Xerox goes deeper with e-discovery managed services

Xerox has expanded its e-discovery services and technology consulting capabilities designed for law firms and corporations with the acquisition of Smart Data Consulting. Smart Data provides hosted and on-site services to its clients using Viewpoint software, an e-discovery platform developed by Lateral Data, which Xerox acquired in 2012. Smart Data’s management team and employees will continue to deploy, support and deliver Viewpoint managed services to clients as part of Xerox Litigation Services.

The companies explain Viewpoint allows corporate legal departments and law firms to manage the entire e-discovery lifecycle using a single product. They further say by using one product instead of many to manage e-discovery tasks—collection, processing, early case assessment, analytics, assisted review, review and production—the e-discovery process is more efficient, cost-effective and reduces risk.

Viewpoint is said to offer advanced capabilities for filtering and processing data that make it up to five times faster than other e-discovery software. This lowers costs related to processing, reviewing and hosting non-relevant data at the beginning of a legal matter.