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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…
DISCO for legal work.
DISCO Ediscovery is the best!
Cases with hundreds of thousands of pages or thousands of individual documents are not possible without DISCO Ediscovery
DISCO: A Shortcut to Discovery Efficiency and Evidentiary Comprehension
Good value for mid sized firms.
Good for basic reviewing, could be improved by developing additional functions for specific professions.
Ehh...
Dance your way to ediscovery bliss with DISCO
Ease of Use and Speed Paramount to Sucess
DISCO Ediscovery? Where have you been all my life?!!! [Well, for my last 37 years as a complex tort and trial paralegal]
DISCO is the best place for your discovery documents
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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
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DISCO Ediscovery Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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(1-25 of 31)Ease in Document Review and Production
- 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 for legal work.
- 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 Ediscovery is the best!
- Viewing documents
- Tagging documents
- Gathering metadata
- Organization of documents
- Ability to add comments
- 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
Ehh...
- 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.
Dance your way to ediscovery bliss with DISCO
- 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
Ease of Use and Speed Paramount to Sucess
- Organization
- Ease of Use
- Speed
- Predictive features
- Exhibit or trial sets, more like Case Builder
Effective Ediscovery Vendor & Tool
- 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.
Wonderful Services
- 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 valuable to government work
- 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.
DISCO is the best eDiscovery software, hands down.
- 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).
DISCO is the best!
- 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.
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.
Clear and Easy to Use
- 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.
Good platform
- Search
- Organizes Ingest
- Ability to share search threads via URL
- Simplifying basic searches -- like for bates number
- Data visualizers
- Easier near dupe functionality
DISCO Continues to Provide a Superior Ediscovery Solution
- Easy to search for relevant information.
- Easy to screen irrelevant data from large document collections.
- Easy to organize data by issues of practical importance to your case.
- Easy to cost-effectively resolve complex ediscovery challenges.
- Terrific customer service.
- Very helpful on-line help features.
- Strong analytical tools.
- Need an easier way to track when a document did not receive coding review for all issues (i.e., when issues where added later on in the coding process--need to be alerted to go back and capture the additional issues to be coded).
Don't think. Just use it. DISCO is the best.
- Self-management of key functions. Ingests can be handled by users, as well as production sets. No need to wait on discovery vendors.
- Simple, yet powerful, search syntax. It uses a familiar Boolean search syntax, and can search a wide variety of metadata fields easily.
- It is fast. Not quick; outright fast. It blows away every other platform on the market. Review times are cut in half, and searches are lightning quick.
- Web-based. Allows for multiple logins by one user at a time. If you are in the middle of a review, but see something else you want to look up, simply open a new tab in the browser, and go.
- Additional ways to refine searches. If I have tagged all documents containing "phrase x," and then hit the family inclusion button, it expands the number of responsive documents. This is fine. But if I want to see those additional family documents to see if it changes the type of tag or category I need to assign, that is not easily done.
- Audits of user actions. I can audit a single document for what actions were performed by specific reviewers. But if I want to pull all actions for a group of reviewers, for a specific set of documents, there are no good solutions.
- More customization of export document lists. I would like to be able to easily customize the categories of metadata that are exported. Deep dives into opposing party data sometimes requires looking at very specific metadata fields. When it is exported to excel, the sort options make this easier. But I don't want to hide 30 columns to make that happen.
- The ability to customize the document view screen. If I want to minimize or hide all the panels on the left, I want that screen space back. Or, I would like to only have the metadata pane, the conversation pane, and the tagging pane on one side, and hide the rest. This should be an option.
- Hovering for more information is broken. It routinely will move to different spots, and sometimes out of view (i.e., below the bottom of the browser screen).
- Metadata pane. If there are multiple paths, and you click it to see the hidden paths, it truncates the paths so you can't see the whole thing.
- Document notes. If there are notes, you should be able to see them without having to click the "view/edit note."
If you don't have a large volume of data, then you don't really need a discovery platform, and can self-review. However, even with small data sets, it can be much easier to open a new matter, ingest, and the run a production then to do it natively. There is no good option for converting large amounts of email files to pdf or tiff and then bates stamping.
DISCO - My favorite platform
We've moved to DISCO from Summation because it is user friendly, convenient and efficient.
- It is very efficient with search terms.
- The support staff is knowledgeable.
- Access is always good working remote.
- The tagging feature - I'd like to be able to mass tag documents without putting them in folders first.
Success for first time e-discovery software user
- search capabilities
- document organization
- dashboard organization
DISCO is a fantastic platform for eDiscovery
- DISCO software is easy to use for even the most entry-level document reviewer. All one needs to know how to do is browse web pages.
- DISCO has a good amount of organizational functionality that allows us to identify key documents and custodians to improve efficiency in our early-stage document review process. We can target dates, topics, and specific custodians with ease using the visual organization tools without requiring knowledge of building text-based searches.
- The DISCO project support team is responsive, and projects can usually be started within hours of the initial opening request. The team is always willing to do training as users become more advanced and interested in exploring deeper functionality of the tool.
- In my previous experience, I have found that coding may not be recorded when a user is going extremely fast through documents.
- Right now, at least, we do not appear to have the ability to independently upload load files and productions we received from other parties.
- The more complex and useful tools are somewhat difficult to locate and learn to use without assistance from project support team members.
- The text searching can be difficult to use, especially when trying to search for exclusion rather than the inclusion of documents based on the searches.
- The folder system is not intuitive. Parent folders include all documents within sub-folders, even when those sub-folders are designed to exclude documents. This is likely a unique problem than can be resolved using different procedures, though.
Hands down the best document review platform I have worked with
- The platform is very intuitive and user-friendly and makes creating searches much easier. There is an option of creating Boolean search terms or the much easier Search Builder that DISCO has created.
- Our office appreciates being able to create folders and save specific documents to them. Although you can accomplish the same result through saved searches, the folders make it easier for some attorneys to access the information they need much easier than creating searches.
- The document review pane is also extremely helpful in that it provides all of the information pertinent to that document (and its family) in one view. I like that the search term hits are highlighted in the document view and the reviewer can "jump" to each hit.
- On a couple of occasions, I submitted a request for assistance from the technical support staff but the system had not registered my request. Luckily, I was not working on a document production deadline so the time delay was not ultimately a big issue.
- I would like to be able to create and save the specifics to a new production ahead of my actual production deadline, thus saving me time at the very end of the review when time is usually short.
DISCO-rama Offers a Bevy of eDiscovery Benefits!
- Very good text recognition for searching.
- Metadata information is presented in a format that makes it easier to understand who and where the documents came from.
- Ability to tag documents with many/various terms and collections.
- Batch Printing can be easier if there was a quicker/easier way to pick and choose many documents within a collection.
- Try to find a way to retain confidentiality designations for documents when ingesting from a production.
DISCO is a must-have platform for any litigation team
- It is easily used for producing documents. I appreciate how easy it is to create load files to provide to opposing counsel.
- DISCO's support team is the best in the business, bar none. I always feel free to call them about any concerns or problems I am having. I know that they will go the distance to ensure that my questions are answered and my concerns are assuaged. Even after hours, I have been able to get answers to my questions. Most importantly, their support staff is incredibly helpful and caring people, which is immediately apparent during the phone calls.
- DISCO also makes it very easy to set up a specific document review stage, tailored just as I need it. I appreciate the ability to tag documents per my requirements, to write privilege notes, to redact passages quickly, etc. The fact that this tailored document review staging is all so easy to set up speaks to how great a program DISCO is.
- I love how, in the main "Search and Review' window, to my left, I can have the filters. This is so handy and time-saving! I can't count the times that I have chosen documents based upon specific recipients/senders, or narrowed down my search by choosing "inclusive emails only."
- Perhaps this is my ignorance, but when I'm in the main "Search and Review" window and want to choose specific documents from here to, say, batch print, I have to click the grey square to the left of the document one by one, instead of clicking a grey square on top of the window that would automatically choose all the documents showing in that window, and then deselect the ones I don't want.
- I know this is a safety feature, but sometimes it would be nice to be able to change certain features of documents myself instead of asking DISCO support team to do so, i.e., changing the custodian of specific documents.
- Instead of choosing the "copy format from a previous production" that automatically changes a Bates prefix for you that you may not want, maybe a feature where you have preset choices of metadata and confidentiality to apply to productions without affecting a chosen Bates prefix.
Impressed with DISCO
- Extremely user-friendly. Easy to figure out how to work things.
- Very fast. Compared to other platforms, the delay is minimal.
- A clean, usable interface that makes it easy to read documents.
- Nothing I can think of at this time. The actual reviewers (since I'm supervising them) may have more specific feedback.
DISCO really gets down!
- Simple interface - This is key because many users can't be bogged down trying to navigate through complex platforms. DISCO makes it easier to users of all levels to review, cull and produce information.
- Speed - The platform is much faster than alternative platforms. The speed significantly reduces review times making for a more efficient review.
- No hidden costs. It's nice to easily understand the costs of a platform and present it to clients.
- I wish DISCO had more robust analytics. Not so much predictive coding but the ability to review documents using concepts/phrases.
- I think DISCO should reduce the monthly minimum. By having such a high monthly minimum price you end up excluding potential clients.
DISCO: Get Your Boogie On!
- Tagging is highly intuitive. The reviewers are mostly attorneys who appreciate ease of use, and the tagging feature is so easy that the attorneys can spend the bulk of their time evaluating the merits of the case rather than figuring out things like tagging.
- Email threading is a huge time saver. By allowing the reviewer to only review the inclusive email and applying a tag to all emails that make up that thread is invaluable and allows for consistency in coding which is key to any document review.
- The artificial intelligence feature is also a huge time saver and allows for consistency in coding.
- There are times where I am hesitant to contact tech support since most often I am redirected to our project manager whose time is billable. I wish the built-in tech support would field more questions so I don't have to incur billable rates from the PM.
- The searches are not as easy as they look. Some of our users have never gotten comfortable with the search mechanism.
- HUGE negative is the $500 monthly minimum. Most of our cases start out slowly with data trickling in. Often times, the attorney will not agree to host data in DISCO based on the high monthly minimum. They cannot justify the cost to the client.
- The overall look of the platform looks a bit too vanilla with the white background and pastel colors. Would a dark mode be a ridiculous ask?!