Press Release - OrangeLT™ Joins EDRM

Orange Legal Technologies Joins EDRM Project to Drive E-Discovery Understanding and Interoperability

Company Joins Industry Leaders to Bring Demonstrated Interoperability and XML Expertise to Project

Salt Lake City, UT (August 20, 2008) - Orange Legal Technologies, a leading provider of one source litigation, audit, and investigation support services for law firms and corporations seeking insight on electronically stored information, today announced its involvement in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model Project (EDRM).  With this participation, OrangeLT™ joins over 300 leading e-Discovery industry experts, consumers, and producers in the development of guidelines and standards for e-Discovery.

“Orange Legal Technologies brings to our project both industry experience and an understanding of XML interoperability,” said George Socha, independent consultant and co-founder of the EDRM Project. “While the challenges associated with electronic data are now becoming mainstream knowledge, the standards and practices necessary to address those challenges are still in the early stages of development.  We look forward to leveraging Orange Legal Technologies’ XML expertise in application interoperability to help further develop and establish those standards and practices on behalf of the EDRM Project.”

 “The need for interoperability continues to be a major driver for both innovation and standards in the e-Discovery arena,” stated Ronda Raymond, Vice President of E-Discovery Services at Orange Legal Technologies.  “With an integrated e-Discovery platform that provides analysis, processing, and review, we understand the importance of having the capability to interoperate effectively with distinct e-Discovery services.  By participating, learning, and contributing to the EDRM Project and specifically the XML Project, we hope to increase our ability to meet client needs in the interoperability arena and to help make the conduct of e-Discovery as seamless as possible for end-users.”

Comprised of service and software providers, law firms and other industry groups, and enterprises involved with e-Discovery, the EDRM Project was created in 2005 to address the lack of standards and guidelines in the e-Discovery market.  The completed reference model provides a common, flexible and extensible framework for the development, selection, evaluation and use of e-Discovery products and services.  One of the key focuses of the overall EDRM Project is XML standards work.  The goal of this work is to provide a standardized XML schema to facilitate the movement of electronically stored information (ESI) from one step of the e-Discovery process to the next, from one software program to the next, and from one organization to the next. 

For more information about the EDRM Project, please visit: http://edrm.net/index.php.

To learn more about the OneO® Discovery Platform, its interoperability capabilities, and how it can accelerate e-discovery for audits, investigations, and litigation, visit the Orange Legal Technologies website at:  http://www.orangelt.com.

About Orange Legal Technologies

Orange Legal Technologies is a leading provider of one source litigation, audit, and investigation support services for law firms and corporations seeking insight on electronically stored information.   Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, and with four locations nationwide, OrangeLT™ offers a complete suite of electronic discovery services to include collection, analysis, processing, review and production of both digital and paper-based information.  Enabled by the OneO® Discovery Platform—an integrated, web-accessible electronic discovery platform that provides online analysis, processing, and review of unstructured data from the security of a hosted centralized repository—and augmented by best of breed electronic discovery partners, Orange Legal Technologies is a member of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM).  For more information on Orange Legal Technologies, visit http://www.orangelt.com.

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Ferris Research on OrangeLT™

Provided for your use in considering OrangeLT™, the following article, published by Ferris Research President and Senior Analyst David Ferris, shares a quick, concise, and practical overview of Orange Legal Technologies and its OneO® Discovery Platform.

From  Ferris Research

Orange Legal Technologies offers a hosted e-discovery service:

Key components, in EDRM terms, are:

• Analysis. Gathering relevant information.
• Processing. Doing things like making attachments readable, extracting metadata, deduplication, converting to standard formats such as PDF or TIFF.
• Review. Sifting through the material to determine relevance, responsiveness, privilege, and/or confidentiality.

Target market is law firms or in-house corporate counsel.

Orange Legal used to offer these services through partnerships with third-party software firms; since June, the firm offers its own technology ( OneO® Discovery Platform ).

Main competition is MetaLINCS and Kroll.

Full-service vendors such as Fios, ONSITE3, and RenewData are also competitors since Orange Legal also provides professional services for collection, analysis, processing, review, and production.

Company believes its main competitive strengths are:

• Analysis, processing, and review in one integrated package.
• 50 foreign languages are supported, including Unicode scripts.
• Throughput. 25GB to 30GB/hour of information can be fed into the system, which Orange Legal figures is three times as fast as others.

Pricing: Flat fee of $650/GB for everything read in, plus a hosting fee of $35 to $50 per GB, depending on the volume. Not-to-exceed pricing is also available.

The integrated analysis, processing, and review is certainly an attractive feature, making life a lot simpler for the user. Today, these different phases are commonly handled by separate products. Over the long term, such integration is likely to win out over cobbling together best-of-breed solutions.

For more information on OrangeLT’s OneO Discovery Platform, click here.