Cloud-Based eDiscovery & Information Governance Software

eDiscovery software helps legal teams collect, process, review, and produce electronically stored information (ESI) during litigation, investigations, or regulatory proceedings. Modern cloud-based eDiscovery platforms like Rational Review use AI and technology-assisted review (TAR) to reduce document review costs by 40–60%.

Platforms reduce costs through early case assessment (ECA), automated data culling, email threading, near-duplicate detection, and technology-assisted review (TAR). These features eliminate irrelevant documents before attorney review, which is typically the largest cost driver in litigation.

Information governance software helps enterprises discover, classify, and manage unstructured data across the organization. It automates data retention policies, identifies ROT (redundant, obsolete, trivial) and dark data, ensures compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA, and reduces litigation exposure by maintaining defensible data disposal practices.

eDiscovery platforms are used by law firms, corporate legal departments, financial services firms, government agencies, healthcare organizations, and insurance companies. Any organization facing litigation, regulatory investigations, or internal HR investigations can benefit from a cloud-based eDiscovery solution.

Rational Review is a cloud-optimized eDiscovery platform with 15+ years of industry experience, offering dedicated client services alongside powerful review technology. Unlike Relativity's complex on-premises deployments, Rational Review is designed for accessibility and cost-effectiveness without compromising on enterprise-grade capabilities.

Rational Governance supports compliance with GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, SOX, and SEC 17a-4 records requirements. The platform automates retention policy enforcement, identifies sensitive PII and PHI in unstructured data, and provides audit trails for defensible data disposition.

A litigation hold (also called a legal hold) is a directive to preserve all potentially relevant electronically stored information (ESI) once litigation is reasonably anticipated. eDiscovery software automates litigation hold issuance, tracks custodian acknowledgments, preserves relevant data in place, and maintains a defensible audit trail — preventing spoliation sanctions and adverse inference rulings. Rational Review manages the entire legal hold lifecycle from issuance through release.

Predictive coding (also called technology-assisted review or TAR) is a machine learning workflow where attorneys code a sample of documents as relevant or not relevant, and the system trains itself to predict the coding of the remaining document population. TAR 2.0 (continuous active learning) continuously improves throughout review. Organizations using predictive coding typically reduce reviewable document volume by 40–60%, dramatically cutting attorney review costs. Rational Review includes built-in predictive coding with real-time prediction scores.

Yes. Modern eDiscovery platforms including Rational Review support collection and review of Microsoft Teams messages, Slack conversations, SMS text messages, and WhatsApp chats. These modern data sources are increasingly common evidence in litigation and regulatory investigations. Rational Review's chat viewer renders these conversations in their native format, preserves metadata, and supports redaction and production of chat data.

Government agencies use eDiscovery software to respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, Congressional inquiries, and internal investigations. eDiscovery platforms help agencies search and collect responsive records, apply redactions to protect privileged or classified information, and produce responsive documents in required formats. Rational Review's AI-powered search and bulk redaction tools dramatically reduce the time and cost of FOIA processing for federal, state, and local agencies.