# Presentation: 948957

## Information Discovery PanelDiscovering the UnexpectedNVAC Consortium MeetingSee What MattersTMSkip Walter

- October 5, 2006

## See What MattersTM

*See What MattersTM*

- “Visualization as a filtering tool, not the visualization of already filtered information.”

## eDiscovery for Litigation, Investigations, Regulatory and Compliance

- www.thesedonaconference.org/

## Increased Productivity Yields Compelling Returns:Rapid Identification of Relevant Content 

- In the Lovells’ case this meant reducing two million documents to just 11,000 in three months at a cost of $1 million, compared with the original estimate, using traditional methods, of a one year timescale and a total cost of $4-5 million.

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*-**	**Legal Technology Insider*, “Recognizing Patterns,” June 2005

**SAVED 9 MONTHS (75%)**

**SAVED $3+ MILLION (75%+)**

**Notes:**
Based on Lovells’ own estimates, Attenex software reduced not only the time, but also the expense of electronic discovery and review for their client by 75%. In this case, 75% equated to a savings of nine months and more than $3 million. One interesting fact here that we’ve found to be true in most cases is that out of the approximately 2 million documents being reviewed, less than 1% were marked as “relevant” in this particular matter.

And that’s what makes Attenex software so powerful. When so much of the collected content is irrelevant, it’s important that your company spends as little as possible determining what each document is. Our customers have gained additional control of the electronic discovery process by providing their law firms with only content that is relevant or potentially relevant to a particular regulatory inquiry, internal investigation or discovery request. 

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Note: We have a few “case studies” available on this example, including an Attenex success story and a reprint of an article titled “Investigative Discovery: Using Technology to Build Case Strategy.”

## eDiscovery – We don’t know what we don’t know

- The lawyer reviewer does not know:
- The company
- The people
- The terms of art
- The products
- The services
- The industry
- The lawyer reviewer must decide (In the context of a “Request for Production” from the other party):
- What is relevant?
*“**Hot”*
*Technically relevant but not important*
- What is privileged?
- What is confidential?

## Case Example – Textile Firm HR Investigation

**Case Example – Textile Firm HR Investigation**

- Suspected two sales people of fraud estimated at $50,000
- Sought bids to investigate 2GB of email (>$50,000)
***Why pay more to investigate than the estimate of fraud?***
- Suggested that sales manager using document analytics and visualization approach could do the initial investigation himself
- Within the first thirty minutes of “browsing” the document collection, found millions of dollars of inappropriate transactions
- Cost:  <$5,000

## Slide 7

## Attenex® Patterns® – Identifying Social Networks to Prioritize Review

**Notes:**
Attenex Patterns enables document reviewers to explore social networks found in to/from/cc/bcc metadata. This helps early case strategy by helping the review team identify key custodians and assess exposure. Using Attenex Patterns, the review team is better informed and can allocate resources more cost-effectively to meet the objectives and goals of the review.

## Attenex® Patterns® - Combining Views for Rapid Understanding

**Notes:**
Attenex Patterns enables document reviewers to dynamically combine views of the document collection for more rapid understanding. For example, reviewers can select key concepts of interest to not only identify documents of interest but also identify individuals or organizations that are communicating about these concepts. This 

## Attenex® Patterns® - Combining Views for Rapid Understanding

**Attenex® Patterns® - Combining Views for Rapid Understanding**

**Notes:**
Concepts can also be combined with the timeline view for a quick understanding of when events occurred or topics were discussed.

## Knowledge Worker Needs

**The work product of a knowledge worker business process is usually more content.  **

**Business Process**

**Content**

**Tools**

**Transactive Content**

**Knowledge Worker**

## Name the Dots

- Snails
- Star Gazing
- Death Star
- Butterflies
- Petri Dish

- Landscape Plans
- London Underground
- Air Traffic Radar Control
- Chemistry Experiment Gone Bad
- Sims:  The Amoeba Edition
- Automobile Navigation System

- DNA
- Staph Infection
- Blood Shot Eye
- Snowflakes
- Airport Terminal

- Erector Set
- Legos
- Alien Circuitry
- Crop Circles
- Honeycomb

## What research help would we like from NVAC/RVAC?

- Automatic categorization of very large document collections
- Get a shareable very large collection
*>10 TB*
*>50 million emails and files*
*Relevancy decisions made on the entire collection*
- Analytic techniques
- Computationally efficient techniques
- Novel Visualizations
- Evaluate different analytic and visualization techniques

## See What MattersTM Skip Walterskip@attenex.com206-373-6501

- October 5, 2006