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Orange Legal Technologies to Introduce New E-Discovery Near Deduplication and Advanced Conceptual Search Capabilities into the OneO® Discovery Platform

Advanced Technologies from OrcaTec will Enhance Best Practice Defensibility and Reduce the Time, Cost, and Risk Associated with E-Discovery Analytics, Processing, and Review

(Salt Lake City, UT)  Orange Legal Technologies, a leading provider of one source litigation, audit, and investigation support services for law firms and corporations seeking insight on electronically stored information (ESI), today announced the introduction of new near deduplication and conceptual search capabilities from OrcaTec LLC into the OneO® Discovery Platform. Launched in June 2008, the OneO® Discovery Platform is a SaaS based, integrated, web-accessible, forensically sound electronic discovery platform that enables online analytics, processing, and review of data from the security of a hosted centralized repository.

“As 2008 was the most active year to date for judicial opinions and rulings on E-Discovery, it is important that we continue to provide our clients the most efficient and economic tools available to help them meet the legal and economic challenges associated with the conduct of E-Discovery” stated Bret Laughlin, CEO and President of Orange Legal Technologies. “With the introduction of near deduplication and advanced conceptual search capabilities into our OneO® Discovery Platform, our clients will be able to leverage these new capabilities to defensibly find the data they need in a manner that saves them time and money while lowering risk.”

Near Deduplication – Getting rid of the clutter.

“For most organizations 20 to 80 percent of the documents in their repository may be exact or near duplicates of one another,” said Herbert Roitblat, Ph.D., Principal of OrcaTec LLC. “Near- duplicates clutter search results and place a heavy burden on analysis. This new near deduplication capability in OneO® will identify these near-duplicates and allow the system to take appropriate action – action that will significantly reduce both the technical and manpower requirements necessary for the processing and review of electronically stored information.”

Conceptual Searching – A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet.

Leveraging OrcaTec’s Information Retrieval Tool Kit, OneO® Discovery Platform Concept Searching learns the meaning of words from the documents that it reads, without having to rely on domain experts. This advanced concept searching capability allows legal professionals to find information even when they may not know exactly the specific words that a document’s author used. It also can provide more accurate results than can be obtained with ordinary taxonomy or ontology based technologies.

Fully Integrated Electronic Discovery Platform – Half the cost and time of traditional discovery.

These new features will be fully integrated into the OneO® Discovery Platform. Current OneO® pricing for the analytics, processing, and review of 100MB of data is approximately $21,000 – about half the cost (and time) of traditional E-Discovery services.