BlueStar CS, as a certified partner of Clearwell Systems, offers a Web-hosted or in-house solution that provides unparalleled savings of eDiscovery related time and costs. The Clearwell platform delivers the benefits of early case assessment and strategy as well as a strong foundation for newly required "meet and confer" meeting.

In many cases there are no witnesses and email is the only link to past events. Thus, rapidly analyzing and finding all applicable (and potentially damaging) emails and attachments is a critical task in almost every lawsuit.

The traditional way of manually reviewing and analyzing emails is fraught with inconsistencies, duplicative efforts, and rising costs. For example, multiple paralegals or attorneys often review the same email found in different mailboxes. Since emails are distributed across several legal professionals for manual review, it is impossible to consistently apply a standard set of classification criteria and perform the critical task of linking discussions to chart who knew what and when. The result is greater subjectivity, time-consuming re-work, and a far greater risk of missing information critical to the case. Because of this, and the inability of existing tools to “cull down” email to those that are most relevant, far more emails and attachments are sent for production than is necessary, increasing production costs.

By organizing and analyzing the information captured in email, the Clearwell Legal eDiscovery Solution makes it much easier for legal executives to lower email review and analysis costs, rapidly respond in “rocket docket” litigation and perform early case assessments. Key capabilities include:

Discover exactly who knew what, and when: Clearwell’s patent-pending algorithms link together all related messages including all replies and forwards, and provide a chronological thread of the entire discussion. By walking the thread, legal professionals can quickly identify all the participants related to a particular case, and determine who knew what and when.

Rapidly discover the most relevant evidence pertinent to your case: Clearwell applies patent-pending algorithms that consider the unique properties of email to return the most relevant emails first. The solution also removes duplicates and identifies near duplicates automatically. This eliminates time-consuming, redundant review of the same content by multiple people. De-duplication also ensures that the same email and attachment is not produced multiple times, significantly reducing production costs (which can cost as much as $2,000 per GB).