Clearwell E-Discovery Platform helps AEGON UK ensure best practice compliance processes and significantly reduce the cost and risk of e-discovery

Mountain View, CA -- (SBWire) -- 03/28/2011 -- Clearwell Systems, Inc., a leader in intelligent e–discovery, today announced that AEGON, an international life insurance, pension and investment company, has deployed the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform for in-house e-discovery. AEGON UK’s legal and IT teams are using Clearwell for processing, analysis and review in order to ensure best practice compliance processes and to vastly cut back on the e-discovery costs related to litigation, regulatory inquiries and internal investigations.

The Clearwell E-Discovery Platform is an enterprise-class solution that was purpose-built for e-discovery, and which addresses the end-to-end e-discovery lifecycle in a single product. Clearwell’s Processing and Analysis Module provides several features such as Transparent Search, discussion threads and people analytics that enable users to significantly accelerate early case assessment, defensibly eliminate irrelevant documents and false positives, and rapidly perform first-pass review. Clearwell’s Review and Production Module enables reviewers to view all related documents in context, perform one-click tagging, redact documents and apply reason codes, increasing review throughput and consistency. In addition, the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform automatically tracks all actions on case documents throughout the e-discovery workflow, enabling robust end-to-end reporting and analytics and ensuring a defensible e-discovery process.

AEGON UK joins the list of leading global organizations that are strategically bringing e-discovery in-house and using the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform to perform early case assessment, streamline the review process, and gain control over the cost and risk of e-discovery.

For more information about the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform, visit http://www.clearwellsystems.com or call 1-877-CLEARWELL.

About Clearwell Systems
Clearwell Systems is transforming the way enterprises, government agencies, and law firms perform electronic discovery (e–discovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Clearwell E–Discovery Platform streamlines end–to–end e–discovery, providing a single product for identification, collection, preservation, processing, analysis, review, and production. Leading global organizations such as AEGON, Clear Channel Communications, Constellation Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, DLA Piper, Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, NBC Universal, OfficeMax, Time Warner and Toyota are using Clearwell to streamline legal hold notifications, automate collections, accelerate early case assessments, intelligently cull–down data, increase reviewer productivity, and ensure the defensibility of their e–discovery process. Consistently ranked as a leader in independent e–discovery industry surveys and reports, Clearwell Systems is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project, The Sedona Conference, and the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). For more information, visit www.clearwellsystems.com, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/clearwell, or subscribe to the E–Discovery 2.0 blog at http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e–discovery–blog/.

About AEGON
AEGON is one of the world’s largest providers of life insurance, pensions and long-term savings and investment products. Our approximately 28,000 employees serve some 40 million customers across the globe.