Equivio significantly reduces the cost of legal discovery. In live cases for major law firms and corporations, Equivio has been able to reduce litigation review costs by 30-50%. By clustering groups of near-duplicate documents, Equivio slashes the litigation review effort. In major cases, Equivio generates review cost savings of millions of dollars.

Equivio enables a much more efficient review process, as in this example of a set of very similar NDAs:

• By grouping the near-duplicates, Equivio allows these NDAs to be assigned to a specific attorney or team for review. The result: a systematic, coherent review process
• The attorney would start by reading one of the NDA's - this is the "pivot" document
• If the attorney finds the pivot of no relevance, he can skip the remaining documents in the set
• Otherwise, if the attorney decides to review all the documents in the set, he can just review the differences in each document vis-à-vis the pivot

Equivio creates a compelling ROI in both electronic and paper-based discovery scenarios. In paper-based cases, in which the collection is created by OCR processing, OCR errors render standard de-duplication (based on CRC or MD5 hash algorithm) ineffective. Indeed, OCR collections typically show zero exact duplicates - while there may be multiple exact copies of the same document in the set, the digitized files will invariably have small differences. By grouping near-duplicates, many companies are using Equivio as a substitute for standard de-duping in paper-based situations.

Equivio creates benefits for all players in the legal discovery arena, including corporate legal departments, law firms, service bureaus, system integrators and litigation support software vendors:

By slashing the review effort related to near-duplicate files, Equivio significantly reduces the growing cost burden of responding to data requests.

In many cases, it is not possible to review all the documents in the given time window. Equivio enables prioritized review via the pivot document in each near-duplicate set.

Equivio reduces review errors and oversights. Rather than the randomized review of individual documents across multiple teams of attorneys, the near-duplicate sets ensure coherent review. Furthermore, by comparing differences within the set, the user is immediately directed to the specific value-added information in each document.

Equivio ensures consistent treatment - such as, coding of privileged or responsive documents - for near-duplicate files.

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