EED Announces a Major Upgrade to Their eDiscovery Software Platform; EED Discovery 4.0 Advances EED's Product and Service Offerings, Providing Corporations and Law Firms with a Comprehensive Platform for Any Size Electronic Discovery Project.

SEATTLE -- Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc., the global leader in comprehensive eDiscovery services and software for corporations and law firms, today released the next generation of its industry-leading electronic discovery software platform -- EED Discovery(TM) version 4.0. Delivered as a packaged software product or through ASP-based services, corporations and law firms use EED Discovery for litigation support, responses to regulatory requests and internal investigations.

"This new version of EED Discovery enables companies to cut the cost and risk of electronic discovery requests for litigation matters and regulatory compliance," said John Jessen, CEO of EED. "It provides control over a process that has been chaotic, extremely costly and, when not handled properly, can result in devastating sanctions and loss of shareholder value."

For Corporations

EED Discovery installs on the corporate network and connects directly to network accessible data sources enabling corporations to permanently configure and automate the collection and preservation of electronic content. Common data sources include:

--Microsoft Outlook (PST)/Exchange

--Lotus Notes (NSF)/Domino

--email archives

--network file shares

--desktops

Once in place, the EED Discovery platform enables corporations to conduct collection, preservation, processing, review and production activities with the confidence that they are being handled defensibly and cost effectively. By automating the eDiscovery processes within the organization, corporations can respond more quickly to discovery requests, eliminate costly IT fire-drills and reduce litigation expenses for outsourced services and discovery review counsel.

For Law Firms

With EED Discovery, law firms can rapidly deliver comprehensive eDiscovery, hosted native file processing, review and production capabilities as an in-house solution for their attorneys.

"EED Discovery is the product of more than eighteen years of experience helping attorneys through complex eDiscovery projects," says Jessen. "We have integrated powerful discovery capability with litigation-proven review and evidence production capability in a single, high-performance software platform."

Law firms deploying the comprehensive EED Discovery system enjoy a considerable competitive advantage over firms deploying rudimentary conversion tools and cobbled-together processing, review and production systems.

"eDiscovery projects can be driven by a lawsuit, a minor internal investigation or a regulatory audit and can involve a few email messages or millions of electronic files," says Chris Maconi, Chief Technology Officer of Electronic Evidence Discovery. "What our customers are asking for is a comprehensive software platform to manage the entire eDiscovery process for any size project in a manner that will stand up in court -- EED Discovery 4.0 delivers on their request." Features of the new EED Discovery version 4.0 platform include:

Expanded Project Management Features

The new case management system in version 4.0 allows project managers to maintain start-to-finish control over large and small eDiscovery projects.

--Customizable workflow templates ensure consistent results across projects and eliminate human error during the discovery process.

--Enhanced reporting enables real-time progress tracking of discovery, review and production processes to ensure process integrity and effective use of resources.

--Automated recursion to ensure that all data is fully processed and tracked before search and review, eliminates repeated source of errors in non-automated processes.

Enhanced Review Features

Version 4.0 provides increased reviewer productivity with features that accelerate review, reduce human error and maximize data processing efficiency.

--New in version 4.0, hit-highlighting and support for rich-text email ensures that reviewers quickly identify and classify important content -- minimizing the time required to review each document.

--Rich Text formatting extraction (bold, underline, italics, color, etc.) for use in review and production ensuring that email looks like the original email when produced.

--Improved search editing functionality enables non-technical users to create complex searches using powerful SQL queries, without the support of expensive DBA's.

Improved Production Capability

--Improved Microsoft Excel text extraction ensures that complex spreadsheet formatting and calculations are captured and retained during review and evidence production phases.

--Improved flexibility in the Production Manager Module enables customers to create their own reformatting options without involving EED programmers.

About Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc.

Electronic Evidence Discovery helps major companies and major law firms successfully handle electronic discovery, regulatory compliance and internal investigation matters.

The world's first e-discovery company, EED provides both technology enhanced services and a comprehensive enterprise software solution. EED assists clients in developing e-discovery strategies and in identifying, locating, retrieving, searching, culling, processing, reviewing and producing data in native format, thereby saving money and ensuring that the discovery efforts are complete and defensible.

EED's industry leadership, long-term expertise, broad experience in major cases and unparalleled record in providing expert testimony gives our clients the confidence that EED will handle their most important matters in a timely, economic, proper and defensible manner.

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