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

Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal
March 27, 2009
By Jennifer Niemela
Staff Writer

The Internet plus the recession equals big gusiness for one Minneapolis legal-document review firm.

NightOwl Inc., which handles paper and electronic discovery for law firms and companies engaged in litigation, has seen its electronic-storage business increase 600 percent over the past two years.

The growth comes from an explosion in the volume of electronic data that needs to be reviewed for litigation, combined with cost-cutting measures by law firms and companies that might decide to outsource time-consuming tasks like document review.

“Our clients are faced with a very difficult situation,” as review costs have risen sharply, said NightOwl’s CEO Andrea Wallack. Costs of $10 million to $20 million for corporate-litigation cases are not uncommon, she said. “It becomes cost-prohibitive to try your case, with typical matters running millions of dollars just on document review.”

Legal-document review, especially on the e-discovery side, is a market area that’s been growing for some years and doesn’t show any signs of slowing, said Michele Lange, director of legal technologies for Kroll Ontrack Inc., based in Eden Prairie.

“There’s a need that, as litigation budgets contract, all of us are trying to do more with less,” Lange said. “Document review is on of the most time- and resource-intensive parts of litigation, and there’s certainly opportunity for efficiencies and cost-savings.”

NightOwl, and the scores of other legal document and e-discovery service firms that have cropped up in the past few years, hire attorneys on a contract basis to review document at a fraction of what it would cost a law firm to have an associated do it. At NightOwl, the reviewers work on-site in two shifts, a day and an evening shift. The attorneys are typically either fresh out of law school or between jobs.

“Minnesota happens to have a preponderance of unemployed attorneys because we have a number of law schools, and there’s a limit to the number of positions available to them,” Wallack said.

The document-review industry is a good place for attorneys to find temporary work while they search for permanent positions, said Cindy Eidnes, director for Beacon Hill Staffing Group’s legal division in Minneapolis. Although the pay isn’t great, at $25 to $30 per hour, it’s about the same as some entry-level lawyer positions in the public sector, and it keeps people in the industry.

“It gives they legal experience, as opposed to other jobs to just fill the gap,” Eldnes said.

NightOwl is planning to keep growing, especially in e-discovery.

“The focus is to continue to expand the business and increase the size of the review facilities to handle more and more volume,” Wallack said.

The ABA Law Practice Management Section has presented ABA TECHSHOW® for 24 great years. Join us March 25 – 27, 2010, for the world’s premier legal CLE technology Conference and EXPO.

Hosted at Chicago’s historic Hilton Chicago, ABA TECHSHOW provides attendees with more than 60 educational sessions moderated by professionals who are experts in their fields.

In addition to the high-caliber educational experience, ABA TECHSHOW provides attendees a forum for networking, knowledge exchange, and fun! Plus, the ABA TECHSHOW EXPO hosts a wide variety of exhibitors eager to demonstrate cutting-edge technologies and services to help you and your practice excel.

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ALA’s three-day Exposition is a vital extension of the educational program and provides the opportunity to update yourself on the latest technologies, find solutions to business issues, solve problems, uncover emerging trends, and develop valuable resources and partnerships in the legal industry.

The Annual Conference also provides ample opportunities for networking. Various events, including receptions, lunches, and idea exchanges, will allow you the time to discuss your day-to-day challenges and unique issues with other legal management professionals from around the world. You’re sure to learn tips, tactics, and wisdom that you can implement back at your workplace.

Twin Cities ARMA is a strong chapter of the ARMA International family and continues to thrive with members possessing a wide variety of talents from some of the top companies in the United States.

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With trade shows in both New York and Los Angeles, LegalTech® is the #1 Resource for law firms and legal departments to get hands-on practical information for improving their law practice management.

LegalTech® provides an in-depth look at what the technological world has in store for you and your practice AND offers an expansive exhibit floor with the most extensive gathering of innovative products designed to meet your current and future technology needs.

The legal marketplace has tremendous buying power that resists dips in our ever-changing business economy. For this reason, competition in the legal industry is fierce and making face-to-face connections is often the difference between your company closing a sale and losing that sale to your competitor. For over a quarter of a century LegalTech® has been there to help you even the playing field.

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NightOwl Document Technologies Chooses Index Engines for Backup Tape Discovery
NightOwl on Cutting Edge of E‐Discovery Technology

Minneapolis ‐ December 01, 2008 — NightOwl Document Technologies, a leading provider of technology‐driven litigation support services, and Index Engines, a leader in enterprise discovery solutions, together announce that NightOwl has selected Index Engines as its premier e‐discovery platform for backup tape archives.

NightOwl’s e‐discovery solution for archive data, powered by Index engines, provides clients with the fastest and most cost effective method for retrieving data from backup tapes. Index Engine’s technology expedites the data extraction process by cataloging and indexing backup tape data without the need for expensive and time‐consuming full tape restorations. NightOwl can then perform complex searches against the index and extract only the files that are needed from the tape media. The result is a near 80 percent reduction in processing time and expense when compared to traditional tape restoration and data indexing methods.

“Index Engines has created a paradigm shift in the restoration of archive data,” states Tom Palladino, President of NightOwl. “Electronic discovery projects that involve data stored on tape backups can now be performed for one‐tenth the cost of traditional restoration methods. This will fundamentally change the way that archive data is treated in litigation matters.”

“Index Engines’ eDiscovery platform and NightOwl’s litigation support services together ensure the eDiscovery process is accurate, cost‐effective and fast,” said Jim McGann, Vice President of Marketing, Index Engines. “NightOwl has built its reputation by improving efficiencies and reducing costs for their clients, and this partnership will enable them to continue on that path.”

Founded in 1991, NightOwl’s services have evolved through the years to unite emerging technologies and 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

Founded in 2003, Index Engines is the leader in enterprise discovery solutions. The mission of the company, headquartered in Holmdel, New Jersey, is to organize enterprise data assets, making them immediately accessible, searchable and easy to manage. Companies rely on Index Engines solutions for comprehensive insight into their data to simplify information discovery, classification and management.

For more information, please visit http://www.indexengines.com

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NightOwl Offers Technologically Advanced E‐Discovery Platform ‐ Clearwell

NightOwl Document Technologies, the Minneapolis‐based leading provider of technology‐driven litigation support services is a provider of e‐discovery solution Clearwell.

A Top 5 E‐Discovery Solution in the 2008 Socha‐Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey, the Clearwell EDiscovery Platform offers NightOwl clients the quickest and most cost‐effective system available to meet their e‐discovery needs.

Fully operational in 25 minutes in comparison to the hours it takes other competitive operating systems, Clearwell accelerates document processing allowing the client immediate access to case facts. Traditionally, e‐discovery systems use keyword filtering often resulting in large volumes of inaccurate data.

Clearwell uses a sophisticated review process that utilizes discussion threads and linguistic analysis to group documents by relevancy, eliminating up to 80% of false positives.

Founded in 1991, NightOwl’s services have evolved over the years uniting constantly changing technology and the practice of law. NightOwl is a leading provider of technology‐driven litigation support services enabling clients to capture, analyze manage and produce both paper and electronic documents. The company’s services helps clients increase efficiencies, reduce costs and improve the likelihood of success in court.

For more information, please visit http://nightowldms.com

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