litscope

Technology

In any software application, there’s the technology the end user sees and there’s technology the end user doesn’t see. Some applications mask a poor architecture with fancy but unnecessary bells and whistles, while others are built on a solid foundation but suffer from a clumsy user interface that miserably misses the target. LitScope combines an advanced and robust architecture with an utterly intuitive user interface that was been built from the ground up for the linear e-discovery review workflow.

Technical Architecture

Highlights of the LitScope architecture include:

  • Platform Independence: LitScope can run on any mainstream operating system (i.e., Windows, Linux, and Mac) using any mainstream browser (i.e., Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari).
  • Blistering Performance: Whether performing sub-second searches across millions of records, batching hundreds of thousands of records in less than a minute, navigating through documents at the blink of an eye, or doing virtually any other task in LitScope, the fact that performance topped our list of priorities will be readily apparent.
  • Intuitive User Interface: LitScope’s graphical user interface (GUI) employs an industry-leading framework with common web navigation constructs that most users have become intimately familiar with during every day web browsing. The average user requires only a 30-minute web-based training session to become fluent in LitScope’s GUI and review workflow.
  • Limitless Scalability: LitScope has been designed and developed with a fully federated architecture, resulting in no limits on the number of database, application, and/or web servers that can be employed, and no application changes are required to do so.
  • Security: At the application level, LitScope offers the highest possible levels of security, on par with the most sensitive online applications (e.g., banking). LitScope’s security features include 256-bit encryption via SSL, Complex Passwords, customizable auto time-out, and fully obfuscated images in the viewer cache. For more on the physical security of LitScope’s hosting environment, see here.

Features and Functionality

Full Unicode support

  • Stores, displays, indexes, and searches all Unicode languages, including simultaneous multi-language searching

Administration

  • Robust batching capabilities including search-based batching
  • Flexible role and group based security model
  • Review management dashboard displaying comprehensive graphical productivity and other review metrics
  • CSV Export (all grid information including privilege logs)
  • Streamlined interface for managing, application settings, users/user groups, batches, custodians, categories/tags, searches, etc

Search Panel

  • Full text and meta data search using the following constructs:
    • Boolean
    • Proximity
    • Multi-language stemming
    • Customizable stop words
    • Customizable synonyms
  • Query builder
  • Saved searches
  • Phrase search
  • Shared/personal searches

Documents Panel

  • Documents Tab (Search results grid)
    • Fully customizable view (user preferences are saved)
    • Bookmark-able document IDs (linking to a read-only document view; facilitating collaboration)
    • Lockable documents
  • Text Tab
    • Auto-paging and text formatting
    • Hit highlighting
  • Image Tab
    • Full redaction capability including multiple “redaction types” (unique colors for specific types of redactions such as privilege, confidential, etc)
  • Native Tab
    • View nearly 400 native file types
  • Family Tab
    • Single view of all document families (e.g., email and attachments)
  • Meta Data Tab
    • View all/selected document meta data
  • Audit Tab
    • View all actions (e.g., Batch, Category, Tag, Productions, etc) taken on a given document

Actions Panel

  • Classify
    • Classify documents using an unlimited number of fully customizable Categories and Tag Groups/Tags
    • “Save and Next” single click
    • Shared and personal tags
    • Bulk tagging/categorization
  • Code
    • Enter free text for things such as attorney notes and privilege descriptions
    • Clean up and/or supplement meta data
    • Fully searchable

File Sharing

  • Upload and share administrative documents among case team