Fios Clarify
Fios offers case intelligence™ services that shorten the case analysis and planning process by enabling rapid, highly intuitive evaluation of document collections.
Clarify helps law firms and corporate legal teams rapidly assess the merits of a case, establish legal strategy and better predict e-discovery costs by previewing electronically stored information before full processing begins. The ability to quickly see a graphical representation of data volume and types, test and refine search strategies, and identify factual discrepancies substantially reduces risk and puts control in the hands of attorneys and litigation support professionals.
How Fios Clarify Improves the e-Discovery Process
Legal Strategy Definition
Law firms and corporate legal teams need to develop a legal strategy using data to determine if there are factual discrepancies in the matter/case. Clients benefit from:
Fast processing: begin analyzing data quickly
Increased visibility to help determine exposure and defensibility of the matter
Visual analytics to determine the data profile and expose communication patterns
Meet and confer preparation
Law firms and corporate legal teams seeking information for 26(f) discussions benefit from the ability to:
Quickly assess data volume and types to make proportionality arguments
Test and refine searches to better understand hit and relevancy rates
Develop keyword search strategies and prepare culling agreements
Budgeting
Law firms and corporate legal teams need to accurately predict e-discovery costs and keep projects on budget. With Fios Clarify, clients benefit from:
Low-cost processing: see the data quickly before committing to full processing
Reports to help determine if additional collection is required
Ability to assess overall data volume, expected cull rates and the amount of data requiring additional processing
Internal Investigations
Corporations frequently need to process small amounts of data for internal investigations, such as employee disputes. This data is examined and the matter concluded within Fios Clarify, providing multiple benefits:
An intuitive web-based interface, making it easy to quickly determine potential legal issues
Lower overall cost
Peace of mind through full-service hosting, allowing clients to stay focused on core competencies
Highlighted Features
Fast ingestion of all common document formats
Foreign language identification and Unicode compliance
De-NIST, de-duplicate and spam filters
Robust search term development
Email threading and domain analysis
Visual analytics, including complete email communication patterns
20+ comprehensive reports at global or custodial level
Scalable deployment capable of culling terabytes of data
Secure web interface
Advantages of Clarify over other data assessment tools include:
Easy to use, web-based interface that everyone can understand. No need, for example, to learn how to write Boolean search strings or other complex queries. Search parameters can be specified in plain English, and search term strategies can be refined with a few clicks as results reveal new intelligence or patterns.
Rapid, low-cost, web-based deployment and maximum scalability leveraging Fios' extensive infrastructure, eliminating the time and expense of
installing, maintaining and upgrading appliancebased solutions behind the customer firewall. Data can be uploaded to the Clarify tool with no implementation delays and quickly processed for analysis.
More than 20 standard reports available on demand, with easy multi-format export options, including Excel, PDF and email. Reports are available at a project or custodian level and include critical insights such as gap analysis indicating missing custodians and date ranges in the document set. Results of any query can be shared with other members of the legal team with a simple right-click.
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