When compared to traditional document review, Relativity Assisted Review helps case teams achieve significant time and cost savings by applying text analytics technology to their existing review process. It gives them a means of prioritizing relevant documents, and a way to efficiently delegate or make swift decisions on large batches of non-responsive material.

“We believe that predictive coding is the new frontier in document review,” said Tom Palladino, President of NightOwl. “When we’ve compared Relativity Assisted Review to our traditional review methods, we’ve found that it has the potential to save clients 50-70% of review costs. The fact that Assisted Review is integrated into Relativity, a platform clients are already familiar with, is an added bonus that will help make using the technology seamless.”

“We’re excited that NightOwl has decided to offer Relativity Assisted Review,” said Andrew Sieja, President and CEO of kCura, developers of Relativity. “There’s a lot of momentum behind this technology, and we are thrilled to see a growing number of partners providing the advanced review workflow to their clients.”

NightOwl plans to offer Relativity Assisted Review as a fully managed service to clients using Relativity for hosted review and in conjunction with the company’s contract attorney review services.

How Assisted Review Works
Relativity Assisted Review combines technology and process, allowing users to train Relativity on relevant issues by coding statistically sampled subsets of documents. Relativity’s text analytics engine categorizes the remaining documents in the case, based on the small subset of examples. The technology works behind the scenes, so case teams can continue to review documents the same way they always have.

Administrators can validate the accuracy of Relativity’s document categorization by manually reviewing statistically relevant subsets of documents. They can also use reporting tools to gauge review progress and determine whether or not further rounds of review are necessary. Because batches of documents coded by Relativity are randomly sampled using statistical analysis, clients can be confident in their results.

About NightOwl

NightOwl is a leading national provider of technology-driven litigation support services. We bring the most advanced tools and highest level of customer service in the industry together to help our customers identify, collect, manage, review and produce electronically stored information (ESI). Our mission is to provide our customers with the right solution to fit both their legal and business needs. Our success formula has been to pair our staff’s extensive experience with world-class, industry-leading technology tools to deliver solutions at twice the speed, twice the service and at half the cost of our national competitors. For more information, please visit www.nightowldms.com.

About kCura
Recognized as a “Leader” in Gartner’s 2011 E-Discovery Magic Quadrant, kCura are the developers of the eDiscovery software Relativity, a web-based platform for the review, analysis, and production of electronic data. Relativity has more than 52,000 active users worldwide from organizations including the U.S. Department of Justice and 95 of the top 100 law firms in the United States. Relativity also powers Method, kCura’s workflow and notification system for managing legal hold and risk assessment processes. kCura helps corporations, law firms, and government agencies meet eDiscovery challenges by installing Relativity and Method on-premises and providing hosted, on-demand solutions through a global network of partners. kCura has been ranked the 42nd fastest-growing technology company in North America on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 and named one of Chicago’s Top Workplaces by the Chicago Tribune. Please contact kCura at info@kcura.com or visit www.kcura.com for more information.

Contact Information
Scott Sterkel
Director of Marketing
NightOwl Document Management Services
(612) 337-0448
ssterkel@nightowldms.com

By eliminating data redundancy, the Equivio solution enables NightOwl to meet the growing demand for tools that expedite and improve the electronic discovery review process.  NightOwl intends to offer clients the Equivio technology as a standard component of its eDiscovery services and within its market-leading Relativity review platform.

“We are very excited to have implemented Equivio’s outstanding technology,” said Tom Palladino, President of NightOwl.  “By using Equivio’s proven technology to cut through redundant data, we are able to enhance the quality, efficiency and accuracy of the document review process, allowing legal teams to quickly find the data they need to achieve better outcomes.”

The grouping of near-duplicates and email threads allows redundant data to be skipped, while focusing exclusively on the unique information in each document.  By enhancing the ease of data identification, Equivio reduces the risk of missing key information.  The Equivio groupings also ensure similar documents are treated consistently, increasing review productivity and assisting legal teams to meet tight deadlines.

“As one of the industry’s most reliable and innovative providers of eDiscovery services, NightOwl understands the need for technologies that reduce the cost and complexity of ESI processing and review,” said Amir Milo, CEO of Equivio. “The adoption of Equivio’s solution for near-duplicates and email threads helps NightOwl’s customers to save 30 to 50% in review costs.”

About NightOwl
NightOwl is a leading national provider of technology-driven litigation support services.  We bring the most advanced tools and highest level of customer service in the industry together to help our customers identify, collect, manage, review and produce electronically stored information (ESI).  Our mission is to provide our customers with the right solution to fit both their legal and business needs.  Our success formula has been to pair our staff’s extensive experience with world-class, industry-leading technology tools to deliver solutions at twice the speed, twice the service and at half the cost of our national competitors.  For more information, please visit www.nightowldms.com.

About Equivio
Equivio provides analytical solutions for e-discovery. Equivio’s solutions enable the Smart Discovery paradigm, reducing review volumes while finding more relevant documents. The Equivio suite includes predictive coding, near-duplicates, email threads, language detection and relevance mapping. Request a demo at info@equivio.com or visit us at www.equivio.com.

Contact Information
Scott Sterkel
Director of Marketing
NightOwl Document Management Services
(612) 337-0448
ssterkel@nightowldms.com

Clearwell was recognized for its ease of use, straightforward pricing model and solid functionality.  As such, Gartner describes Clearwell as having “one of the most referenceable brands in the market, with high name recognition and customers reporting outstanding satisfaction with its product.”

kCura was recognized for its Relativity document review platform which Gartner noted “is a product designed in, and for, the present age of ever-increasing volumes, velocity and variety of data.”  Further, Gartner reported that “Relativity is now considered “best in class” by many legal end users.”

“The Gartner report confirms what we have known for the last few years – that both Clearwell and Relativity are outstanding, world-class tools for eDiscovery,” said Tom Palladino, President of NightOwl.  “Within the Twin Cities, NightOwl is very proud to be the only authorized Clearwell services provider and the only Relativity premium hosting partner.”

According to the Gartner report, “The reason e-discovery is now a pressing issue for most companies is clear: ESI [electronically stored information] in all its many forms dominates in legal proceedings because modern business is mostly conducted using electronic communications and electronic records.  Regulators require this ESI to be archived for proof of compliance.”  The report also states that “[t]he trend for increased volume, velocity and variety [of ESI] shows no sign of abating.  Increasing use of social media for business purposes, cloud provision of IT and the rise of ‘big data’ applications will add to the mountains of material that might be relevant to any legal or regulatory action.  This will increase the challenge for enterprises as they seek to reduce the amount of data they produce to only relevant items.”

With the explosion of electronically stored data coupled with the rise in litigation, enterprises are increasingly viewing eDiscovery as a core business process.  To help streamline this emerging business process, the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform provides a single, end-to-end solution for legal hold, identification, collection, preservation, processing, analysis, review and production.  Clearwell enables enterprises, government agencies and law firms to dramatically reduce the cost and risk of eDiscovery while ensuring defensibility.  “We believe that being positioned by Gartner in the Leaders quadrant is a confirmation of Clearwell’s ongoing commitment to meet our customers’ eDiscovery needs through continuous product innovation and unparalleled customer service,” said Kamal Shah, Vice President of Products & Marketing at Clearwell Systems.

Gartner indicated that “The need to ingest, organize, search and produce electronic information quickly for legal purposes has focused the industry’s efforts on creating software that can cope with the volume, velocity and variety of data that lawyers must quickly sift and cull.”  To enable users to efficiently review these large volumes of data, Relativity focuses heavily on scalability, and offers features that range from visual data analysis to advanced text analytics, along with the ability to construct and automate sophisticated review workflows.

“It’s an honor to be recognized as a leader in e-discovery software,” said Andrew Sieja, President and CEO of kCura.  “The dedication of our clients and the hard work of the team at kCura allow us to continue to build out the capabilities of our platform and provide flexible, scalable, and easy-to-use applications for the legal space.”

¹Gartner “Magic Quadrant for E-Discovery Software” by Debra Logan, John Bace, May 13, 2011.

About NightOwl
NightOwl is a leading national provider of technology-driven litigation support services.  We bring the most advanced tools and highest level of customer service in the industry together to help our customers identify, collect, manage, review and produce electronically stored information (ESI).  Our mission is to provide our customers with the right solution to fit both their legal and business needs.  Our success formula has been to pair our staff’s extensive experience with world-class, industry-leading technology tools to deliver solutions at twice the speed, twice the service and at half the cost of our national competitors.  For more information, please visit www.nightowldms.com.

Contact Information
Scott Sterkel
Director of Marketing
NightOwl Document Management Services
(612) 337-0448
ssterkel@nightowldms.com

The combination of being a certified reseller and Relativity Premium Hosting Partner gives NightOwl the ability to leverage flexible pricing and deployment options to respond to any scenario clients may be considering for using Relativity.  Deployment options include on-demand hosting, insource purchase or a managed services program.  Clients choosing a managed services program benefit from having their license hosted in NightOwl’s datacenter and the associated technical infrastructure and storage managed by NightOwl while maintaining complete administrative control of their Relativity license.

“Becoming a Relativity Certified Reseller was an important strategic initiative for NightOwl,” said Tom Palladino, president of NightOwl.  “Not only are we better positioned to provide our clients with flexible hosting solutions, but this strengthens our managed services program which is rooted in the company’s deep experience in both the litigation support and facilities management market segments.”

As a certified reseller, NightOwl has the ability to combine the selling of end-user licenses with project management and litigation support services including end-user support, processing and consulting across the entire lifecycle of a case.

“We’re excited to have NightOwl as a Relativity Certified Reseller,” said Andrew Sieja, president and CEO of kCura.  “Offering flexible deployment options, both on demand and on premises, presents a real advantage to NightOwl’s clients.”

About NightOwl
NightOwl is a leading provider of technology-driven litigation support services that enable clients to capture, analyze, manage and produce electronically stored information (ESI).  NightOwl prides itself on offering twice the speed, twice the service at half the price of our national competitors.  The company’s services help clients increase efficiencies, reduce costs and improve the likelihood of success in litigation.

About kCura
kCura are the developers of the e-discovery software Relativity. Relativity is a web-based platform servicing the analysis, review, and production stages of the EDRM. In addition to document review, Relativity powers kCura’s legal hold management solution, Method, which is a workflow and notification system designed to manage legal hold and risk assessment processes. kCura helps corporations, law firms, and government agencies with e-discovery challenges by installing Relativity and Method on-premises, as well as providing hosted, on-demand solutions through a global network of partners in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. For more information about Relativity and Method, contact kCura at info@kcura.com or visit www.kcura.com.

Contact Information
Scott Sterkel
Director of Marketing
NightOwl Document Management Services
(612) 337-0448
ssterkel@nightowldms.com

Rhonda is an experienced litigation support sales professional with a strong track record of providing outstanding service to the Twin Cities legal community. For more than 17 years, Rhonda has sold paper and electronic discovery services through litigation service providers Pinnacle, Lighthouse and Skyline. In that time Rhonda distinguished herself by developing and managing numerous strategic accounts.

“We’re very excited to have Rhonda join our team,” said Tom Palladino, president of NightOwl. “Her experience and stellar reputation further enhance our current sales team. Without a doubt, Rhonda will help us expand and strengthen our relationships in the Twin Cities market.”

“NightOwl has been a leading provider of litigation support services for nearly 20 years, and I’m very exited to be joining such a great team,” said Rhonda O’Hara. “NightOwl has an unbeatable combination of electronic and paper discovery services that I look forward to offering to clients I have worked with over the years.”

Rhonda O’Hara can be reached at (612) 202-5942 or rohara@nightowldms.com.



About NightOwl
NightOwl is a leading provider of technology-driven litigation support services that enable clients to capture, analyze, manage and produce electronically stored information (ESI). NightOwl prides itself on offering twice the speed, twice the service at half the price of our national competitors. The company’s services help clients increase efficiencies, reduce costs and improve the likelihood of success in litigation. For more information, please visit www.nightowldms.com.

Contact Information
Scott Sterkel
Director of Marketing
NightOwl Document Management Services
(612) 337-0448
ssterkel@nightowldms.com

Minneapolis, MN, September 20, 2010 – NightOwl Document Management Services, a leading provider of eDiscovery services, is pleased to announce that it has become the first Relativity Premium Hosting Partner headquartered in the Twin Cities.  NightOwl will combine its nineteen years of discovery experience with kCura’s world-class review platform, Relativity, to strengthen its position as a market leader in hosted eDiscovery services.

“We’re thrilled to welcome NightOwl as a Premium Hosting Partner,” said Andrew Sieja, president and CEO of kCura.  “By combining their industry expertise with our advanced technology, we’ve created an exceptional partnership that will bring significant time and cost savings to their clients’ review efforts.”

Relativity is a feature-rich online review solution with the power to handle the largest and most complex eDiscovery projects.  For analysis, review and production, this easy-to-use tool lets users focus on documents, rather than on technology.  Relativity provides image and native file review, powerful searching, diverse coding options, flexible workflow capabilities, integrated productions, Unicode and foreign language support, and concept searching – all delivered in a highly scalable, enterprise-grade eDiscovery solution.

“We are very excited to offer Relativity to our clients,” said Tom Palladino, President of NightOwl.  “NightOwl’s data collection, processing and review capabilities will be greatly enhanced by our partnership with Relativity.  It’s the solid, intuitive, feature-rich review platform that our customers demand.”

Benefits of Relativity include:

• Accelerated review through Relativity Analytics
• Improved insight into case data via Relativity Pivot
• More consistency in review decisions with visual indications of related documents
• Multi-party collaboration through the building and maintaining of ethical walls
• Repeatable and defensible process impacted by case templates and audit trails
• Reduced costs through native file viewing technology and TIFF-on-the-fly capabilities
• Complete production management
• Complete Unicode and foreign language support
• More ways to manage case-related data through Relativity Dynamic Objects

About NightOwl
NightOwl is a leading provider of technology-driven litigation support services that enable clients to capture, analyze, manage and produce electronically stored information (ESI).  NightOwl prides itself on offering twice the speed, twice the service at half the price of our national competitors.  The company’s services help clients increase efficiencies, reduce costs and improve the likelihood of success in litigation.  For more information, please visit www.nightowldms.com.

About kCura
kCura are the developers of the e-discovery software Relativity. Relativity is a web-based platform servicing the analysis, review, and production stages of the EDRM. In addition to document review, Relativity powers kCura’s legal hold management solution, Method, which is a workflow and notification system designed to manage legal hold and risk assessment processes. kCura helps corporations and law firms with e-discovery challenges by installing Relativity and Method on-premises, as well as providing hosted, on-demand solutions through a global network of partners in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. For more information about Relativity and Method, contact kCura at info@kcura.com or visit www.kcura.com.

Contact Information
Scott Sterkel
Director of Marketing
NightOwl Document Management Services
(612) 337-0448
ssterkel@nightowldms.com

Minneapolis, MN, May 18, 2010 – NightOwl Document Management Services, a leading provider of technology-driven litigation support services, is pleased to announce that it now offers the recently released version 5.5 of the Clearwell eDiscovery Platform.

Version 5.5 features best practice workflows gathered from hundreds of enterprises, government agencies and law firms who have successfully streamlined their eDiscovery processes using Clearwell. Features include:

Unmatched Performance and Scalability: Enables processing of data at the speed of 1 terabyte per day and supports up to 100 million documents per case on a single appliance.

Expanded Email Support: Supports diverse email file formats such as MBOX, OST, and EMLX – eliminating the need to convert data with external tools.

PKI Encrypted Email Support: Users can process, analyze, search and review digitally encrypted emails after simply uploading PKI digital certificates.

OCR Support: Integrated optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities extract text from image files including PDF, in multiple languages, during processing.

Review Enhancements: Delivers several offerings, such as hidden content notification and auto-prompting for required tags, to increase reviewer productivity.

Mixed-Mode Productions: Provides flexibility in the handling of complex document types. Users can choose to produce some file types as images while leaving others in their native formats.

“We are very excited to offer our customers the latest features of Clearwell 5.5,” said Tom Palladino, President of NightOwl. “These new capabilities not only maintain Clearwell’s lead as the industry’s premier hosted eDiscovery platform – they increase it.”

About NightOwl
NightOwl is a leading provider of technology-driven litigation support services that enable clients to capture, analyze, manage and produce electronic documents. The company’s services help clients increase efficiencies, reduce costs and improve the likelihood of success in litigation.

Contact Information
Scott Sterkel
Director of Marketing
NightOwl Document Management Services
(612) 337-0448

Minneapolis, MN, April 22, 2010 – Andrea Wallack, CEO of NightOwl Document Management
Services, was recently named to Finance & Commerce’s list of 2010 “Minnesotans on the Move”.

Finance & Commerce created the award in 2009 in conjunction with the publication’s 120th anniversary celebration. The annual award honors Minnesota professionals who are poised to make business history of their own during the coming years.

“As NightOwl approaches its 20th anniversary, we are celebrating our history as well as looking toward forward to the future,” said Andrea Wallack. “We are positioned for strong growth and will continue to strive to help make the costs of eDiscovery affordable for both our law firm and corporate clients. By leveraging our innovation and operational excellence, we plan to emerge as one of the country’s leaders in the eDiscovery space.”

The award honorees were chosen from dozens of outside nominations, as well as suggestions from
Finance & Commerce’s editorial staff. Award winners have:

• Established a distinctive presence in their industry.
• A track record of being recognized by their peers and colleagues for their work.
• Brought innovation, creativity or some kind of dramatic change to a Minnesota-based business.
• Demonstrated the potential to bring a growing influence to their business in years to come.

“Andrea’s unwavering vision to transform NightOwl into a leader in technology and customer-focused
litigation support services attracted me to the company,” said Tom Palladino, President of NightOwl.
“Her leadership has made it a reality. I look forward to working with her to bring NightOwl to the
national stage.”

Please click on link to download the article: Minnesotans on the Move



About NightOwl
Founded in 1991, NightOwl combines world-class technologies with the practice of law. NightOwl is a
leading provider of technology-driven litigation support services that enable clients to capture, analyze,
manage and produce electronic documents. The company’s eDiscovery services help clients increase
efficiencies, reduce costs and help improve the likelihood of success in court. For more information,
please visit http://www.nightowldms.com.

Contact Information
Scott Sterkel
Director of Marketing
NightOwl Document Management Services
(612) 337-0448
ssterkel@nightowldms.com

NightOwl Document Management Services, a leading provider of technology-driven litigation support services, is pleased to offer law firms and corporate legal teams hosted eDiscovery services with Autonomy Introspect 6.

Autonomy is renowned for its blue chip customer base and their products are used by 10 of the top 10 global law firms. Autonomy Introspect is a hosted document review platform that provides a conceptual and contextual understanding of electronic data. This is accomplished using the Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), a powerful underlying technology with the ability to process data from over 1000 file formats, including native email, electronic office files, archived data, imaged documents, audio and video. The result is a hosted, comprehensive outsourced eDiscovery solution that leads the market in scalability, speed, security and client satisfaction.

“NightOwl is excited to offer the advanced features and capabilities of Autonomy Introspect as a fully managed, secure, hosted service,” said Tom Palladino, President of NightOwl. “Introspect offers the perfect mix of security, flexibility and scalability. For big cases that require a heavy duty platform, Introspect is the one. Yet it’s so user friendly that many clients use it for small cases as well.”

Introspect 6 delivers:

Lower Cost – Introspect’s clustering and concept search technologies combined with industry leading workflow tools such as bulk tagging and smart foldering create 50% cost savings when compared to other review solutions.

Intuitive Tools - Introspect’s web-based user interface and tools simplify training for new and infrequent users. Keyword AND Conceptual search are combined to find relevant documents in a fewer number of clicks.

Secure Collaboration - The hosted environment created by Introspect is fully flexible yet secure, enabling multiple parties involved in litigation to work together, generating hard dollar ROI in terms of time and money saved.

Multi-Language Support - Autonomy solutions are fully language independent and support over 100 different languages, allowing customers to process, review and produce data in its native language with no need for extensive translation.

Local Service – NightOwl hosts Introspect system in its state of the art, secure data center located in downtown Minneapolis. We pride ourselves on lightning fast customer response and 24/7 customer support.

About NightOwl
Founded in 1991, NightOwl combines world class technologies with the practice of law. NightOwl is a leading provider of technology-driven litigation support services that enable clients to capture, analyze, manage and produce electronic documents. The company’s services help clients increase efficiencies, reduce costs and help improve the likelihood of success in court. For more information, please visit http://www.nightowldms.com.

Contact Information
Scott Sterkel
Director of Marketing
NightOwl Document Management Services
(612) 337-0448
ssterkel@nightowldms.com

NightOwl Document Management Services, a leading provider of technology-driven litigation support services, is pleased to announce that it recently became the first and only provider of Clearwell 5.0 services in the Twin Cities.

Version 5.0 is Clearwell’s latest release and features new pre-processing, review and production modules that help lawyers pre-process, analyze, search, review, redact, and produce documents within a single product, eliminating the need to use multiple tools and enabling an iterative and defensible eDiscovery process.

The Clearwell Pre-Processing Module provides interactive graphs that enable eDiscovery 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.

The Clearwell Review Module enables reviewers to quickly redact documents, apply reason codes, and verify redactions prior to production. Decision-tree tagging using a multi-layer tree structure prevents errors and minimizes the number of clicks needed to accurately tag a document.

The Clearwell Production Module offers a range of production options, including bates stamping, watermarking, custom header/footer, and various export options.

In addition to these three new modules, Clearwell 5.0 delivers over 20 new features and enhancements in its industry-leading processing and early case analysis module.

“NightOwl is excited to offer the expanded features contained in Clearwell 5.0,” said Tom Palladino, President of NightOwl. “Over the last two years, Clearwell has been an extremely successful hosted eDiscovery platform for NightOwl. It’s fast, easy to use, and rock solid. Most importantly, users love it.”

About NightOwl
Founded in 1991, NightOwl combines world class technologies with the practice of law. NightOwl is a leading provider of technology-driven litigation support services that enable clients to capture, analyze, manage and produce electronic documents. The company’s services help clients increase efficiencies, reduce costs and help improve the likelihood of success in court. For more information, please visit http://www.nightowldms.com.

Contact Information
Scott Sterkel
Director of Marketing
NightOwl Document Management Services
(612) 337-0448
ssterkel@nightowldms.com