Merrill Corporation and Stratify Partner to Deliver Integrated Discovery and Case Management Solution

Merrill Corporation and Stratify Partner to Deliver Integrated Discovery and Case Management Solution

Strategic Alliance Offers Single-Source Litigation Support to the Legal Market

ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Merrill Corporation, a leading global supplier of diversified communications and document services, and Stratify, Inc., a leader in advanced electronic discovery services for the legal market, today announced a strategic alliance. The non-exclusive agreement will integrate Merrill Discovery Navigator(TM), Merrill's proprietary electronic repository technology, with the Stratify Legal Discovery(TM) 5.0 service to offer the most comprehensive discovery and case management tool available.

The integrated solution combines Stratify's ability to automatically organize millions of documents into intuitive concept-folders for efficient native file review and Merrill's capability to manage the workflow and production requirements for complex legal cases. This full-service solution eliminates the need for corporate legal departments and outside counsel to engage multiple vendors, and provides attorneys with greater control over information at a lower cost.

"Our alliance with Stratify enables us to expand our service footprint and provide immediate added benefit to our customers," said Al McNee, President, Document Management Services, Merrill Corporation. "Stratify's unique discovery capabilities complement our robust case management and litigation support services, and we are particularly excited about launching this partnership in conjunction with the launch of the Stratify Legal Discovery 5.0 service."

"Merrill is an established and trusted service provider to top law firms and Fortune 100 law departments across the country," said Ramana Venkata, President and CEO, Stratify. "Merrill's experience, reputation and relationships make it an ideal partner for our newly released Stratify Legal Discovery 5.0 service. This alliance will allow both companies to extend their reach and service offerings, while providing the best and most cost-effective discovery solutions to law firms and their clients."

The Stratify Legal Discovery 5.0 service is an electronic discovery service that enables law firms and corporate legal departments to reliably and cost-effectively organize and manage electronic and paper information for complex litigation discovery. Through restoration, filtering, on-line repository review, tagging, production and trial preparation, Stratify's unique technology "intelligently assists" litigators by automatically organizing case documents into intuitive concept folders and delivering visual "email maps" for investigating complex email collections.

This technology enables attorneys to visually analyze any set of emails to quickly isolate critical messages and identify relevant information using the new Stratify Visual Email Analytics(TM) module. With its unique electronic discovery and analysis capabilities, the Stratify Legal Discovery 5.0 service helps litigators increase productivity, facilitates early case assessment and more effectively controls discovery costs.

Merrill Discovery Navigator is a Web-based information management system that represents Merrill's next generation in software and services for the legal industry. This software and repository service gives attorneys and legal assistants the ability to search, sort, organize and analyze their discovery database anytime and anywhere.

About Merrill Corporation

Founded in 1968, Merrill Corporation ( http://www.merrillcorp.com/ ) is a leading global provider or technology-enabled service solutions for the financial, legal, real estate and other corporate markets. Merrill combines deep industry expertise with superior service and infrastructure to deliver world-class document, brand marketing, print, fulfillment, language and e- business solutions. With more than 4,400 people in 60 locations, Merrill empowers the communications of the world's leading companies.

Merrill Corporation's Document Management Services business ( http://www.merrillcorp.com/law ) is a leading provider of single-source document and information management solutions for legal and other professional services firms. Merrill's litigation support services, including electronic discovery and Web-based data repositories, delivers sophisticated technology solutions to enhance speed, efficiency and accuracy of the litigation process. Large-scale litigation copying and document imaging and coding are provided on a transactional basis. Professionally staffed and equipped Document Service Centers provide clients with comprehensive, on-site services tailored to their specifications, from basic copying, mailroom management and equipment leasing to complex, technology-based document services such as desktop publishing and electronic scanning.

About Stratify, Inc.

Stratify, which currently provides electronic discovery services to many of the AmLaw 100 and Fortune 100, is the first electronic discovery solution that automatically creates concept folders to organize and reduce the universe of reviewable documents, enable faster and more accurate review and facilitate early case assessment and the efficient management of complex litigation. Founded in September 1999, Stratify is a privately held company that has received funding from Mobius Venture Capital and In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA. Stratify is headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information about Stratify, please visit http://www.legaldiscovery.com/ .

Merrill Discovery Navigator is a trademark of Merrill Corporation. Stratify and Discover More are registered trademarks and Stratify Legal Discovery and Stratify Visual Email Analytics are trademarks of Stratify, Inc.


Source: Merrill Corporation

CONTACT: Toby Younis of Merrill Corporation, +1-703-371-5973,
toby.younis@merrillcorp.com ; or, Van Holmes, WErPR for Stratify, Inc.,
+1-310-305-8454, van.holmes@earthlink.net

Web Site: http://www.merrillcorp.com/
http://www.merrillcorp.com/law
http://www.legaldiscovery.com/


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