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<b>Product Review:</b> A Solution For Today's Data-Intensive Litigation Workflows

By Michael Cammack
July 31, 2006

Bowman and Brooke LLP has 160 trial lawyers coast-to-coast in Minneapolis, Phoenix, Detroit, San Jose, CA, Los Angeles and Richmond, VA. Together, the firm defends corporations in products liability, toxic torts and other high-stakes litigation throughout all 50 states.

The nature of the firm's work ' and litigation in general ' is collaborative, and often dependent upon massive amounts of data. The explosion of documentary evidence brought on by compliance and electronic discovery obligations has made finding, organizing, analyzing and understanding case evidence more challenging than ever before.

With e-discovery, legal teams are liable to receive numerous images or files that need to go into a database. Those files can be quite large, which can ultimately cripple an outdated system. And teams often need to collaborate on data from multiple locations, which can present a challenge.

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