Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

Mountain View, CA -- (SBWIRE) --05/23/2011 -- Clearwell Systems, Inc., a leader inintelligent e–discovery, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the "Leaders" quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for E-Discovery Software"¹. This report is Gartner's first Magic Quadrant on the electronic discovery industry.

According to the report, "The reason e-discovery is now a pressing issue for most companies is clear: ESI [electronically stored information] in all its many forms dominates in legal proceedings because modern business is mostly conducted using electronic communications and electronic records. Regulators require this ESI to be archived for proof of compliance."

The report also states that "[t]he trend for increased volume, velocity and variety [of ESI] shows no sign of abating. Increasing use of social media for business purposes, cloud provision of IT and the rise of 'big data' applications will add to the mountains of material that might be relevant to any legal or regulatory action. This will increase the challenge for enterprises as they seek to reduce the amount of data they produce to only relevant items."

With the explosion of electronically stored data coupled with the rise in litigation, enterprises are increasingly viewing e-discovery as a core business process. To help streamline this emerging business process, theClearwell E-Discovery Platformprovides a single, end-to-end solution for legal hold, identification, collection, preservation, processing, analysis, review and production. Clearwell enables enterprises, government agencies and law firms to dramatically reduce the cost and risk of e-discovery while ensuring defensibility.

"We believe that being positioned by Gartner in the Leaders quadrant is a confirmation of Clearwell's ongoing commitment to meet our customers' e-discovery needs through continuous product innovation and unparalleled customer service," said Kamal Shah, vice president of products and marketing at Clearwell Systems. "Key to the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform is our superior functionality and unmatched ease of use, so that when customers perform a proof of concept they can immediately see the result of leveraging a highly scalable product to reduce cost, mitigate risk and ensure defensibility of the entire e-discovery process."

To download a complimentary copy of the Gartner 2011 Magic Quadrant for E-Discovery Software, visithttp://info.clearwellsystems.com/gartner-magic-quadrant.html.

To learn more about Clearwell Systems and the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform, visithttp://www.clearwellsystems.comor call 1-877-CLEARWELL.

¹Gartner "Magic Quadrant for E-Discovery Software" by Debra Logan, John Bace, May 13, 2011.

About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted May 13, 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Clearwell Systems
Clearwell Systems is transforming the way enterprises, government agencies, and law firms performelectronic discovery(e–discovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. TheClearwell E–Discovery Platformstreamlinesend–to–end e–discovery, providing a single product for identification, collection, preservation, processing, analysis, review, and production. Leading global organizations such as AEGON, Bombardier Learjet, Clear Channel Communications, Constellation Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, GameFly, Microsoft, NBC Universal, OfficeMax, Saint Barnabas Health Care System, Time Warner, Toyota and Volvo are using Clearwell to streamlinelegal holdnotifications, automatecollections, accelerateearly case assessments, intelligentlycull–down data, increasereviewer productivity, and ensure thedefensibility of their e–discovery process. Consistently ranked as a leader in independente–discovery industry surveysand reports, Clearwell Systems is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project, The Sedona Conference, and the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). For more information, visitwww.clearwellsystems.com, follow us on Twitter athttp://twitter.com/clearwell, or subscribe to the E–Discovery 2.0 blog athttp://www.clearwellsystems.com/e–discovery–blog/.

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Mountain View, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/29/2011 -- Clearwell Systems, Inc., a leader inintelligent e–discovery, today announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has extended its contract for the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform. ICE issued a past-performance letter certifying that Clearwell meets the terms and conditions in the Statement of Work (SOW). The SOW covers capabilities critical to e-discovery, including search functionality, review functionality, case management, export and production. Clearwell is being used in the electronic discovery litigation process to assist ICE attorneys in processing, reviewing, analyzing and producing electronically stored information.

The past-performance letter issued by ICE certifies: "The Clearwell E-Discovery Platform procured under the subject contract meets the government's needs and performed in a satisfactory manner."
Specifically, Clearwell has satisfactorily met the following requirements as outlined in Contract HSCETE-09-F-00064:

General Review Functionality:

1.1. Native / Image Document Review: Ability to review files in native format and image format.

1.2. Mixed Media Formats: Support for review of mixed media formats including audio and video.

1.3. Admin Created Fields/Tags: Ability to create fields/tags that can be associated with documents and objects subject to review. Application provides functionality for bulk tagging.

1.4. Integrated Document Viewer: Integrated document viewer that allows users to open and display a variety of documents in their native format without the need for the original application that was used to create the document.

1.5. File and Object Properties — Metadata Search: Functionality that enables users to search on metadata of files and objects.

1.6. Web-Based Application: Web-based document review. Review should be available without the need to download and install client software or agent.

1.7. Off-Line Document Review: Documents and objects subject for review can be downloaded for offline review.

1.8. Bates Numbering: Functionality that provides users the option of bates stamping documents and objects. Functionality to retain set of bates-stamped un-redacted documents.

1.9. Document Redaction: Ability to make redactions to multiple documents in bulk as well as on an individual basis.

1.10. Redaction Commenting: Ability to create comments and codes associated with redactions and allow users the option to include the code or comment when documents are published.

1.11. De-Duplication/Un-Dupe Functionality: Functionality to de-duplicate multiple data types to reduce workload. Product also provides the ability to un-dupe data. This also applies to the processing of emails.

1.12. Page-Specific Review: Ability to jump to a specific page of a document for review without the requirement to traverse the entire document.

1.13. Back-up and Restore Functionality: Ability to backup reviewed documents and be able to restore backed-up documents in case additional reviews or new litigation matter requires access to previously reviewed documents.

1.14. Audit Trail / Chain of Custody: The ability to track all user actions through the entire document review and production process.

1.15. Integration with Concordance Document Review Software: The use of Concordance by attorneys within the Department of Justice (DOJ) requires any potential document review software used by ICE attorneys to allow for a collaborative review process between ICE and DOJ attorneys. The software must provide a seamless offline transfer between the two groups and allow ICE and DOJ attorneys to be
able to review work performed by each group and perform additional review work.

1.16. Maintaining Authentication between ICE Document Review Software and Concordance: Hash values used to verify the authenticity of data should be maintained during the transfer of data between ICE and DOJ attorneys.

Search Functionality

2.1. Keyword Searches: Ability to locate documents and information based on specific keywords.

2.2. Boolean, Proximity, and Fuzzy Searches: The ability to use the Boolean operators "AND", "OR", "NOT" in searches. Proximity search which allows for searches based on the proximity of words in a sentence or a paragraph.

2.3. Wildcard Searches and Results Based on Possible Variations:Support for wildcard characters in searches and provides results for all matching variations of the wildcard search.

2.4. Multiple Query Searches: Functionality to run multiple queries simultaneously and provide results for the entire search as well as for the individual queries.

2.5. Search Filters: Ability to filter the results of searches by individual queries or variations.

2.6. Search Report: Search reports that track and document the execution of searches.

2.7. Hit-Highlighting: Highlight search terms in result set. This feature should be available for textual documents as well as email.

3. Email Review

3.1. Files and Attachments: Ability to review attachments to emails and identify duplicate attachments associated with multiple emails, search across emails and locate all emails that are associated with particular attachments. Attachments to emails can be exported separate from email associated with attachment.

3.2. Discussion Threads: Link related messages into chronological threads which capture the entire discussion. Ability to analyze the content of emails as well as the metadata.

3.3. Advanced Searches: Advanced searches based on custodian, senders, recipients, subject.

4. Case Management

4.1. Case Configuration: Allows administrators to create cases, perform group management, classify groups, cases, or document sets by topic, review sets, create tag categories, and values. Role based administration — ability to specify roles and permissions for users.

4.2 User Management: Manage user accounts, limit views and actions of users. User accounts are configurable by case administrators. Ability to tag documents individually or in bulk and assign these to individual attorneys for review.

5. Export — Production

5.1. Privilege Log: Application automatically creates a privilege log of all privileged documents for opposing counsel's review.

5.2. Production in Multiple Formats: Export documents in PDF, EDRM XML, text, and image formats (TIFF, JPEG.) Users can separate attachments from emails, password protect results, preserve original folder hierarchy, and control the number of files created.

"As indicated in their past-performance letter, ICE has benefited from using the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform to streamline its e-discovery needs," said Aaref Hilaly, CEO of Clearwell Systems.

"Clearwell is committed to helping ICE and the Department of Homeland Security achieve its mission, and ensuring that the product continues to deliver for the agency, as it has thus far."

About the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is the principal investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the second largest investigative agency in the federal government. Created in 2003 through a merger of the investigative and interior enforcement elements of the U.S. Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, ICE now has more than 20,000 employees in offices in all 50 states and 47 foreign countries.

About Clearwell Systems
Clearwell Systems is transforming the way enterprises, government agencies, and law firms perform electronic discovery (e–discovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Clearwell E–Discovery Platform streamlinesend–to–end e–discovery, providing a single product for identification, collection, preservation, processing, analysis, review, and production. Leading global organizations such as AEGON, Bombardier Learjet, Clear Channel Communications, Constellation Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, DLA Piper, Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, NBC Universal, OfficeMax, Time Warner and Toyota are using Clearwell to streamline legal hold notifications, automate collections, accelerateearly case assessments, intelligently cull–down data, increase reviewer productivity, and ensure the defensibility of their e–discovery process. Consistently ranked as a leader in independent e–discovery industry surveys and reports, Clearwell Systems is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project, The Sedona Conference, and the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). For more information, visit http://www.clearwellsystems.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/clearwell, or subscribe to the E–Discovery 2.0 blog at http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e–discovery–blog/.

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Clearwell E-Discovery Platform helps Bombardier Learjet accelerate early case assessments and non-linear reviews, lower costs, reduce risk, and gain greater control of e-discovery process

Mountain View, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/14/2011 -- Clearwell Systems, Inc., a leader in intelligent e–discovery, today announced that Bombardier Learjet has deployed the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform for its in-house e-discovery strategy. Bombardier Learjet's legal and IT teams are using Clearwell for pre-processing, processing, analysis, review and production in order to significantly reduce the time, resources and costs required in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries and internal investigations.

The Clearwell E-Discovery Platform is an enterprise-class solution that was purpose-built for e-discovery. Clearwell's Pre-Processing Module summarizes overall data set characteristics and enables users to interactively filter data by "NIST list" and several metadata properties, reducing downstream processing and review costs. Clearwell's Processing and Analysis Module provides several features such as Transparent Search, discussion threads and people analytics that enable users to significantly accelerate early case assessment, defensibly eliminate irrelevant documents and false positives, and rapidly perform a first-pass review.

Clearwell's Review and Production Module enables reviewers to view all related documents in context, perform one-click tagging, redact documents and apply reason codes, increasing review throughput and consistency. Responsive documents can be produced or seamlessly uploaded into litigation support databases via EDRM-compliant XML and other major load file formats. In addition, the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform automatically tracks all actions on case documents throughout the e-discovery workflow, ensuring a defensible e-discovery process.

For more information about the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform, visit http://www.clearwellsystems.com or call 1-877-CLEARWELL.

About Clearwell Systems
Clearwell Systems is transforming the way enterprises, government agencies, and law firms perform electronic discovery (e–discovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Clearwell E–Discovery Platform streamlines end–to–end e–discovery, providing a single product for identification, collection, preservation, processing, analysis, review, and production. Leading global organizations such as AEGON, Clear Channel Communications, Constellation Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, DLA Piper, Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, NBC Universal, OfficeMax, Time Warner and Toyota are using Clearwell to streamline legal hold notifications, automate collections, accelerate early case assessments, intelligently cull–down data, increase reviewer productivity, and ensure the defensibility of their e–discovery process. Consistently ranked as a leader in independent e–discovery industry surveys and reports, Clearwell Systems is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project, The Sedona Conference, and the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). For more information, visit www.clearwellsystems.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/clearwell, or subscribe to the E–Discovery 2.0 blog at http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e–discovery–blog/.

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Clearwell E-Discovery Platform helps AEGON UK ensure best practice compliance processes and significantly reduce the cost and risk of e-discovery

Mountain View, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/28/2011 -- Clearwell Systems, Inc., a leader in intelligent e–discovery, today announced that AEGON, an international life insurance, pension and investment company, has deployed the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform for in-house e-discovery. AEGON UK's legal and IT teams are using Clearwell for processing, analysis and review in order to ensure best practice compliance processes and to vastly cut back on the e-discovery costs related to litigation, regulatory inquiries and internal investigations.

The Clearwell E-Discovery Platform is an enterprise-class solution that was purpose-built for e-discovery, and which addresses the end-to-end e-discovery lifecycle in a single product. Clearwell's Processing and Analysis Module provides several features such as Transparent Search, discussion threads and people analytics that enable users to significantly accelerate early case assessment, defensibly eliminate irrelevant documents and false positives, and rapidly perform first-pass review. Clearwell's Review and Production Module enables reviewers to view all related documents in context, perform one-click tagging, redact documents and apply reason codes, increasing review throughput and consistency. In addition, the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform automatically tracks all actions on case documents throughout the e-discovery workflow, enabling robust end-to-end reporting and analytics and ensuring a defensible e-discovery process.

AEGON UK joins the list of leading global organizations that are strategically bringing e-discovery in-house and using the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform to perform early case assessment, streamline the review process, and gain control over the cost and risk of e-discovery.

For more information about the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform, visit http://www.clearwellsystems.com or call 1-877-CLEARWELL.

About Clearwell Systems
Clearwell Systems is transforming the way enterprises, government agencies, and law firms perform electronic discovery (e–discovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Clearwell E–Discovery Platform streamlines end–to–end e–discovery, providing a single product for identification, collection, preservation, processing, analysis, review, and production. Leading global organizations such as AEGON, Clear Channel Communications, Constellation Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, DLA Piper, Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, NBC Universal, OfficeMax, Time Warner and Toyota are using Clearwell to streamline legal hold notifications, automate collections, accelerate early case assessments, intelligently cull–down data, increase reviewer productivity, and ensure the defensibility of their e–discovery process. Consistently ranked as a leader in independent e–discovery industry surveys and reports, Clearwell Systems is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project, The Sedona Conference, and the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). For more information, visit www.clearwellsystems.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/clearwell, or subscribe to the E–Discovery 2.0 blog at http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e–discovery–blog/.

About AEGON
AEGON is one of the world's largest providers of life insurance, pensions and long-term savings and investment products. Our approximately 28,000 employees serve some 40 million customers across the globe.

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Clearwell Legal Hold provides scalable, repeatable and defensible legal hold workflow as part of end-to-end Clearwell E-Discovery Platform

Mountain View, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/18/2011 -- Clearwell Systems, Inc., a leader in intelligent e–discovery, today announced the release of Clearwell Legal Hold, a new module in the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform that allows customers to seamlessly manage the critical legal hold process. Clearwell's latest module streamlines legal hold management by enabling a scalable, repeatable workflow that lets legal teams create, manage and track all legal hold notices in one place, and satisfy the duty to preserve from anticipation to completion of litigation. Additionally, because Clearwell Legal Hold is an integrated part of the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform, enterprises, government agencies and law firms can now use a single product for end-to-end e-discovery. As a result, the addition of the new Clearwell Legal Hold Module streamlines preservation while providing the highest level of defensibility across the entire e-discovery lifecycle.

"We selected Clearwell because we were looking for a single, end-to-end product that would let us quickly and defensibly handle our e-discovery needs," said Taleia Wilson, litigation counsel at Exterran. "Clearwell Legal Hold enables our legal team to implement an automated and repeatable workflow so that we can defensibly satisfy the essential duty to preserve. Furthermore, as an integrated part of the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform, our legal and IT teams can collaborate on and streamline the entire e-discovery process, from legal hold and collection through analysis, review and production."

In the Zubulake v. UBS Warburg line of decisions and most notably in Zubulake v. UBS Warburg, 217 F.R.D. 309 (S.D.N.Y. 2003), the duty to preserve is one of the earliest and most critical steps in electronic discovery. When "litigation is reasonably anticipated," companies must institute a legal hold, which includes notifying employees of their duty to preserve data. Traditionally, this process has been performed manually using emails and spreadsheets, a process that is prone to errors and difficult to scale. The lack of repeatability and defensibility of this process elevates the risk of e-discovery sanctions – which today are already at an all-time high, according to a recent article in the Duke Law Journal. Among the 230 cases in which sanctions were awarded prior to 2010, the most common misconduct was the failure to preserve data, resulting in sanction costs ranging from $250 to nearly $9 million.

"Preservation is a critical, but time consuming and often expensive, first step in every case. Manual processes and spreadsheets are especially challenging for clients with large litigation portfolios and on large cases with numerous custodians," said Wendy Curtis, chair of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's eDiscovery Working Group. "A legal hold product integrated in an end-to-end e-discovery solution significantly reduces risk by automating and documenting preservation, and improves efficiency by mapping preservation to collection, analysis, review and production of preserved data."

Clearwell Legal Hold automates and streamlines the legal hold process through a comprehensive set of capabilities that are scalable, repeatable and defensible. With the addition of the Clearwell Legal Hold module, the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform supports all phases of the e-discovery process in a single, end-to-end product. Once a legal hold is issued, users (legal, IT or custodians) can easily collect relevant data that can then be seamlessly processed, analyzed, reviewed and produced all within the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform.

Key capabilities of the Clearwell Legal Hold Module include:

Hold Notices: Hold notices can be quickly created and sent to relevant custodians and system administrators via email. Different notices can be sent to custodians and system administrators, streamlining the notification process. Notices can be sent immediately or scheduled for delivery.

Notice Library: Hold notices can be saved as templates in the Notice Library for reuse, enabling administrators to achieve greater consistency and efficiency across the legal hold process.

Auto-reminders: Reminder email notices can be scheduled for delivery to non-responsive custodians, eliminating the need for manual follow-up.

Auto-escalations: Escalation email notices can be scheduled for delivery to a custodian's manager if a custodian is not responsive, simplifying the legal hold process while maximizing compliance.

Custodian Survey: Surveys containing single-choice, multiple-choice or free form text questions can be created and issued to key custodians so administrators can easily capture information critical to a case, thereby expediting the interview process. Surveys can also be saved as templates to the Notice Library and reused.

Custodian Portal: Custodians have access to individual portals that summarize their active, pending and released holds in a single view, enabling them to easily track all their legal obligations in one place.

Custodian Audit Report: Every legal hold action, such as hold notice, response, confirmation, escalation and release, is tracked and available via an exportable report, creating a complete and detailed audit trail.

Automated Tracking and Reporting: Administrators have immediate visibility into the status of all legal hold notices across all cases through a single pane of glass. Administrators can drill-down by case to view the status across all custodians.

"Increasingly, corporations are seeking to replace their manual, spreadsheet-based legal hold processes with an automated and repeatable solution in order to reduce the risk of sanctions," said Kamal Shah, vice president of products and marketing for Clearwell Systems. "With Clearwell Legal Hold now available as a module of the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform, legal teams can easily create, manage and track data preservation mandates through a scalable and defensible solution. The Clearwell E-Discovery Platform thus not only minimizes the risk of e-discovery sanctions, but also provides enterprises with a single, end-to-end solution to manage all phases of e-discovery."

Clearwell Legal Hold is available now as part of the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform. To learn more about the new capabilities, visit http://www.clearwellsystems.com or call 1-877-CLEARWELL.

About Clearwell Systems
Clearwell Systems is transforming the way enterprises, government agencies, and law firms perform electronic discovery (e–discovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Clearwell E–Discovery Platform streamlines end–to–end e–discovery, providing a single product for identification, collection, preservation, processing, analysis, review, and production. Leading global organizations such as Clear Channel Communications, Constellation Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, DLA Piper, Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, NBC Universal, OfficeMax, Time Warner and Toyota are using Clearwell to streamline legal hold notifications, automate collections, accelerate early case assessments, intelligently cull–down data, increase reviewer productivity, and ensure the defensibility of their e–discovery process. Consistently ranked as a leader in independent e–discovery industry surveys and reports, Clearwell Systems is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project, The Sedona Conference, and the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). For more information, visit http://www.clearwellsystems.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/clearwell.

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Leading e-discovery provider recognized on prestigious list for innovation and industry leadership

Mountain View, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/03/2011 -- Clearwell Systems, Inc., a leader in intelligent e–discovery, today announced that it has been named to KMWorld Magazine's list of "100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management." The list recognizes companies that have played an innovative role in the creation, enhancement and definition of the knowledge management market.

"Given the growth in the volume of electronically stored information and the importance of handling this information efficiently and defensibly in the event of litigation, e-discovery is vital to the scope of knowledge management," said Hugh McKellar, editor in chief of KMWorld. "We recognize Clearwell Systems based on its uniquely innovative search, analysis and review capabilities and its industry leadership in serving its enterprise customers' needs in a highly effective e-discovery product."

The Clearwell E-Discovery Platform is an enterprise-class solution that was purpose built for e-discovery. The Clearwell E-Discovery Platform manages all phases of e-discovery, from identification through production, in a single product. As a result, enterprises, government agencies and law firms are able to streamline workflows and achieve significant reductions in the costs and duration of e-discovery. Clearwell offers unmatched scalability, has filed over a dozen patents, and continues to introduce innovative features into its end-to-end product including:

Transparent Search, which enables a more defensible, interactive and efficient e-discovery search process for both keyword and concept searches.

Discussion Threads, which visually link together all related emails in search results into chronological threads.

Multi-Keyword Search, which allows users to run up to 100 simultaneous searches on emails and documents. "It is an honor to be recognized by KMWorld for our work in enabling global enterprises, government agencies and law firms to take greater control over and reduce the cost of the e-discovery process," said Sean Wilcox, senior director of marketing at Clearwell Systems. "As e-discovery increasingly becomes a core business process, Clearwell will continue to lead the way in product innovation and provide our customers with the best-in-class e-discovery solution."

Clearwell has received awards, accolades and recognition from many of the industry's leading authorities including the Socha-Gelbmann E-Discovery Survey, International Legal Technology Association (ILTA), the Cowen Group, Law Technology News, Red Herring, KMWorld, SC Magazine, Network World, eWEEK and more. In 2010, the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform was a winner of the 2010 Network Products Guide Reader Trust Award for E-Discovery and a finalist for both the 2010 UK IT Industry Awards and the 2010 KM Promise Award. For the last two years, Clearwell has also earned the highest possible rating of "Strong Positive" in Gartner's E-Discovery MarketScope Report.

The KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management list is compiled by KMWorld's editors through discussions with colleagues, knowledge management practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors and customers. The complete list will appear in the March issue of KMWorld Magazine.

For information on the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform, visit: http://www.clearwellsystems.com/electronic-discovery-products/index.php.

About Clearwell Systems
Clearwell Systems is transforming the way enterprises, government agencies, and law firms perform electronic discovery (e–discovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Clearwell E–Discovery Platform streamlines end–to–end e–discovery, providing a single product for identification, collection, processing, analysis, review, and production.

Leading organizations such as Clear Channel Communications, Constellation Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, DLA Piper, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, NBC Universal, OfficeMax, Time Warner and Toyota are using Clearwell to streamline collections, accelerate early case assessments, intelligently cull–down data, increase reviewer productivity, and ensure the defensibility of their e–discovery process. Consistently ranked as a leader in independent e–discovery industry surveys and reports, Clearwell Systems is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project and The Sedona Conference. For more information, visit http://www.clearwellsystems.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/clearwell, or subscribe to the E–Discovery 2.0 blog at http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e–discovery–blog/.

About KMWorld
The leading information provider serving the Knowledge, Document and Content Management systems market, KMWorld informs more than 45,000 subscribers about the components and processes – and subsequent success stories – that together offer solutions for improving business performance. KMWorld is a publishing unit of Information Today, Inc.

About the MarketScope
The MarketScope is copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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Clearwell University certification programs expand internationally and enhance depth of training to accommodate new product releases and unprecedented client demand

Mountain View, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/23/2011 -- Clearwell Systems, Inc., a leader in intelligent e–discovery, has significantly expanded the educational breadth of Clearwell University to accommodate broader training for new releases of the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform®, growing customer demand, and support for Clearwell's international growth into markets in Europe, China, Japan, India and South Africa. The enhanced training programs add greater depth to Clearwell University, which to date has graduated more than 800 Clearwell Certified Administrators (CCAs). With this training, Clearwell's customers and partners are learning to maximize their use of the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform and therefore further reduce the costs and risks of the e-discovery process.

In 2010, Clearwell University saw a 218% rise in attendees and more than tripled the number of classes offered. At the helm of Clearwell University is newly hired director of training services, Peter McLaughlin.

Clearwell University's new offerings include courses to support Clearwell's new collection module and review management capabilities. In addition, Clearwell is launching the Training Passport, which offers convenient, online Continuing Clearwell Education and bridge classes for CCAs, and a Masters Class that provides advanced training and certification to handle more complex datasets and demanding projects.

"Being new to the field of legal e-discovery I was quite pleased by the amount of content covered in Clearwell University and the quality of the instructors," said an employee from GlaxoSmithKline. "The course was delivered in a non-intimidating manner which provided a rich environment for learning Clearwell's offerings."

Clearwell University training combines demonstrations, hands-on labs and practical testing to rapidly and effectively educate partners, law firms, enterprises and governmental agencies on advanced use of the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform. Upon completion of courses, attendees are armed with methods and best practices to facilitate repeatable and defensible management of the end-to-end e-discovery process.

Benefits of attending Clearwell University include:
Case Management Knowledge: Case administrators graduate with the knowledge required to quickly and efficiently create new cases and manage existing cases.

Workflow Management: Clearwell University training guides administrators in rapidly setting up a case, processing data, creating tags, adding users, and establishing a viable review workflow.

Review Mastery: Valuable courses educate reviewers on effective strategies specifically for streamlining the review process, including search techniques, tagging options and workflow management.

Industry Excellence: Attendees benefit from the ability to achieve certification as a Clearwell Certified Administrator (CCA), as well as additional opportunities for advanced education and networking with the CCA community.
Clearwell University is conducting training sessions for customers and partners worldwide in countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, China, Japan, India and South Africa. For more information, visit http://www.clearwellsystems.com/university.

About Clearwell Systems
Clearwell Systems is transforming the way enterprises, government agencies, and law firms perform electronic discovery (e–discovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Clearwell E–Discovery Platform streamlines end–to–end e–discovery, providing a single product for identification, collection, processing, analysis, review, and production. Leading organizations such as Clear Channel Communications, Constellation Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, DLA Piper, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, NBC Universal, OfficeMax, Time Warner and Toyota are using Clearwell to streamline collections, accelerate early case assessments, intelligently cull–down data, increase reviewer productivity, and ensure the defensibility of their e–discovery process. Consistently ranked as a leader in independent e–discovery industry surveys and reports, Clearwell Systems is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project and The Sedona Conference. For more information, visit http://www.clearwellsystems.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/clearwell, or subscribe to the E–Discovery 2.0 blog at http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e–discovery–blog/.

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Clearwell E-Discovery Platform helps Time Warner accelerate early case assessments and non-linear review, lower cost, reduce risk, and gain greater control of e-discovery process

Mountain View, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/07/2011 -- Clearwell Systems, Inc., a leader in intelligent e–discovery, today announced that Time Warner, a global leader in media and entertainment, has commenced deployment of the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform for its in-house e-discovery strategy. E-discovery refers to the process in which electronic data is discovered in civil litigation. Time Warner's legal and IT teams will use Clearwell for processing, analysis, review and production in order to significantly reduce the time, resources and costs required in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries and internal investigations.

The Clearwell E-Discovery Platform is an enterprise-class solution that was purpose-built for e-discovery. Clearwell's Processing and Analysis Module provides several features such as Transparent Search, discussion threads and people analytics that enable users to significantly accelerate early case assessment, defensibly eliminate irrelevant documents and false positives, and rapidly perform first-pass review. Clearwell's Review and Production Module enables reviewers to view all related documents in context, perform one-click tagging, redact documents and apply reason codes, increasing review throughput and consistency. Responsive documents can be produced or seamlessly uploaded into litigation support databases via EDRM-compliant XML and other major load file formats. In addition, the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform automatically tracks all actions on case documents throughout the e-discovery workflow, ensuring a defensible e-discovery process.

For more information on the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform, visit http://www.clearwellsystems.com, email info@clearwellsystems.com or call 1-877-CLEARWELL.

About Clearwell Systems
Clearwell Systems is transforming the way enterprises, government agencies, and law firms perform electronic discovery (e–discovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Clearwell E–Discovery Platform streamlines end–to–end e–discovery, providing a single product for identification, collection, processing, analysis, review, and production. Leading global organizations such as Clear Channel Communications, Constellation Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, DLA Piper, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, NBC Universal, OfficeMax, Time Warner and Toyota are using Clearwell to streamline collections, accelerate early case assessments, intelligently cull–down data, increase reviewer productivity, and ensure the defensibility of their e–discovery process. Consistently ranked as a leader in independent e–discovery industry surveys and reports, Clearwell Systems is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project and The Sedona Conference. For more information, visit http://www.clearwellsystems.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/clearwell, or subscribe to the E–Discovery 2.0 blog at http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e–discovery–blog/.

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Clearwell’s Transparent Concept Search opens traditional “black box” process to deliver interactive, relevant and defensible concept search results

Mountain View, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/04/2011 -- Clearwell Systems, Inc., a leader in intelligent e–discovery, today announced that the company has extended its hallmark Transparent Search technology to concept search, which is now included as part of the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform. Clearwell's Transparent Concept Search introduces new levels of interactivity, relevance and defensibility into the concept search process. These elements do not exist in today's standard "black box" concept search technologies, resulting in a lack of precision that has hindered widespread adoption of concept search in e-discovery. To address this industry need, Clearwell's Transparent Concept Search provides users with greater control of the concept search process by enabling them to refine their searches to deliver more relevant results as well as build more comprehensive searches. As a result, enterprises, government agencies and law firms can now leverage Transparent Concept Search for more effective early case assessment, and decrease expenses through more efficient document review.

"Today, concept search is not as widely used as it could and should be, given the benefits it delivers, and this is primarily because of the lack of precision due to its black-box nature," said Browning Marean, senior counsel, DLA Piper. "Now, with Clearwell's Transparent Concept Search, users can peer inside the black box and interactively refine their searches to yield more relevant results. This will dramatically increase the adoption of concept search as a must-have feature for effective e-discovery."

Concept search offers significant and well-recognized value to the e-discovery process. In Disability Rights Council of Greater Wash. v. Wash. Metro. Transit Auth., 242 F.R.D. 139, 148 (D.D.C. 2007), Judge John Facciola suggests that "concept searching, as opposed to keyword searching, is more efficient and likely to produce the most comprehensive results." However, while concept search delivers benefits through greater recall, it also creates challenges given the technology's lack of precision. For example, conducting a concept search for "Turkey" to find documents related to the country will also return documents related to the bird, increasing the number of irrelevant documents that must then be analyzed and reviewed at potentially great expense.

By contrast, Clearwell's Transparent Concept Search puts users in control by providing the ability to refine the concept search to exclude documents related to the bird "turkey" rather than the country. The end result is a more relevant concept search that yields both greater recall and greater precision, enabling users to more quickly analyze case facts, rapidly identify key documents that may otherwise have been missed, eliminate irrelevant documents, and prioritize the most relevant documents for review. With this added visibility and control, legal, compliance and IT teams can now fully avail themselves of the benefits of Transparent Concept Search as a regular part of their end-to-end e-discovery process for litigation, regulatory inquiries and internal investigations.

Key capabilities of Clearwell's Transparent Concept Search include:

Transparent Concept Search Preview: Allows users to contextually refine the concept search by previewing the most frequently occurring terms and selecting only the relevant ones.

Transparent Concept Search Explorer: Provides a visual interface that enables users to dynamically construct searches by exploring terms and linking them together to form more comprehensive and relevant concepts.

Transparent Concept Search Report: Automatically documents which terms are included in the Transparent Concept Search, and provides detailed analytics of the search results.

"In the same way that we reinvented traditional keyword search with Transparent Keyword Search, the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform now does the same with Transparent Concept Search," said Kamal Shah, vice president of products and marketing for Clearwell Systems. "With Clearwell's Transparent Concept Search, attorneys now have the peace of mind and confidence they need to leverage the power of concept search for enhanced early case assessment capabilities and improved review processes. Benefits of this include identifying related terms in preparation for keyword discussions during meet and confer negotiations, and prioritizing documents for review by conceptual relevance to increase review efficiency."

Transparent Concept Search is offered as part of the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform at no additional charge, and will be available at the end of the first quarter 2011.

Clearwell Systems will be showcasing Transparent Concept Search at LegalTech (Booth #2600), January 31 – February 2 in New York. To learn more about the new capabilities in the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform, visit http://www.clearwellsystems.com/transparent-concept-search or call 1-877-CLEARWELL.

About Clearwell Systems
Clearwell Systems is transforming the way enterprises, government agencies, and law firms perform electronic discovery (e–discovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Clearwell E–Discovery Platform streamlines end–to–end e–discovery, providing a single product for identification, collection, processing, analysis, review, and production. Leading global organizations such as Clear Channel Communications, Constellation Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, DLA Piper, Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, NBC Universal, OfficeMax and Toyota are using Clearwell to streamline collections, accelerate early case assessments, intelligently cull–down data, increase reviewer productivity, and ensure thedefensibility of their e–discovery process. Consistently ranked as a leader in independent e–discovery industry surveys and reports, Clearwell Systems is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project, The Sedona Conference, and the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). For more information, visit http://www.clearwellsystems.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/clearwell, or subscribe to the E–Discovery 2.0 blog at http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e–discovery–blog/.

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Clearwell E–Discovery Platform Enables Customers to Quickly and Defensibly Identify and Collect Data From Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft SharePoint Online

Mountain View, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/16/2010 -- Clearwell Systems, Inc., a leader in intelligent e–discovery, today announced that the latest version of the Clearwell E–Discovery Platform now allows customers to defensibly collect data from Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS)/Microsoft Office 365. With this new capability, customers can quickly identify and collect data from Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft SharePoint Online for e–discovery requests in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries and internal investigations. Once collected, the data from the cloud is immediately available for downstream e–discovery phases such as processing, analysis, review and production. As a result, the Clearwell E–Discovery Platform frees enterprises to reap the benefits of cloud computing while still fulfilling their legal and compliance requirements related to e–discovery.

Cloud computing adoption continues to grow at a record pace as enterprises look to leverage the scalability and cost savings offered by the cloud. According to The 451 Group, the cloud computing marketplace will reach $16.7 billion in revenue by 2013, up from $8.7 billion in 2010, resulting in a compound annual growth rate of 24 percent. This surge in cloud computing consumption, combined with the tripled growth in Microsoft BPOS subscriptions in the past year, demonstrates the imperative need for corporations to ensure that data placed in the cloud is discoverable in the event of litigation, regulatory inquiries and internal investigations.

"As enterprises continue to move data to the cloud, the issue of timely and effective legal discoverability becomes even more critical," said Katey Wood, analyst at The 451 Group. "Clearwell's new BPOS support lets users identify and collect this data with a single product, no matter where it resides, streamlining the e–discovery process significantly."

The latest version of the Clearwell E–Discovery Platform provides comprehensive support for Microsoft BPOS/Office 365, including:
. Identification and collection of data from both Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft SharePoint Online
. Integration with Active Directory
.Auto–detection of both mailboxes and SharePoint sites in the cloud
.Connection throttling to BPOS in order to maximize network efficiency
.Managed security and access, along with automatic activity and chain–of–custody reporting

"Cloud computing is dramatically altering the landscape for electronic discovery," said Kurt Leafstrand, senior director of product management at Clearwell Systems. "As enterprises join this strategic movement of corporate data to cloud environments, it is critical that they plan ahead and proactively enable their IT and legal teams to meet their legal and compliance requirements. With Microsoft BPOS/Office 365 support now part of the Clearwell E–Discovery Platform, customers can manage their entire case — whether data is contained on–premise, in the cloud or in a mixed environment — in a single product for the entire e–discovery lifecycle."

To learn more about the new capabilities, email info@clearwellsystems.com or call 1–877–CLEARWELL.

About Clearwell Systems
Clearwell Systems is transforming the way enterprises, government agencies, and law firms perform electronic discovery (e–discovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Clearwell E–Discovery Platformstreamlines end–to–end e–discovery, providing a single product for identification, collection, processing, analysis, review, and production. Leading global organizations such as Clear Channel Communications, Constellation Energy, Cisco, the Department of Health and Human Services, DLA Piper, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, NBC Universal, OfficeMax and Toyota are using Clearwell to streamline collections, accelerate early case assessments, intelligently cull–down data, increase reviewer productivity, and ensure the defensibility of their e–discovery process.

Consistently ranked as a leader in independent e–discovery industry surveys and reports, Clearwell Systems is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project, The Sedona Conference, and the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). For more information, visit http://www.clearwellsystems.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/clearwell, or subscribe to the E–Discovery 2.0 blog at http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e–discovery–blog/.

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Automating collection techniques, applying proportionality, and addressing social media and cloud computing challenges take precedence in 2011

Mountain View, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/16/2010 -- Clearwell Systems, Inc., a leader in intelligent e–discovery, today announced its top five predictions for e-discovery in 2011. Based on insights gathered from legal industry thought-leaders, ongoing cases, and emerging trends at enterprise and law firm customers, Clearwell anticipates significant priorities in the year ahead to be a greater focus on automating forensically sound data collection techniques and applying proportionality as additional ways to control e-discovery costs. With the proliferation of social media and cloud computing, an increased emphasis on discovery for data outside the firewall is also expected.

Clearwell's Top Five Electronic Discovery Predictions for 2011 include:

1.Changes in Data Collection Best Practices: In 2011, manual, forensic "imaging" will continue to take a backseat to more automated, forensically sound data collection techniques. Forensic (bit for bit) images have long been the gold standard for the legally defensible collection of electronically stored information (ESI) in response to legal proceedings. However, while forensic imaging will continue to be important in a number of discrete situations (fraud, misappropriation of trade secrets cases, criminal matters, etc.), it will largely be seen as overkill in most electronic discovery cases. Since imaging is both time consuming and highly manual, savvy organizations will increasingly use automated, forensically sound collection tools to perform targeted collections.

2.Proportionality Becomes Reality: Burgeoning data volumes, as seen in multi-terabyte (versus gigabyte) cases, means that the legal community will continue to search for ways to prevent electronic discovery costs from exceeding legal exposure and attorneys' fees. Groups like the Sedona Conference will continue to push for better clarification within the legal community surrounding "proportionality" in order to keep the electronic discovery "tail" from wagging the litigation "dog."

3.Collision of Cloud, Social Media and E-Discovery: The seemingly unstoppable migration of corporate data to the cloud, combined with the proliferation of social media applications, will continue to stress electronic discovery practitioners as they attempt to preserve, collect, search and process ESI from sources that aren?t traditionally managed behind the firewall. 2011 will undoubtedly be the first year that meaningful legal decisions crop up demonstrating the legal challenges associated with these new data storage paradigms.

4.Continued Consolidation in the Electronic Discovery Industry: Consolidation in the electronic discovery sector will impact market forces and the balance of power. The past year saw large technology vendors recognize the growing e-discovery market opportunity and aggressively acquire pure-play electronic discovery companies. In the upcoming year, we will continue to see large enterprise software companies enter the e-discovery sphere through acquisitions.

5.Global E-Discovery Matures: International jurisdictions will increasingly look to the United States (and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure) as their nascent electronic discovery paradigms are increasingly stressed by the proliferation of both ESI and discovery disputes. The recent Goodale case out of the UK, and impending procedural changes to the e-Disclosure Practice Direction, demonstrates how the global community is rapidly maturing along the electronic discovery continuum.

"Over the past few years, e-discovery has become ensconced as a core business process, with enterprises and government agencies taking the proactive approach of bringing e-discovery in-house and deploying best practices to gain greater control over the attendant costs and risks," said Dean Gonsowski, Esq., vice president of e-discovery services at Clearwell Systems. "Even as internal processes become more sophisticated in today's enterprises, the industry will face an array of new challenges such as evolving legal standards and the proliferation of new data forms –requiring in-house legal departments, government agencies and law firms to adapt once again."

About Clearwell Systems
Clearwell Systems is transforming the way enterprises, government agencies, and law firms perform electronic discovery (e–discovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Clearwell E–Discovery Platform streamlines end–to–end e–discovery, providing a single product for identification, collection, processing, analysis, review, and production. Leading global organizations such as Clear Channel Communications, Constellation Energy, Cisco, the Department of Health and Human Services, DLA Piper, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, NBC Universal, OfficeMax and Toyota are using Clearwell to streamline collections, accelerate early case assessments, intelligently cull–down data, increase reviewer productivity, and ensure the defensibility of their e–discovery process.

Consistently ranked as a leader in independent e–discovery industry surveys and reports, Clearwell Systems is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project, The Sedona Conference, and the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). For more information, visit http://www.clearwellsystems.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/clearwell, or subscribe to the E–Discovery 2.0 blog at http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e–discovery–blog/.

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Clearwell E–Discovery Platform Accelerates Early Case Assessments and Non–Linear Review, Lowers Costs, Reduces Risk, and Provides Greater Control of E–Discovery Process

Mountain View, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/09/2010 -- Clearwell Systems, Inc., a leader in intelligent e–discovery, today announced that OfficeMax Incorporated, a leader in both business–to–business office products solutions and retail office products, has deployed the Clearwell E–Discovery Platform. OfficeMax's Legal and IT teams will use Clearwell to enhance its in–house e–discovery strategy for litigation, regulatory matters, and internal investigations.

"As our e–discovery needs have increased, we saw an opportunity to proactively build on our existing in–house e–discovery processes and to minimize the costly line item of outsourced services," said Jeff Neumeyer, vice president and litigation team leader at OfficeMax. "Handling e–discovery in–house provides significant cost savings while allowing us to achieve faster and better results with our e–discovery activity. By selecting the Clearwell E–Discovery Platform for processing, analysis, review and production, we are instituting e–discovery best practices including streamlined e–discovery workflow and strategic early case assessment."

The Clearwell E–Discovery Platform is an enterprise–class solution that was purpose–built for e–discovery. Clearwell's Pre–Processing Module summarizes overall data set characteristics, and enables users to interactively filter data by "NIST list" and several metadata properties, reducing downstream processing and review costs. Clearwell's Processing and Analysis Module provides several features such as Transparent Search, discussion threads and people analytics that enable users to significantly accelerate early case assessment, defensibly eliminate irrelevant documents and false positives, and rapidly perform first–pass review. Clearwell's Review and Production Module enables reviewers to view all related documents in context, perform one–click tagging, redact documents and apply reason codes, increasing review throughput and consistency. Responsive documents can be produced or seamlessly uploaded into litigation support databases via EDRM–compliant XML and other major load file formats. In addition, the Clearwell E–Discovery Platform automatically tracks all actions on case documents throughout the e–discovery workflow, ensuring a defensible e–discovery process.

"E–discovery can be an expensive and onerous process that will continue to rise in cost and complexity with the inevitable and rapid growth of electronically stored information," said Kamal Shah, vice president of products and marketing at Clearwell Systems. "Rather than wait for a mission–critical e–discovery need to unfold, companies like OfficeMax are taking a proactive approach and implementing the Clearwell E–Discovery Platform to perform early case assessments and review, gain greater control over the e–discovery process, and benefit from significant return on investment."

About Clearwell Systems
Clearwell Systems is transforming the way enterprises, government agencies, and law firms perform electronic discovery(e–discovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Clearwell E–Discovery Platform streamlines end–to–end e–discovery, providing a single product for identification, collection, processing, analysis, review, and production. Leading organizations such as Clear Channel Communications, Constellation Energy, Cisco, the Department of Health and Human Services, DLA Piper, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, NBC Universal, OfficeMax and Toyota are using Clearwell to streamline collections, accelerateearly case assessments, intelligently cull–down data, increasereviewer productivity, and ensure the defensibility of their e–discovery process. Consistently ranked as a leader in independent e–discovery industry surveysand reports, Clearwell Systems is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project, The Sedona Conference, and the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). For more information, visit http://www.clearwellsystems.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/clearwell, or subscribe to the E–Discovery 2.0 blog at http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e–discovery–blog/.

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Leading Swiss Law Firm Utilizes Clearwell E–Discovery Platform to Accelerate Early Case Assessments

Mountain View, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/05/2010 -- Clearwell Systems, Inc., a leader inintelligent e–discovery, today announced that Homburger, one of Switzerland's premier law firms, has implemented the Clearwell E–Discovery Platform for processing, early case assessment (ECA), review and production of electronically stored information (ESI). Clearwell is being used to streamline the e–discovery process as conducted by the Homburger White Collar | Investigations team on matters involving compliance, internal and regulatory investigations, and white collar crime. As a result, Homburger's clients are now able to more rapidly respond to litigation and regulatory document requests while benefiting from significantly lower e–discovery costs.

"When helping our clients handle the e–discovery processes related to pending litigation or time–sensitive regulatory inquiries, it is critical that we deliver results in an efficient, accurate and cost–effective manner," said Flavio Romerio, partner and head of the White Collar | Investigations Working Group at Homburger. "For this reason, we are now using Clearwell which enables us to perform processing, early case assessment, review and production capabilities within a single product and in the efficient, defensible manner that our clients need. With the Clearwell E–Discovery Platform, we can quickly gain insight into the electronic data involved in a case, develop appropriate case strategies, and deliver significant cost savings to our clients."

The Clearwell E–Discovery Platform is an enterprise–class solution that was purpose–built for e–discovery. Clearwell's Pre–Processing Module summarizes overall data set characteristics and enables users to interactively filter data by "NIST list" and several metadata properties, reducing downstream processing and review costs.

Clearwell's Processing and Analysis Module provides several features such as Transparent Search, discussion threads and people analytics that enable users to significantly accelerate early case assessment, defensibly eliminate irrelevant documents and false positives, and rapidly perform first–pass review.

Clearwell's Review and Production Module enables reviewers to view all related documents in context, perform one–click tagging, redact documents and apply reason codes, increasing review throughput and consistency. Responsive documents can be produced or seamlessly uploaded into litigation support databases via EDRM–compliant XML and other major load file formats. In addition, the Clearwell E–Discovery Platform automatically tracks all actions on case documents throughout the e–discovery workflow, enabling robust end–to–end reporting and analytics and ensuring a defensible e–discovery process.

"Corporations and their law firms can significantly improve their e–discovery efforts by using a product designed specifically to support the fluid, non–linear and iterative e–discovery process," said Kamal Shah, vice president of products and marketing for Clearwell Systems. "With the Clearwell E–Discovery Platform, Homburger has enhanced its commitment to solving complex legal issues by helping its clients drive optimal case strategies and lower their e–discovery costs."

About Homburger
The origins of Homburger date back to 1957, when founder Eric Homburger established a practice. The firm evolved rapidly into one of Switzerland's premier business law firms with over 100 professionals, advising and representing Swiss and international corporate clients and individual entrepreneurs on key aspects of business law.

The Homburger White Collar | Investigations team represents corporations and their directors and managers in matters involving compliance, internal and regulatory investigations, and white collar crime.

About Clearwell Systems
Clearwell Systems is transforming the way enterprises, government agencies, and law firms perform electronic discovery (e–discovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Clearwell E–Discovery Platform streamlinesend–to–end e–discovery, providing a single product for identification, collection, processing, analysis, review, and production. Leading organizations such as Clear Channel Communications, Constellation Energy, Cisco, the Department of Health and Human Services, DLA Piper, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, NBC Universal, and Toyota are using Clearwell to streamline collections, accelerate early case assessments, intelligently cull–down data, increase reviewer productivity, and ensure the defensibility of their e–discovery process. Consistently ranked as a leader in independent e–discovery industry surveys and reports, Clearwell Systems is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project, The Sedona Conference, and the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). For more information, visitwww.clearwellsystems.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/clearwell, or subscribe to the E–Discovery 2.0 blog at http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e–discovery–blog/.

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Single Product for Identification, Collection, Processing, Analysis, Review and Production Enables Defensible and Collaborative End–To–End E–Discovery

Mountain View, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/15/2010 -- Clearwell Systems, Inc., a leader in intelligent e–discovery, today announced the release of its Identification and Collection Module. Available with version 6.0 of the Clearwell E–Discovery Platform, the new module enables IT teams to easily identify and collect electronically stored information (ESI) while maintaining data integrity and chain of custody. The data can then seamlessly be made available to Legal teams for early case assessment (ECA), review and production. The Clearwell E–Discovery Platform version 6.0 thus serves both IT and Legal teams in a single product, enabling enterprises, government agencies and law firms to streamline workflows and achieve significant reductions in the costs, duration, and risks associated with e–discovery.

"We selected Clearwell for its powerful capabilities which are easy to use. It's very intuitive and allows you to be productive within hours of implementation," said a spokesperson at GlaxoSmithKline. "Clearwell's integrated functionality and excellent reporting capabilities combined with the insightful user interface facilitates greater collaboration between our legal and IT teams."

"As enterprises look to streamline in–house electronic discovery, they can accelerate their efforts by using a single product that supports the e–discovery process from beginning to end," said Brian Babineau, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "Clearwell addresses this need in its latest release, delivering a single product for identification through production that is intuitive, highly scalable, and offers robust features including case monitoring and reporting across the entire e–discovery lifecycle. An additional benefit of this single, integrated product is that it addresses the often unstated need to facilitate greater collaboration between legal and IT departments."

E–discovery is an iterative and often complex task which requires IT and legal teams to navigate through ever–increasing volumes of ESI. This task is only made more complex when the two departments are forced to deploy multiple, disparate products which add time and risk to the process. To identify and collect all ESI relevant to the e–discovery matter, IT has traditionally needed to use separate systems for each data source, i.e. forensics tools for desktops and laptops, ExMerge for Microsoft Exchange and Robocopy for file shares. Legal teams must typically wait for IT to extract data from collection images, transfer the data to a DVD, and forward it before then manually uploading the data to a separate tool for analysis and review.

By contrast, the Clearwell E–Discovery Platform version 6.0 offers a single product that addresses the needs of both departments throughout the e–discovery lifecycle.

For example, IT can easily target collections from critical data sources including applications in the cloud, then filter and deliver collected content internally with minimal administrative overhead. Legal teams can log in and immediately begin to analyze and review collected data in the same seamless interface. Additionally, because IT and legal teams can collaborate and streamline their interactions using one unified application, they are able to view the real–time status of the entire case — from identification through production — in a single, comprehensive report.

Key features of the Identification & Collection Module include:
Interactive Data Map: Provides the flexibility to build a data map immediately with Active Directory import or gradually on a case–by–case basis. Users can easily navigate through data sources with an iTunes–like filter and securely manage authentication access accounts.

Network Collector: Collects directly from critical data sources including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Lotus Domino Servers, file shares, personal computers, and applications in the cloud. Data is collected in a forensically sound manner, with all metadata kept intact.

Collection Scheduler: Allows users to assign tasks to run during off–hours and schedule recurring collections, providing flexibility and freeing administrative resources. Collection throttling capabilities ensure that server loads are managed and optimized.

Incremental Collector: Collects only new or modified data for recurring collections with the same parameters as the original collection, saving users the time of having to set up follow–on collections from scratch.

Collection Templates: Save commonly–used collection settings, including specific directories, filters, preservation stores, and custodian assignments, for reuse during future collections to further streamline the collections process.

On–Site Collector: Collects data on–site from laptops, PCs, and file shares onto generic USB drives. No end user interaction is required other than simply double–clicking an .exe file, making self–collections from remote devices fast and easy.

Data Verification: Automatically performs separate MD5 hashes of the source copy and the destination copy. If hashes do not match during the copy process, the data is re–copied until hashes do match, ensuring that every collection is forensically sound and defensible.

Collection Analytics: Provide a complete portfolio of analytical charts and tables that display the types of data collected for each custodian, delivering real–time visibility into collected or outstanding data and facilitating the immediate remediation critical for defensibility.

End–To–End Analytics: Generate interactive charts and graphs that offer detailed visibility into data volumes from collection through production. Users can further drill down by custodian or data source or pivot by different stages of e–discovery.

"IT and legal teams want to work together to handle the in–house e–discovery needs of their organization, but this becomes a challenge when they are forced to use multiple, disparate tools that unnecessarily add time and introduce risk into the process," said Kamal Shah, VP of products and marketing at Clearwell Systems. "With the new Identification and Collection Module, Clearwell now offers a single product for the entire e–discovery lifecycle. As a result, IT and legal teams can collaborate to significantly reduce time and risk, delivering the organization incredible cost savings and a defensible in–house e–discovery process."

To learn more about the new capabilities, email info@clearwellsystems.com or call 1–877–CLEARWELL.

About Clearwell Systems
Clearwell Systems is transforming the way enterprises, government agencies, and law firms perform electronic discovery (e–discovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Clearwell E–Discovery Platform streamlinesend–to–end e–discovery, providing a single product for identification, collection, processing, analysis, review, and production. Leading organizations such as Clear Channel Communications, Constellation Energy, Cisco, the Department of Health and Human Services, DLA Piper, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, NBC Universal, and Toyota are using Clearwell to streamline collections, accelerate early case assessments, intelligently cull–down data, increase reviewer productivity, and ensure the defensibility of their e–discovery process. Consistently ranked as a leader in independent e–discovery industry surveys and reports, Clearwell Systems is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project, The Sedona Conference, and the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). For more information, visit http://www.clearwellsystems.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/clearwell, or subscribe to the E–Discovery 2.0 blog at http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e–discovery–blog/.

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Clearwell E-Discovery Platform Accelerates Speed of Response, Lowers Cost  and Enables Defensible E-Discovery Process

Mountain View, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/01/2010 -- Clearwell Systems, Inc., a leader in intelligent e-discovery, today announced that GameFly, the leading video game rental service, has deployed the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform for its in-house e-discovery strategy. GameFly will use Clearwell for pre-processing, processing, analysis and review in order to significantly reduce the e-discovery time, resources, and costs required in response to litigation and regulatory inquiries.

"We used Clearwell on our discrimination complaint against the United States Postal Service, which demanded very short response time to produce the relevant dataset," said Neil Seth, SVP of Product Development and Technology at GameFly. "Analyzing and reviewing the data for this case – in only three business days – could have been a daunting task. Instead, with Clearwell's intuitive user interface, rapid processing, and transparent search capabilities, we gained visibility into the case facts quickly and were able to meet the appointed deadlines without draining company resources or budget."

On the recent case, GameFly used Clearwell's Processing and Analysis Module to perform early case assessment and defensibly eliminate irrelevant documents and false positives, lowering processing costs and reducing review workload. The company also used Clearwell's Review Module, which eliminated the otherwise time-consuming and manual-intensive steps of creating a load file and then uploading it into a separate review tool. As a result, GameFly was able to support a rapid, cost effective, and defensible e-discovery workflow.

"It is not uncommon for companies to be required to respond to an e-discovery inquiry within a matter of mere days or weeks. Without a proactive, in-house e-discovery process in place, this can put a significant strain on time and budget," said Kamal Shah, VP of products and marketing at Clearwell Systems. "Clearwell enabled GameFly to hit the ground running on a time-sensitive case and gain in-house control over its e-discovery process. Enterprises that similarly institute such an approach can significantly reduce their costs and risks associated with e-discovery."

About Clearwell Systems
Clearwell Systems is transforming the way enterprises and law firms perform electronic discovery (e-discovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Clearwell E-Discovery Platform automates the processing, analysis, review, and production phases of e-discovery via a single, integrated product.

Leading organizations such as Clear Channel Communications, Constellation Energy, Cisco, DLA Piper, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Toyota, and the Department of Health and Human Services / Office of Inspector General are using Clearwell to accelerate early case assessments, intelligently cull-down data, increase reviewer productivity, and ensure the defensibility of their e-discovery process. Consistently ranked as a leader in independent e-discovery industry surveys and reports, Clearwell Systems is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project and The Sedona Conference. For more information, visit http://www.clearwellsystems.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/clearwell, or subscribe to the E-Discovery 2.0 blog at http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e-discovery-blog/.

About GameFly
GameFly is the largest online video game rental subscription service in the United States with over 334,000 subscribers as of September 30, 2009. GameFly provides its subscribers access to a comprehensive library of over 7,000 titles covering all major video game and handheld game consoles. GameFly also sells new and used video games through its website, and allows subscribers to purchase used video games they are currently renting through its "Keep" feature. To complement its subscription service and video game sales, GameFly operates a network of advertising?supported websites that provide video game?related content and information. GameFly is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

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Global Corporation Selects Clearwell for Unmatched Speed, Market-Leading Early Case Assessment Capabilities and Proven Cost Savings

Mountain View, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/26/2010 -- Clearwell Systems, Inc., a leader in intelligent e-discovery, today announced that a Fortune 100 company has selected the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform as its enterprise-wide standard for in-house e-discovery. The company will use Clearwell as the default solution for processing, early case assessment (ECA), and first-pass review for all e-discovery matters stemming from litigation, government inquiries and internal investigations. The Fortune 100 company evaluated several products on real-world matter spanning multiple terabytes of data, and chose Clearwell for its unmatched processing speed and accuracy, market-leading ECA capabilities, and unparalleled cost savings during the evaluation.

"Enterprises are increasingly making the strategic decision to bring e-discovery in-house in order to achieve significant cost savings and gain greater control over the e-discovery process. As they do so, it is critical that they have complete confidence in the product's ability to deliver rapid and accurate results," said Trevor Eddy, VP of worldwide sales at Clearwell Systems. "For this reason, we have long encouraged prospects to evaluate Clearwell on an actual matter and use the results to build the business case for bringing e-discovery in-house. We are pleased to help this customer implement a defensible in-house e-discovery process and achieve significant return on investment."

The Clearwell E-Discovery Platform is an enterprise-class solution that was purpose-built for e-discovery. Clearwell's Pre-Processing Module summarizes overall data set characteristics and enables users to interactively filter data by "NIST list" and several metadata properties, reducing downstream processing and review costs.

Clearwell's Processing and Analysis Module provides several features such as Transparent Search, discussion threads and people analytics that enable users to significantly accelerate early case assessment, defensibly eliminate irrelevant documents and false positives, and rapidly perform first-pass review. Clearwell's Review and Production Module enables reviewers to view all related documents in context, perform one-click tagging, redact documents and apply reason codes, increasing review throughput and consistency. Responsive documents can be produced or seamlessly uploaded into litigation support databases via EDRM-compliant XML and other major load file formats. In addition, the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform automatically tracks all actions on case documents throughout the e-discovery workflow, ensuring a defensible e-discovery process.

About Clearwell Systems
Clearwell Systems is transforming the way enterprises and law firms perform electronic discovery (e-discovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Clearwell E-Discovery Platform automates the processing, analysis, review, and production phases of e-discovery via a single, integrated product.

Leading organizations such as Clear Channel Communications, Constellation Energy, Cisco, DLA Piper, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Toyota, and the Department of Health and Human Services / Office of Inspector General are using Clearwell to accelerate early case assessments, intelligently cull-down data, increase reviewer productivity, and ensure the defensibility of their e-discovery process. Consistently ranked as a leader in independent e-discovery industry surveys and reports, Clearwell Systems is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project and The Sedona Conference. For more information, visit http://www.clearwellsystems.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/clearwell, or subscribe to the E-Discovery 2.0 blog at http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e-discovery-blog/.

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Latest Version Accelerates Non-Linear Review and Streamlines Workflow to Reduce Cost and Risk During Most Expensive Phases of E-Discovery Process

Mountain View, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/19/2010 -- Clearwell Systems, Inc., a leader inintelligent e-discovery, today announced the latest release of the Clearwell Review Module. Available in version 6.0 of the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform, the enhanced Review Module enables users to perform rapid, non-linear review by presenting all similar documents together, dramatically increasing review speed and thereby reducing review costs. In addition, because Clearwell provides processing, early case assessment (ECA), review and production in a single platform, customers no longer need to process data using one tool, create a load file, then upload that into a separate tool for review. By eliminating the need to create and manage load files, Clearwell streamlines workflow and reduces errors, to deliver significant cost savings and mitigate risk throughout the e-discovery process.

"Moving e-discovery data through multiple tools for culling, processing, analysis, review and production can significantly increase project time, cost and risk," said Ron Best, Director of Legal Information Systems, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP. "Single-platform tools such as Clearwell, with integrated processing, early case assessment, review and production capabilities, paired with proper workflow, can help speed up projects and reduce both risk and cost. Additional features such as find-similar can further increase speed and efficiency for fact analysis, review and quality control."

The Clearwell E-Discovery Platform is an enterprise-class solution purpose-built for e-discovery. Key new features available in this release include:

Find Similar: Enables reviewers to easily identify emails, attachments, and loose files that are similar to the document being reviewed, increasing the speed and consistency of review.

Auto-Resume: Allows reviewers to automatically save their place when securely logging out of Clearwell and pick up at the same point when they log in to continue their analysis or review, offering significant cumulative time savings over the duration of the case.

Auto-Batching: Allows case administrators to easily create review folders and subfolders and organize documents into review sets, streamlining the management of large-scale review.

Review Folder Management: Enables case administrators to assign review folders and subfolders to specific reviewers. Reviewers can check-out folders, see which folders have already been checked out and check-in folders once review is completed.

Review Progress Report: Visually displays case progress reports, allowing administrators to monitor the status of a case in real-time and adjust assignments to meet key deadlines.

Reviewer Productivity Report: Automatically generates a graphical report showing the number of documents tagged by reviewers over a chosen time period. Case administrators can easily customize reports and compare reviewer productivity levels, enabling simple and effective management of large-scale review.

"Product innovation has always been critical to Clearwell's success in helping our customers efficiently and accurately gain control over the e-discovery process. Drawing upon direct feedback from the many customers using Clearwell to manage large-scale review projects, the new features in this release provide the greater review speed and accuracy needed to cope with rising volumes of ESI," said Kurt Leafstrand, senior director of product management at Clearwell Systems. "With these enhancements, Clearwell provides a superior platform to enable enterprises, government agencies and law firms to master any kind of e-discovery project, from processing to ECA to review, either in-house or on a hosted basis."

Clearwell will be showcasing the new features at ILTA (Booth #331), August 23-26 in Las Vegas. To learn more about the new capabilities, email info@clearwellsystems.com or call 1-877-CLEARWELL.

About Clearwell Systems
Clearwell Systems is transforming the way enterprises and law firms perform electronic discovery (e-discovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Clearwell E-Discovery Platform automates the processing, analysis, review, and production phases of e-discovery via a single, integrated product.

Leading organizations such as Clear Channel Communications, Constellation Energy, Cisco, DLA Piper, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Toyota, and the Department of Health and Human Services / Office of Inspector General are using Clearwell to accelerate early case assessments, intelligently cull-down data, increase reviewer productivity, and ensure the defensibility of their e-discovery process. Consistently ranked as a leader in independent e-discovery industry surveys and reports, Clearwell Systems is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project and The Sedona Conference. For more information, visitwww.clearwellsystems.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/clearwell, or subscribe to the E-Discovery 2.0 blog at http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e-discovery-blog/.

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Clearwell’s Brandon D’Agostino Joins Sedona Conference Member Allyson Haynes To Teach the Charleston School of Law’s First Course On E-Discovery

Mountain View, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/12/2010 -- The Charleston School of Law has appointed Brandon D'Agostino, an e-discovery solutions consultant at Clearwell Systems, Inc., a leader in intelligent e-discovery, as an adjunct professor. D'Agostino, a 10-year veteran of the IT field and a JD graduate from the Charleston School of Law, will partner with associate professor Allyson Haynes, a member of the Sedona Conference, to offer a course on the legal, technological and ethical issues surrounding e-discovery.

Electronic discovery (e-discovery) has traditionally been a topic overlooked by many law schools, even as it has grown steadily in importance and now impacts the careers of most attorneys. In adding e-discovery to its curriculum, the Charleston School of Law furthers its commitment to providing its students with expert legal training and education. Industry experts D'Agostino and Haynes will discuss the federal rules that apply to e-discovery and the growing body of case law focusing on document retention, cost allocation, spoliation, computer forensics and other discovery issues as they apply in the electronic context. Through hands-on, practice-based training, the course will familiarize students with the e-discovery lexicon and inform on legal implications around the growing body of electronically stored information (ESI), such as specifying form of production, negotiating search terms, maintaining regular information management systems, ordering litigation holds, navigating metadata and avoiding judicial sanctions.

At Clearwell Systems, D'Agostino serves as a consultant, advising AMLAW 100 and Fortune 1000 legal professionals on e-discovery topics such as data collection and preparation, dataset cull-down, data processing and analytics, early case assessment, and search query execution and refinement. Prior to Clearwell, D'Agostino was ESI Counselor for a large health insurer, where he acted as the in-house e-discovery counsel and created policies and workflow for e-discovery and information management. He performed ESI collections across multiple data sources using forensically sound methodologies and managed the daily operational tasks related to e-discovery such as ESI preservation, litigation hold management, ESI collection, processing, analysis, and review.

"The Charleston School of Law takes a unique approach to teaching students, emphasizing the importance of public service, pro bono work and technology acumen for success in the ever-changing legal industry," D'Agostino said. "The school is one of an emergent group of law programs to proactively address e-discovery as a critical factor in litigation. As a graduate of the school, and a supporter of its pro bono projects, I am honored by this appointment and look forward to working with the school in the capacity of adjunct professor."

About Clearwell Systems
Clearwell Systems is transforming the way enterprises and law firms perform electronic discovery (e-discovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Clearwell E-Discovery Platform automates the processing, analysis, review, and production phases of e-discovery via a single, integrated product. Leading organizations such as Clear Channel Communications, Constellation Energy, Cisco, DLA Piper, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Toyota, and the Department of Health and Human Services / Office of Inspector General are using Clearwell to accelerate early case assessments, intelligently cull-down data, increase reviewer productivity, and ensure the defensibility of their e-discovery process. Consistently ranked as a leader in independent e-discovery industry surveys and reports, Clearwell Systems is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project and The Sedona Conference. For more information, visit http://www.clearwellsystems.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/clearwell, or subscribe to the E-Discovery 2.0 blog at http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e-discovery-blog/.

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