in unstructured text into pre-defined categories. This extracted information is then added to the metadata of the documents and is indexed along with the content to be searchable within the review platform. Users will be able to view, search for and automatically redact the names of people mentioned in documents, for example.

More importantly, this type of enrichment allows for smarter fact-finding within datasets, permitting the users to perform searches such as “PERSON w/5 LOCATION” where any person mentioned in any document within 5 words of any named location is revealed.

ZyLAB Insights will be available shortly to all ZyLAB ONE SaaS customers in both the North American and European markets and will be priced in bundles by the millions of characters indexed.

About ZyLAB
Founded in 1983, ZyLAB is a proven solution partner to legal professionals in corporations, law firms and governments worldwide. Its flagship solution, ZyLAB ONE is an end-to-end eDiscovery system used to facilitate information requests in litigation, regulatory responses, internal investigations and public records. Visit www.zylab.com for more information

Contact information:
1775 Tysons Boulevard, 5th Floor
Tysons, VA, 22102
703-442-2400
sales@zylab.com

/by Jeffrey Wolff