Symantec's Clearwell eDiscovery Platform to Offer Transparent Predictive Coding to Enable Rapid and Defensible

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Jan 23 (MARKET WIRE) --
Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced plans to introduce
Transparent Predictive Coding to its Clearwell eDiscovery Platform in
order to help organizations defensibly reduce the time and cost of
document review. With Transparent Predictive Coding, Symantec will help
organizations accelerate the review process by leveraging the
intelligence of expert reviewers to train the software so that it can
automatically predict document relevance in order to streamline document
review and increase accuracy. The net result is expected to be a more
defensible automated document review process at significantly reduced
cost.

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"Since document review is usually the most expensive and
time-consuming step in e-discovery, an efficient, legally defensible
review process is critical to cost control," said Ralph Losey, partner
and national e-Discovery counsel, Jackson Lewis, LLP. "Our method for
controlling the costs and quality of productions uses estimates, the
legal doctrine of Proportionality, and the latest technology assisted
review methodologies -- including review using discussion threads, near
duplication, concept clustering, and my favorite, predictive coding. The
combination of new legal methods and the latest technologies delivers
tremendous savings to the review process."

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"The stakes are high when it comes to eDiscovery requests. It is vital
for businesses to be able to use advanced technology to support their
needs, and also to be able to understand how the technology works so they
can defend their process," notes Kurt Leafstrand, director of product
management, Symantec Corp. "With Transparent Predictive Coding, Symantec
will take the mystery out of predictive coding by providing a new level
of visibility into the reasoning behind document decisions, and by
documenting the entire process This can help organizations defensibly and
significantly reduce the time, risk and cost of eDiscovery review."

Benefits of Transparent Predictive Coding
Predictive coding helps
organizations reduce the time and cost of document review by using
machine learning technology to leverage the intelligence of expert
reviewers. As reviewers tag documents in a training set, the software
identifies tagging criteria common across those documents. This enables
the software to "predict" the reviewer's coding across all case
documents, requiring fewer documents to be reviewed manually and thereby
accelerating the review process.

Now, with Transparent Predictive Coding, Symantec's Clearwell eDiscovery
Platform is expected to open the black box of predictive coding by
providing unprecedented visibility into this training and prediction
process and delivering context for more informed decision-making.
Reviewers will have complete visibility into how predictions are
generated in order to make consistent review decisions and improve the
accuracy and defensibility of the document review process.

Symantec's Transparent Predictive Coding is expected to further
accelerate the review process by providing an intuitive, flexible
workflow that maps to the specific requirements of the case at hand. This
unique workflow is automatically documented by comprehensive reporting
tools which can allow legal teams to demonstrate process integrity to the
court, opposing counsel, or government regulators. As a result,
Transparent Predictive Coding is expected to provide the level of
defensibility necessary to enable legal teams to adopt predictive coding
as a mainstream technology for eDiscovery review.

Key Transparent Predictive Coding Features:

-- Smart Sampling: Offers sophisticated analytics by criteria such as
custodian, discussion, concept and participant to ensure the selection
of highly relevant training samples. Intelligent training samples
result in greater prediction accuracy.
-- Smart Tagging: Allows reviewers to highlight the metadata and content
relevant to a tagging decision for more granular training, improving
the accuracy of predictions and reducing the number of training
cycles.
-- Prediction Insight: Automatically provides a prediction probability
score for the document under review and highlights content and
metadata relevant to the prediction. Users can quickly assess how the
prediction was generated to improve prediction accuracy and make
consistent review decisions, bolstering defensibility.
-- Prediction Workflow Management: Provides a review management console
with step-by-step guidance that automates the predictive coding
workflow, allowing users to begin utilizing predictive coding
immediately while achieving optimal and defensible results.
-- Prediction Templates: Enables users to import and export prediction
models to leverage predictive intelligence across cases. The use of
templates streamlines the review of cross-mater issues, resulting in
reduced cost and risk.
-- Prediction Analytics: Delivers a set of interactive charts and reports
that enable reviewers to measure prediction accuracy and analyze
documents by probability score, resulting in more informed review
decisions.
-- Review Quality Control: Provides a comprehensive quality assurance
workflow for linear and non-linear review, enabling users to perform
statistically valid sampling, identify inconsistent tagging, view
disagreements between reviewers, and automatically compare predictions
and human decisions to assess and improve review accuracy.

Transparent Predictive Coding will be offered as part of Symantec's
Clearwell eDiscovery Platform and is expected to be generally available
in 2H 2012. Symantec will be showcasing Transparent Predictive Coding at
LegalTech (Booth #2600), Jan. 30 - Feb. 1 in New York.

Related

-- Transparent Predictive Coding
-- Solution Page: Symantec's Clearwell eDiscovery Platform
-- 2012 eDiscovery Predictions
-- Solution Page: Symantec Enterprise Vault
-- Symantec Acquires LiveOffice

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CONTACT:
Hilary McQuaide
Symantec Corp.
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