What Everlaw Does
Everlaw’s ediscovery software automates the discovery process, helping legal teams save time and money by improving collaboration, increasing visibility, and automating previously time-consuming tasks. The platform covers the entire ediscovery lifecycle, from data upload and processing to search, review, and production, all the way to trial preparation.
Key Features and Functionality
Processing and Review Speed
Everlaw boasts industry-leading processing speeds, capable of handling 900,000 documents per hour while checking for errors and duplicates. It supports fast uploads of nearly every data type, including PDFs, CAD files, and Slack chats, with automatic OCR of images and audio transcriptions to avoid ingestion delays.
Advanced Search and Review
The platform offers a color-coded interface for complex searches, allowing users to build sophisticated queries with clickable terms. Search results load nearly instantaneously, regardless of the complexity of the search string or the size of the document trove. It also includes dynamic review assignments and a customizable review interface to match user preferences.
AI and Machine Learning
Everlaw integrates advanced AI and machine learning algorithms to enhance document review. The Everlaw AI Assistant leverages generative AI to accelerate understanding of data through document summarization, coding suggestions, topic and entity extraction, and sentiment analysis. It can analyze thousands of documents simultaneously and provide verifiable outputs supported by citations to relevant sections of the text or Bates numbers.
Document Summarization and Analysis
The AI Assistant helps surface important information from large document sets quickly, creating summaries of single or multiple documents. It also extracts key topics, entities, and sentiments, and can answer open-ended questions with direct citations to supporting evidence.
Narrative Building and Case Preparation
Everlaw’s Storybuilder tool allows teams to capture insights throughout the investigation and litigation process, influencing case strategy and outcomes. It includes features for collaborative timelines, drafts, robust deposition management, and seamless collaboration.
Data Visualization and Analytics
The platform offers rich visualization tools that help uncover hidden relationships and new insights. Users can explore document sets or communication threads using interactive visualizations to show key insights into document dates, metadata, contents, formats, review activity, and predicted relevance.
Security and Compliance
Everlaw is SOC 2 Type 2 certified, with FedRAMP Moderate Authorization and StateRAMP Moderate Authorization. It has a holistic security and compliance program, ensuring high reliability with an average annual uptime exceeding 99.9%.
Additional Features
- People Profiles: Allows users to build fully customizable profiles for key individuals in a case, including photos, social media links, job information, and notes on their professional history and relationships.
- Reprocessing Non-Everlaw Processed Documents: Enables users to reprocess documents not originally processed by Everlaw, improving the handling of productions from opposing counsel.
- Multi-Line Code Endorsements: Supports longer code endorsements that do not overlap with Bates stamps.
- Foreign Language Translation: Offers instant foreign language translation in over 109 languages.
- Automated Redaction and Transcription: Includes robust automated and native file redaction capabilities and instant audio/video transcription.
User Experience and Support
Everlaw is designed to be user-friendly, with a customer-first approach that includes a proven 30-day onboarding plan, education and training opportunities, and personalized technical support at no extra cost. The pricing is transparent and all-inclusive, avoiding hidden fees.