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

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

/by Jeffrey Wolff

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

/by Jeffrey Wolff