Kroll Ontrack Launches Final Component of Intelligent Review Technology

Innovative Categorization Features, along with Kroll Ontrack Professional Services Experts, Drive Document Review Efficiencies and Decrease Costs

Kroll Ontrack, the leading provider of information management, data recovery and legal technologies products and services, today announced the launch of Ontrack® Inview™ version 6.5, the award-winning document review tool, which now includes Categorization functionality. Completing the Intelligent Review Technology (IRT) suite within the Ontrack Inview 6.5 tool, Workflow, Prioritization and Categorization integrate expert human logic with smart technology by evaluating and learning from document review decisions made by lawyers. Committed to building innovative discovery technology, Kroll Ontrack IRT expedites document review schedules, improves the quality of review decisions and reduces overall discovery costs, all while empowering attorneys to focus on case strategy.

The newest Ontrack Inview feature, Categorization, builds upon the Workflow and Prioritization features, which were released in June and August 2010, respectively. By analyzing human decisions and then making categorization recommendations for documents not yet reviewed, Categorization addresses a common challenge posed by traditional document review – category determinations are often made inconsistently and inefficiently. In fact, studies show that a second, repeat review, even by the same staff, often leads to different category decisions. With  Categorization technology in the Ontrack Inview review tool, learning immediately begins when category decisions are made by lawyers designated as “trainers.” The system learns with each keystroke and then applies intelligent categorizations to the rest of the review set, which can then be evaluated by the review team and validated using quality control measures.

With Workflow, Prioritization and Categorization, clients can achieve greater than 50 percent costs savings on review. Kroll Ontrack IRT works in four steps:

1. Train: Lawyers designated as “trainers” review documents and determine whether they are responsive, non-responsive, privileged or some other pre-defined category.
2. Learn: IRT analyzes reviewer category decisions made by trainers to identify and elevate documents that are most likely relevant and suggest categories for documents not yet reviewed.
3. Evaluate: Reviewers make categorization decisions, leveraging intelligent suggestions.
4. Validate: IRT is fully transparent with real-time reports and metrics available to optimize the technology and experience cost savings.

“Traditional linear review is no longer tenable. The manual aspect of document review inherently produces inaccuracies and inconsistencies in categorization decisions, which hinders the implementation of a repeatable, defensible process,” said Michele Lange, director of discovery, Kroll Ontrack. “IRT in the Ontrack Inview tool is unique when compared to other tools because it automatically selects and presents sample documents for your review team versus a review team conducting manual, iterative, time-intensive searches to find key documents from which to learn. Furthermore, Kroll Ontrack IRT learns while you work and empowers the defensibility of your arguments with transparent reports and real-time metrics. Kroll Ontrack is truly leading a revolution that is going to change the face of legal discovery.”

In addition, through its Professional Services team, Kroll Ontrack is prepared to help clients leverage this powerful technology when conducting their own reviews in order to achieve consistency, speed and cost savings. Clients also have the option of using Kroll Ontrack Document Review Services, facilities and team of highly qualified document review attorneys to fully leverage the Ontrack Inview tool and its advanced capabilities.