The implementation of Equivio's near-duplicate and email threads technology has been announced by a leading global provider of technology-enabled services for the legal, financial, real estate and other corporate markets, Merrill Corporation. These capabilities will be used to support Merrill's industry-leading e-discovery offering and have been fully integrated into the Merrill Lextranet™ case management system. While also helping litigators pinpoint the information that they need to build, argue and win litigation cases, the Equivio technology enables Merrill customers to skip redundant data, driving down review costs.

Senior Vice President of Merrill Corrporation and co-founder of Lextranet, Neil Aresty, stated: "Merrill is focused on empowering our customers to compete effectively. By integrating Equivio's technology, we are offering a proven and powerful productivity tool." He added: "Equivio directs you to the unique information in your collection, helping you to uncover those gems of information on which litigation victories so often depend."

By grouping near-duplicates and reconstructing email threads, Merrill Corporation has implemented the Equivio technology to enhance its service offering. While ensuring the consistent treatment of similar documents, the incorporation of Equivio's near-duplicate and email thread capabilities reduces review time and costs. When reviewing near-duplicates, the compare feature allows the user to immediately access each document's unique, value-added content.

Merrill has also implemented Equivio's content-centric email thread capability. Equivio's content-centric approach to building email threads allows users to review only emails that contain unique content. Equivio's email thread technology, applied to the Enron data, was able to reduce the review effort by 60%. The content-centric approach is robust, in addition, eliminating any dependence on the idiosyncrasies of email metadata, while also facilitating thread analysis on OCR collections.

"Merrill Corporation is a leader in the e-discovery market, and we are proud to further enhance its rich and innovative discovery solution suite. Merrill's decision to implement Equivio's further strengthens our position as the best-of-breed vendor of near-duplicate and email thread technology," declared Amir Milo, Chief Executive Officer of Equivio.