I have over a decade of experience in e-discovery. I've spent a significant amount of time working on a variety of platforms. In my opinion, Recommind Axcelerate eDiscovery is a bit dated. I wouldn't recommend it in my top 10. From my personal experience, they are somewhat antiquated platforms. I formed a focus group less than a year ago to evaluate various e-discovery platforms, and we heavily relied on the 2021 e-discovery survey and the G2 reporting standards. We didn't think any of the platforms mentioned were worth our time because they didn't meet some of the criteria we were looking for in an e-discovery platform. Let me give you an example. Nowadays, a large amount of electronic data contains PII, and we were looking for a tool that could redact instances of PII globally and with some flexibility. Another example is the CaseMap functionality. We would like to be able to take our documents, put them together with witnesses, facts and create a timeline and demonstrative items to prepare for hearings and depositions. Those are two of the top two functions that I couldn't find in the tools that were mentioned. In the last 12 months, I have used iCONECT, Relativity, Epiq Discovery, which is a proprietary tool hosted by Epiq. I've also used Eclipse and Lexbe. I have also had a chance to explore Everlaw as well as DISCO.
