INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Everlaw is bringing modern data management, visualization and machine learning to eDiscovery, the process in which legal entities review
large amounts of evidence to build a case
Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and K9 Ventures also participated
The startup has now raised $96 million, according to the company.Everlaw co-founder and CEO AJ Shankar says eDiscovery, which has been
around for years, has become a classic big data problem
collaborate around this evidence
spreadsheets with communication taking place via email, and even companies using legacy eDiscovery software are using systems designed in a
time of lower data volumes.The company offers a variety of tools to help humans locate the information they need to build a case
There is a search feature, of course, and data visualization tools including a timeline tool that helps pinpoint when key events happened
This can help lawyers direct researchers to find evidence within that critical period, greatly narrowing the focus of the search.And the
company also offers both supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms to help the team find specific bits of information
He acknowledges it will take human ingenuity working with the tool to find what you need
It absolutely requires some detective work
student in computer science and a law firm came to his department looking for a technical expert
He ended up working with the firm for a couple of years, saw the kinds of technical challenges it faced, and decided to build some tooling
employees with 300 customers, processing 3,000 cases
