mindTalent LexStrata

LexStrata provides corporate legal teams and law firms with the ability to rapidly identify the concepts found in a document population through the use of a robust concept clustering, data analytics system, coupled with a user-managed, comprehensive end-to-end workflow solution.

Unlike most systems available to legal teams, LexStrata automatically discovers the most significant concepts, issues, and custodians in a document population. It provides breakthrough search technology, It is fast and highly accurate, yet provides comprehensive results.

• Delivers true, unbiased discovery - as well as user-controlled exploration
• Requires no up-front set-up and investment in dictionaries, keywords or ontology
• Provides a dynamic taxonomy creation and management environment
• Produces a filtered data set quickly for further iterative analysis

Breakthrough Search Technology

Early Case Assessment

The amount of electronic information created, stored and shared in the private and public sectors continues to increase at ever-growing rates, and this holds true for the electronically stored information (ESI) that must be produced for litigation. One of the most significant tasks faced by corporate legal departments and their outside counsel when dealing with these massive amounts of data is the early, rapid evaluation of the case, and the assessment of the potential risk posed by the litigation. In other words, “Is there a viable case?” and “Are we liable?’.

The new US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure now require that all electronically stored information requested be produced to opposing counsel, and gives the legal team a limited period of time from the date of request within which to comply. Given the volumes of data involved, and the compressed time to review, it is no longer possible to rely solely on conventional methods to determine what issues exist, and as important, what has been produced to opposing counsel.

Mindtalent LexStrata provides the legal team an immediate “snapshot” of the concepts, custodians, and issues found in the data set, allowing for informed decision-making as the data is processed. Our systems create the ontology of the information as it emerges in the process, reducing or even eliminating the need for the legal team to develop an exhaustive list of potential issues or key words.

In addition to the conventional Boolean and Bayesian search capabilities, Mindtalent LexStrata also brings to bear advanced concept search and inference determination coupled with naturally-emerging ontology creation. This combination of the best in search and information retrieval methods provides the highest level of accuracy possible, and assured repeatability – in short, the most comprehensive and defensible process available.

Accurate, Extensive Data Filtering

Mindtalent LexStrata is the most innovative and comprehensive tool for information retrieval, concept clustering and filtering – the capabilities required by legal teams engaged in litigation and electronic discovery. Studies have shown that conventional approaches to data search for electronic discovery typically produce only a fraction of the documents and other information relevant to the case. As the chart indicates, human review of the data reliably produces 20 to 30% of the important information, and the same is true for the other generally-accepted methods, Bayesian search and Boolean search techniques.

The LexStrata system is the first to bring multiple technologies and search engines and methods to bear on the problem of extracting the necessary documents and other data from the often massive collections encountered in today’s complex electronic discovery environment. Incorporating the best of all the proven approaches, combined with new and unmatched search capabilities in its core engine, LexStrata can produce up to 85% or more, with statistically-proven accuracy, of the documents relevant to the case.

Key to our approach is the MindTalent search engine, proven in such document intensive environments as international law and national security. This breakthrough technology is unique in the litigation support industry, offering new levels of capacity, accuracy, and defensibility for our clients and partners.