Everlaw vs. Logikcull

Everlaw is great for organizing large quantities of documents and helping our entire team and other teams across the nation communicate and attack the huge document productions in an organized and efficient manner. It allows us to break apart the huge document productions and hit them piece by piece and apply tags and keywords to the documents.

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Logikcull is well suited to engage a firm from the beginning of the EDRM to the end of the EDRM cycle. It has robust data ingestion functionalities, data processing power, superb metadata, text extraction, and indexing code. It empowers the user to design attorney review platforms to tailor each case and assignment, without going through layers of "Project Managers." It enables a law firm to redirect revenue that had been outsourced to vendors back into the Firm. And with complete internal control, we can turn on any dime. In short, Logikcull is well suited to be the comprehensive answer to E-Discovery requirements within an active litigation practice, from the smallest cases to the terabyte level cases. Support is at the platinum level.

• Organization
• Flagging and keywords of important points in documents
• Making document review easier

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• Automatic de-duplication of emails and PDF documents
• Easy to identify privileged documents based on QC tags that Logikcull automatically creates during upload
• Searching is straight forward and easy to use
• Production process is easy and the program provides step by step instructions to avoid any errors

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• Not everything is as I would like it to be. For example, while it is easy to copy work product (highlights, issue tags, comments) from one project to another, for some reason they don't allow you to copy "storybuilder" objects. It would be nice if they allowed this. What this means is if you have the same set of documents in two projects, you can carry over the issue tags, highlighting, etc., if you want. But, if you created a deposition outline in "Storybuilder" in Project A, you can't copy that deposition (with exhibits) over to Project B.
• The Storybuilder "outline" function is not easy to use and does not export well to word. That said, once you get the hang of it, it really works beautifully for organizing exhibits.

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• I would like to have an easier way to identify the last email in a string that includes all the attachments in the string
• Other areas I have contacted Logikcull about I have been pleasantly surprised to find out that either there had been an update that solved my issue or one was on the way.

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The platform and user interface are very intuitive and easy to use. Built-in features obviously come from a team that knows the industry, and it is customizable for all the odd uses, and individual issues we have with each project. I’ve been able to manage things incredibly easily without the use of third-party vendors, and when I hit a snag, the support team is easy to contact and quick to resolve issues.

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The Support Team is very responsive. They offer lots of convenient training sessions in either a group or individual setting. If you have a problem or can't figure out how to do something in Logikcull, they are easy to reach and will easily walk you through every step of the process.

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When I worked at a large law firm and used Relativity, I found that it was rather difficult to use. It absolutely required an IT staff to run and it was great to be able to e-mail litigation support to help accomplish what needed accomplishing. But, Relativity is really a terrible platform when compared to Everlaw. At least from the user's perspective. I don't remember being able to manage the documents nearly so easily or intuitively as I can with Everlaw. I love being able to create binders, stories, easily conduct searches, eliminate duplicates, et cetera.

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When we evaluated our long-term litigation support solution, we looked at all of the eDiscovery tools on the market. That included looking at in-house solutions, hosted solutions and cloud-based solutions. For our needs, the in-house solution seemed to be the best fit. As such, we did not dig much deeper into any of the cloud-based platforms similar to Logikcull. We were very happy with Logikcull as a cloud-based solution and did not leave because of a problem with the services and product they provided. There were several similar products on the market, but we found that Logikcull was well-suited for what we needed at the time. When we went to the in-house solution, we looked for products that could be similarly situated as the high-powered vendor solutions. I have had one case where we used Relativity hosted by our co-counsel. It is very similar to Eclipse in its functionality. But if you are new to review platforms, you would need a lot of support to use Relativity. Eclipse is much the same. These products are designed for power. They have high-end analytics and can handle anything you throw at them. My primary experience has been with Eclipse. The learning curve for this program is very steep. But once you master it, it has superb power and competes with all of the review platforms on the market.

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• Unfortunately, I do not have any hard numbers to share. The platform costs what it costs and you either eat that cost or pass it on to the client. The platform certainly makes you a more efficient attorney and saves a lot of time, so even if the monthly fee is kind of high, the client gets a lot of value out of it.

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• One of the issues we had with using Logikcull was the expense. It was difficult for our attorneys to pass along the hard copy expense of paying for the service based on the types of clients we have. Logikcull was very good at trying to help us with this challenge, but in the end, we found that our attorneys were hesitant to use the product because of the fear that there would be a high hard-cost expense that the client would not pay. This was one of the primary reasons we stopped using it. Our firm has the technical personnel and equipment to maintain an eDiscovery platform in-house, so the investment to bring in another product was, for our firm, a better solution for the long run.
• As we were developing our litigation support department, Logikcull was the perfect product for us. It allowed us to provide for our attorneys a review platform when they had the cases that could not be managed without one but also gave us the simplicity we needed as we learned how to provide litigation support services to our legal teams.

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