NEW SOFTWARE RELEASES

The evolution continues. Here are the latest enhancements to your ediscovery and case management software.

We recently launched exciting new features that enhance the full litigation lifecycle, from discovery to depositions and beyond.  See below for a preview of what’s included.

Automate and Streamline Redactions

Redactions require careful attention to avoid disastrous consequences, like inadvertent waiver of privilege. But the manual process of marking each document can be time-consuming and tedious. To streamline this process, we launched Auto Redactions, a smart machine learning technology that can detect and redact sensitive information.

The Auto Redaction tool can find PII, or Personally Identifiable Information, in your data set, and apply the redactions automatically. This covers information like social security numbers, taxpayer identification numbers, and employer identification numbers. You can also create a list of specific terms that you want to redact across a set of documents.

Auto Redactions will be offered as a managed service with Nextpoint’s Data Services Team, enabling us to implement quality control measures and ensure the redaction project meets the individual needs of your team. You can submit an Auto Redaction request in the image markup tool in the document viewer.

Greater Complexity in Transcript Analysis

Building a legal case ultimately comes down to one simple task: Tell a compelling story. But the elements and details of that story are complex and varied. As you parse through witness testimony – a key building block of any case narrative – your tools should reflect that inherent complexity.

Now, Nextpoint users can incorporate a detailed taxonomy into their transcript analysis using parent and sub-issues and designations. As you evaluate, organize, search, and generate reports on deposition transcripts, you can easily see the connections between different – but related – aspects of your case. This is especially useful in large, complex matters, like multidistrict litigation.

Questions? Feedback? Please contact our team at support@nextpoint.com.

The evolution continues. Here are the latest enhancements to your ediscovery and case management software.

We recently launched exciting new features that foster better collaboration, enhanced automation and smoother workflows for document review and case building. See below for a preview of what’s included.

Automate and Streamline Redactions

Redactions require careful attention to avoid disastrous consequences, like inadvertent waiver of privilege. But the manual process of marking each document can be time-consuming and tedious. To streamline this process, we launched Full Page and Full Document Redactions, the first in a new series of tools that will automate redactions while improving accuracy.

Cases often include long documents that require many pages of full redactions. Now, users can redact all of these pages at once; simply add a list of page numbers and watch the redactions appear in your document. Users can also choose to redact an entire document at once, like a privileged email attachment that must be produced because it’s part of a responsive email family.

Stay tuned as we continue to enhance your redaction toolkit with automated, reliable methods to speed up your review process.

Refine and Collaborate On Your Visual Timelines

This year, we launched many exciting updates in our Litigation platform to help users build their winning case story, including the Evidence Dashboard, Case Chronology, and Visual Timeline Builder. In the initial Timeline launch, users could export their timelines as PNGs or PDFs; now, they can also save, edit, and share their timelines to collaborate with other members of their team.

One of the biggest advantages of working in the cloud is the ease of collaboration; now, this extends to visual timelines, an essential tool for legal teams working together to build a complex case. We also want Nextpoint to be a living space where users can develop, refine, and analyze their cases, and we knew that the ability to save and edit timelines is essential to this goal.

Quick Wins for Case Building

With all the exciting additions we’ve made to the Litigation suite this year, we’ve been constantly listening to our users to understand how we can refine these features and provide an optimal experience. Here are a few small updates that will enhance case building in Nextpoint:

• Fact, Issue, and People Overlays: In Nextpoint, users can utilize “overlay” CSV files to update the coding and metadata of documents in their database. We added the overlay capability to Facts, Issues and People so that it’s easy to migrate case building workflows to Nextpoint and manage them right alongside discovery and depositions.
• Facts and People in Searches: We added Facts and People to Advanced Searches as well as autosuggestions in the search bar, giving users more ways to filter through the evidence using the key elements of their story.
• Refined Timeline Layout: We continued to refine the layout of the Visual Timeline Builder, including an adjustment to the location of the Help button. (Sometimes, the little things are what our users care about. So of course, we care about them too.)

Stay tuned in 2024 to see how we continue to enhance your case building experience. And don’t hesitate to reach out with any feedback – we love to hear your ideas.

Questions? Feedback? Please contact our team at support@nextpoint.com.

The evolution continues. Here are the latest enhancements to your ediscovery and case management software.

Legal data has increased in both volume and complexity, calling for a new generation of technology that intuits and adapts to the intricacies of our modern digital world. The new AI tools in Nextpoint offer a solution that streamlines the litigation process without sacrificing the quality of discovery and case prep.

Intelligent Search Tools: Go Beyond the Keyword Query

In most litigation today, users have to sift through a mountain of potential evidence to find the relevant documents, and the first method in their toolkit is a simple keyword search. But a keyword search won’t work on all the evidence a litigator might see in 2023.

That’s why we added advanced Machine Learning features to Data Mining – to make the unsearchable, searchable. Users receive deeper insights into their data and can easily comb through images, audio files, foreign language text, and handwritten documents, alongside the rest of their data.

Here are the four new types of Machine Learning analysis users can take advantage of in Data Mining:

1. Image Recognition: Images will appear in search results based on the contents of the image. Our complex analysis means that an image of a bridge could show up in searches like “bridge,” “construction,” “construction site,” “infrastructure,” etc.
2. Handwriting Recognition: This feature will detect, read, and extract handwritten text so that it can show up in search queries. While most legal data today is produced electronically, plenty of litigation involves meeting notes, calendars, and other handwritten documents. You don’t want to lose those relevant analog materials in a sea of ESI.
3. Transcription: Video and audio files will be transcribed, allowing the contents to appear in searches. For example, you could search the word “profit” and find emails discussing profits as well as a recording of a Zoom meeting where profits were mentioned.
4. Translation: Foreign language documents will be translated to English, which means you don’t have to run searches in multiple languages. Simply search a term like “contract” and see all the matches in English, Spanish, German, or any other language populating your database.

These features eliminate time-consuming manual processes while ensuring you have the tools to find your smoking gun, no matter what form it takes.

Slice Up Your Data Seamlessly

It’s not enough for all your data to be searchable – in order to find that needle in a haystack, you need robust search tools that enable you to filter and organize your data with ease.

In Data Mining’s new Slice Builder, users can stack various criteria to build complex searches in just a few clicks. By combining factors like search terms, custodians, imports, and file types and properties, you get more than just search results – it’s a “slice” of your data that you can save, share, and analyze using Data Mining’s visual reporting features.

Paired with advanced Machine Learning analytics, the comprehensive Slice Builder offers endless ways to organize, understand, and interpret your data.

See Nextpoint AI in Action

Talk of AI chatbots and image generators has flooded the internet – and the legal tech world. But these GenAI tools have a long way to go before they can be a strong asset for legal teams. Nextpoint’s AI technology utilizes trusted algorithms that have been developed and tested specifically for legal cases, complete with comprehensive security measures and quality controls. With our AI tools, you’ll see tangible solutions to the challenges you’re facing today.

Reach out to your client success director to take advantage of near-duplicate analysis, Data Mining machine learning, and more advanced Nextpoint features. Or, schedule a chat with Nextpoint Law Group to consult with our legal data specialists about the unique needs of your case.

Questions? Feedback? Please contact our team at support@nextpoint.com.

The evolution continues. Here are the latest enhancements to your ediscovery and case management software.

This week, we launched exciting new features that empower our users to seamlessly build a compelling case story. These updates build on our summer product launch, where we added the Case Chronology tab and Evidence Dashboard. See below for a preview of what’s included in the new release.

See Your Story As You Build It

The key to a winning case is a compelling story – which starts with a cohesive timeline of events. In July, we revamped our Litigation platform to make it easier for our users to build that winning story. Now, you can transform your case narrative into a visual timeline, armed with the tools to see your story as you build it.

The new Visual Timeline Builder enables users to see the facts of their case laid out as a chronological narrative. You can choose to lay out the entire case, or hone in on a specific issue; you can also customize the colors and information displayed on your timeline.

A timeline breaks down the complexities of your case in a way that’s easy to understand, helping you discern the core components of your argument. Then, you can export it and share it with your team, witnesses, judges, jury, opposing counsel – it’s a visual aid for you to build and share your story.

Building Complex Case Connections

The key elements of a story are relatively simple, which is why Case Chronology breaks down your case into three components: Issues, Facts, and People. But these basic components encompass a multitude of complex details, relationships, and evidence.

Case Chronology has moved a step further in reflecting that complexity, empowering users to draw deeper connections between the various elements of their case. Now, users can connect Facts, Issues and People to one another and view these connections in their Chronology grid.

For example, if you’re preparing for a deposition, you can easily examine all the facts and issues associated with that individual. If you want to hone in on a specific issue, you can view all the relevant facts and quickly understand where you stand on that issue. Case Chronology gives you the tools to build a comprehensive picture of your story and capture all the complexities of your case.

Questions? Feedback? Please contact our team at support@nextpoint.com.

The evolution continues. Here are the latest enhancements to your ediscovery and case management software.

This week, we launched several new features that empower our users to operate seamlessly in a digital litigation landscape. See below for a preview of what’s included.

New Cloud Integrations: Live and Work in the Cloud

Earlier this year, we launched our cloud storage integration feature, which enables users to import data from popular cloud platforms with a few simple clicks. This feature has now been expanded to include Zoom and Direct Links, in addition to Dropbox.

Users can easily upload any Zoom data into Nextpoint, including audio recordings, video recordings, and transcripts. Direct Links, or Public URLs, are links that lead directly to a file instead of a web page. Users can paste these links into the file room and immediately access the data in Nextpoint. The Direct Link option also works with individual files from Google Drive.

Our goal is to make it easier for our users to live and work in the cloud. These new import options make the data collection process quicker and easier, so you don’t have to wait to start analyzing your evidence and building your case.

More Info on Imports for Smoother Data Collection

We updated the file room to help users keep track of their previous imports and streamline the data collection process. Any folder that has already been imported will be marked with a blue check mark. When you hover over the check mark, you’ll see when it was imported and who imported it.

This feature will help users avoid duplicative processing efforts and keep track of data that still needs to be imported. With the huge data volumes common in litigation today, we want to make it as straightforward as possible for our users to manage and organize their datasets. 

Analyze Transcripts Seamlessly with Infinite Scrolling

Analyzing deposition transcripts should be a seamless experience. That’s why we added “infinite scrolling” to our transcript management tool. Instead of clicking through each page of testimony, you can scroll through the transcript without interruption.

We want your experience in Nextpoint to feel natural and intuitive. The pages of a deposition transcript are part of a single flow of conversation – and now, the interface for transcript analysis reflects that feeling.

Transcript Reports Deliver Comprehensive Analysis

Context is everything when building a legal case. We added a new feature in our transcript management tool that enables users to include additional context when exporting Search Hit Reports.

Search Hit Report allow users to run keyword searches and export the highlighted search hits. Now, users can also choose to include up to 10 pages before and after the highlighted hit in their report. With this additional context, our reporting tools provide the foundation for a full comprehensive analysis.

Questions? Feedback? Please contact our team at support@nextpoint.com.

The evolution continues. Here are the latest enhancements to your ediscovery, case management and trial prep software.

At our Summer Product Launch, we announced major updates to our Litigation platform. See below for a preview of what’s included.

Build a Case That Tells a Story

The key to winning your case is crafting a compelling story. That’s the philosophy our experts have developed from their years of firsthand trial experience. Nextpoint’s new Case Chronology feature makes it easier for our users to build that winning story.

Case Chronology enables users to categorize evidence and frame ideas around the key elements of your case: Facts, Issues and People.

• Facts can be used to underscore the anatomy of a dispute, including important events, legal claims and defenses of each party.
• Issues are those vital questions of law on which the court must rule.
• People are important individuals or organizations in a matter.

After assigning Facts, Issues and People to pieces of document evidence, you can sort your Facts by date to view a chronological grid that depicts the case story and associated evidence.

These core building blocks exist in every case-building framework, no matter what tools legal teams use to assemble their argument. The main characters, key events and claims, linear timeline, and overarching themes come together to form a compelling legal case. Our new and improved Litigation platform now provides a clear and simple methodology to conduct this age-old case building process.

Watch Your Story Unfold Visually

The new Evidence dashboard provides a visual space for users to watch their story unfold and track the progress of their case. The dashboard displays quick facts and figures on the evidence, including a Fact Overview, Top Document Issues, Top Tagged People, and Most Viewed Documents.

The “Favorite Folders” section is individualized to each user so that they can quickly access the documents most relevant to their work on the case. Users can also utilize the new Case Note feature to record thoughts, ideas, and resources that are shared with their team.

The Evidence dashboard brings together all the pieces of a complex case story in one location, enabling users to draw connections and view trends in the evidence. New understandings of the case arise effortlessly, while the story you build in Case Chronology comes together seamlessly.

A Software Solution for the Full Litigation Lifecycle

These updates are part of Nextpoint’s longstanding goal to provide a single platform that supports legal teams throughout the full litigation lifecycle, from Early Case Assessment to trial presentation. Nextpoint started out as a case building and trial prep software, and we want to ensure this initial purpose holds strong as we expand to the rest of the litigation process. Alongside our comprehensive deposition/transcript management tools, this launch will enable our users to keep all of their case building in one place.

This product launch is also another step in our goal to provide better support for digital legal proceedings. All of our launches this year have centered on this objective, and we’re excited to show you another round of exciting updates at On Point, our annual user conference. Stay tuned to sign up for On Point on September 20-22 and see the latest advancements in our suite of end-to-end litigation software.

Questions? Feedback? Please contact our team at support@nextpoint.com.

The evolution continues. Here are the latest enhancements to your ediscovery and case management software.

At our Spring Product Launch, we announced the upcoming release of our new cloud storage integration features. See below for a preview of what’s included.

Solutions for a Cloud-Based World

Living and working in the cloud has become the norm in our modern digital world. Between iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and more, most companies and individuals utilize cloud storage in some way. Our new cloud storage integration features will make it easier for users to import data from these other cloud platforms directly into Nextpoint.

Previously, users could only import data directly from a local hard drive. If it was stored in another cloud platform, they would have to download the data before importing it into Nextpoint. With these new features, users will be able to import data directly from other cloud sources while staying in the Nextpoint app. Coming very soon, users will be able to utilize this functionality with Dropbox, and we plan to add URLs, OneDrive, Google Drive, and Zoom throughout the year.

Easier Collaboration in the Cloud

These features make it even easier for you to keep all your work in the cloud. If co-counsel in a case doesn’t use Nextpoint, you can easily share data via another cloud platform and add it to your Nextpoint database for review. If opposing counsel prefers to share productions through one of these platforms, the importing process is quick and simple. You may also have custodians who have stored relevant ESI in the cloud, which you can now easily collect with their login credentials.

Nextpoint has been an advocate for the cloud since our inception 20 years ago, back when few believed in the power of this technology. These features are another step in our journey with the cloud, and we will continue to innovate new solutions that adapt to the expansive role of the cloud in our modern world.

Questions? Feedback? Please contact our team at support@nextpoint.com.

The evolution continues with the most exciting launch of the year: Data Mining.

This week, we officially launched Data Mining, our groundbreaking new technology for Early Case Assessment. See below to learn about the highlights of Data Mining.

Data Mining: The ECA Tool of the Future

Today’s world is a mountain of electronic data. Documents, emails, social media, texts, and chat messages – data is everywhere. And it’s all discoverable evidence. Data Mining is a suite of Early Case Assessment tools that delivers crystal-clear insights into massive data volumes, PRIOR to document review.

With Data Mining, you can reduce the largest batches of data to a manageable set of potential evidence. You’ll also begin document review with an understanding of the contents of your data, giving you the power to make strategic discovery choices from the beginning.

Process Huge Data Sets in Less Time at Lower Cost

Data Mining has the power to process 10 terabytes of data a day for each account. Not gigabytes – terabytes. This means you’ll virtually never run out of processing power, and all you pay is a yearly licensing fee and the direct cost from AWS – no mark ups from Nextpoint.

Unlimited Options for Organizing Data

Users can run multiple searches at the same time, save searches, and duplicate searches to add new criteria. Then, they create “slices” of data that combine criteria like search terms, date range, or custodian to see exactly what they’re looking for. The options for organizing and understanding your data are limitless.

Real-Time Reports for Deep Data Analysis

Customizable reports that update in real time help users spot trends in their data and understand its contents in order to make strategic decisions in document review. The Data Mining dashboard shows snapshots of themes like searchability, custodian breakdown, file type frequency, top occurring search terms, and processing errors.

Advanced Machine Learning tools report on language detection, image recognition, translation and transcription. Users can also generate and customize reports on search terms, import summaries, and file errors.

Questions? Feedback? Please contact our team at support@nextpoint.com.

At our 2022 On Point user conference, we announced the launch of an exciting new feature to enable our users to generate deposition video clips with one easy click. See below for a preview of what’s included.

Transcript Video Clipping

We just launched an exciting new feature to make it easier for users to work with deposition videos and transcripts. When users make deposition designations, Nextpoint automatically generates a clip that coincides with the lines marked on the transcript. That was always an enormous time saver. But to work with these video clips outside of Nextpoint in the past, users needed to download the full deposition and re-cut the desired clips in a different platform based on the line summary report.

Now, users can download the clipped videos directly from Nextpoint. You can choose to download an individual clip, or you can download a compilation of several designations. These compilations will playback with a smooth transition between each separate clip, and the exported files will automatically be named in accordance with the designation information.

This feature is key to allowing our users to keep all their ediscovery and trial prep in the Nextpoint platform, which reduces the need for additional services and subscriptions, saving time and money for our clients.

Questions? Feedback? Please contact our team at support@nextpoint.com.

Today, we launched a new tool that makes it easier for users to analyze spreadsheet files in Nextpoint. See below for a preview of what’s included.

Native Spreadsheet Viewer

In general, spreadsheets can be difficult to view outside their native application (such as Excel). And unlike most ESI, they don’t image well when imported into ediscovery databases. Before this new feature, our users would often have to download spreadsheets, view them in their native platform, then return to Nextpoint to make coding decisions.

Not anymore! We created a native spreadsheet viewer that allows all spreadsheet analysis to stay in the Nextpoint platform. “Native view mode” in the document viewer will emulate the appearance and functionality of an Excel spreadsheet. Users can zoom, wrap text, search cell contents, view associated formulas, and filter and sort columns and rows.

Additionally, any hidden cells in the spreadsheet will be automatically unhidden when the file is imported. This ensures that legal teams don’t overlook hidden cells and accidentally miss relevant information.

Questions? Feedback? Please contact our team at support@nextpoint.com.