Everlaw is a collaborative, cloud-based litigation platform for corporate counsels, litigators and government attorneys from the company of the same name in Oakland. It enables teams to discover, illuminate, and act on information to better drive internal investigations and positively impact the outcome of litigation.
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Relativity
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Relativity (formerly kCura) is a data e-discovery solution supporting litigation, government inquires, internal investigations and data governance policies within a secure cloud platform, from the company of the same name headquartered in Chicago.
I've used something called blade.acorn in a different mass tort case. I did not like it as much as Everlaw. Maybe it was because I used Everlaw first and was used to it. But Everlaw does have a great and organized platform that I think is better and is well-suited for mass tort …
When I worked at a large law firm and used Relativity, I found that it was rather difficult to use. It absolutely required an IT staff to run and it was great to be able to e-mail litigation support to help accomplish what needed accomplishing. But, Relativity is really a …
We continue to use NUIX as our processing tool but are testing and working with Relativity on the processing workflows which will hopefully in time, ensure that we use Relativity from end to end rather than from document review onwards only. NUIX is ahead of Relativity in terms …
Its having very good scalability options. You can avoid in house purchase of the relativity infra with the use of relativity one. Very good analytics features its having.
It’s pretty similar. They are both good but Relativity has been really great with organization and tagging. My team can get documents downloaded and sent quickly. I can access from anywhere and good support staff. Epiq has similar features but not as easy to use. Download time …
Very good compared to Nuix Discover It cannot compare to Canopy given Canopy is more interface and features are more catered to Cyber Breach PII review
Relativity contains all the features together in a single platform. And most of all other than Brainspace none of the other tools have document review capability as good as Relativity has.
It has the ability to provide all discovery features under one roof. It is adept for working in the data discovery domain with efficiency. Globally renowned software with features that are not available in many tools. Automation is a plus and Active learning in relativity is …
Over the years I've evaluated multiple tools and platforms. All the competing tools are getting better, but kCura has really embraced incorporating customer and user feedback into improving their tool. For litigation, it's really the "gold standard" that other tools are …
Everlaw is great for organizing large quantities of documents and helping our entire team and other teams across the nation communicate and attack the huge document productions in an organized and efficient manner. It allows us to break apart the huge document productions and hit them piece by piece and apply tags and keywords to the documents.
Relativity is well suited for all the eDiscovery workflows. It's excellent for document review, coding, active learning, content and structured analytics, searches, persistent highlights, imaging, and burning redactions into productions. The error rates with processing in Relativity are a little compared to other eDiscovery processing tools in the market. It is solely for document review purposes legal scenarios or otherwise, but it is not a complete solution for building customized hosting nor neither it is a replacement for conventional websites.
Can scale to support a review of a large number of documents and reviewers and/or large number of cases
Can be customized to support a variety of different workflows and integration with 3rd party tools and external processes and scripting of different fields
Very secure. Can be enabled to run 2 factor authentication
Not everything is as I would like it to be. For example, while it is easy to copy work product (highlights, issue tags, comments) from one project to another, for some reason they don't allow you to copy "storybuilder" objects. It would be nice if they allowed this. What this means is if you have the same set of documents in two projects, you can carry over the issue tags, highlighting, etc., if you want. But, if you created a deposition outline in "Storybuilder" in Project A, you can't copy that deposition (with exhibits) over to Project B.
The Storybuilder "outline" function is not easy to use and does not export well to word. That said, once you get the hang of it, it really works beautifully for organizing exhibits.
Very powerful tool, but does require a high level of expertise and head count to administer the product.
If hosting yourself, requires investment in servers and ideally is housed in a data center
Providers need to pay kCura a monthly user license fee for every user who has access to the tool. Providers can purchase blocks of users, but with a large amount of users on a case, it's cost that some external clients are not thrilled about
Relativity is a well established tool that continues to evolve and look for ways to improve. Particular focus on Australian workflows is very promising for us and appreciated. There is a lot of scope for improvement in the processing and PDF workflows but it is great to see Relativity being proactive in those areas
When I worked at a large law firm and used Relativity, I found that it was rather difficult to use. It absolutely required an IT staff to run and it was great to be able to e-mail litigation support to help accomplish what needed accomplishing. But, Relativity is really a terrible platform when compared to Everlaw. At least from the user's perspective. I don't remember being able to manage the documents nearly so easily or intuitively as I can with Everlaw. I love being able to create binders, stories, easily conduct searches, eliminate duplicates, et cetera.
Its having very good scalability options. You can avoid in house purchase of the relativity infra with the use of relativity one. Very good analytics features its having.
Unfortunately, I do not have any hard numbers to share. The platform costs what it costs and you either eat that cost or pass it on to the client. The platform certainly makes you a more efficient attorney and saves a lot of time, so even if the monthly fee is kind of high, the client gets a lot of value out of it.