What is the docNative Paradigm?
What continues to make CaseLogistix successful with users is its simplicity, flexibility, security, scalability and full Unicode compatibility. But it’s the solution’s innovative docNative™ Paradigm approach to eDiscovery that truly sets it apart from the competition.
Tradition vs. the new docNative Paradigm
The traditional method for managing legal discovery review that has long been employed by law firms and corporate counsel departments involves the meticulous and laborious page-by-page Bates stamping of documents and subsequent conversion of them into electronic images such as TIFFs for computer-based processing. Electronic files may also be converted to TIFF images and numbered with metadata during processing. This method, however, merely mimics a paper-based document workflow and is slow, labor-intensive, expensive and introduces risks in dealing with attachments and the original metadata associated with them.
CaseLogistix’s docNative Paradigm approach not only addresses reviewing single and multi-page document images, but focuses on the actual document in its original, unaltered native format (e.g. email, Web/XML, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and even voice and video) or “near-native” format (e.g. PDF and HTML). The method assigns a unique identifier to each document – as opposed to pages – regardless of length, and enables conceptual search tools to scan and “read” each one, determining its value and relevancy to the case. By managing documents in their native or near-native formats, the “TIFFing” conversion step can be skipped until the end of the discovery process, and only then as needed to format documents that are relevant and required for production.
By empowering users to work with over 150 file types without requiring the creation of TIFF images on the front end of the discovery process, users can greatly accelerate review, cut processing costs in half and reduce associated risks. In addition – and perhaps more importantly – this native file review method also supports compliance with new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) around electronically stored information (ESI).
The ability to work in both the old and new worlds
While eDiscovery is quickly moving towards a native document-centric review approach, there remains a need to support a hybrid review of native files and legacy TIFF images incorporating Bates numbers. As such, CaseLogistix not only works in the new docNative Paradigm but it works across all documents – including TIFFs and non-native, or “current” file types – to accelerate eDiscovery processing and review.
The benefits of the docNative Paradigm can extend beyond law firms to corporate counsel departments, who can utilize CaseLogistix to conduct first-pass review themselves, reaping significant cost savings from having to do so by sending documents to outside counsel.