Honolulu, Hawaii January 5, 2009 — DiscoveryBox, Inc., a Honolulu-based developer of a state-of-the-art legal hold and electronic discovery platform, announces the commercial release of Version 3.0. Version 3.0 streamlines the collection, preservation, processing, review, analysis and production of electronically stored information (ESI) – all in one integrated solution.

DiscoveryBox is available in-house or on a hosted basis through its hosted service provider partners. On an in-house basis, corporations and attorneys have the option of perpetual or subscription based licenses that are not tied to the volume of data or number of users. Through hosting service provider partners, they have an additional alternative for utilizing the software, minimizing the cost of purchasing hardware and infrastructure.

"We understand that the cost of e-discovery is of great concern to corporations and attorneys, and the principal causes of this problem are complex implementations and/or pricing that is tied to the volume of data. We are the software company that combines sophisticated, e-discovery technology with affordability," said Randy Baldemor, DiscoveryBox’s President.

Version 3.0 - Key Features

SCOPE – DiscoveryBox assists corporations and law firms with a broad range of electronic discovery functions, including: collection and preservation of ESI (i.e. notifying employees of preservation obligations and preserving the data in a secure legal hold repository), processing of ESI (i.e. de-duplicating and culling data sets); and search, review, coding and production of ESI in native format.

LEGAL HOLD NOTICE ISSUANCE AND TRACKING – DiscoveryBox automates the process of issuing and tracking legal hold notices for purposes of preserving data subject to litigation or regulatory proceedings.

ELEGANT & INTUITIVE WEB-BASED REVIEW INTERFACE – DiscoveryBox offers an easy-to-use, web-based interface, simplifying the electronic discovery process and making the software accessible throughout the world.

ROBUST SEARCH CAPABILITIES – DiscoveryBox allows complex searches to be performed using numerous criteria, including keywords, boolean indicators, metadata attributes, review calls, code alerts, issues, reviewers, and custodians.

ENHANCED SECURITY CUSTOMIZATION – DiscoveryBox gives managers the ability to apply security designations to ESI, ensuring that only individuals with the appropriate clearance have access to review confidential and sensitive information.

EFFECTIVE WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT – DiscoveryBox helps project managers organize projects and track individual and team progress to ensure work is being performed on schedule.

About DiscoveryBox DiscoveryBox is an enterprise-class, integrated legal hold and review software solution that helps companies address the full spectrum of e-discovery challenges. The software allows corporations and law firms to manage e-discovery and monitor compliance cost-effectively. Built on an Oracle platform, corporations and law firms are able to manage large numbers of matters, leveraging prior work product for maximum efficiency.

Contact: Heidi B. Park
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DiscoveryBox Inc.
808-441-2098
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http://www.discoverybox.net

DiscoveryBox, a Honolulu-based developer of a state-of-the-art legal hold and electronic discovery platform, and Black Letter Discovery, a national leader in legal document review solutions, announce today a partnership making DiscoveryBox’s platform available to Black Letter Discovery customers.

"We are extremely excited about the availability of the DiscoveryBox platform," said John Sanchez, Black Letter Discovery's CEO. "The web-based platform gives us the ability to offer our customers an affordable, elegant and seamless process for performing high-quality document reviews and managing all aspects of the electronic discovery review process. With this partnership, we can utilize DiscoveryBox’s electronic discovery workflow management capabilities to ensure superior document review services."

The DiscoveryBox platform facilitates the collection, preservation, processing, review, analysis and production of electronically stored information (ESI) and provides unique capabilities for managers to oversee and manage the entire process at a high-level. The DiscoveryBox platform is web-based, allowing users to access the system from multiple locations anywhere in the world.

In addition to its unique technology, DiscoveryBox offers a customer-oriented approach for making its platform easily accessible and affordable. Due to its flexible architecture, DiscoveryBox is available in-house or on a hosted basis. On an in-house basis, corporations have the option of perpetual or subscription based licenses that are not tied to the volume of data or number of users. Through DiscoveryBox’s hosting service providers, corporations have an additional alternative for utilizing DiscoveryBox, minimizing the cost of purchasing hardware and infrastructure. DiscoveryBox makes it possible for corporations to decide where the data will be stored, while still being able to utilize the knowledge, skills and experience of their in-house and outside attorneys.

"Corporations and law firms are looking for better ways to manage electronic discovery and make it affordable," said Riki Fujitani, DiscoveryBox’s President. "Our partnership with Black Letter Discovery addresses this need by giving companies an opportunity to utilize the services of a highly-respected and experienced legal process outsourcing company and our cutting-edge electronic discovery platform, without the unnecessary risk of exorbitant volume or user based pricing."

About DiscoveryBox
DiscoveryBox is an enterprise-class, fully-integrated legal hold and electronic discovery management platform addressing the collection, preservation, management, review and production of electronic discovery. For more information please visit: www.discoverybox.net.

About Black Letter Discovery
Black Letter Discovery is a national leader in legal document review solutions, specializing in document review staffing as well as a resource for overflow office space. For more information please visit: www.blackletterdiscovery.com.

DiscoveryBox is featured as a source for best practice steps in managing the e-discovery process and costs in a sidebar article in Risk & Insurance Magazine. Those steps include preparing ahead of time for e-discovery so that managers can limit the disruption to business and lessen the margin for last minute errors; developing a compliance strategy that brings together the legal and IT departments to identify problem areas; and following a regular document retention program to ensure that the company can take advantage of the "safe harbor" provisions of the federal court rules on e-discovery. DiscoveryBox also recommends that companies develop the capability to manage multiple cases simultaneously; reduce the number of documents that must be located and reviewed; re-use past collections in similar matters to reduce costs and educate staff as to their responsibilities in the e-discovery process.

Even K-12 school districts are not exempt from litigation preparedness. This Computerworld article specifically mentions a school in Monmouth County, NJ whose District Attorney advised the school system to be proactive in anticipating possible litigation. In order to comply with the amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, school administrators are spending the summer installing software to better manage the systematic preservation of electronic documents including emails and instant messages. Noting that few organizations in general are prepared to comply with the Rules, the author cites the results of the DiscoveryBox and Strategic Discovery survey conducted recently at EMC World. The survey found that 83% of 336 senior technology executives said that they aren't yet meeting the new requirements.

The contributed article discusses the growing importance of electronic discovery in commercial litigation; the impact of the e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and the steps corporations should take to address the new rules. The article concludes that electronic discovery challenges will continue to grow for corporations as e-discovery becomes increasingly important in commercial litigation, and that forward-looking companies can gain important "Safe Harbor" protection by instituting a reliable litigation hold strategy.

In light of the amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, companies must have a system in place to cost-effectively manage email archives. Companies must walk a fine line between saving only what is needed, and eliminating only what can be properly deleted according to an established policy. DiscoveryBox contributed a compliance checklist including early IT involvement in processes and a litigation hold solution for managing emails across matters.

The contributed article written by Riki Fujitani and Eric Kunisaki explains how to manage electronic documents in light of the amended federal rules. Specifically, the article distinguishes processes needed for paper documents versus those required for electronic documents. In the article, the authors stress that the new rules on discovery of electronically stored information make it imperative to update procedures developed for production of paper documents.

Riki Fujitani was interviewed for this 10-minute radio segment on the amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and what companies must do to comply with the new regulations.

On December 1, 2006 the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended to include electronic documents. The Rules now compel companies to produce electronically stored information as evidence in civil court cases. As of Dec. 1, companies and their IT departments must produce information earlier in the litigation process, or provide an explanation as to why they cannot. InformationWeek interviewed DiscoveryBox President Riki Fujitani for the article. "The amended rules are to CIOs what Sarbanes-Oxley was to CFOs," he said. "While the rules apply to federal cases, state courts tend to follow the higher courts."