Microsoft Deploys Clearwell E-Discovery Platform

January 12, 2010

Microsoft has deployed the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform as a component of its in-house e-discovery strategy. Microsoft's legal and IT teams use Clearwell to increase the efficiency of the e-discovery process for litigation, regulatory inquiries and internal investigations.

"E-discovery costs are a significant portion of litigation costs," said Rich Wallis, deputy general counsel of litigation at Microsoft. "With the implementation of Clearwell's pre-processing, processing and analysis solution, we are further streamlining our e-discovery processes, starting with early case assessment, intelligent and appropriate minimization and search."

The Clearwell E-Discovery Platform is fully operational in less than 25 minutes and provides users with immediate visibility into case facts, significantly accelerating early case assessment. Clearwell's Transparent Search, metadata filters, and people analytics enable users to quickly and defensibly eliminate irrelevant documents and false positives, lowering processing costs and reducing review workload. The product's discussion threading and relevance ranking capabilities display documents in context, further increasing review throughput. Responsive documents can be produced or seamlessly uploaded into litigation support databases via EDRM-compliant XML and other major load file formats. In addition, the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform automatically tracks all actions on case documents throughout the e-discovery workflow, ensuring a defensible e-discovery process.

"The e-discovery expense will continue to increase as the amount of electronically stored information grows," said Kamal Shah, vice president of product management and marketing at Clearwell Systems. "To cope with this, many companies like Microsoft are choosing Clearwell to perform early case assessments in-house and gain control over e-discovery costs."