Everlaw’s regular release cadence means that sometimes we introduce expansive new features to our toolset and sometimes we make improvements to existing ones. In last Friday’s release, we introduced a series of improvements to a number of features you’ve likely already made use of: productions, spreadsheets, uploads, and exports. Productions: Produce to Decimal Bates Numbers
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Motion practice is true courtroom drama where a party seeks relief from the Court. This can be anything from a motion to dismiss a case for failure to state a claim, to a motion to compel discovery. Seasoned litigators know motion practice is the art of connecting discovery to the law in order for a
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Magistrate Judge David Waxse’s Williams v. Sprint/United Mgmt. Co. opinion in 2005 was likely the first to address the challenges of redacting spreadsheets. The discovery disputes in the Williams I opinion included 1) an order to show cause why metadata was scrubbed from spreadsheets; 2) the need for redaction of Social Security Numbers; and 3)
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At Everlaw, commitment to growth and respect for our users are two of our core company values. We display the values around the office, reward our employees for embodying them, and showcase them through continuous improvements of our product. Last week, we released a handful of new features to the Everlaw platform and we’re excited
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Everlaw’s document review platform was already powerful when it came to spreadsheets. As an important piece of document review, we made certain that spreadsheets could be searched, that foreign language in a cell could be translated, that hidden content would be expanded automatically, and that cell contents—including formulas within cells—could be viewed in a native
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Last week’s release brought an important new feature to the Everlaw platform and we can’t wait to tell you about it. With this release, we’ve taken an already game-changing feature—self-serve productions—and made it even better. We’ve also made some important changes to our homepage, user permissions, and search options, to name a few. Read on
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One critical purpose for discovery is, of course, to prepare a case for trial. But in preparing for trial, a lawyer also prepares the case for mediation, allowing them to advise their client on the strengths of their position, possible arguments, and potential weaknesses. Everlaw’s integrated case-building tools help make sense of all the moving
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Strategy is key to finding relevant and responsive discovery to requests for production. In the case of FlowRider Surf, Ltd. v. Pac. Surf Designs, Inc., the Defendant brought a motion to compel production of documents for all search term “hits” without any relevancy review.1 The Defendant claimed that because their requests for production were “narrowly-tailored
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