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


ZyLAB Launches Legal Hold Solution
Enhanced platform now available for sending and tracking of legal hold notices continuing in ZyLAB’s methodology focusing on ease of use.

TYSONS, Virginia, January 25, 2021: ZyLAB, manufacturer of ZyLAB ONE eDiscovery, announced the launch of its new Legal Hold application for corporations and governments.

A legal (or litigation) hold is a notification sent by an organization’s legal department to inform employees of current or pending litigation that will impact their handling of electronically stored information (ESI) pertinent to the case. Many corporations today still issue legal holds manually and painfully track responses via spreadsheets.

ZyLAB Legal Hold provides an easy-to-use Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that allows organizations to deploy a fully-configured legal hold management system within their enterprise within hours. Custom message templates, automated reminders, custodian questionnaires and the ability to automatically integrate and synchronize with their corporate directory eliminates risk and vastly increases the efficiency for corporate legal teams to manage their hold process.

“ZyLAB ONE Legal Hold truly completes our next-generation SaaS offering to the eDiscovery community. It brings together best-of-breed infrastructure and security with ease-of-use for our customers and tightly integrates to our collection and review platform.” says Dennis van der Veeke, CEO of ZyLAB.

“Our new application was built from the ground-up to streamline the legal hold process for corporations who routinely have to notify and manage hold tracking.” says Jeffrey Wolff, Director of Legal Technology for ZyLAB. “Real-time dashboards along with detailed reporting and a self-service custodian portal will vastly reduce the amount of time organizations spend on this often manual process.“

ZyLAB Legal Hold is available now to organizations in North America.

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


ZyLAB Adds Audio Review to eDiscovery
Audio and video analysis will enhance the ZyLAB ONE platform and provide new abilities for its users across all markets

TYSONS, Virginia, January 25, 2021: ZyLAB, manufacturer of ZyLAB ONE eDiscovery, announced the integration of Intelligent Voice Audio Review to their platform.

Intelligent Voice’s solution is already successfully helping law firms and government agencies around the world to ingest, transcribe, analyze and review vast amounts of audio, in a secure environment, freeing up valuable lawyer time and cutting down on costs. By automatically transcribing and indexing audio and video files, the new combined solution makes audio review as easy as reviewing any other document. The new enhancement lets users ingest and search vast quantities of audio securely using Intelligent Voice’s unique ultra-high-speed GPU-powered speech recognition algorithms. Working across more than a dozen languages and dialects, IV’s market leading SmartTranscript™ technology cuts review time by 70%.

“Audio files and video recordings make up a large part of the data that needs to be reviewed in legal fact-finding missions.” says Yaron Goldstein, Chief Technology Officer at ZyLAB. “The integration of IV’s speech review software in our eDiscovery platform allows our customers to directly review these video and audio files, saving them valuable time in the review process.” Nigel Cannings, Chief Technology Officer of Intelligent Voice states “We believe that ZyLAB’s approach to audio and video review places them in a leadership position in the eDiscovery space, and we are delighted to be working with them.”

Audio Review will be available shortly to all ZyLAB ONE customers in both the North American and European markets and will be priced by the amount of audio hours 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

About Intelligent Voice
Intelligent Voice Limited is a global leader in the development of proactive compliance and eDiscovery technology solutions for voice, video and other media. Its clients include government agencies, banks, securities firms, Call-Centres, litigation support providers, international consultancy, advisory businesses and insurers, all involved in the management of risk and meeting of multi-jurisdictional regulation. Visit www.intelligentvoice.com for more information.
TYSONS, Virginia, January 25, 2021: ZyLAB, manufacturer of ZyLAB ONE eDiscovery, announced the integration of Intelligent Voice Audio Review to their platform.

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


iManage, the company dedicated to transforming how professionals work, today announced that Walder Wyss Ltd. – one of the most successful and fastest growing Swiss commercial law firms – is using iManage Knowledge Unlocked, powered by RAVN, to transform their approach to knowledge management.

iManage Knowledge Unlocked puts knowledge in the hands of the users with 7 ways to search across iManage Work and other systems. It helps users discover new content and insights, identify similar matters or motions, highlight relevant content, and provide updated intelligence on legal principles while respecting security and confidentiality that is so important to the industry. When integrated with powerful business intelligence tools like Microsoft Power BI, it provides Knowledge teams with powerful analytics that enable content to be kept relevant, fresh and additional resources added that meet the needs of the users.

Walder Wyss can instantly see data around which members of the firm are actively using the knowledge management system, what type of searches users are carrying out, what type of results are being returned, and where there might be gaps in content or other areas that require attention to optimize knowledge flow. This enables the firm’s knowledge management team to make statistical connections between users and data.

Identifying “power users” assists in the effort to expand usage across the organization, to uncover and replicate best-practices, and to create best practice document templates. Data regarding what documents and knowledge are not being accessed also provides deep and valuable insights for improvements of how documents can be refined to better meet the expectations and needs of the firm’s lawyers.

Rather than relying on anecdotal evidence about what knowledge assets its professionals find most valuable, the knowledge management team at Walder Wyss is now able to use data to determine how people are using the system. This supports an ongoing process of quality improvement to guide the investment in the knowledge content, enabling the team to make better decisions and deliver higher quality service, driving competitive advantage for the firm.

“Lawyers are busy people – most of them don’t have time to tell us how they’ve been using the knowledge management system,” said Urs Bracher, Legal Engineer and Head of KM at Walder Wyss. “Having Knowledge Unlocked means that we don’t have to guess or rely on just a few lawyers telling us what type of knowledge management assets they find most useful, or where they need more help. We can look at the data and have insights into users’ needs that allow us to better address their requirements.”

The Appeal of a Platform Approach

“We were already using iManage Work as our document management system, so it made a lot of sense to use Knowledge Unlocked for our knowledge management system,” said Lorenz Reinle, Assistant Know-how and Legal Tech at Walder Wyss. “It was a natural extension of our usage of the iManage platform, and iManage is recognized as a leader in the international market, which helped simplify the decision.”

Since going live on Knowledge Unlocked earlier this year, Walder Wyss has rolled it out to all six of its offices in Switzerland. Eventually, there will be nearly 300 users who will use the iManage solution to search and access more than 7,000 knowledge assets within the knowledge management system, and several million documents within iManage Work.

“Knowledge is only as good as your users’ ability to tap into it,” Nick Thomson, General Manager, RAVN, iManage. “Walder Wyss’ usage of Knowledge Unlocked enables them to truly leverage their work product and enhance the effectiveness of their curated knowledge assets, allowing them to continually improve knowledge management processes and outcomes for their users.”

 


iManage Delivers Enhanced User Experience and Extended Capabilities for Distributed and Mobile Working


The Session, Featuring Software Company Legal Experts, Will Reveal How AI Can Increase Productivity by 50% or More for Corporate Legal Departments

HOUSTON, January 19, 2021 – Onit, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise workflow solutions, including enterprise legal management, contract lifecycle management and business process automation, today announced that experts from Onit and Adobe will present on AI and contract management at the first session of 2021 for Legalweek(year). The CLE-eligible virtual discussion, scheduled for Tuesday, February 2, at 3:45 p.m. EST and titled “The Potential Impact of AI on Managing Contracts,” will center on the challenges of contract drafting and review and how AI and automation can address them.

The pandemic has underscored the growing need for efficiency and cost savings for corporate legal departments. Contract management is a process ripe for digital transformation, as manually reviewing and drafting contracts can take up to 70% of an in-house legal department’s time. When AI is properly and strategically applied, the results can be substantial. For example, in a recent study, new AI users became 35% more efficient with their time and 51.5% more productive and users discovered cost reductions of 33% related to contract processing.

A panel of experts will tackle this topic, examining the impact of AI and automation on contract lifecycle management. They’ll also discuss how lawyers can dramatically streamline many activities typical of contract work, such as redlining, comparing clauses to corporate standards and ensuring that fine details comply with corporate policy. The speakers include:

  • Stasha Jain, Vice President of Legal and Compliance for Onit, an attorney with extensive experience for organizations including Onit, ZS Associates, Hewitt Associates and Venture Law Group
  • Nick Whitehouse, General Manager of the Onit AI Center of Excellence, an AI expert focused on digital transformation for legal organizations
  • Jean Yang, Vice President of the Onit AI Center of Excellence, a technologist who began her career as a solicitor and was named the Emerging ICT Leader of the Year 2019
  • Letitia Hsu, CIPP/US, Associate Legal Counsel, Adobe Inc., in-house counsel within Adobe’s product legal group with experience in privacy, data security and intellectual property matters

To register for Legalweek(year) visit here.

Onit, AI and Contract Lifecycle Management

Onit recently launched two new AI-enabled technologies. Precedent, an artificial intelligence platform, reads, writes and reasons like a lawyer while automating and improving legal and business processes. ReviewAI uses artificial intelligence to quickly review, redline and edit all types of contracts. Nonlegal business users can automatically receive approved contracts via email or a self-service portal in less than two minutes. Lawyers and contract professionals can use the ReviewAI Word Add-in to automatically review, redline and edit contracts, including NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, purchase agreements, lease agreements and more against corporate standards. To schedule a demo or learn more, visit here.

Visit Onit During Legalweek(year)

Legalweek(year) attendees are invited to join exclusive demonstrations of Onit’s AI and automation technologies. Onit will be holding group and individual product demonstrations of ReviewAI and Precedent, as well as its solutions for Contract Lifecycle Management, Enterprise Legal Management and Legal Service Request. Email marketing@onit.com for more information or to schedule an appointment.

About Onit     

Onit is a global leader of workflow and artificial intelligence platforms and solutions for legal, compliance, sales, IT, HR and finance departments. With Onit, companies can transform best practices into smarter workflows, better processes and operational efficiencies. With a focus on enterprise legal management, matter management, spend management, contract lifecycle management and legal holds, the company operates globally and helps transform the way Fortune 500 companies and billion-dollar corporate legal departments bridge the gap between systems of record and systems of engagement. Onit helps customers find gains in efficiency, reduce costs and automate transactions faster. For more information, visit www.onit.com or call 1-800-281-1330.


Delivering legal technology and service provider announcements to the media

Minneapolis, MN, and New York, NY – January 8, 2021 – Edge Legal Marketing announced today that its virtual press room, The Edge Room, is open for Legalweek(year) 2021. Beginning today, exhibitors and sponsors may create their company’s profile page, featuring their logo, recent press releases, breaking news announcements, articles, white papers, images, social profiles and other marketing materials they wish to share with legal professionals and media virtually attending Legalweek(year), before, during and after the event.

The Edge Room enables members of the media to more easily plan and prioritize briefings and coverage of breaking news. Media representatives interested in covering Legalweek(year) can apply for a press pass here

The Edge Room includes features for sponsors, exhibitors and prequalified members of the media such as:

  • Expanded reach via social sharing to The Edge Room’s LinkedIn and Twitter pages
  • Increased opportunity for featured mention in The Edge Room’s Daily Alert emails that reach nearly 9,000 legal professional subscribers
  • Automated event hashtagging for social media so your company is included in the Legalweek(year) conversations
  • Increased brand exposure by including posting to The Edge Room blog
  • Easy image uploading, including bulk uploads

Amy Juers, founder and CEO of Edge Legal Marketing, states, “The Edge Room has been brought to you by Edge Legal Marketing since 2007, but this is the first time it is being deployed for a virtual Legalweek-type of conference. Our goal has been and will always be to get breaking news and conference announcements in front of legal tech media contacts. This service is free to exhibitors and sponsors and provides the best avenue for getting important company news into the right hands.” 

Legalweek(year) 2021, Virtual Series 1, will be held February 2-4, 2021, and will bring together thousands of legal professionals for a series of five innovative virtual legal events that tackle the changing legal landscape and provide actionable insights to help legal leaders restructure, rebuild and reinvigorate today’s law firms and legal departments.

The Edge Room is a modern take on the traditional trade show press room. ALM partners with Edge Legal Marketing to offer this convenient service to conference exhibitors and prequalified members of the media. 

Edge Legal Marketing grants login credentials to qualified members of its proprietary legal and mainstream media database, providing exclusive access to previews of exhibitors’ announcements and company information. 

The Edge Room also includes additional exposure for exhibitors via its social media outlets on Twitter (#Legalweek21, #Legalweekyear, @Legalweekshow) and LinkedIn, or individuals and companies can follow Legalweek(year) via Twitter. Press releases can be automatically posted on The Edge Room blog, which is configured to help companies boost their social media presence and search engine optimization. 

If you have questions, please email Tanya Amyote at tamyote@edgelegalmarketing.com

About Legalweek

Hosted by ALM, Legalweek(year) will bring together thousands of legal professionals for a series of five innovative virtual legal events that tackle the changing legal landscape and provide actionable insights to help legal leaders restructure, rebuild and reinvigorate today’s law firms and legal departments. The Legalweek(year) virtual series aims to serve as the anchor for the legal community during an unprecedented time, as well as a guide throughout the coming year to inform legal professionals of emerging trends, cutting-edge legal technology and expert analysis of the tectonic shifts in the industry. Please follow us @Legalweekshow.

About ALM

ALM, an information and intelligence company, provides customers with critical news, data, analysis, marketing solutions and events to successfully manage the business of business. ALM serves a community of over six million business professionals seeking to discover, connect and compete in highly complex industries. Please visit www.alm.com for more information, and visit www.alm.com/events/ to learn about our upcoming events. Please follow us on Twitter at @ALMMedia.

About Edge Legal Marketing

Edge Legal Marketing delivers marketing and public relations expertise to entities in the legal market. From startups to global operations, companies and law firms trust Edge to facilitate and nurture strong relationships with media, event and association stakeholders and to convey their stories strategically to the legal market. Through igniting relationships with legal reporters and analyst firms or increasing brand awareness in a new market segment or industry, Edge has the skills and depth to be a trusted advisor. Edge is an expert at filling the lead pipeline, helping pull prospects through the marketing funnel and building loyal advocates and followers. Edge leverages traditional and unique strategies that yield the best results for their clients’ bottom line. Edge is the largest and most experienced full-service global legal marketing and public relations agency. To learn more visit www.edgelegalmarketing.com


Minneapolis, MN – April 22, 2020 – Accounting Edge Marketing, award-winning public relations and marketing firm serving organizations in the accounting industry, announced today a strategic partnership with independent news and information source Insightful Accountant and Tax Practice News.

Accounting Edge Marketing will provide smart, strategic and practical content for Tax Practice News, the sister publication to Insightful Accountant. Topics covered include practice management, practice development, technology, workflow and other topics that are relevant for today’s tax professionals focused on growing their businesses and serving their clients. The newsletter is delivered once per week to tax professionals across the country.

“The team at Edge is thrilled about this new partnership,” shares Amy Juers, CEO and founder of Accounting Edge Marketing. “Edge’s award-winning account managers and public relations experts have worked in-house for accounting firms, vendors or both. We have gained unparalleled insight, enabling us to assist our clients with intelligent, nimble and multifaceted services, including content creation and design, marketing and PR. We look forward to bringing unsurpassed content and services to Insightful Accountant’s readers and developers.”

“This relationship will help fill a big need with our advertising base since content marketing and design services are an essential part of everything we offer,” states Bob Allard, VP of business development and partner at Insightful Accountant.

“This partnership is the brainchild of Bob Allard,” Gary DeHart, publisher and managing partner at Insightful Accountant, shares. “He works with the large majority of our clients and is regularly asked whether we can assist or recommend a PR and marketing firm for short- and long-term projects. We were impressed with the level of service Accounting Edge Marketing has provided clients when we have worked with them in the past, so we look forward to working with them to bring their services to our customers in this strategic partnership.”

Since 2007, Edge has provided services to its clients by leveraging its agency expertise and strategic relationships, becoming the largest and most influential agency in the accounting channel. This partnership with Insightful Accountant further solidifies Edge’s commitment to increasing its presence and brand recognition as an industry leader in the accounting market.

Subscribe to Tax Practice News here to keep up to date on the latest technology, laws, regulations and news going on in the tax branch of accounting.

 

About Accounting Edge Marketing

Accounting Edge Marketing, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, delivers marketing and public relations expertise to clients in the accounting market. The company helps B2B organizations promote and sell their products and services to audience segments within the industry, including accounting firms and organizations supporting the accounting market. As a full-service agency, Edge provides strategic planning, public relations, marketing and e-marketing action plans, alliance building, website development, market research and advertising (concept and media plans). To learn more visit https://www.accountingedgemarketing.com/.

About Insightful Accountant

Georgia-based Insightful Accountant is written specifically for the small business advisor who needs to stay current on the latest news and offerings in accounting technology, including updates from Intuit, Xero, Sage and the hundreds of add-on products serving the small business ecosystem. With news and insight specifically written to help the advisor better serve clients while building the firm, Insightful Accountant is unlike any other news source serving this space. https://www.intuitiveaccountant.com/

About Tax Practice News

Tax Practice News is the sister publication to Insightful Accountant, which offers a website and newsletter of resources specific to the tax professional. Topics covered include practice management, practice development, technology, workflow and other topics that are relevant for today’s tax professional who is focused on growing business and serving clients. The newsletter is delivered once per week to tax professionals across the country. https://taxpracticenews.com/

 

Media Contact:

Vicki LaBrosse
Director of Global Public Relations
Accounting Edge Marketing
vlabrosse@accountingedgemarketing.com
651.552.7753

 


Partnership further drives award-winning marketing and PR firm’s global expansion

Minneapolis and London – February 13, 2020 – Edge Legal Marketing, a US-based public relations and marketing firm serving the needs of organizations in the legal and accounting industries, announced today a strategic partnership with Saltmarsh Marketing. London-based Saltmarsh Marketing delivers a range of marketing solutions to disruptive legal services businesses. Edge and Saltmarsh will work together to serve clients that require marketing and public relations services in both the US and UK.

Since 2007, Edge has provided services to its legal and accounting industry clients targeting the US and UK market by leveraging its agency expertise and strategic relationships. This partnership solidifies Edge’s commitment to increasing its international presence beyond the US to expanded markets through additional strategic partnerships. International partnerships not only afford Edge clients access to global markets, but also strengthen its global services by leveraging its partners’ experience, relationships, proven procedures and protocols as well as their professional teams.

“The legal sector continues to dramatically evolve, and there are many opportunities for businesses delivering legal services in new and innovative ways. We are looking forward to supporting the promotion of such businesses in the UK marketplace,” says Helen Burness, director at Saltmarsh Marketing.

“We are thrilled about this partnership and to have Helen’s connections and creative spirit at our fingertips,” states Amy Juers, MBA, CEO of Edge Legal Marketing. “Edge has had several requests recently for international marketing support, and we plan on leveraging our global network of partners to become a leading force in the UK market and beyond. We are proud to be a part of the Saltmarsh network as well and look forward to making a difference together for our clients.”

Edge and Saltmarsh’s strategic partnership is designed to remove the significant challenges typically present when clients want to reach markets beyond their home country’s boundaries. Clients that leverage Edge and Saltmarsh’s partnership will experience the following:

  • Localization of messaging and content that will resonate with each respective market and each respective buyer
  • Cognizant and strategic cross-border marketing and public relations services that take into consideration the target audience, the legal system, culture and language
  • Increased resources and expanded knowledge of the global market
  • Leveling the playing field against established players in the global market
  • The ability to compete against larger multinational enterprises with a broader reach
  • Critical resource and budget management when running in the race to exploit market expansion

Agencies around the globe that service the legal or accounting industries and would like to consider a strategic global partnership with Edge should reach out to Amy Juers at ajuers@edgelegalmarketing.com.

About Edge Legal Marketing

Edge Legal Marketing delivers marketing and public relations expertise to entities in the legal market. The company helps B2B businesses market and sell their products and services to corporate legal departments, law firms, federal and state courts and legal associations. Edge Legal Marketing services include strategic planning, marketing and e-marketing action plans, alliance building, website development, market research, public relations and advertising (concept and media plans). To learn more visit www.edgelegalmaketing.com.

About Saltmarsh

Saltmarsh Marketing provides legal marketing solutions to a range of clients with a particular focus on those who are breaking the mould and driving positive change in the growing legal economy.

Media Contacts:

Vicki LaBrosse
Director of Global Public Relations
Edge Legal Marketing
vlabrosse@edgelegalmarketing.com
651.552.7753

Helen Burness
Director
Saltmarsh Marketing
helen@saltmarsh.marketing
+44 7957 423277


ContractPodAi®, the award-winning provider of AI-powered contract lifecycle management software, will provide attendees with the tools they need to more effectively manage contracts during Legalweek New York at the New York Hilton Midtown. The company will showcase its contract management solution at booth #221, Feb. 4-6, as well as present and moderate panels inspiring improved contract management and technology understanding.

ContractPodAi will present at the Legaltech LITE Stage and moderate three panels during the course of the event with leading industry experts:

  • Deirdre Leone, VP Sales, Americas, will present on the Legaltech LITE Stage, “Streamline your Legal Process with Contract Lifecycle Management” on Tues.,  Feb. 4 at 11:00 a.m.
  • Deirdre Leone, VP Sales, Americas, will moderate the panel “Undoing the Pain of Contract Remediation with AI” on Wed., Feb. 5 at 11:00 a.m.
  • Charles Dimov, VP, Global Marketing, will moderate the panel “How Much of Contracts Still Require Manual Review” on Wed., Feb. 5, at 1:30 p.m.
  • Derek Karpel, Senior Account Executive, will moderate the panel “Moneyballing with a Killer Contract Analytics Department” on Wed., Feb. 5 at 3:00 p.m.

Building on the show’s theme of “Driving Legal Forward,” ContractPodAi’s team of contract management experts will be on hand at booth #221 in Rhinelander Hall to discuss the importance of artificial intelligence in contract automation and the recently launched Auto-Contract Desk feature. Attendees can also receive a customized report on the status of their contract lifecycle management process by completing a brief questionnaire.

Come meet our @contractpodai contract management specialists today! http://ow.ly/jGDJ50y81Vk