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MetaLINCS Introduces First E-Discovery Application with Guided Email Analysis

E-Discovery Analysis Software Drives Early and Accurate Case Assessments

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,—August 22, 2005—MetaLINCS™, a leading provider of Electronic Discovery software, today announced the general availability of the MetaLINCS E-Discovery application, featuring the industry's first guided electronic message analysis software. The MetaLINCS E-Discovery application is commercially available software that speeds up the process of discovering relevant information within electronic messages and documents, significantly reducing litigation and compliance risks. The MetaLINCS E-Discovery application allows corporate attorneys, investigators and litigators to make better decisions earlier, boost discovery productivity, and ensure consistency across cases.

Email has become the #1 source of evidence in investigations, comprising more than half of all case evidence, according to Kahn Consulting. This year alone, companies will spend over $4.6 billion in expenses related to email analysis. Analysis is the most critical aspect of the E-Discovery process, yet most organizations continue to rely on conventional text search techniques for gathering topical information and reading each document for analysis. Law firms and corporate attorneys spend countless hours and dollars manually analyzing email or outsource email analysis to costly service providers, but these time-intensive, manual processes often miss critical evidence.

"The ability to quickly and accurately assess a case and discover specific relevant information contained in emails can expedite the decision process in potential legal disputes," said Mary Ann Kim, manager of litigation support at DuPont. "MetaLINCS' analysis capabilities provide an innovative way to optimize the E-Discovery process by minimizing the amount of time spent analyzing key information from our vast stores of email messages."

The MetaLINCS E-Discovery application combines a patent-pending guided discovery process with a unique visual representation of the relationships between people, events, time, documentsand communication patterns. This approach allows corporate attorneys, investigators and litigators to quickly gain an understanding of electronic information in context, which leads to more successful investigations, mitigates compliance risks, and reduces discovery and litigation costs.

"In today's corporate environment, organizations need a readily accessible, cost-effective solution to quickly discover critical information that makes early case assessments possible for litigation and internal investigations," said Ramon Nuñez, CEO at MetaLINCS. "With the volume and sources of electronic evidence expanding, corporate attorneys, investigators, litigators and E- Discovery service providers can no longer rely on traditional E-Discovery methods to deal with what could be a life-changing event for a corporation. Our software application is designed to provide users with valuable insight into large bodies of electronic messages and documents within minutes."

"During the E-Discovery review process, emails and documents are typically read out-of-context," said Chuck Williams, chief technology officer at MetaLINCS. "When a relevant item or topic is found, search is used to gather related information. This segregated technique often produces errors such as not recognizing the relevance of a message, failing to identify search terms and phrases that would lead to additional relevant information, and missing important people altogether. Our E-Discovery application automatically identifies the important concepts and terminology used by the subjects of the investigation and produces a visual representation of correlations between people, time, events and communications. This approach guides users to the important information and provides the context required to ensure a correct interpretation."

The MetaLINCS E-Discovery application combines a diverse set of innovative features to offer the most comprehensive E-Discovery analysis software available:

• Core Discovery Features – Includes processing, indexing, search, review, reporting and production.
• Visual Analysis - Presents visual analysis of people, events, time, documents, concepts and communication patterns.
• People Analysis - Displays a network of the most important people and the communication patterns for any topic, revealing unexpected parties and guiding investigators to the relevant conversations.
• Thread Analysis - Identifies the complete set of threads relevant to any topic and organizes them into groups of related threads (side conversations), guiding investigators to important messages that might otherwise be missed and providing the full context to correctly interpret each message.
• Related Concepts - Dynamically and automatically suggests additional key words and phrases to analyze, speeding up the investigation process and ensuring a more completeinvestigation. Helps discover relevant terminology used in documents and messages without the need for used defined taxonomies.
• Multi-Dimensional Search - Retrieves relevant messages, documents, threads, people and concepts for any search query.
• Dynamic Directory - Automatically categorizes results into 8 dimensions.
• Collaboration - Queries and results can be organized, saved in folders, annotated, marked and shared by investigation teams.
• Document Acquisition Engine - Extracts documents and messages from diverse sources; normalizes, categorizes and indexes information; integrates additional metadata from corporate directories.

For more information, contact:

David Downing 650-269-7286 david.downing@metalincs.com		Rebecca Passo SHIFT Communications 617-779-1817 rpasso@shiftcomm.com