Hmm, sure sounds like this vendor might be worth investigating:
"While the revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure pertaining to electronic discovery that hit the books in December may have caused headaches for many in the legal profession, some discovered unexpected benefits. Case in point: the Nassau County Attorney’s Office in New York, which implemented new technology to meet the updated requirements and found that it made e-discovery more efficient than expected.
"Nassau County deployed Clearwell’s Intelligence Platform — a program applied to e-mail and electronic documents that automates the analysis, culling and review process — in February, to comply with the amendments to the FRCP rules 16, 26, 34 and 37. Those rules now require anyone who can be involved in litigation in federal court to retain electronic records — such as e-mails, instant messages and text documents — and be able to retrieve them. The rules also require all parties to present a description of all electronically stored information within 99 days of the beginning of a legal case.
[snip]"’The whole idea about searching to data is a complete transformation from the way we used to do things,’ [said Peter Reinharz, chief managing attorney for the Nassau County Attorney’s Office]. In the past, e-mail retrieval was turned over to the county’s IT department, which would assign someone to isolate items from backup media and conduct manual searches. ‘It was very labor-intensive for our IT department, so it was both cumbersome and costly,’ he said.
"’Now, he said, any attorney can easily conduct Boolean searches and sift through PST files with a much greater degree of focus. And the IT department is thrilled.’"
