Overview
Everlaw is a cloud-native ediscovery platform designed to streamline and enhance the litigation and investigations process for legal, government, and corporate teams. Here’s a comprehensive overview of what the product does and its key features:
Core Functionality
Everlaw’s primary function is to manage and analyze large volumes of data efficiently, transforming the burden of data into a valuable asset for legal professionals. The platform handles the entire ediscovery process, from data upload and processing to search, review, and production, all the way to trial preparation.
Key Features
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 an easy-to-use, color-coded interface for complex searches, which load nearly instantaneously regardless of the complexity or size of the document set. It also features predictive coding, where machine learning algorithms predict document relevance, enabling faster and more scalable review. Users can create customized coding criteria, and the AI Assistant provides coding suggestions with high precision and recall rates.
AI and Analytics
Everlaw integrates advanced AI and analytics tools, including the Everlaw AI Assistant, which leverages generative AI to accelerate understanding of data. This tool provides document summarization, topic and entity extraction, sentiment analysis, and open-ended document queries. It also assists in writing tasks, such as generating timelines, deposition questions, and evidence analysis, all with supporting evidence readily available.
Visualization and Collaboration
The platform includes rich visualization tools that help uncover hidden relationships and insights. Users can explore document sets or communication threads using interactive visualizations, which display key insights into document dates, metadata, contents, and more. Everlaw also features collaborative tools like Storybuilder, which allows teams to build narratives, organize arguments, and prepare for depositions and trials in a centralized platform.
Document Management and Production
Everlaw simplifies and error-proofs productions with features such as endorsement stamping, customized Bates numbering, and auditable sharing capabilities. It also supports robust automated and native file redaction, instant foreign language translation in over 109 languages, and instant audio/video transcription.
Security and Compliance
The platform is highly secure, with SOC 2 Type 2 certification, FedRAMP Moderate Authorization, and StateRAMP Moderate Authorization. Everlaw’s holistic security and compliance program ensures data safety and integrity.
Additional Features
- People Profiles: 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: The ability to reprocess documents not originally processed by Everlaw, enhancing flexibility in handling productions from opposing counsel.
- Multi-Line Code Endorsements: Support for longer, multi-line code endorsements that do not overlap with Bates stamps.
- Upload Slack Chat Data: Integration to query and analyze Slack chat data directly within the platform.
Benefits
- Predictable Pricing: Transparent pricing models with no additional costs for users, training, or support, helping to control legal spend.
- Efficiency and Speed: Industry-leading processing and review speeds, automated manual tasks, and advanced analytics to streamline the litigation process.
- Collaboration: Comprehensive tools for deposition and trial preparation, enabling seamless collaboration among team members.
Overall, Everlaw is designed to make the ediscovery process faster, more efficient, and more effective, providing legal professionals with the tools they need to build the strongest possible cases.