Fios Announces Compliance with EDRM's XML Standard

Fios now supports EDRM's XML export standard for traditional case management and review applications

PORTLAND, Ore., February 4, 2008 — Fios Inc., delivering comprehensive discovery management services for organizations compelled to produce electronically stored information (ESI), today announced that its processing center is compliant with EDRM's Extensible Markup Language (XML) standard, EDRM XML 1.0. Fios is one of the first e-discovery service providers to achieve compliance with the newly released XML standard, which is designed to improve interoperability and the transfer of electronically stored information (ESI) between applications involved in the discovery process.

Fios offers one of the industry's most sophisticated data centers, capable of processing multi-terabyte projects for clients responding to large, complex litigation and investigation. Clients can now opt to export their processed evidence sets in the EDRM XML format to traditional case management and review applications, The EDRM XML compliance provides clients and the market with the following benefits:

Lower labor costs: IT departments, legal teams and service providers can significantly reduce the amount of manual effort spent transferring ESI from system to system

Fewer errors: Organizations can focus their efforts on a single standard schema, versus multiple schemas, to transfer ESI from system to system, reducing errors

Faster e-discovery: The ability to efficiently transfer data leads to a faster, streamlined end-to-end e-discovery process

Greater flexibility: Organizations have the freedom to choose "best-of-breed" products that offer interoperability, versus inferior products that must be pieced together

"The development of the EDRM XML standard shows a changing of the tides in the world of e-discovery best practices," said George J. Socha, principal analyst with Socha Consulting and cofounder of the EDRM Project. "By implementing a standard way of managing the collaboration between technologies, EDRM has capitalized on the industry's readiness to work together and move the entire industry forward."

About Fios Inc.

Serving the legal community since 1999, Fios Inc. enables clients compelled to produce electronically stored information (ESI) to reduce risk and cost by attaining management control over the e-discovery business process. Fios' comprehensive discovery management services are based on an in-depth knowledge of information technology and legal process, and are customized to help clients defensibly and efficiently manage all phases of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM). Headquartered in Portland, Ore., Fios is backed by top investors, including 3i, Digital Partners, Banyan Capital Partners, FBR CoMotion and Fluke Ventures, and has offices throughout the continental United States. For more information about the company and its services, visit http://www.fiosinc.com.

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For more information, contact:

Debbie Caldwell
Public Relations Manager, Fios Inc.
503-265-0775
dcaldwell@fiosinc.com

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