ZL Discovery Manager is an eDiscovery platform built for in-house legal teams at large enterprises that need to manage high-volume litigation and investigation workflows. The platform operates within ZL Tech's unified information governance architecture, enabling eDiscovery functions to draw on the same indexed data used for compliance, records management, and privacy without duplicating content or creating separate data silos.

Key Features & Functions:

Early Case Assessment
ZL Discovery Manager supports early case assessment through advanced search and built-in analytics, including hit term analysis at both the case and enterprise level. Search capabilities include Boolean logic, wildcard, fuzzy logic, and proximity rules across large, mixed data environments.

Legal Hold and Preservation
Automated legal hold notices, reminders, and custodian questionnaires are issued once custodians are identified in a case. The platform automatically adds newly relevant documents into case preservation without creating additional copies.

Collection and Review
Curated data can be exported accurately for handoff to right-hand eDiscovery review platforms. Message threading presents documents in context to support comprehensive review.

In-Place Data Management
The platform indexes and searches data where it resides across email, file shares, SharePoint, and cloud environments, without moving or duplicating content. This approach is designed to reduce storage costs and accelerate response times.

Audit Trail and Defensibility
Complete audit trails track every action taken within the system, supporting chain-of-custody requirements and defensible management of the eDiscovery process.