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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.”

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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

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.

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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