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DISCO Ediscovery

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What is DISCO Ediscovery?

DISCO is a legal technology company that applies artificial intelligence and cloud computing to legal problems to help lawyers and legal teams improve outcomes for their clients. The vendor states corporate legal departments, law firms, and government agencies around the…

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DISCO for legal work.

9 out of 10
March 08, 2024
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DISCO is being used to host a large number of documents related to a fraud dispute. Our dispute Resolution Team is using it. It allows us …
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Ehh...

6 out of 10
December 04, 2023
Incentivized
By a specific team on a specific legal matter to conduct a responsiveness/privilege review.
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What is DISCO Ediscovery?

DISCO is a legal technology company that applies artificial intelligence and cloud computing to legal problems to help lawyers and legal teams improve outcomes for their clients. The vendor states corporate legal departments, law firms, and government agencies around the world use DISCO for ediscovery, case management, compliance, disputes, and investigations.

In addition to its technology solutions, DISCO offers services to help legal teams manage ediscovery from anywhere at any time, including forensic collections, project management, consulting, and managed review.

DISCO states they pride themselves on combining world-class engineering with a deep love and respect for the law to create solutions that are fast, accurate, and easy to use. Powered by advanced cloud infrastructure to ensure security, stability, and scalability, DISCO was built to address the discovery and case management challenges of today and beyond.




DISCO Ediscovery Features

  • Supported: Artificial Intelligence
  • Supported: Advanced Analytics
  • Supported: Visual Search
  • Supported: Early Case Assessment
  • Supported: Workflow
  • Supported: Data Management Suite
  • Supported: Vault Storage
  • Supported: Managed Review
  • Supported: Professional Services
  • Supported: Project Management
  • Supported: Forensics and Collections
  • Supported: AI Quality Control
  • Supported: Tagging
  • Supported: Deduplication and Email Threading
  • Supported: OCR
  • Supported: Cloud
  • Supported: Metadata Extraction
  • Supported: Templates
  • Supported: User Reporting
  • Supported: Conditional Coding

DISCO Ediscovery Videos

DISCO "a world faster and more intuitive to use than any other product that I've seen." Joe Ybarra, Partner, Halpern May Ybarra Gelberg
"DISCO definitely makes me a better lawyer." Marissa Downs, Principal, Much Shelist
"It's great to know that whatever my deadline is, I can call DISCO and I can get that deadline met." Kyre Stucklin, Practice Support Manager, Rutan & Tucker

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DISCO Ediscovery Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Disco is used primarily by certain teams, or within certain cases where there is known to be a high volume of documents that will be collected or used. It provides for easier access and organization for these files. It also assists in production, quick research, and general storage for certain cases where the volume of documents would be a burden on our system.
  • Organizes documents
  • Assists in production of documents
  • Makes searching within database easier
  • Ordering documents into a specific manner
  • Quick review from document to document
  • Organizing one matter into separate sub-files
Disco is ideal for lawsuits with a large number of documents that need to be stored and searched. It assists in reviewing and producing these documents, and generally categorizing documents that are significant or not. It does not help as much for matters where there is relatively few documents or in trying to review all documents from a large grouping.
March 08, 2024

DISCO for legal work.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DISCO is being used to host a large number of documents related to a fraud dispute. Our dispute Resolution Team is using it. It allows us to quickly batch out and review documents when they are received from other parties, as well as filter and search for specific documents effectively when required.
  • Search builder - this visual method of searching is very intuitive.
  • Doc review - the ability to customize the options available to reviewers helps to streamline workflow.
  • Ingesting - this is quick and easy to achieve.
  • I personally think that the landing page can look a bit overwhelming, especially when the majority of the screen is a list of documents.
DISCO is very well suited to document review and file management when the case is known to be large and potentially last for a long period of time. It is also useful when the team on the case is fairly large, as it allows for effective and easy work distribution.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use DISCO Ediscovery in discovery for large class action cases and MDL's (multidistrict litigation). Only my team uses it. We use it to review and share documents in e-discovery.
  • Viewing documents
  • Tagging documents
  • Gathering metadata
  • Organization of documents
  • Ability to add comments
DISCO Ediscovery is an intuitive platform that makes document review and tagging easy and uniform. One problem we have always had with document review is that people use the categories inconsistently. This seems to happen less with DISCO Ediscovery, mostly likely due to features such as being able to look at related documents quickly and easily. Although each screen provides a large amount of data, it is easy to read and take in. I have recommended DISCO Ediscovery to my firm and fellow paralegals frequently.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ease of User Control
  • Search Capabilities
  • Ingestion Process
  • Exhibit Slip Sheets should contain metadata if so specified
  • More automated data and system information about production sets
  • Very slow processing speed for mass actions
I assume that the majority of my complaints have to do with the difficulty in DISCO Ediscovery obtaining the intellectual property necessary to enhance the process further, and accordingly, DISCO Ediscovery may be less developed than Relativity - which I have used.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
DISCO Ediscovery is being used across our organization for ediscovery review, production, document management, and exhibit preparation. It addresses a need to have a method to directly access the facts of a case for reviewing discovery, sending discovery, and preparing motions. It allows us to ingest and analyze significant information sets from multiple sources in a single easy to use database and allows us to better delegate work across our employees in a manner we could not do previously.
  • Improves Document Searchability
  • Ease of use for document review and filtering
  • Ease of use for redacting and producing documents
  • Allows more efficient preparation of production and exhibit sets
  • Allow bates labeling to be completed at ingest
  • Providing a guide for load file ingest and remediation of load file errors
  • Availability of predictive tagging in matters with smaller production than is currently necessary
  • Improve ability to review and summarize medical records
  • Ability at ingest to break up a single large document into individual documents for review, whether through a manual or AI-driven process
DISCO Ediscovery is well suited to any case with documents needing review, whether being produced by or from you. It improves user's ability to search, cull, filter, redact, and identify documents in a single, user-friendly system. It may be less appropriate in smaller cases, or cases with simple facts and little documentary discovery. However, even then, it would probably still be useful if available.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our firm uses it as our main e-discovery platform. We use it over other platforms (for example, Relativity or Veritas).
  • Easy to set up review stages.
  • Helpful metrics to oversee users' progress.
  • Easy to add highlights.
  • Intuitive setup.
  • I liked how in Relativity you could correlate first-line and subsequent review coding panels.
  • I'm told that AI has increased functionality, but I don't understand how it's integrated yet.
For a smaller firm DISCO Ediscovery is great. We started using DISCO Ediscovery because of its lower cost, but the fact that it is so intuitive to use is helpful. For attorneys coming from biglaw it may seem a tad remedial, but for attorneys that don't have much experience with e-discovery then DISCO Ediscovery is easy to use.
Bethan Price | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Across the whole organisation. <br>Used to conduct a first line disclosure review of disclosure given in litigated proceedings. It solves the problem of managing a large amount of documents and keeping track of the review. It also helps collaboration with others.
  • Tagging docs
  • De-duplication
  • Sending hot docs to colleagues straight from the platform
  • Downloading docs
  • Ease of use (I find Relativity more intuitive- sorry!)
  • Even better de-duplication software
Doing a basic review of a lot of documents. Good for team us. Clear tagging system.

Less good when it becomes more detailed or you need to pull out documents from the system.
December 04, 2023

Ehh...

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
By a specific team on a specific legal matter to conduct a responsiveness/privilege review.
  • User-friendly
  • Good resources and tips available online
  • quick learning curve
  • Simply does not have many features/search options that other e-discovery databases do.
  • Being forced to click through each family attachment one-by-one when reviewing and marking documents through review stages, rather than being able to mass-mark a document and its family and then immediately move to the next parent document (and not click through the voluminous attachments to each parent email) is, in my experience, incredibly detrimental to productivity and efficiency. I simply can't believe DISCO Ediscovery is unable to develop a workaround for this.
  • In my opinion, the results page when reviewing the entire document universe or a large subset of documents is very unhelpful, because the column headings don't provide any meaningful information that would allow you to discern the nature of the document without actually clicking on it.
It is good for simple document reviews, but the review stages need some work in that they should allow the reviewers to mark an entire family for responsiveness based on the parent email without having to then click through each attachment to the parent email and mark it "reviewed." It is not good for digging through large sets of documents and actually trying to find certain documents, as the search results page is useless in providing pertinent information about the document, which forces you to have to open the document to get an idea of what it is.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DISCO is one of our primary document review platforms used throughout the firm.
  • The user interface is quite intuitive
  • The support provided by DISCO is knowledgeable and practical
  • DISCO is often on the forefront of newly emerging additions to the eDiscovery landscape
  • The only aspect of DISCO I dislike is that certain features are not included as baseline features but come with added expense
DISCO is well suited for just about any level of document review with only one or multiple reviewers
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is our main document review platform firm wide.
  • Organization
  • Ease of Use
  • Speed
  • Predictive features
  • Exhibit or trial sets, more like Case Builder
For pretty much every situation I prefer DISCO Ediscovery over alternatives.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We engaged DISCO Ediscovery in a complex tort case where we represent 239 Plaintiffs in 5 related actions and numerous corporate defendants and insurance companies in order to more efficiently manage and locate documents vs. manually looking for them on our servers or within a document depository. It has also been useful for our 10 Experts who have direct access to their Review Stage, and I expect it will make preparing deposition exhibits much faster. I am able to use DISCO Ediscovery document reports to create document production indicia and will do the same for our trial exhibit lists. With a one-hour training, our Experts have become proficient in their document reviews, and one expert [who we use very frequently] specifically "hopes" that we continue to use DISCO Ediscovery firm-wide because he is very pleased with its ease of use. I hope my firm will employ DISCO Ediscovery firm-wide in our future cases as well because they are all voluminous.
  • Search and locate
  • Document organization
  • Ease of use
  • Review Stages are used by our Experts with direct access, which eliminates the need to create folders on our servers, download to flash drives, or having to upload documents and create links in the cloud
  • I wish there were a more efficient way to identify and tag duplicates. Other than that, DISCO Ediscovery is fantastic!
DISCO Ediscovery is the most powerful tool I've come across in my 37 years as a complex tort trial paralegal. I don't see any scenario where it would be less appropriate. I think even in non-legal areas, DISCO Ediscovery could be effectively employed to manage any dataset – for instance, I bet it could be super useful for managing medical records, and review stages could be created per patient.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We manage documents for a number of our cases using DISCO. We do document reviews and a small number of document productions from disco. Primarily use it for review and tagging of documents shared across the team.
  • Document tagging and coding
  • Fast document previews
  • Searching and sorting
  • Machine learning for searches and document coding
  • Predictive coding is generally worthless
  • Removing or sorting out duplicates
It’s one of the best if not the best ediscovery database platforms.
May 14, 2022

DISCO Elevates

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Document review, deposition preparation, and trial preparation
  • filter searches
  • exhibit sets
  • Ease of use - not counter-intuitive
  • Providing a list of what DISCO can do i.e., translation applications
Cost-effective Ease of use (not a bunch of training required to perform searches) Easy to add reviewers Doc review platform is very helpful. Deposition prep is easy and keeping track of exhibits for Motions, depositions, and eventually trial. Would like to have a comprehensive list of other areas DISCO can be helpful i.e., the translation application is a huge cost saver in determining whether foreign language documents are responsive and worthy of translation by a certified translator.
Bill Patterson, Esq. | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DISCO Ediscovery is our enterprise solution for e-discovery at the firm.
  • De-duplication
  • Ease of review
  • Tagging
  • Search and review
  • Should be easier to add tags while in other parts of the platform. i.e. I should be able to add a tag while setting up or managing a review.
Very goo. DISCO Ediscovery is an easy-to-use solution but if you aren't going to bother to learn how to take control and use it for production, culling, searching, etc. then may as well use something else.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our entire firm uses DISCO [eDiscovery] as our go-to ediscovery vendor, to review and process documents produced during discovery. It has been valuable in that role, and we continue to use it whenever possible in our cases.
  • Document review
  • Document tagging
  • Document production processing
  • It's a little tedious to search by Bates number, especially if you want to search for a specific Bates-numbered page, but don't know the Bates number of the page that begins the document.
As with all ediscovery platforms I've encountered, DISCO is great for large-scale document reviews and productions. The value drops as the number of the documents drops. Basically, it does well what it's supposed to do.
November 04, 2021

Wonderful Services

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DISCO is used by the litigation department for client discovery.
  • Customer Service
  • Customer Support
  • Ease of the software
  • Identify documents by trial exhibit number
  • Create trial exhibit sub-folders for witnesses or the ability to tag the trial exhibit for witnesses.
  • Better interface
DISCO Ediscovery is perfect for production of and storage of large amounts of documents and the ability to tag them to specific issues.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The County uses Disco [eDiscovery] for litigation discovery and public records requests for many different departments. From the time we started using Disco in 2015 the company has made many upgrades in direct response to suggestions and/or complaints made by their users. I consider this to be telling as to what kind of company they are. They listen to their clients and make changes in order to accommodate their needs. Disco has worked with my office so that we can use this product County-wide for public records requests. When we first started using Disco it was only for litigation and processing documents for discovery and depositions. Disco is great for this, but we knew it would be extremely helpful for us to be able to use it for the many PRRs we received across the County. With Disco's support, we now help departments Countywide to efficiently and quickly process public records requests and are able to do so without impacting our budget.
  • Excellent user interface
  • Good support team
  • Helpful tutorials
  • Listening to clients and making changes to accommodate needs
  • I'd still like to be able to extract single pages from Disco within a larger set of documents.
  • Sometimes billing groups can be a little difficult to work with as they can be unresponsive and slow to correct errors.
Not everyone's needs are the same, but I think Disco [eDiscovery]can be used for a wide array of tasks. Companies big and small can afford to use their services.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This was used by a specific team in my organization to review files we were receiving from an outside client. We needed to be able to code the various files for certain issues, highlight key search terms that the files hit on, and batch them out to specific people.
  • Intuitive website design
  • Clear metrics available to show review progress
  • Highlighting of search terms seemed buggy, particularly, when we were doing Boolean searches
  • Better deduplicating ability
DISCO [eDiscovery] was very intuitive to use compared to other document hosting platforms like Relativity and Ringtail. However, I found it had less capability in terms of advanced filtering and searching. For instance, we were told you can't flag all files that have a specific characteristic and then remove those from the search group. I think it would be well-suited to more straightforward document review projects where you won't be sifting through a lot of duplicates or need more advanced search capabilities.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use DISCO Ediscovery to host, review, manage, and produce client documents and adverse productions, and for deposition and trial exhibits.
  • Ingests, tagging, productions
  • Fantastic search capability, even beginner users can master it with little training.
  • Customized reviewer profiling, very helpful for expert and client access.
  • Very easy for beginners and non-tech-savvy users--this is my #1 favorite thing about DISCO Ediscovery and the main reason I brought it into the firm.
  • I wish we could dismiss the redaction reasons box either per case or toggle it on and off. It's really annoying and in our practice we rarely, if ever, use it.
  • I would like to be able to tick checkboxes in document review, like in Relativity.
  • Search and redact would be extremely helpful, like in Adobe.
  • Tiny pinpoint redactions are very difficult to do in DISCO Ediscovery (Otherwise I love the redaction tool).
The best thing about DISCO Ediscovery is how user-friendly it is, for all levels of users. I can train the most anti-tech person and have them reviewing and tagging documents in 10 minutes (and loving it). It is a fantastic tool for all sizes of cases, from tiny productions to massive data sets. DISCO Ediscovery works well at every level. We use it for very small one-and-done productions and huge ongoing cases as well, and everything in between.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have used this platform at a department-wide level. It has allowed us to share large documents on the cloud. It also makes it easier to search for the correct document to review on the cloud by using intelligent search features. It overlays Amazon Web Services, which has good built-in security protocols.
  • Search documents
  • Share documents
  • Organize documents
  • Pricing
  • Improved search accuracy
  • Staff availability
DISCO Ediscovery is well suited for a department that exchanges lots a large documents between colleagues. You can think of DISCO Ediscovery as a smart virtual archive. If you need to look up documents that have not been reviewed recently, then the intelligent search tools can expedite the process. It also allows you to view similar documents to the one you are currently viewing.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use DISCO Ediscovery for my firm's cases with large discovery demands. Attorneys use it to manage case discovery, to review and to produce documents. We use it for investigations and for its tagging and AI tagging capabilities. DISCO Ediscovery has powerful and intuitive search operators. Compared to Relativity, it is simpler and quicker to use. I have used it to create complex privilege logs and to review documents almost every day.
  • DISCO Ediscovery's search terms are intuitive and powerful.
  • DISCO Ediscovery allows you to easily extract lists of document metadata and attorney work product.
  • DISCO Ediscovery makes productions easy, including bates numbering documents.
  • Analyzing near duplicates
  • Identifying unique email or "inclusive" emails
  • OCR could be improved (already great) to pick up smaller-sized text
DISCO Ediscovery is well suited for documents that are conventionally formatted, etc. DISCO Ediscovery has a harder time with smaller-than-usual text or funky formats, such as PDFs generated from spreadsheets. DISCO Ediscovery sometimes lags [from my experience] and documents do not load (but it is still faster than Relativity). DISCO Ediscovery has no feature to search for inclusive documents, the IsInclusive feature only works with emails.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Disco [eDiscovery] allows us to handle cases with large volumes of discovery with ease. Our whole organization uses it and we sometimes hire outside attorneys to help with extensive discovery. It allows us to access everything in the same place, use tags, folders, etc.
  • Tags are helpful to flag certain documents.
  • The detailed search bar is helpful.
  • Sorting by custodian helps.
  • It would be helpful if you could search for key words that show up in documents.
We handle many cases with hundreds of thousands of documents and DISCO Ediscovery helps us simplify and manage those cases.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use DISCO Ediscovery as an e-discovery platform for our larger cases, maintaining all discovery files in DISCO Ediscovery. DISCO Ediscovery is great at searching through voluminous discovery files, with user-friendly search options and easy sorting capabilities.
  • Searchability
  • Maintaining files
  • User friendly
  • Easier to search by custodian
  • An easily accessible glossary of search functions/keys and explanations
  • Easier to search by who sent or received an email
DISCO Ediscovery works well when you have a case with substantial documents (e.g., more than 10k and up to millions). It's not worth the cost if it's a smaller file.
March 24, 2021

DISCO is the best!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DISCO is our favorite e-discovery tool, and it is used in over a half dozen matters at any given time. Managing e-discovery in complex litigation where there are hundreds of thousands of documents can be extremely time-consuming, and even more challenging to find the specific information requested by attorneys. DISCO is used by all legal team members and experts, the ability to consolidate and share work product in one platform is extremely valuable. Because the system is so intuitive it makes on-boarding new reviewers fast. But the best feature is the analysis it provides with AI/predictive coding, it is absolutely next level.
  • Predictive analysis on document sets to discover defensible bulk coding of thousands of similar documents with very high accuracy and confidence.
  • Easy to use filters and data visualizations to help manage overwhelming amounts of data.
  • Easy to use search features, with more robust search syntax than other systems.
  • Easy to manage batched review stages, and customize any possible review layout or coding imaginable.
  • DISCO is not cheap... When compared to some systems it appears overly expensive.
  • If it were less expensive, more clients would feel comfortable with the cost.
  • The value in DISCO is hidden, so the GB/Mo. cost appears inflated.
DISCO is perfect for our large and complex matters, where early case assessment can be used to reduce monthly hosting costs. By utilizing the AI we can avoid costly eyes on review of non-responsive or unimportant documents by performing random sampling analysis on large sets of documents, this has been incredibly successful and the accuracy and confidence levels achieved are well beyond what can be expected with a contract review process.
For extremely large matters, the cost structure for DISCO is substantial- and we have clients who don't like the large monthly costs. I frequently see the value lost due to inefficiencies with other e-discovery systems, but that is impossible to quantify.
March 11, 2021

Clear and Easy to Use

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The virtual law firm I work for uses DISCO to manage Ediscovery projects. Personally, I do document review on the platform, but the managing attorneys use it to review produced documents or respond to discovery requests. I have used several different Ediscovery platforms, and this is one of the more intuitive ones.
  • Provides keyword and custodian search capability.
  • Provides metadata.
  • Helps organize documents in clear format.
  • It would be helpful to have the capability to send a doc directly to the managing attorney because they don't always want to go into a database.
I would recommend DISCO because the support level seems high, the user interface is straightforward, and it can manage large amounts of documents. Attorneys can batch upsets of documents if a team is working in the same database. I'm not sure if it's helpful for building timelines, but that's probably something their support team could assist with.
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