Electronic documents such as E-mail are playing starring roles in legal investigations and lawsuits, but extracting relevant information from them can be time, consuming and expensive. That's changing in some law offices, though, as more mature electronic-discovery technologies are providing attorneys with a faster, cheaper way to cull from electronic documents when building their lawsuits. Vendors are working to make their electronic-discovery technologies more sophisticated in terms of what they can do, yet easier to use. For example, Fios Inc. earlier this month released an upgrade to its Web-based electronic discovery software called Prevail, which aggregates electronic data for viewing and categorizing by legal support teams. The upgrade, which includes instant messaging for team members and more options and filters for searching data, is based on Microsoft's .Net architecture and SQL Server 2000. It lets legal teams view documents through a Windowslike interface. Fios says legal teams can be trained on Prevail in as little as 30 minutes, while some older technologies require several days of training. Prices vary depending on the customer.
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