Since 2012, we have developed LawFlow to make it the best e-discovery system for New Zealand lawyers – and we are continuing to actively develop the system. Here’s a list of just some of LawFlow’s features:
Discovery functions
- Review documents to assess discoverability, privilege, confidentiality and other discovery information
- Generate discovery lists (in Word or Excel format) per High Court Rules “Listing & Exchange” requirements
- Create electronic bundles of documents High Court Rules “Listing & Exchange” requirements
- Support for tailored discovery
- Support for supplementary lists
- Support for partial dates
- Optional data entry via Excel
- Ability to bulk-set discovery information
Discovery document management
- Stores your client’s documents, and documents from other parties
- Upload documents directly via your browser
- Tools for managing bulk uploading of scanned paper documents (“batch scans”)
- Handles native electronic documents in many formats, as well as scanned PDF documents
- Automatically creates PDF versions of supported native formats
- Automatically extracts email attachments as separate documents (per High Court Rules requirements)
- Processes PDFs using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to make them searchable
- Organise your documents into repositories (for your client and other parties) and into subject folders
- Import discovery information from other parties
Document lists & bundles
NEW: LawFlow’s electronic casebook tool directly integrates with a LawFlow discovery project, allowing you to create electronic casebooks as required by the Senior Courts Civil Electronic Document Protocol.
- Standard discovery lists
- Custom lists
- Affidavit annexure lists
- Automatic numbering of documents of lists
- Structured lists (e.g. grouping of particular documents within a list)
- Ability to number attachments separately or as a sub-document of their parent
- Stamping and numbering documents in bundles
- Page numbering (across a whole bundle, or documents within a bundle)
- Watermarks
- Create bundles in native format, PDF format, or compiled PDF (rolling multiple PDFs into one)
- Voluming (splitting bundles into volumes based of a specific page limit)
- Hyperlinked bundle indexes
- Nominating documents via worksheet
Document manipulation
- Easily redact documents directly in your web browser
- Track redaction information (redaction log)
- Tools for splitting PDFs into separate documents
- Tools for deleting and rotating PDF pages
- “White-out” tool for removing non-discoverable, unwanted information from documents (e.g. headers, forwarding information)
Document analysis
- Link documents to issues to gain greater insights into your case
- Record chronology events for documents to assist with preparation of chronologies
- Document tagging
- Discovery Review Checklist – an automatically generated report to help identify potential errors or issues in discovery coding
- Statistics module to generate visual and numerical analyses of project documents
- Detection of hidden content and tracked changes in supported native file types.
Duplicates & similar documents
- Automatic duplicate identification (exact duplicate files)
- Text duplicate detection (where extracted text is identical, but underlying files are different)
- Similar document detection
- Detection of visually duplicate images
- Options for hiding/deleting/manipulating duplicates as a group
- Visually compare similar documents
Email threads (chains)
- Detection of email threads (chains)
- Detection of ‘redundant’ emails in threads (where an email’s text is fully incorporated into a later reply)
Multi-user support
- Designed for a single user or a team of users
- Workflow functions
- Review tasks
Search
- Search across all discovery documents, or a subset of documents, instantly
- Powerful full-text search operators (boolean, proximity, phrases, fuzzy searches)
- Ability to filter documents by date, discovery information, and other criteria
- Word lists – for creating reusable lists of words & phrases that can be run against project documents
- Saved searches
Administration
- Create new projects instantly
- Add users to a project
- Export project information
- Logging and audit information
- Dedicated administration module, allowing administration of all users & projects for a firm
- Two-factor authentication available
Help & support
- On-screen help and tips
- Online help
- Free support
We value feedback from our users. If you have a feature request, please let us know!