NightOwlDiscovery®

Managed Discovery Provider®

NightOwl Discovery is the first Managed Discovery Provider to partner with Kroll Ontrack and leverage their award-winning discovery platform. The combination of NightOwl’s expert client services group and Kroll Ontrack’s world renowned discovery technology brings together NightOwl’s proven workflows and disciplined project management process with the most robust processing engine in the industry, a world-class secure data center, and award-winning review technology.

Take Control of Your Discovery

Increasingly complex legal requirements and growing volumes of ESI have made the discovery process more daunting and expensive than ever before. The proper handing of data, from identification through production, greatly decreases the costs of discovery and improves overall data collection, data analysis and data processing.

Together, NightOwl Discovery powered by Kroll Ontrack technology empowers you to manage your discovery with confidence. When you work with NightOwl Discovery powered by Kroll Ontrack, you benefit from our technical strength, professional case management, document management and unparalleled expert discovery consulting services through each stage of the discovery process. We offer scalable technologies, strategic consulting services, technical application specialists and dedicated case management to control your workload and reduce costs. From the initial identification and collection of potentially relevant data located anywhere in the world to the final production of your responsive documents, NightOwl Discovery powered by Kroll Ontrack serves as an extension of your litigation team to achieve your business objectives and comply with legal requirements for ESI.

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Gain Control of Your Data with Affordable, Scalable Solutions

Efficient management of electronically stored information (ESI) is key to a successful litigation, regulatory inquiry or internal investigation. The proper handling of data, from collection through production, greatly affects the outcome of a case.

Legal teams have few steadfast principles by which to conduct discovery most effectively. It is often difficult to determine what data is accessible, what guidelinesmust be followed and how to maintain consistency from case to case.

Let Our Experts and Technology Serve as an Extension of Your Internal Resources

Rely on NightOwl Discovery’s experienced client services team and Kroll Ontrack’s proven discovery technology for your needs and budget. We specialize in efficient, defensible and affordable discovery through time tested on-site data collection, robust processing, innovative search technology, strategic consulting and advanced review services. From locating and preserving ESI through review and

production, we can support and streamline your experience at every stage of the process.

Your Advantage

• Work with a dedicated project manager from our client services team. All project managers are licensed attorneys and certified discovery specialists with several years of experience in complex litigation.

• Receive the full benefits of Kroll Ontrack’s trusted processing, hosting and review technologies.

• Host data in the industry’s most secure data center with management from NightOwl Discovery’s highly responsive staff.

• Make the complex simple: From collection and hosting, to review and trial consulting, work with a single solution provider and a single project manager.

Filtering and Searching

We offer the most advanced data filtering technology in the industry, efficiently reducing the universe of potentially relevant data and significantly reducing document review time and dollars.

Audio Discovery

Searchable audio data is now a reality during data processing and review utilizing Ontrack® Inview™ document review software.

Kroll Ontrack has the most rigorous processing, hosting and review platform in the industry.

Our world-class facilities and technologies have the capacity to process a greater volume of data more quickly than any other service provider. Further, Kroll Ontrack employs advanced filtering techniques to narrow the volume of data for review and organize the information in a meaningful manner.

We process virtually any data type, including legacy, back-up data, nonstandard e-mail formats and multilingual data – regardless of language. No one is better than Kroll Ontrack at accessing corrupt files and handling password protected and encrypted files. We have developed unique and proprietary techniques that include native file processing, TIFF production, and text and metadata extraction.

Regardless of the size or complexity of your data, you can trust NightOwl and Kroll Ontrack with your data processing needs.

Data Processing

redundant Internet connections through Sprint, Time Warner and Onvoy; and, environmental monitoring by ADT Security Services to provide unparalleled data protection and disaster tolerant features.

“Our clients depend on rapid and secure access to their case documents and information,” said Tom Palladino, President of NightOwl Discovery. “Without this access, an attorney cannot adequately manage his or her cases effectively. Access for clients to the Kroll Ontrack data center will allow work which may have taken a week in the past to be done in a single day. We believe that the Kroll Ontrack data center will become the benchmark against which all service providers should be judged, and we feel privileged to be able to offer it to our clients”

Data Center to Ensure Fastest, Most Reliableand Secure Electronic Discovery Services to Industry

NightOwl can now offer its clients access to the Kroll Ontrack state-of-the-art data center – an enterprise-class electronic business environment designed to provide clients with the most extensive, resilient, controllable, secure, and comprehensive legal technology solutions available in the marketplace.

Based on EMC Corporation’s leading high performance storage systems, Kroll Ontrack’s data center helps its clients capture, scan and process the plethora of information, including files, emails, shared folders and other critical paper and electronic documents, at a volume and pace unmatched in the industry.

Kroll Ontrack’s data center is wholly dedicated to discovery services; designed and maintained to meet the growing demands which face the industry. With capacity to mange greater than 20 petabytes, its secure data center relies on proven computing technology, including routers and switches from Cisco Systems and Extreme Networks; diverse and

Highlights of the Data Center

Security: The data center is protected with 24-hour egress monitoring, extensive surveillance systems, dual biometric and personnel badge access, and dry fire suppression agents.

Climate Control: More than 60 monitoring points inside and outside the data center continuously gather information on the environmental health of the area.

Power: Two separate power grids provide fail-over capability if one grid is rendered inoperable. In addition, if both grids were to fail, an Uninterruptible Power Supply will automatically provide power to all equipment in the data center. The UPS would provide power until the additional generator comes online, which typically occurs in less than two minutes.

Internet Connectivity: All data traffic into the site is load balanced among the multiple application and Web servers to which clients connect.

Cabling: All critical systems are connected via redundant paths to ensure connectivity at all times.

“The data center currently has a storage capacity of 20 petabytes,” Dean Hager, Kroll Ontrack CEO said. “We’re fully prepared to handle the anticipated exponential growth in our business, reflected in the volume and complexity of paper and electronic documents under our management.”

Early Data Assessment Gives You the Strategic Edge

Ontrack Advanceview technology empowers you to identify themes in your case, informing the creation of early case theories and discovery decisions such as whom to depose and what questions to ask with your interrogatories. This cutting-edge technology quickly identifies key facts, witnesses and events to advance your internal and regulatory investigations. Early visibility into your data gives you a powerful strategic advantage.

Ontrack® Inview™

In combination with NightOwl’s Managed Review workflows, Ontrack® Inview™ review technology empowers your legal team to take control of the arduous document review process resulting in a more cost-effective and defensible review. This award-winning tool integrates all your potentially responsive data – electronic, paper and audio – into one easy-to-use interface. Multilingual data in virtually any

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Ontrack® Advanceview™

Ontrack® Advanceview™ early data assessment technology informs your decisions by giving you strategic insights into data, in a simple-to-use interface, prior to data processing and document review.

Achieve Cost Efficiencies Through Early Data Assessment

Document review is still the most expensive component of legal discovery. Rely on NightOwl Discovery expertise and Ontrack Advanceview technology to reduce time and resources spent on this arduous process. By understanding what data is most likely relevant and non-duplicative, Ontrack Advanceview allows you to defensibly reduce the amount of data subject to processing and document review. You can validate decisions with statistical sampling and analytic reports from data both included and excluded from review.

E-Mail Thread Analysis & Advanced Visualizations: Analyze your most potentially relevant communications by visually observing who is communicating with whom, when, and about what.

Topic Grouping: Cluster electronic documents automatically into meaningful groups and names.

Near-Duplication: Compare differences between near-duplicate documents that may be crucial to understanding your case and the broader relationship between the documents.

Multilingual Intelligence: Identify, search, sort, process and produce multi-language documents in virtually any language as easily as English documents.

Reports: Ensure the consistency and defensibility of review with statistical sampling capabilities and real-time analytical reports that track important metrics at each stage of the review.

language may be reviewed as easily as documents written in English. Multiple users may securely access the hosted data through the Ontrack Inview interface for review and production requests.

Smart Search Technology and Analytical Capabilities

Cutting-edge technology within Ontrack Inview better enables the document reviewer to glean a comprehensive understanding of the document set, and thus the underlying case, allowing for a more efficient, meaningful review. Some of the state-of-the-art smart search and analytic features in Ontrack Inview include:

Powerful, Flexible Searching: Search your documents using the method that best serves your review needs – keyword, concept, find similar, audio and more.

Data Dictionary: See the terms and their frequency within your document set.

VerveTM Puts You In Control

Results come easy in the Verve platform – the ultimate do -it-yourself discovery solution. Should a Verve SaaS project become too large or too complex for your internal team, we can provide a seamless transition to a NightOwl-Kroll Ontrack traditional manged discovery relationship. No need to transfer data, we will simply pick-up where you left off.

With NightOwl as your trusted advisor, The Verve platform puts you in control, giving you access to the market leading electronic discovery and data processing technology from Kroll Ontrack – without the need to buy or maintain any infrastructure, hardware or security.

The Verve Platform Offers

• Ultimate control over discovery.

• Lets you conduct data processing, filtering, document review and production in one SaaS platform, instead of several disjointed technologies.

• Gets you up and running in minutes with simple integration, an intuitive interface and very little training required.

• Provides access to the proven technology of Kroll Ontrack and its state-of-the-art data centers.

• Brings transparency to your monthly discovery spending.

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The NightOwlDiscovery Difference

NightOwl Discovery is a trusted and leading national provider of managed discovery. Bringing the most advanced tools in the industry together with a tenured and highly responsive client service team to help customers identify, collect, manage, review and produce electronically stored information. In addition, NightOwl’s professional services group offers strategic discovery consulting, technology selection, and corporate discovery technology support and optimization. For more information about NightOwl Discovery please visit: www.nightowldms.com.

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