MetaLINCS Smart Review Expedites E-Discovery

When you reach the review phase of your electronic discovery process, MetaLINCS has already prioritized, and organized content for review.

MetaLINCS pioneered the use of an extensive set of analysis tools to make review more efficient. No other company has the depth of knowledge and experience that MetaLINCS has in integrating review with advanced analysis. Supported by industry standard “best practice” review capabilities, including folders, hit highlighting, flagging and annotation, your e-discovery litigation support team can rely on MetaLINCS for rapidly and accurately reviewing assigned content.

MetaLINCS Review takes standard e-discovery review software to the next level:

• Web-Based Collaboration -- MetaLINCS provides a complete web based review application with all of the necessary management, workflow and productivity features to support a large scale distributed review team.
• Fully Integrated Processes -- MetaLINCS review module is fully integrated with the processing, analysis and production modules so no information is lost or time wasted transferring documents between systems or changing formats. Integration with the analysis module minimizes the cost of review projects while improving the accuracy of the reviewers’ decisions. This is particularly important since review is the most expensive phase of an e-discovery project and reviewer decision error rates have been estimated at up to 30%.
• Single-Click Review -- Flexible workflow includes single-click review and document pre-fetching to maximize reviewer efficiency. Content queues enable prompt examination of electronic documents and eliminate extraneous key stokes.
• Share Case Intelligence -- Bulk operations allow reviewers to group, sort, and tag similar content rapidly, and collaboration capabilities help reviewers to quickly and effectively share case intelligence.
• Customizable User Interfaces-- Customizable review interfaces virtually eliminate training time and improve reviewer productivity.

Key Features & Screen Shots

Custom Review Folders with Real-Time Statistics

Custom Review Folders with Real-Time Statistics Using MetaLINCS search and analysis tools, a case manager or attorney can quickly determine key people, terms and documents. This case assessment is used to develop a review strategy and organize the documents based on that strategy. Typical review categories that can quickly be determined include: possible privilege, hot, possibly responsive, low priority and specific foreign languages. Within each of these broad categories specific folders can be created to further divide the document sets for individual reviewers. The ability to create custom review folders and bulk move any number of items that match a custom criteria into those folders makes this organization phase very efficient. [close]

Custom Tag Groups with Rules

Custom Tag Groups with Rules An unlimited set of custom tags, such as Privileged, Responsive, etc., can be defined per case. Flags can be grouped in exclusive or non-exclusive groups. Exclusive groups only allow a reviewer to pick one flag from the group while non-exclusive groups allow multiple flags. A typical exclusive group would include Privilege, Responsive, Non-Responsive. [close]

Thread Tagging

Thread Tagging Most items in a review are emails and most emails are part of a thread. Tagging by thread allows a reviewer to mark all the messages, and by default attachments, in a thread with a single operation. This improves both efficiency and accuracy because all messages in the thread can be viewed together, evaluated in their proper context and tagged consistently. [close]

Reviewer Collaboration

Reviewer Collaboration Reviewers can share information via bookmarks which can save a reference to a search request, specific document, thread or person. Bookmarks can be organized in hierarchical folders that other reviewers can open. This allows complex searches to be saved and shared among reviewers as well making the results of those searches easy to retrieve. [close]

Foreign Language Support

Foreign Language Support MetaLINCS supports Unicode and automatic language detection. MetaLINCS converts all documents to Unicode for internal storage. Any language can be indexed for search and its' character set can be displayed. Stemming is supported for the following common languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, so that multiple forms of the same word will be found, e.g. run, running, runs. Documents and messages written in these languages are automatically recognized so that the correct stemmer is applied. Automatic detection also means that searches can be done for all documents written in a specific language. Japanese, Chinese and Korean are all automatically recognized and can be indexed, displayed and searched. Japanese and Chinese are accurately indexed even though they generally do not have spaces between words. [close]

TIFF Review

TIFF Review MetaLINCS Review can import documents for review in TIFF format. Paper documents that were scanned or electronic documents that were converted to TIFF can be loaded into MetaLINCS software with an accompanying load file. When the load file that accompanies TIFF files has Bates numbers those are acquired and preserved. [close]