Announcing the Launch of earlyCASE ~ A FREE Early Case
Assessment Software Now Available for Legal Professionals
earlyCASE software sets new standard for early analysis and culling of
documents, data and metadata for eDiscovery
Ah! Electronic Discovery Analysis: let’s read more:
ATLANTA, GA (August 11, 2008) – Atlanta-based earlyCASE, an innovator in advanced early case assessment for Electronically Stored Information (ESI) and eDiscovery, today announced the launch of its free software available for download from www.earlycase.com . earlyCASE is a web-based application which runs on your local PC and analyzes the ESI that your computer can access without the data ever leaving your computer or network.
Runs on your local computer, and it is FREE! Sounds Interesting.
earlyCASE allows you to see and understand all of your data before it is processed for discovery. It supports multiple languages, extracts metadata, generates hash values, detects duplicates and creates a local inventory database of documents and emails. earlyCASE allows users to make informed discovery decisions and easily cut down the size of data sets through filter and culling rules before going into the discovery process and review.
Sounds like a preprocessor of some sort. Why review all of your data if you can only tag the relevant stuff?
Companies spend millions of dollars annually on the review and analysis eDiscovery phases. By assessing data early and reducing the sets of data going to review, the cost of processing and the time to review can be drastically reduced in the overall eDiscovery lifecycle.
“We are excited to introduce earlyCASE,” said Tom Strack, CEO of earlyCASE. “earlyCASE brings a real understanding to the eDiscovery process at the earliest moment, the lowest cost, and at an unprecedented speed, giving clients a more realistic view into what data they have at stake. With data storage continuing to increase in size, it is common to have terabytes of information to process and review. earlyCASE can analyze that data and decrease the data sets that need to be reviewed, reducing not only eDiscovery budgets, but managing their legal risk. earlyCASE can process the data without it ever leaving where it is stored, using your own people and equipment. “
And you — or at least the client, hopefully together with its lawyers — can do it. On Site. And there is a free version.
earlyCASE is offered in two versions, a Basic (FREE) version and a Professional version for a small flat rate charge, regardless of the amount of data you analyze. The Basic version offers 15 high quality eDiscovery reports, one which estimates your processing and review budget while providing an immediate understanding of your data. Through the Professional version, a 26(f) report for meet and confer is available to help clients reduce legal risk exposure by offering a necessary view of the legal case information—custodians, context, third parties, and more. earlyCASE provides you the tools and results to best understand, define and memorialize the ESI going into the meet and confer. Duplicate document detection and container processing (zip, rar, arc) are the primary reasons most people use the Professional version of earlyCASE.
ah! There is a free version with, but it won’t read files within standard archives, and it won’t provide attachment MetaData and other information you probably will want. The Web site says the professional version costs $198 per run , with unlimited data, which doesn’t sounds terribly expensive. The company representative tells me that all of the processing is done locally, and you end up with a local Microsoft Access database to use as much as you want.
For more info if you want to do some pre-analysis analysis, surf over to : www.earlycase.com
But before you use it, you’ll also want to check out this page on the earlyCASE Web site, which tells you one way the company can provide all that stuff free of charge — or how you can become an advertiser and obtain (presumably little more than contact) information about who’s using the program and how much data was processed. Nice of them, actually, to place the stuff where potential users can see it.
There’s also a link to a page for Level 9 Corporation, which apparently is the real name of the company, and which has a set of Terms and Conditions of Use buried under a link for the L9 site’s "Privacy Policy ". Probably just misnamed, as the "agreement" is relatively innocuous, as long as you don’t mind litigating in Georgia. (To be clear, and to make sure we are not getting involved with the Russians, that is "State of Georgia, United States of America". )
Level 9 is a great "gee, I’ve heard of that company before" name, that has been involved, over the years, with books, short stories, a tv show, computer games (all tending towards techy, hacking , science fiction sort of stuff) over the years. This Level 9 isn’t connected with the other stuff, of course, but if you think you’ve heard of the company before, years ago, that’s why.
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