The litigation consultants and computer forensic experts at FTI also provide de-duplication and near-duplication detection services to help reduce the document set to a more manageable level – allowing litigators to focus on the documents that matter.

Ringtail Legal offers the following benefits at the culling stage of the litigation document lifecycle:

• Integrates with leading culling tools, including Attenex and dtSearch
• Draws on FTI best practices to leverage those tools and quickly sort the wheat from the chaff
• Offers rich Boolean search functionality on document metadata using dtSearch
• The FTI Native File Processing service uses sophisticated de-duplication algorithms to identify, tag and remove duplicate documents within a custodian (vertical de-duplication) or between custodians (horizontal de-duplication)
• With FTI Ringtail Legal ASP and Equivio, find near duplicates – for example, printed versions of e-documents with marginalia