Clifford Chance selects Autonomy Introspect

02 September 2010

World’s Largest Law Firm Embraces Meaning Based Processing, Review and Production for Complex Litigation

Autonomy Corporation plc, a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that Clifford Chance has chosen Autonomy Introspect, a top-ranked processing, review and production solution for complex litigation and regulatory investigations. Clifford Chance is one of the world's leading law firms, with 29 offices in 20 countries and some 3,200 legal advisers.

Autonomy Introspect was selected thanks to its unmatched meaning-based capabilities including integrated keyword and conceptual search, near-duplicate analysis and meaning based coding, massive, petabyte scalability, and the ability to process and understand all data types and languages. Available as hosted, onsite and hybrid solution, Autonomy Introspect uniquely offers the ability to process audio, video and rich-media alongside other Electronically Stored Information (ESI).

“Autonomy Introspect provided the solution which we needed in handling complex proceedings with both voice and electronic data,” commented Denis Brock, litigation partner at Clifford Chance. “I have been impressed by the quality of the product and the service delivery of Autonomy; I anticipate that, for matters in the future, Autonomy will be my preferred choice.”

Powered by Autonomy’s meaning-based technology, the Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), Autonomy Introspect addresses every stage of complex litigation and offers both full EDD processing with intelligent filtering as well as advanced review and production. With ten of the top ten law firms as customers, Introspect is the de-facto standard for advanced document review. IDOL’s advanced analytics provide automated clustering, near-duplicate and meaning based coding, message tracing and automatic foldering to enable users to review documents in an efficient, non-linear fashion. Additionally, IDOL can identify similar documents even if they have different authors or file formats, helping ensure completeness of the results and a dramatic increase in both the speed and efficiency of the document review process.

Autonomy Introspect offers unique features and capabilities including:

• Direct discovery processes on all data types including audio and multiple languages
• Meaning Based Coding - Autonomy’s concept-based pattern recognition technology automatically learns how reviewers code documents to automatically code remaining documents
• Rapid review using sophisticated near-duplicate processing and coding by subject matter or cluster and workflow
• Simple visualizations to trace custodians’ messages over time
• View of communication links between custodians instantly
• The most robust security model in the industry
• Automatic document summaries
• Web-based, intuitive user interface to simplify training for new and infrequent users

“In today’s highly litigious environment, law firms need an end-to-end technological platform that enables them to bring meaning to all data, despite its format or location, for efficient, cost-effective, reliable and defensible processing, review and production,” said Mike Sullivan, CEO, Autonomy Protect, Enterprise Solutions. “Thanks to IDOL, Autonomy is the only company able to meet these requirements. We are delighted that Clifford Chance has selected Autonomy Introspect.”

Please visit www.autonomy.com/protect to find out more.