Attenex Corporation is a software developer that specializes in products that improve productivity in document intensive legal processes such as electronic discovery.

"Today, complex litigation requires attorneys to effectively manage hundreds of gigabytes or even terabytes of data in a single matter," said Skip Walter, chief technology officer of Attenex Corporation. "Traditional paper or ‘ePaper’ approaches to electronic discovery are no longer practical or efficient."

To meet these demands, Attenex developed Attenex Patterns software for electronic document review. Attenex Patterns enables reviewers to quickly identify the critical portion of relevant documents. "Typically, at the end of the electronic discovery process, no more than 5% of all of the documents initially identified for review are determined to be relevant," said Walter. "Getting through the other 95% as quickly and accurately as possible is critical to keeping the discovery effort cost-effective." To achieve these ends, the Attenex Patterns E-Discovery Platform includes functions for acquiring and, "fingerprinting" electronic documents, culling exact and "near" duplicate files, and preparing content for review by attorneys.

Attenex provides a means for reviewing attorneys to quickly organize, display, search and mark the documents within a document collection. To increase user productivity, Attenex Patterns generates a visual map of the document corpus based on the concepts contained in the individual documents. Once a document or a cluster of documents is identified, the user can "recluster" the map around the identified document or document cluster to hone in on specific responsive or privileged content. The result is a more confident review process with better results.

For full-text searching of a document collection throughout the various Attenex Patterns E-Discovery Platform level, Attenex chose the dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine. "We evaluated several options, and the consistent feedback from the law firms, forensics consultants and general counsels we spoke with was that dtSearch was the best tool for the job," said Walter. "Because dtSearch was so widely accepted in the legal community, it was a natural fit for Attenex Patterns."

The Attenex Patterns’ database tracks each interaction, disposition and designation of every file. The full document set, or any subset of reviewed files, can be segmented based on any pre-determined criteria, including file metadata review markings such as "responsive" or "privileged." Files can be produced based in their native format, or files and the metadata can be exported to XML for importing into trial preparation software.

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