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	Clearwell Provides Non-Linear Review, Wants to Streamline eDiscovery Workflows 08.20.10—Streamlining workflows is all the rage these days when it comes to eDiscovery. Clearwell’s new Review Module is no exception. It lets users simplify the process of reviewing data by not confining it to one tool at a time.



	A Look Into the Crystal Ball: E-Discovery Predictions and Trends 08.04.10—As many organizations continue to strive to limit costs in response to the recession, they are changing the ways in which they conduct electronic discovery, moving away from a predominantly outsourced approach and bringing core elements of e-discovery in-house. Cover Story by Dean Gonsowski, Esq.



	The Changing Business of Litigation: Early Case Assessment Rises in Prominence 08.04.10—While the legal landscape is fraught with misconceptions about early case assessment (ECA), it is the very thing driving significant changes in how cases are litigated. Clearwell’s Dean Gonsowski, Esq., examines this shift and why it is so crucial in e-discovery.



	E-Discovery Application for iPhone and iPad May Aid Administrator’s Responsiveness 07.15.10—For those organizations that use the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform, Clearwell Systems, Inc. announced this week the launch of iClearwell, which the company calls the industry’s first electronic discovery companion application available for iPhone and iPad.



	iClearwell Takes eDiscovery Mobile 07.14.10—Clearwell Systems recently launched iClearwell, a product designed to meet the evolving needs of the enterprise, where the demands of mobile access and security are ever increasing. Not only is it a convenient method for accessing information while on the go, but it also helps to increase efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness, associated with the e-Discovery process.



	How I Got Here: Venkat Rangan, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Clearwell Systems 07.07.10—Through the years, Venkat Rangan has seen it all and from two countries -- and has gained some fascinating insights into advancing up the career ladder, creating an entrepreneurial company, and being an early pioneer in developing software solutions for electronic discovery.



	E-Discovery Is Integral To the Enterprise 07.03.10—Several major forces are driving the e-discovery market, including increases in litigation and the growth of ESI. “As a result, the ad hoc e-discovery processes that were typical in organizations five years ago have been replaced by core processes that are a normal part of business now,” says Kamal Shah, VP of products and marketing at Clearwell. “E-discovery has become a critical business process in the enterprise.”



	Balancing People and Processes with Technology in E-Discovery 06.15.10—Technology is often seen as the savior that will quickly and painlessly fix the problem at hand. Dean Gonsowski, Esq. evaluates the interplay of market-leading technology with the equally important pillars of people and processes in litigation and e-discovery.



	Clearwell Keeps Scaling Its Product and Payroll For Doubled Enterprise Customer Growth 06.10.10—Clearwell Systems leapfrogged its competitors in recent years by creating a whole new market opportunity with its e-discovery appliance. The new product category, early case assessment (ECA), is used by general counsel to cut attorney review costs by culling evidentiary data before handing it off to law firms. ECA’s success vaulted the newcomer into enterprise sales, while its e-discovery rivals struggled to gain corporate traction from an early base in law firms.



	Clearwell Upgrades e-Discovery Platform, Adds New Templates 05.26.10—At the beginning of February Clearwell Systems announced that it was in the process of upgrading its e-Discovery platform. That upgrade is now complete and recently v5.5 was released with a number of pre-built templates designed to make e-Discovery relatively easy.



	Clearwell’s Five Storage Landmines to Avoid in E-Discovery 05.21.10—Santa Clara, Calif.-based Clearwell Systems is one of the market leaders in the burgeoning e-discovery software business. There are many aspects to this kind of specialized search which can take legal folks through mountains of stored data, including email, photos, video, financial documents, human-resource records, health records, sales and marketing documents and many others.



	Clearwell Systems Intros Major E-Discovery Blunders to be Avoided by IT Departments 05.18.10—Clearwell Systems, Inc. has announced to introduce a list of the top five e-discovery blunders that enterprises must avoid from an IT and storage perspective.



	TiE Announces TiE50 Winners 05.10.10—TiE, the organizer of TiEcon 2010, the world’s largest conference for entrepreneurs, announced the winners of the TiE50 Awards. Selected from among nearly four thousand nominees, and after almost 100 thousand votes, the winners represent the most enterprising companies in five sectors that are driving today’s economy: BioSciences, Cleantech, Internet, Software and Wireless. The winners of the TiE50 will be showcased at TiEcon 2010.



	Clearwell’s All-Hands Meetings Help to Elicit Applause 04.30.10—Every two weeks, every employee at Clearwell Systems Inc.’s headquarters in Mountain View stops what they’re doing, leaves their office and gathers around.



	Why TREC Matters to Electronic Data Discovery 04.01.10—The National Institute of Standards and Technology has made significant advances into search technology through the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC). Venkat Rangan, Clearwell co-founder and CTO, addresses the ways in which TREC specifically impacts the e-discovery industry.



	Confusion Carries the Day in E-Discovery 03.22.10—E-discovery vendors are in a difficult spot, trying to differentiate their services from the hundreds of competitors crowding the space. Software vendor Clearwell Systems recently announced its latest software release can processes data at an average rate of 46 gigabytes per hour or 1.08 terabytes per day on a single appliance.



	Simplifying Risk and Compliance Challenges 03.01.10—Dean Gonsowski, Esq. explains the top cost, risk, and regulatory issues facing the legal industry, as well as a few promising strategies expected to ease the burden.



	Clearwell Views E-Discovery With Ease 02.08.10—"The more I worked with V5.0 the more I was amazed of Clearwell’s ability to provide unique insight and transparency to the often mysterious data sets under review in e-discovery. The most noteworthy additions appear in the new pre-processing and review tools."



	Clearwell Systems Offers New Version 02.04.10—This week Clearwell Systems, Inc. announced version 5.5 of its Clearwell E-Discovery Platform, noting the new version can process data at the speed of 1 terabyte per day and scales to 100 million documents on a single appliance. The company says additional appliances can be easily linked together into a Clearwell Cluster and centrally managed via a single, unified interface.



	eDiscovery Appliance Can Process up to 1 Terabyte per Day 02.01.10—What’s faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive and capable of leaping tall buildings in a single bound? Superman, of course, but when it comes to processing data at the speed of 1 terabyte per day and scales to 100 million documents on a single appliance � that’s version 5.5 of Clearwell eDiscovery Platform.



	Clearwell Extends E-Discovery Reach 02.01.10—Clearwell Systems, a provider of appliances for processing e-discovery requests, today will extend the scalability of its core architecture with an upgrade that allows each appliance to handle 100 million documents that can be processed at a rate of 1TB a day.



	Clearwell releases E-Discovery Platform 5.1 01.25.10—Clearwell Systems announced this week the release of version of 5.1 of its E-Discovery Platform product. The newest version helps companies cut down on manual processing time and includes increased support for forensic graphic files, also known as E01 files and Logical Evidence Files (or LEFs). Brian Babineau, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group says companies are looking for ways to bring this type of processing in-house.



	Constellation Energy and Clearwell Systems--Real World Solutions 01.20.10—This week Clearwell Systems, Inc. announced that Constellation Energy, a provider of energy products and services to wholesale and retail electric and natural gas customers, is expanding the use of the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform. Constellation Energy owns a diversified fleet of generating units located in the United States and Canada, totaling approximately 7,100 megawatts of generating capacity, and is among the leaders pursuing the development of new nuclear plants in the United States.



	Microsoft Picks Clearwell for In-House e-Discovery 01.12.10—Clearwell Systems notched a fair-sized win Jan. 12. The company that positions itself as an "intelligent" e-discovery provider, announced that the world’s largest software company, Microsoft, has deployed its e-discovery platform as a component of its own in-house e-discovery strategy.



	The Million-Dollar Words of E-Discovery 12.15.09—So what should organizations do to improve the working relationship between IT and legal? Brandon D’Agostino, a former attorney with Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina and now with Clearwell Systems, says there are four major steps that IT and legal organizations can take to create an e-discovery readiness plan.



	Clearwell expanding as legal discovery fuels fast document search 12.10.09—Clearwell has hit its stride as a provider of eDiscovery services. The company provides a way to search through terabytes of emails, company records, and other data to narrow down a legal search to whatever documents are most relevant to its case.



	Compliance In Cloud An Unsolved Problem 12.07.09— Dean Gonsowski, vice president for e-discovery services at Clearwell Systems: "Companies who choose to use the cloud for storage could run into issues with data preservation and collection because they will need to coordinate with their cloud provider. In this scenario, delayed response times under already tight deadlines or the risk of data integrity become real concerns."



	IT Owns E-Discovery 11.24.09—Large organizations are bringing more of the e-discovery process in house, according to a new survey from Clearwell and the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).



	Enterprise Search vs. E-Discovery Search: Same or Different? 11.24.09—By Kamal Shah. Conducting e-discovery for litigation or an investigation using enterprise search technology is a risky gamble that can result in negative outcomes in court, penalties, and excessive litigation costs. There’s a reason why Olympic athletes specialize in their area of strength � and it’s for that same reason that e-discovery search technologies have entered the marketplace to address the crucial requirements that are specific to the e-discovery business process.



	Companies gird for surge in e-discovery requests 11.20.09—A number of companies expect an increase in requests for electronic discovery in the upcoming year, and they’re expecting bigger bills as a result, according to a new survey from Clearwell Systems Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., and Enterprise Strategy Group of Milton.



	Singh wears many hats at Clearwell 11.20.09—Between 2006 and 2008, annual revenue at Clearwell Systems Inc. increased eightfold. This year, it is expected to rise another 200 percent. In the past three years, the Mountain View software company has grown from 35 to 100 employees with more on the way in 2010. All of this has come during the country’s worst economic recession since the 1930s.



	eDiscovery Moving In House To Support Rise in Requests 11.18.09—The folks at Clearwell think that a storm is brewing in eDiscovery. A storm so perfect that it brings together increased data volumes, litigation, compliance standards and a growing need to cut costs, forcing companies to face their eDiscovery needs head on.



	Survey: Cos. Bringing Some e-Discovery Processes In-house 11.16.09—Kamal Shah, vice president of marketing at Clearwell Systems, says the trend toward bringing e-discovery processes in-house is driven by three main factors: reducing costs, reducing risk, and getting more control of the process.



	Clearwell Receives US Patent for Components of eDiscovery Platform 11.11.09—Congratulations are in order. Clearwell Systems has been awarded US Patent No. 7,593,995. In other words, Clearwell’s eDiscovery platform’s process for discussion threading, relevance ranking and concept clustering just got some validation. As defensible search becomes more interesting in litigation, more eDiscovery platforms will need to certify their processes for search and discovery. Clearwell didn’t waste any time. Who will be next?



	Technology at the Masters Conference 10.26.09—The Masters Conference buzzed through the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., on October 13 and 14, supporting a rich cast of e-discovery specialists, pundits and exhibitors. Clearwell Systems recently released version 5.0 of their flagship E-Discovery Platform. Version 5.0 places additional focus on the preprocessing stages of e-discovery which expands Clearwell’s capabilities beyond the typical review scenario, i.e., moving towards the "left side" of EDRM.



	Looking for innovation? Ask your lawyer 10.22.09—Legal departments are not typically known as hotbeds of innovation within most companies. But that’s changing, as the best ones embrace technology. It’s the only way to weather the perfect storm of shrinking budgets and increased regulatory activity.



	Early Case Assessment Survey Reveals Benefits, Challenges and Providers 10.14.09—According to a recent survey conducted by The Cowen Group, 71 percent of respondents indicated that Clearwell Systems was among their top 3 providers of ECA services.



	DOJ Under the New Administration 10.2.09—Clearwell’s Dean Gonsowski discusses how prudent corporate counsel can mitigate FCPA exposure by paying strict attention to data protection statues in varying jurisdictions.



	Getting Started With E-Discovery 9.29.09—When implemented correctly, the best e-discovery systems can save a pile of cash and time, and can become real productivity boosters.



	One-Stop Shop for E-Discovery Data Processing 9.19.09—Looking to streamline operations and reduce cost, Clearwell unveils a bolstered, fully integrated platform.



	Clearwell in Mountain View helps find legal needles in the data stack 8.28.09—The rapid growth of electronic data and growing legal demands on businesses to produce documents they have in storage makes clear why Aaref Hilaly made the move to Clearwell Systems Inc.



	Clearwell Offers Complete E-Discovery Solution With New Modules 8.19.09—Clearwell Systems has rolled out three new modules for its Clearwell E-Discovery platform. Along with enhancements to its Processing & Analysis module, version 5.0 also adds optional modules for Pre-Processing, Review and Production. With the new modules installed, the Clearwell platform provides an end-to-end solution for managing e-discovery and legal requests.



	Successfully Navigating Cross-Border E-Discovery Disputes 8.19.09—Conducting cross-border e-discovery is rife with challenges, but it has become an inescapable part of doing business globally. Fortunately, there are processes and policies that will help an enterprise successfully navigate these treacherous waters and ensure a successful outcome when engaged in a cross-border dispute.



	How to Bring E-Discovery In-House 8.17.09—Podcast: Keith Shaw talks with Kamal Shah from Clearwell Systems about steps companies need to take in order to successfully implement an internal e-discovery process, including gotchas to look out for and new government enforcement on the horizon.



	Clearwell Takes eDiscovery to the Next Level, Adds New Modules 8.17.09—Clearwell Systems, known for its eDiscovery platform, has announced the addition of three new modules to help users simplify the process by eliminating the need to move data across multiple tools..



	Clearwell Systems Bolsters eDiscovery Platform 8.17.09—Clearwell Systems, a company that is well-known in the eDiscovery space, today announced several new modules that can filter, analyze, review and produce documents.



	Responding to an E-Discovery Request Without Breaking the Bank 8.6.09—Discovery request for electronically stored information (ESI) can account for between 60% and 90% of costs. Fortunately, the legal industry has made strides in addressing this problem, which has plagued large enterprises for years. That knowledge is now starting to spill over into smaller organizations, and is summarized by Dean Gonsowski here.



	How to Control Litigation Costs with In-House E-Discovery 8.4.09—By expanding in-house legal departments and encouraging in-house e-discovery, Knowledge Center contributor Dean Gonsowski explains how enterprises can gain control over rising litigation costs.



	EDD Showcase: Highway Robbery? 8.1.09—In May, Law Technology News surveyed electronic data discovery providers to learn what their clients requested with respect to management of duplicate records.



	Kiersted Systems Launches Mobile eDiscovery Services 7.23.09—Like Clearwell Systems before it, who back in February launched Clearwell Mobile, a web-based management tool aimed at solving "the global eDiscovery challenge" Kiersted/Systems is also focused on delivering "high-powered processing" simply and securely.



	Email, Discovery and SharePoint: 3 Key Document Management Issues 7.21.09—Earlier this year AIIM released its annual State of the ECM Industry 2009 report which found that overall, electronic content at an organizational level is in a mess.



	Remote Wrap-Up of LTWC 2009 6.29.09—Law.com’s remote summary of the LegalTech West Coast 2009 show.



	EDRM Announces New Project Leadership Teams for 2009-2010 6.24.09—EDRM announces the project leadership teams for its 2009-2010 session, which include Kurt Leafstrand and Venkat Rangan from Clearwell Systems.



	Sun Cleared of Wrongdoing? 06.16.09—Clearwell’s Dean Gonsowski discusses how U.S. courts have generally rejected the interests of foreign jurisdictions in protecting their data from U.S.-based discovery.



	Products Make E-Discovery Easier 5.30.09—A range of offerings can help with e-discovery -- and your company may already have the technology it needs.



	E-discovery Search Goes Under the Microscope 5.27.09—William Uppington introduces the concept of “Transparent Search” and explains how greater transparency can reduce costs and help litigators be more prepared for the scrutiny of a search that is yet to come.



	Why Cross-Border Litigation is a Compliance Concern 4.7.09—Brandon Cook discusses cross-border litigation and their complex electronic discovery issues, where organizations are required to produce electronically stored information from various countries as evidence.



	Roundtable Discussion: E-mail management for e-discovery 4.1.09—KMWorld hosts a roundtable discussion to explore the relationship between e-mail management and e-discovery.



	Good Proactive Hygiene is the Goal in E-Discovery 2.17.09—Ari Kaplan and Dean Gonsowski discuss the continuing trend of enterprises taking e-discovery in-house, internationalization, and data mapping.



	LegalTech New York 2009: Inside and Outside E-Discovery 2.10.09—The new year has come and gone on the Gregorian calendar. But the new year for legal technology is still in progress at LegalTech New York.



	E-Discovery Thrives in Tough Times 2.3.09—Mobile Clearwell is the first processing and review platform that can be transported to the data where it resides.



	Clearwell Mobile Solves Global eDiscovery Challenges 2.2.09—Clearwell Systems is boasting new functionalities that prove to "solve the global eDiscovery challenge".



	Cutting-Edge Tools to Help Streamline EDD 11.4.08—The e-discovery process is on the cusp of moving from basic to advanced, or version 1.0 to version 2.0..



	ILTA E-Discovery: The Elephant in the Room 9.3.08—Many vendors talked about Victor Stanley v. Creative Pipe. One vendor responded with a feature to their product: Clearwell’s Transparent Search.



	Busy Week For E-Discovery 8.29.08—New to version 4.0 of the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform are enhanced search capabilities to better identify relevant information, including preview searches.



	E-Discovery Vendor Refines Legal Searches 8.28.08—"Transparent Search" speeds the e-discovery process and lets users define search parameters in such a way that the company says can be defended in court while avoiding over- or under-searching.



	E-Discovery Shapes Up for Fresh Challenges 8.26.08—Transparent search enables attorneys to defend their search in court in the same way that Sarbanes Oxley enables CFOs to defend their financial statements in court.



	Clearwell Makes E-Discovery More Transparent 8.25.08—Clearwell Systems Inc. is adding what it calls "transparent search" to its Clearwell E-Discovery Platform 4.0 appliance. New features include search preview, filter, multiple query, and reporting capabilities.



	LegalTech West Coast: The Wrap-Up 6.30.08—E-discovery is no different than other complex processes. Vendors who make it easy will be successful. Example: Clearwell E-Discovery Platform.



	DLA Piper Meets Five-Day EDD Challenge 6.6.08—DLA Piper, the world’s largest law firm, turns to its preferred vendors, Clearwell and Thomson Litigation Consulting, to manage a large data request in five days.



	Can E-Discovery Boost Solution Providers` Bottom Line? 5.14.08—Simply put, volumes could be written about Clearwell’s eDiscovery Platform and how the technology can be applied in the enterprise.


	Get Smart About Analyzing ESI 2.15.08—Intelligent e-discovery allows legal teams to accelerate early case analysis, rapidly cull down the data to the relevant documents and speed up the review process.



	Clearwell Refreshes Data-Discovery Platform 2.08.08—"Clearwell E-Discovery Platform 3.0 version can be installed and running in under a half hour, according to Kamal Shah, vice president of marketing.



	Enterprises Rule in Favor of e-Discovery, Thanks to FRCP 12.20.07—When asked what the future holds for e-discovery solution providers like Clearwell, whose Clearwell Intelligence Platform automates the processing, analysis and review of ESI, Hilaly was optimistic.



	Baltimore utility powers up with e-discovery program 11.26.07—Constellation Energy whips through document searches and easily meets compliance mandates since implementing tools and best practices.




	The Easy Button 11.13.07—This month legal technology expert Brett Burney discusses solutions that help in-house counsel retrieve and analyze e-mail.




	Discovery is becoming more important 11.06.07—One of the many good solutions to that problem is e-discovery software from Clearwell–The Clearwell Intelligence Platform. The software installed on the Clearwell appliance allows data across a wide variety of data stores,including servers and archives, to be analyzed in various ways.




	Clearwell Intelligence Platform v 2.0 11.01.07—It’s a litigious world. Today there are organizations that believe that one gets ahead by litigation, not innovation. More important and, perhaps, more common, are regulatory requirements that mandate a detailed response to investigative inquiries.



	Group creates standard to ease e-discovery data transfer 10.23.07— New standard defines metadata of e-mail and files for simplified transfer to and from applications that are used as part of an e-discovery process by businesses, service providers and outside legal firms.



	Symantec Connects E-Discovery Software to Third-Parties 8.09.07— The Symantec E-Discovery Review Connector automates the transfer of data to include third-party analytics and review products such as the Clearwell Intelligence Platform.



	EDD Hits $2B in Socha-Gelbmann Survey 8.02.07—Clearwell Systems ranked as a top 5 e-discovery software vendor by the fifth annual Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey Report.



	Cisco, Clearwell Team for "E-Discovery 2.0" Tools 7.27.07— Companies such as Cisco are now responding to legal challenges by adopting E-Discovery 2.0, which uses next-generation technologies to reduce the cost and risks of e-discovery.



	Cisco Kicks Off "E-Discovery 2.0" Effort 7.23.07— Cisco Systems (CSCO) said it’s using next-generation technologies such as Clearwell, also known as "E-Discovery 2.0" technologies, to get a better handle on discovering e-mail and documents for legal purposes.



	Reviewers use Tags to Categorize Electronic Information and Manage E-Discovery 5.07.07—Learn how "tagging" allows attorneys to attach labels to electronic documents, and categorize the documents based on the name of the tag as well as to add their comments to the document without changing the documents’ contents.



	Sloppy E-Discovery Can Cost You Millions 5.21.07—Clearwell can help solve the big problems caused by new federal guidelines and lack of strong e-mail and electronic records-retention policies.



	Of Bytes and Briefs 5.17.07—As technology changes the way people communicate, the legal system is stumbling to keep up. Now that most documents are created and stored electronically, it is about streamlining the electronic discovery process.



	How a County Attorney’s Office Is Streamlining E-Discovery 3.13.07—Nassau County deployed Clearwell’s Intelligence Platform to automate the analysis, culling, and review process for emails and documents.



	Clearwell Launches E-Discovery Appliance 2.6.07—With the Clearwell appliance, customers can place documents in context and determine how a particular document traversed through the organization.



	Clearwell Extends E-Discovery Platform 2.6.07—Clearwell Intelligence Platform 2.0 provides legal and forensics professionals with early case assessment, cull-down and review capabilities, speeding up early case assessment and reducing analysis costs by more than 60 percent on average.



	Clearwell Intelligence Platform: For Discovery and Analysis of E-mail, Document Content 2.6.07—The vendor’s flagship offering, the Clearwell Intelligence Platform is targeted to enterprise deployments and provides a search, discovery, and analysis interface to information stores.



	LegalTech New York 2007 Wraps Up 2.1.07—At LegalTech New York 2007, it seems likely that eDiscovery will dominate the year, simply because of the critical issues facing law firms and in-house legal departments.



	E-discovery appliances find crucial documents 1.30.07—Clearwell Systems is separately announcing an appliance that customers can use to discover electronically stored information — e-mails, Word documents, PDF files and spreadsheets – for litigation faster than they could by a manual process.



	Use E-Mail Intelligence to Simplify Complex Investigations 1.25.07—Here’s how Alvarez & Marsal successfully automated e-mail analysis for law firms and corporate counsel.



	ONSITE³ to Launch New Technology and Services At LegalTech New York 1.24.07—ONSITE³ will showcasing new services including the First Line Analysis Service, powered by Clearwell, for eForensics and eDiscovery.



	The Real Implications of the New Rules on EDD 1.23.07—The amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) dramatically change the way courts govern the use and discovery of ESI during litigation. As a result, e-discovery compliance is a subject that must be taken seriously—or invite serious consequences.



	The Problems with E-Mail 1.20.07—As e-mails multiply, so do the problems, from the unabated increases in spam to increasing scrutiny by regulators.
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	Redirecting the E-Mail Onslaught 12.19.06—Automating the e-mail discovery process proves fruitful for Transatlantic Reinsurance Co., one of the largest publicly traded reinsurers in the industry.



	Litigation Solution Intros DocuLogix Platform 12.11.06—Litigation Solution, Inc. announces the DocuLogix e-mail Intelligence platform powered by Clearwell. DocuLogix provides e-mail archival and e-discovery services on a hosted secure platform.



	Tribal Knowledge: Engineers Share Knowledge 11.01.06—KM World 2006: Boeing’s Knowledge Strategist Dr. Paulette DeGard discusses Clearwell’s ability to rapidly capture and accurately categorize Flight Deck knowledge found in email.



	Eliminating the E-discovery Headache with E-mail Intelligence 10.03.06—Juries don’t always believe what people say, but they do tend to believe what is on paper. The difference that thorough e-mail review and analysis can make in the outcome of litigation is dramatic, and attorneys cannot risk overlooking key evidence that can make or break a client’s case.



	E-Mail Analytics Eases Burden of Discovery 10.03.06—E-mail review and analysis accounts for approximately 20 to 50 percent of total case expenses; it can reach up to $5 million in a single high-profile case.



	Compliance: the hazards of e-mail 9.29.06—Why is the e-mail part of compliance such a headache? Each message is usually a short and simple document, with predictable metadata—To, From, Date, Subject. Yet management of those files lags far behind that of most other electronic documents.



	OnSite E-Discovery and Clearwell Systems Partner to Deliver Powerful E-Mail Analysis to Law Firms and Corporations 9.20.06—By using OnSite E-Discovery’s services, clients will have access to the Clearwell Email Intelligence Platform’s capabilities that provide a faster, more effective way to "cull-down" and perform detailed review and analysis of relevant datasets.



	ISV Partners of Arrow Electronics to Showcase Archiving Solutions at HP Technology Forum 2006 9.18.06—Clearwell Systems has been selected by Arrow ECS to exhibit based on their deep knowledge of HP StorageWorks, participation in HP’s Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) partner program, and proven expertise in helping customers address their email challenges.



	Law Firm Saves with E-Discovery 8.24.06—As legal firms grapple with the escalating costs of e-mail review and analysis, software applications such as Clearwell’s E-mail Intelligence Platform are expected to grow in popularity, saving law firms and their clients both time and money.



	Retention Rules Set to Change 8.17.06—Are you spending enough time with the company lawyers? You may be spending more real soon. Law firm Pooley & Oliver’s job is to pore through documents that may be relevant in lawsuits. Learn how Clearwell helps this process.



	Keeping Tabs on E-mail Content 7.28.06—KLA-Tencor isn’t taking any chances with its intellectual property — nor that of its semiconductor clients — slipping out the door in an email message. With a recently installed analysis appliance, the company has automated email discovery to better secure its sensitive data.



	Adding Context to E-mail Archiving 7.13.06—Clearwell provides the ability to view the context of e-mail discussion threads, allowing users to understand when messages were sent, to identify critical conversations within these threads and to extract other useful contextual information.



	So You Bought An Archive. Now What? 7.5.06—Today, e-mail is the primary way companies communicate and — judging by the 30 percent growth of e-mail volume every year — that shows no sign of changing.



	E-mail Is Exhibit A 5.8.06—Technology tools and services can help companies monitor and manage that E-mail, including specialized archiving, retrieval, and discovery software.



	Insurer Tames E-mail Search 4.20.06—Pichardo says he finds Clearwell’s search engine as easy to use as Google or Yahoo but more extensive. As a result, Pichardo’s staff is almost completely relieved of the search process.



	E-mail Headache Relief 4.19.06—We spent so much time locating e-mails, we very nearly found ourselves short on time when it came to the more important job of analyzing the results," says Edward Kelley, the assistant general counsel at TRC.



	TRC Deploys E-mail Investigation Tool 4.19.06—TRC said it employed the system due to its increasing need to comply with regulatory scrutiny in its email correspondence. Past failures have proved costly and the company felt that the ability to analyze vast amounts of electronic correspondence had become an essential tool.



	E-Mail Gets Smart 3.1.06—While business intelligence allows CIOs to sift through databases with ease, analysts say E-mail intelligence is not far behind and will prove very useful in managing messaging overload.



	Analyze Information Contained in Corporate Email 2.27.06—As a result, the Clearwell Email Intelligence Platform offers key capabilities not found in other offerings, including: personalized dashboards, communication flows, discussion threads, topics and email-specific search.



	Awash In E-Mail, Firms Embrace E-Discovery 1.31.06—These days, plaintiff lawyers are seeking any weakness in a defendant’s e-mail management system. That’s where Clearwell comes in, says Hilaly. The firm’s software can sort through millions of e-mails to dig out all the relevant ones.



	New appliance gets a grip on e-mail archives 1.30.06—The Clearwell appliance analyzes messages and attachments in Microsoft Exchange databases and other e-mail stores, crawls messaging directories, and applies algorithms to sort messages and data.



	Extract Intelligence from E-Mail Messages and Attachments 1.27.06—Compliance departments are often required to discover and analyze e-mail messages related to a specific audit in a matter of weeks, and are subject to heavy fines and penalties for delayed, inaccurate, or incomplete responses.



	E-mail Sleuthing Made Easy 1.26.06—Clearwell has some unique advantages, analysts said. What stands out about the company is its ability to tap e-mail in multiple places, including "active data stores," where new messages reside before they’re archived.



	Clearwell Delivers Email Analysis System 1.26.06—"With basic keyword search tools and manual processes for e-mail discovery, organization and analysis, enterprises are subject to excessive costs, serious risks, inefficient business processes, and in extreme cases, executive indictments," said Aaref Hilaly, president and CEO of Clearwell Systems.



	"Email Intelligence" Needn’t be an Oxymoron 1.26.06—Clearwell Systems introduced their flagship product offering that addresses the other half of the E-mail archiving equation. Dubbed the Email Intelligence Platform, ... it focuses its efforts entirely on the meaningful extraction of relevant data from your existing archives and E-mail stores...



	E-mail Sleuthing Made Easy 1.26.06—"The business climate has changed a lot in the last few years, post-Enron and post-Eliot Spitzer," said Hilaly, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur tapped by Sequoia Capital to run Clearwell. "Courts have become a lot more active. E-mail has come to be viewed as a source of truth."



	Clearwell Email Intelligence Platform 1.25.06—The vendor notes that the platform provides a single interface for the analysis of multiple E-mail stores in the enterprise; including Exchange servers, PST files, archives, and information stores.



	Santa Clara-Based Clearwell System Launches with Funding from Sequoia 1.25.06—Clearwell claims that its technology can significantly lessen the time companies spend analyzing email, as well as reduce operational costs.



	Today’s focus: Clearwell Analyzes Unique Properties of E-mail 1.24.06—One of the more compelling aspects of the Clearwell platform is the dashboard that offers a graphical representation of data in e-mail stores, such as the number and types of messages in each category.



	Clearwell Releases Email Mgmt Software, Looks Ahead To Series B 1.24.06—The company closed on $4 million Series A round in January 2005. As a result of that round, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company added Sequoia Capital Partner Jim Goetz to its board.



	Clearwell Email Intelligence Platform Eases Compliance 1.23.06—John Petruzzi, director of enterprise security for Baltimore, Md.-based Constellation Energy, said that in 2005 his group spent 45,000 hours responding to 225 different information requests from the Federal Energy Commission to various other sources...



	Product Previews: Clearwell Extracts Smarts from E-mail 1.23.06—Clearwell Systems this week is launching its company and its first product, an e-mail analysis platform designed to organize data in e-mail and automate regulatory compliance investigations and legal discovery processes.



	Clearwell Makes Sense of Email 1.23.06—"Clearwell has an interesting technology that provides a very in-depth and real-time view of a company’s e-mail archive," said analyst Michael Osterman of Osterman Research.



	Clearwell Makes Sense of Email 1.23.06—E-mail discovery costs in the U.S. are expected to reach $1.8 billion this year, according to the 2004 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey...Clearwell claims that it can reduce discovery and compliance costs by 90%.
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	Where’s Your E-Mail? 8.1.05—If management needs a good reason to invest in e-mail archiving and searching, try this one: $1.45 billion.



	You’ve Got Far Too Much Mail 5.1.05—E-mail archives aren’t just dealing with overflowing e-mail servers these days. Now they’re merging with IM and records management.



	Message Therapy 1.15.05—Federal regulations require an entirely new approach to storing and searching e-mails. Noncompliance is not an option.



	The Surging Evolution of E-Discovery 8.12.04—The cost and scale of e-discovery spawns new firms.
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