Spend less time on the e-discovery processLexisNexis® ALCoder®

Increasing control over e-discovery is critical to your success. LexisNexis® supports you in this effort by providing powerful, flexible solutions for early data assessment, processing, review, and seamless chain of custody.

For example:

• LexisNexis® Early Data Analyzer helps you reduce your e-discovery files, assess risk, and explore the merits of each case at the earliest possible point.

• LAW PreDiscovery™ combines imaging and electronic discovery processing into one easy-to-use application to help you produce and organize both paper and electronic files more efficiently.

• Concordance® Evolution helps you reduce your overall e-discovery cost and boost your litigation workflow productivity while managing your largest and most complex cases.

And now we’re taking another step forward by offering near-duplicate, email-threading, and automated coding tools. One of these tools is LexisNexis® AL Coder.

Announcing LexisNexis® ALCoder®

LexisNexis is now the exclusive provider of the LexisNexis® ALCoder® automated coding application for litigation. One of the leading autocoding software tools available in the litigation services market, ALCoder is used by major government agencies, law firms, and corporate legal departments and it’s particularly useful for scanned documents.

ALCoder benefits include:

• The ability to use the technology at an affordable cost

• Ease of use, with a simple, one-click application

• The ability to capture up to 16 bibliographic fields

• Easy-to-understand scoring to help you prioritize which documents will need additional coding

• Speed that lets you code documents much more efficiently

These benefits help you reduce the need for manual coding and save time.

LexisNexis ALCoder fi eld names and defi nitionsALCoder supports the following fi elds:

• Addressee: This contains a list of people to whom the document was sent or addressed.

• Author: This is the author of the document.

• Bates First: This is the DocID or Bates number of the fi rst page of the document, as supplied by the load fi le.

• Batch Name: This is a user-defi ned name for the batch of documents in which the document was processed, which is helpful for tracking purposes.

• CC: This is a list of people copied on the document, including blind copies.

• Dates Mentioned: This contains a list of all dates mentioned in the document that were not classifi ed as the document date.

• Document Date: This is the date of the document.

• Document Type: This is the type of document, or indications of characteristics such as whether the document is marked as confi dential. This fi eld may contain multiple values.

• EstDate: This fi eld will contain the word “Yes” if ALCoder is unsure that it found the correct document date. Otherwise, it will be blank.

• Keywords: This contains a list of user-defi ned keywords found in the document.

• Names Mentioned: This contains a list of all names mentioned in the document outside of the Author, Addressee, or CC lists.

• Organizations Mentioned: This contains a list of all organizations mentioned in the document.

• Other Numbers: This contains a categorized list of other numbers, such as telephone numbers, mentioned in the document.

• Score: This represents the amount of information that the ALCoder algorithms were able to extract from the document. The score may be A, B, C, D, or F. Note that a low score indicates that ALCoder could not fi nd much information that corresponds to the fi elds it codes. This typically occurs for documents that contain little text information (such as photographs or documents with unreadable OCR text) or non-correspondence-type documents (such as spreadsheets) that may not contain the specifi c kinds of information ALCoder seeks.

• Title: This is the title or subject line of the document.

• TitleString: This contains information (up to 254 characters) from the beginning of the document. This is intended as a potential document summary or an alternate title when ALCoder could fi nd no clear title or subject line.

LexisNexis and the Knowledge Burst logo are registered trademarks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used under license. Concordance and ALCoder are registered trademarks and PreDiscovery is a trademark of LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. © 2013 LexisNexis. All rights reserved. LS-LNALCoder-10/13

Want more information? Learn more about LexisNexis near-duplicate, email-threading, and automated coding tools by checking out www.lexisnexis.ca/litigation-reporting