Clearwell Expands Its E-Discovery Platform With New Modules for Pre-Processing, Review and Production

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - August 17, 2009) - Clearwell Systems, Inc., a
leader in intelligent e-discovery, today announced the addition of Pre-Processing, Review and
Production Modules to its market-leading Clearwell E-Discovery Platform. With these new modules, available in the Clearwell
E-Discovery Platform V5.0, e-discovery teams can pre-process, process,
analyze, review, redact, and produce documents within a single
enterprise-class product, eliminating the need to move data across multiple
tools, and enabling an iterative, dynamic, and defensible e-discovery process.

"Keywords and search queries change even in the simplest of cases, creating
back and forth throughout the e-discovery process," said Jay Brudz, senior
counsel, legal technology at GE. "As a result, it is very important for us
to have an e-discovery product that can reduce the number of tools we use
and eliminate the repetitive movement of data. The new release of the
Clearwell E-Discovery Platform provides a single, integrated e-discovery
product that allows us to deploy an iterative, dynamic and defensible
e-discovery process."

E-discovery is a fluid and non-linear business process. However, legal and
forensic teams traditionally have been forced to use multiple, disparate
products to conduct e-discovery, resulting in a rigid process that is
costly to implement, takes longer to complete and increases the risk of
errors. For example, in many instances, once case data is collected,
keywords are applied using a simple search tool (i.e. tool #1). The
resulting dataset is then converted into a load file using a separate
processing tool (i.e. tool #2). Next, the load file is uploaded into yet
another tool (i.e. tool #3), this time for review. This process presents
many challenges when keywords change as case facts are discovered. With
every change, IT and legal teams are forced to use these multiple tools all
over again and manually manage the repetitive movement of data across each
of these tools. As a result, enterprise and law firms face: a) higher
costs, b) significant time delays that make it harder to meet deadlines, c)
greater risk of errors, and d) potential chain of custody issues that
diminish the defensibility of the entire e-discovery process.

Clearwell provides pre-processing, processing, analysis, review, redaction,
and production, in a single, integrated product, eliminating the need for
import and export of data between multiple tools, reducing manual errors
and lowering the overall cost and duration of e-discovery. In addition, the
Clearwell E-Discovery Platform automatically tracks all actions on case
documents throughout the e-discovery workflow, ensuring chain of custody.
Through one single product, enterprises and law firms can support the
iterative, back-and-forth e-discovery workflow of the real world, making
the process cost-effective and defensible.

Clearwell E-Discovery Platform V5.0 delivers three new modules:

1. Clearwell Pre-Processing Module: Interactive graphs enable e-discovery
teams to quickly filter out data by known files (both NSRL NIST list as
well as custom lists), custodian, date, file type, and size, significantly
reducing downstream processing and review costs. Pre-processing analytics
enable users to graphically view summary and detailed statistics by
collection or by custodian. This allows users to easily confirm that all
case data has been collected and accurately predict downstream e-discovery
costs.

2. Clearwell Review Module: Redaction capabilities enable reviewers to
quickly redact documents, apply reason codes, and verify redactions prior
to production. Reviewers can auto-redact keywords, phrases, and personal
information such as name, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, and
phone numbers. Decision-tree tagging using a multi-layer tree structure
prevents errors and minimizes the number of clicks needed to accurately tag
a document. Clearwell's optimized-for-review user interface provides
several new capabilities that increase review throughput, including: a)
native viewer, b) 'related items' window, c) persistent hit highlighting,
d) dual-monitor support, and e) breadcrumb navigation.

3. Clearwell Production Module: Image-based production capabilities allow
users to convert any set of documents to TIFF or PDF at any time and burn
redactions on the image. Users can choose from a range of production
options, including bates stamping, watermarking, custom header/footer, and
various export options. Rolling production support enables multiple
productions at any point in the e-discovery process. Users can track the
progress of each production in real-time and view produced document sets
within Clearwell in the same format provided to outside parties.

In addition to these three new modules, the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform
V5.0 delivers over 20 new features and enhancements in its industry-leading
processing, analysis, and first-pass review module.

"A consistent theme articulated by our customers is their need to reduce
the number of tools used throughout the e-discovery process," said Kamal
Shah, vice president of product management and marketing at Clearwell
Systems. "With the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform V5.0, e-discovery teams
can perform all the post-collection phases of e-discovery in a single,
integrated enterprise-class application versus three or four tools. This
enables customers to implement an iterative and defensible e-discovery
process. The time and cost savings customers already experience with the
Clearwell E-Discovery Platform will be substantially increased with the
addition of these new modules."

Clearwell Systems will showcase the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform V5.0 and
the Pre-Processing, Review and Production modules at the Annual
International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Educational Conference
August 23-27, 2009 near Washington, D.C.

To learn more about the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform V5.0, see a product demonstration or
download the new product
datasheet.

About Clearwell Systems

Clearwell Systems
is transforming the way enterprises perform electronic discovery in
response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and corporate investigations.
By automating the processing, analysis, review and production of ESI,
Clearwell enables enterprises to accelerate early case assessments,
effectively cull-down data, increase reviewer productivity, and ensure the
defensibility of the entire e-discovery process. Clearwell was ranked a Top
5 E-Discovery Software Provider Overall in the 2008 Socha-Gelbmann
Electronic Discovery Survey. For more information, visit Clearwell Systems
at www.clearwellsystems.com or subscribe to the E-Discovery 2.0 blog at:
http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e-discovery-blog/.