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Relativity uses dtSearch for advanced text retrieval.
As a feature-rich, web-based platform, Relativity provides centralized legal hold management, forensic and targeted collections, complete processing capabilities, image and native file review, diverse coding options, flexible workflow capabilities including computer-assisted review, integrated productions, Unicode and foreign language support, text analytics, and mobile case preparation—all delivered in a highly scalable solution. “We've worked with dtSearch since the early days of Relativity, and we've always received the highest levels of support from the dtSearch team ... Providing easy-to-use, intuitive search options within Relativity is important to us. We're pleased to offer dtSearch's powerful searching technology to our users.”Learn More

“How UnitedLex uses dtSearch for better e-discovery.”
From Inside Counsel: “UnitedLex is a global leader in legal and data solutions ... Every day, UnitedLex provides solutions resulting in risk mitigation, efficiency improvements and cost optimization for its clients internationally — including offerings like Questio, a managed service that changes the traditional approach to e‑discovery and data management. The company’s more than 1,800 attorneys, engineers and consultants focus on the areas of litigation, contracting and intellectual property.” “‘The dtSearch engine plays a critical role in our ability to efficiently locate key evidence required by our clients in litigation and investigations ... Integrating dtSearch into our Questio discovery service platform enables UnitedLex to minimize our clients’ cost associated with finding what they are looking for ... dtSearch does a great job of indexing the languages we encounter, which maximizes our ability to find what our clients are looking for irrespective of the language.’”iCONECT embeds dtSearch in SQL Server Connector.
iCONECT offers “experience in supporting most of the largest e-discovery review projects in the world. If you need to power through terabytes of e-review, we can help.” Further, “iCONECT builds bridges that link leading litigation support products to provide you with a reliable end-to-end workflow from collection to analysis to presentation.” “dtSearch is embedded in iCONECT’s SQL Server Connector (available with iCONECT’s 820 release) and is used to execute indexing and searching.” In addition to dtSearch, iCONECT also lists alliances with a number of other companies described in more detail on this page and on other pages throughout the dtSearch Case Studies & 3rd Party Solutions section.Learn More
CloudNine™ engages dtSearch for streamlined SaaS-hosted eDiscovery.
Currently used by over 50 of the top 250 law firms, CloudNine’s cloud-based eDiscovery software specializes in the collection, processing and review of large volumes of data. “dtSearch is a key component of [CloudNine’s] advanced searching and culling.” “The programmatic control that dtSearch gives us over the source files makes it easier to manage terabytes of data and still deliver search results fast.” “In addition to its speed, our clients love the robustness of the search engine. The ability to perform complex searches ... via the dtSearch Engine enables our clients to strike the best balance possible between recall and precision in their searches.”Learn More
From KMWorld: “CloudNine is designed to be simple to use, with a straightforward online process for uploading, reviewing and producing electronically stored information for litigation and investigations.” CloudNine relies on “‘a private infrastructure, and the data is highly secure, residing on dedicated servers on a dedicated network in a Tier 4 data center.’” “CloudNine uses dtSearch as its search software. ‘It indexes very quickly ... and handles a range of file types from e-mail to documents and database information.’”
LAW adds in dtSearch.
Now a CloudNine product, LAW provides document capture, image processing and data export into a variety of litigation support applications. “We chose dtSearch because of its ability to simultaneously query textual content and databases. The result is an excellent tool for full-text retrieval, and searching our backend database.” “Engineers reviewed various applications for indexing speed, search speed, accuracy and search options … dtSearch was the hands down winner.” “We were amazed at how much quicker and more ‘intelligent’ the dtSearch Engine was.”Learn More
ONE Discovery’s all-encompassing eDiscovery platform embeds dtSearch.
The ONE Discovery enterprise class eDiscovery platform can run both in the cloud and on-premises. Scalability is a key feature of the ONE Discovery platform embedding the dtSearch Engine. “With near-infinite scalability, no project is too small or too big.” The ONE Discovery platform also provides the ability to manage every project element in a single dashboard. From applying security permissions through user management to system resource management, users are given complete control without having to log in to extraneous modules. “dtSearch is a significant building block in the foundation of ONE Discovery’s true, unified eDiscovery platform. From indexing colossal datasets to lightening quick text retrieval, the power of dtSearch enables ONE Discovery to deliver accuracy and efficiency.”Learn More
QuikData comprehensive eDiscovery solution incorporates dtSearch.
QuikData is the all-in-one eDiscovery processing engine for service providers, law firms and corporate legal. "Some of the largest (and most risk-averse) organizations, including the Fortune 500, large law firms, and government agencies depend on QuikData." QuikData has flexible SaaS, cloud, and on-premise deployment options. "Quickly and efficiently finding critical case information is a key need of our legal clients. We use dtSearch as an integral part of our data processing technologies to index and search across millions of files and a multitude of file types to enable teams to find the information they need to deliver legal services to their clients."Learn More
Australian-based Delium uses dtSearch for fast retrieval of evidence in the courtroom and beyond.
Delium is a cloud-based solution for litigators and courts, supporting review, discovery and presentation of evidence at trial. With an acclaimed evidence presentation environment, Delium delivers unique capability that is changing the face of trials internationally, making it the perfect choice for etrial and arbitration software. “dtSearch has been a core component of Delium since the beginning. With dtSearch, Delium does not skip a beat as users analyse their position and prepare for trial ... At trial, or during deposition, seconds count when presenting evidence and if an examination goes off on an unexpected tangent, harnessing the power of dtSearch to find a document quickly is wonderful.”Learn More
E-Discovery Market — Global Forecast taps dtSearch for insight.
From the report: “Electronic discovery or E-Discovery, is used to define all the processes by which electronic data, digital data, or any type of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) is gathered, compiled, stored, processed, and reviewed as evidence in a law suit or legal investigation.” From “Key Industry Insights” quoting dtSearch Corp.: “‘In our capacity as a search engine, the major e-discovery trend we see is the ever-growing amount of litigation data in an ever-expanding number of data formats.’”Learn More
dtSearch embedded into eDiscovery module of Gimmal Discover.
From Inside Counsel: “‘This software allows the legal team actively analyze, review and support projects where hands on view or management of customer data is needed.’” “‘Without competent search technologies, the effectiveness of the legal team grinds to a halt.’” From Processor: this is “built specifically for in-house teams to manage legal hold notifications, search and collection for legal discovery requests, compliance requirements, or internal investigations.” “‘Our customers are finding enormous cost and time savings by conducting electronic discovery searches in-house ... "It is critical that we provide them with the most thorough search competencies on the market, and that’s what we get with dtSearch.’” Discovery Attender™ discovers dtSearch. Discovery Attender makes viewing and supervising electronic data easy and efficient. “dtSearch nicely complements Discovery Attender’s existing capabilities by providing an efficient, robust and stable platform to execute searches within a variety of file formats. As a result of the dtSearch integration, Discovery Attender has improved search performance, increased the speed and accuracy of its searches while accessing file types previously inaccessible.”Learn More
Resource: dtSearch search tips primer from Inside Counsel.
From Inside Counsel: “Optimize Searching to Find Every Smoking Gun”: “Search engines like dtSearch sift through terabytes of random data ... Although dtSearch is not itself forensics or e-discovery-specific, many forensics and e-discovery products do embed dtSearch’s core developer module, the dtSearch Engine, both for data support (so-called document filters) and for search functionality.” However, “a flawed search request may fail to retrieve a key ‘smoking gun’ ... This article seeks to provide search tips to reduce the chances this will happen.”Learn More
“Trial Technology Saves Last Man Standing” relies on dtSearch directly and embedded in third-party applications.
From Law Technology News: ”To contain those costs and meet the 12-month review target, our litigation support department used ingenuity, and a mix of products ... Among our tools were ... a full-text search engine, dtSearch, from dtSearch.”Learn More
NEXPERT uses dtSearch for legal case management application.
NEXPERT is an interdisciplinary team of network specialists, lawyers and software developers offering comprehensive IT solutions to law firms and financial services providers. Located in Switzerland, NEXPERT developed and integrated an advanced document indexing and search tool joining database information from a legal case management system and document information into the same search results. “After evaluating several full-text engines, we found that dtSearch is simply today’s best available search engine. The efficient and good support as well as dtSearch’s complete documentation allowed us to develop an advanced search tool that exceeded the expectation of our clients.”Learn More
CaseFinder® Virginia legal research system finds dtSearch.
CaseFinder is a complete Virginia legal research system. “dtSearch’s search speed is nearly instantaneous, even through our massive databases ... No other software could give us the flexibility we got with dtSearch.”Learn More
AppsPlus applies dtSearch for major West Coast firm.
AppsPlus has developed database solutions for over a dozen years; its president has authored many programming books, including: Database Programming with Visual Basic® .NET and ADO.NET: Tips Tutorials and Code. “With the law firm’s technical team, I went through a number of different search engine demos and even met with representatives from the companies. dtSearch came out as the winner with the most concise, yet robust data model.” Learn More
Contegra enhances the Public Defense Case Management System (PCDMS) of the New York State Defenders Association (NYSDA) with custom dtSearch implementation.
Contegra Systems is a leading third-party expert in dtSearch Engine custom development work. A not-for-profit membership organization, the NYSDA has been providing support to New York's public defense community since 1967. Its mission is to improve the quality and scope of publicly supported legal representation to low income people. Over 70 public defense offices across New York State use NYSDA’s PDCMS to manage cases and serve clients more effectively. “Effective searching is an integral part of the case research and document management ... Contegra used the dtSearch Engine’s Java interface for instant searching of both PDCMS metadata and documents across the system.” Learn More
From Legaltech News: "The updated search functions in the case and document management tools will better assist state public defenders in finding necessary information across many disparate local and statewide databases and repositories." Learn More
Ringtail™ web-based e-discovery products and hosted solutions rings in dtSearch.
Ringtail™ encompasses a range of “on premises” and SaaS-hosted e-discovery solutions. “dtSearch is an industry leading keyword search application ... We did a pretty thorough evaluation of search engines and dtSearch is clearly a best of breed tool with the best search engine API.” Learn More
SafeCopy 2 provides dtSearch users an electronically stored information (ESI) chain of custody.
Pinpoint Labs addresses many of the issues facing forensically sound file collection, preservation and EED processing for corporate IT department, law firms, and other legal professionals. Pinpoint’s SafeCopy 2 provides dtSearch users a chain of custody for Electronically Stored Information (ESI) productions, enabling easy production of relevant data sources identified in the search results. “I’ve been fortunate enough to work with the products and staff at dtSearch Corp. for more than 8 years. It is no wonder why so many software developers and legal professionals rely on dtSearch to quickly and effectively index and search native files. Importing dtSearch hit lists into SafeCopy 2 provides several advantages to our mutual clients.”Learn More
ICFECI employs dtSearch in its litigation arsenal and in forensics training.
The Institute of Computer Forensic Examinations and Criminal Investigations (ICFECI) was established as a a resource to the Criminal Justice Act Panel and the United States District Courts. The ICFECI specializes in preparing for civil and criminal litigation, typically involving civil fraud and criminal schemes with large volumes of data. The ICFECI also assists with computer forensics lab software and hardware selection, installation, configuration and training. “I handle massive discovery on just about any type of computer data case. I always use dtSearch ... to glean relevant discovery data.” “Once the raw data is processed ... I use dtSearch Web with Spider. dtSeach provides unique characteristics that fit perfectly the handling of discovery and making the discovery available in a manageable and searchable format.”Learn More
Discovery Assistant embeds dtSearch for a full-featured solution.
ImageMAKER specializes in document imaging and eDiscovery solutions including OCR search and document deduplication. The company's flagship product, Discovery Assistant, is a feature-rich scalable and easy to use e-discovery processing solution designed for litigation support professionals to capture, search, and process Windows-based electronic documents and emails. Among many other features, Discovery Assistant also embeds ImageMAKER's Near Duplication Detection technology. "Customers tell us that the embedded search technology is a ‘lifesaver.’”Learn More
California criminal defense specialist and litigation IT expert adds dtSearch to seminars and practice.
“I picked dtSearch because I could use it right out of the box ... I mean, how many times have you known that you’ve briefed an issue but you just can’t remember on which case ... The ability to index government websites is also invaluable.”Learn More
For town government, “SmartSearch with dtSearch search engine makes finding key documents easier.”
From a Government Security News case study: “The Town of Centerville, TN, is a municipal organization that manages critical government functions and handles paperwork for a variety of vital services, including police department and court documents.” For this, Centerville turned to “SmartSearch, an award‑wining content management solutionDesigned by Square 9 and built on .NET, SmartSearch delivers enterprise‑class Web forms management and workflow automation capabilities, extending access to content in a highly secure environment.” “The SmartSearch solution uses the dtSearch Engine to simplify document retrieval, delivering proprietary document filters and instant search capabilities across terabytes of data and supporting database, Web data and popular productivity file searches.” The result: “streamlined document storage, instant retrieval.”
From KMWorld: "Streamlining access to police, court and other government documents": "SmartSearch provides enterprise Web forms management and workflow automation capabilities in a secure environment." "Officials decide to implement SmartSearch, which uses the dtSearch Engine to simplify document retrieval." The result: SmartSearch "has made searching for relevant documents easier," and the town clerk "estimates that she saves about 15 hours a week." Learn More

“Upgrading Litigation Support Tech for Massive EDD Matters” discusses Ringtail and dtSearch.
From Legal Tech Newsletter : Dorsey & Whitney LLP is a firm of more than 600 lawyers with a litigation and arbitration practice, including offices in the United States, London, Hong Kong and Shanghai. The newsletter describes how Dorsey turned to Ringtail’s hosted and other solutions for a massive international EDD matter, including the embedded dtSearch Engine. “The combined features of conventional field-based and text-based searching via the dtSearch engine were integral in the sorting and culling of this unwieldy data set ... Dorsey’s use of the dtSearch engine built into [Ringtail’s solution] allowed for the filtering and sifting of the data and, subsequently, record review in as efficient a manner as I could imagine.” Further, the solution “set itself apart from competing software applications by enabling the seamless inclusion of this content and, most important, the ability to exploit the search engine for text searches in Kanji.”OSCN uses dtSearch for instant Web-based searching of enormous legal database.
Oklahoma State Courts Network (OSCN) has an enormous legal research database, spanning Oklahoma legal documents, Wyoming legal documents, and even federal case materials. “dtSearch is the best performance product by a long way. Searching is pretty much instantaneous ... OSCN’s new search engine is one of the most powerful in existence.”Learn More From Government Technology: “Sifting through legal databases with pages of online documents can be cumbersome despite the search functionality available in many legal databases — but the Oklahoma State Courts Network (OSCN) has found a tool to simplify legal searches.” dtSearch “enables full-text searches through the database for locating specific documents more quickly.”
SmartAdvocate® adds dtSearch to its award-winning legal case management software.
Incredibly feature-rich, SmartAdvocate is a litigation case management software “on steroids.” With options for both cloud and on-premises deployment, the new release provides law practices with the most effective and efficient litigation and other case management to date. Beyond caseload management, SmartAdvocate provides general legal industry productivity enhancers covering everything from document templates to calendar coordination. SmartAdvocate even streamlines a firm’s legal practice, including overall financial and operational details. “When searching for a company to help us with full-text search, dtSearch was our CEO’s first choice. With dtSearch’s extensive list of features and their advanced knowledge of the legal space, it was the perfect fit for SmartAdvocate.”Learn More
The International Justice Analysis Forum finds dtSearch a “close to perfect answer.”
The International Justice Analysis Forum (IJAF) offers training in computer-aided data analysis; monitoring, evaluation and analysis in justice, politics and law-making; consultancy in digital forensics and evidence; confidential analysis of evidentiary (digital) data in large crime cases; and an information platform on investigative and crime analysis. From a paper on the IJAF site entitled Big Data, Electronic Evidence and Criminal Defence: “Big Data electronic evidence predominates more and more the evidentiary procedure in serious and organised crime cases in European criminal courts ... One close to perfect answer is offered by dtSearch” which can “integrate terabytes of different types of data into one holistic database” that is “quickly searchable” including “special functions for forensic searches.”Learn More
Tulane Law School’s Copyright Lab leverages dtSearch with Contegra development work for Durationator® Worldwide Copyright System.
Tulane Law School's Copyright Research Lab is spearheading a multi-year project chronicling worldwide copyright law and records. The Lab employed Contegra Systems — a leading third-party expert in dtSearch Engine custom development work — to develop a search portal using the dtSearch Engine to tackle reviewing older U.S. Copyright Office records, an often necessary step to determining the copyright status of many works in the United States. “dtSearch provided the tool to take on the challenge of searching the records. Then, Contegra ... took us over the top ... With this final tool in place, we believe this will open up determining the status of art, music, poetry, newspapers, literature and film, for both those hoping the works in the public domain, as well as content owners confirming the status of older works.”Learn More
dtSearch chosen for Australian Office of Director of Public Prosecutions.
From HT Syndication with permission from Pivotal Sources: "Australia based MicroWay Pty Ltd has secured contract from Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for Acquisition of Legal Search Tool - dtSearch."Learn More (contact MicroWay)
CACJ/CPDA Capital Case Seminar uses dtSearch in distribution of conference materials.
The California Attorneys for Criminal Justice (“CACJ”) and the California Public Defenders Association (“CPDA”) hold an annual seminar addressing the representation of clients facing capital litigation. For “approximately 10 years ... dtSearch has been an easy to use and reliable vehicle to distribute our voluminous conference materials ... dtSearch has retained its easy to use and rock steady attributes and performance. Additionally, because of the added storage available on flash drives we were able to combine our seminar and manual materials.”Learn More
National Litigation Support Blog offers dtSearch overview video for CJA panel attorneys.
From the National Litigation Support Blog for Federal / Community Defenders and CJA Practitioners: “dtSearch is a popular search and retrieval program. Here is a brief 12 minute video that demonstrates how to setup a new dtSearch index and how to run searches within an index.” dtSearch “provides great functionality in searching both electronic documents and paper documents that are subsequently scanned and converted to a text searchable format, especially since it can search and retrieve information in many different file types ... As electronic discovery in federal criminal matters continues to grow in volume and in the variety of formats, dtSearch is a useful tool for CJA panel attorneys faced with the daunting task of organizing and searching through their case material.”Learn More


























dtSearch e-discovery customers CloudNine and ONE Discovery discuss the importance of search (both embedding dtSearch) with Inside Counsel.
From Inside Counsel: “The ability to quickly and effectively search through data stores that are growing exponentially has become more important than ever to meet discovery obligations within reasonable costs. dtSearch, a text retrieval software embedded in legal trial prep and e-discovery software, works to alleviate problems with searching large data collections. Customers of dtSearch” — CloudNine and ONE Discovery — “sat down with Inside Counsel to discuss why search is so important in the world of law.”





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