Legal

Access More Information, From More Sources, More Quickly

The legal landscape presents a unique set of challenges for those tasked with researching and writing case-work. Whether a paralegal or attorney preparing for complex litigation, a judge writing opinions, or a compliance officer tasked with monitoring and risk assessment – the relevant information can be buried in many thousands of documents, even formats no longer in use.

The good news is that ISYS provides a window to existing knowledge, enabling employees to quickly search, find, analyze and use the precise information they need, when they need it – extremely quickly.

Use the toggles below to see how the legal field can realize real financial and productivity gains with ISYS.

RESEARCH

A discovery team must have complete confidence in their abilities to sift and sort through the boundless materials collected from their own or opposing counsel requests. The price of faltering can be unquestionably steep.

ISYS is a powerful pre-discovery solution that enables staff to surface and cull any information related to specific words or topics, from any location or format.

When indexing complete drives and systems, ISYS memorizes every word, offering insight into the content before a query is even typed. It's these powerful search and discovery features that give law professionals peace of mind that everything that needs to be known, is known.

ISYS enables:

  • Searching 400+ file types and formats – including emails, legal briefs, WordPerfect, Microsoft Office, PDFs, databases and multimedia
  • Searching across any location e.g. server, desktop, laptop, cloud, ERP, CRM, mobile device, PDA
  • Visually mapping and grouping content into meaningful categories
  • A search audit trail so results can be repeated and shared when required
  • Collaborative search functions so multiple analysts can work on the same case without duplicating efforts
  • Easy implementation - staff can be up and running in hours (or days), not weeks or months

FEDERATED SEARCH

In an age where litigation isn’t capped, it’s critical to be pre-emptive. There is no larger example in recent history than the Enron hearings, where lack of transparency cost the organization dearly.

On the flip side, for the legal counsel filtering through the more than 450,000 emails that were collected, it would have been nearly impossible if using a standard keyword search. The ISYS 1-Click FileFinder produces a navigable interface, and results are ordered with context, relevance and prevalence. The search can be culled and cross referenced with other queries, giving the legal team the advantage of both time and transparency.

ISYS also takes hours off the time spent searching precedents or writing opinions following court rulings. Being able to immediately see where relevant information sits within documents from a decade ago or today – whether hidden in Lotus Notes, Word Perfect, posted online or the latest applications, makes it indispensable to the judicial community.

COMPLIANCE / ARCHIVAL

ISYS acts as an early warning system in the corporate environment and can be used to monitor company-wide files, emails and systems - giving complete transparency to authorized staff, in seconds.

It also supports SOX, HIPAA, GLBA and PCI compliance to help quickly facilitate auditing processes.

Access to archival information and legacy systems has traditionally been a headache for law firms but can be managed far more cost effectively with the ISYS Enterprise Server solution. Read the Barlow Lyde & Gilbert case study here.

 

ISYS legal clients include Dewey Ballentine, Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, Dorsey & Whitney, Emplaw, Faegre & Benson, Fulbright & Jaworski. To view case examples specific to enterprise search for the Legal sector, use the 'Related Resources' links on the right.