Guidance Software Takes Center Stage at LegalTech New York.

Leading eDiscovery Provider to Host Keynote Panel with Corporate Counsel from Halliburton and Allstate as Well as Howrey Counselors

PASADENA, Calif. -- Guidance Software (NASDAQ:GUID), the world leader in digital investigations, is expanding its presence at LegalTech New York to address the explosive demand for electronic evidence discovery ("eDiscovery'), particularly for in-house counsel who are increasingly seeking to systemize their internal processes to address the challenge. Held at the Hilton New York January 29-31, LegalTech is widely recognized as the largest and most important legal technology event of the year.

Guidance, a major sponsor of this year's program, will provide product demonstrations of its flagship EnCase[R] Enterprise software, which, with the acclaimed eDiscovery Suite, provides a network-enabled and global solution to even the most challenging eDiscovery requirements. EnCase offers thorough identification, collection and processing of relevant data on servers, workstations and laptops anywhere on a corporate network, without disrupting business operations.

In addition, John Patzakis, vice chairman and chief legal officer, will moderate a keynote panel featuring Ronald K. Perkowski, senior counsel at Halliburton Company, Jason Priebe, corporate counsel for Allstate Insurance Company, and John J. Rosenthal, partner at Howrey LLP addressing the real-world implications of today's eDiscovery requirements, and the need for legal enterprise technology on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 at 9:00 a.m.

"This panel will provide valuable insight for key decision makers who are looking to systemize their eDiscovery processes in order to reign-in runaway costs and comply with the New Federal Rules for eDiscovery," said Patzakis. "Our distinguished in-house corporate counselors as well as our knowledgeable experts on the show floor will provide a first-hand understanding about how to put an effective and defensible eDiscovery process in place."

According to Forrester Research, eDiscovery technology spending will grow from $1.4 billion in 2006 to more than $4.8 billion in 2011 as enterprises realize they have no choice but to prepare for electronic discovery. This panel will discuss the importance of having an in-house eDiscovery program and process in place in order for corporations to save money and comply with the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure which took effect on December 1, 2006.

"eDiscovery can be a costly and complicated process," said Perkowski, whose company is also a Guidance Software client. "Guidance Software has created a groundbreaking solution to meet the needs of a complex organization like ours. In a recent case, the highly flexible search and analysis capabilities of EnCase Enterprise software enabled investigators to reduce the amount of data pulled by at least an order of magnitude. Processing fees associated with this investigation would've been on the order of about $300,000 had Halliburton used traditional data-gathering methods. Net savings in that case were on the order of $250,000."

Guidance Software was named one of the top eDiscovery software providers by the 2006 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey and their professional services division is regularly called upon to conduct large-scale investigations and collections for corporations worldwide.

EnCase Enterprise is a powerful, network-enabled software that, with the eDiscovery Suite, eliminates the need for cumbersome, inefficient and costly manual processes. Users can conduct streamlined, automated, targeted searches that cull at the point of collection, capturing only potentially relevant data which is then processed and uploaded into a review platform. The systemized, forensically sound process reduces hard costs by up to 90 percent while improving compliance with a defensible solution.

About Guidance Software (GUID)

Guidance Software is recognized worldwide as the industry leader in digital investigative solutions. Its EnCase[R] platform provides the foundation for government, corporate and law enforcement organizations to conduct thorough and effective computer investigations of any kind, such as intellectual property theft, incident response, compliance auditing and responding to eDiscovery requests--all while maintaining the forensic integrity of the data. There are more than 20,000 licensed users of the technology, and thousands of investigators and corporate security personnel attend Guidance Software's forensic methodology training annually. Validated by numerous courts worldwide, EnCase is also frequently honored with top security awards and recognition from eWEEK, SC Magazine and Network Computing, as well as the Socha-Gelbmann survey.

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