End-to-end EDRM coverage
Legal hold, collection, processing, early case assessment, review, and production in one platform rather than stitched tools.
OpenText • eDiscovery
eDiscovery and Legal Solutions (Axcelerate lineage) is the end-to-end legal discovery platform for legal holds, early case assessment, review, production, and information governance.
Matter management, review workflows and production standards come first in an eDiscovery and Legal Solutions rollout with Merito, followed by custodian and legal hold patterns and the connection to corporate legal operations.
What it is
OpenText eDiscovery and Legal Solutions is the end-to-end legal discovery platform carried from the Axcelerate lineage. It covers the EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model) lifecycle from legal hold through collection, processing, early case assessment, review, production, and post-matter information governance.
The product is used by enterprises managing their own discovery programs, legal service providers operating on behalf of clients, and law firms running document review engagements. Its defining strength is end-to-end scope. Programs that otherwise stitch together hold tools, processing vendors, and review platforms consolidate onto eDiscovery and Legal Solutions for a single lifecycle.
Implementation is process-centric. Matter management patterns, review workflow standards, production formats, and integration with corporate legal hold processes drive success more than raw product capabilities. Merito's engagements start with the legal operations model before touching platform configuration.
Ideal use cases
What it is best at
Legal hold, collection, processing, early case assessment, review, and production in one platform rather than stitched tools.
Deeply deployed across legal service providers and corporate legal operations. The review throughput and production reliability are known quantities.
IDOL-powered search through Knowledge Discovery and KeyView-based file parsing through File Content Extraction. Integration depth that stitched-together eDiscovery stacks cannot match.
Core capabilities
Legal hold notices, custodian tracking, and targeted collection.
Legal hold notices
Structured hold notices with custodian acknowledgment tracking.
Custodian tracking
Custodian lists, scope tracking, and hold status reporting.
Targeted collection
Scoped collection from enterprise content sources with chain of custody.
Review workflows and production packages suitable for discovery obligations.
Early case assessment
ECA for early scoping, cost estimation, and strategy decisions before full review.
Review workflows
First-pass, second-pass, and QC review workflows with consistency controls.
Production
Production packages with standard formats, redaction, and Bates numbering.
Post-matter content governance and defensible disposition.
Post-matter disposition
Defensible disposition after matter closure per retention schedules.
Investigation support
Ad hoc investigation and internal-review workflows using the same platform.
Audit trail
Full audit trail across EDRM lifecycle for defensibility.
Where it fits in the stack
Deployment and implementation
Licensing and packaging
eDiscovery and Legal Solutions standard
Full EDRM lifecycle platform for legal discovery and information governance.
Best for: Corporate legal operations, legal service providers, law firm review engagements.
Merito services
Pick the engagement that matches where you are in the lifecycle.
Matter management configuration, review workflow design, production standards, and corporate legal hold integration.
Explore serviceAxcelerate transitions and migration from competing eDiscovery platforms.
Explore serviceIntegration with corporate legal hold systems and production-format customization.
Explore serviceNamed engineer, priority SLAs, and matter-time coverage for eDiscovery operations.
Explore serviceLong-term run support for legal operations programs including review throughput management.
Explore serviceRole-based training for legal ops administrators, reviewers, QC leads, and production specialists.
Explore serviceeDiscovery and Legal Solutions licensing
List the tools you use today for hold, processing, review and production. Every handoff between them is a chain-of-custody risk.
Merito point of view
Corporate legal operations groups that run hold in one tool, processing in another, review in a third and production in a fourth spend more time on handoffs than on legal work. eDiscovery and Legal Solutions consolidates the EDRM lifecycle onto one platform. The chain-of-custody continuity alone justifies consolidation for many programs.
For legal service providers, eDiscovery and Legal Solutions is a core revenue-engine product. Provider programs scale review operations through consistent workflows, QC controls, and production reliability that stitched stacks cannot match at scale.
Knowledge Discovery and eDiscovery together are particularly strong. IDOL search and analytics inside review workflows meaningfully improve reviewer productivity and quality over generic search. Programs that adopt both see measurable throughput and accuracy gains.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Consultation request
Share your legal operations scope and current eDiscovery stack. A Merito eDiscovery specialist follows up within one business day.
End-to-end EDRM
Consolidating onto one platform eliminates the chain-of-custody gaps that stitched stacks create.
Knowledge Discovery together
Pairing eDiscovery with Knowledge Discovery meaningfully improves reviewer throughput and accuracy.
Next step
A Merito eDiscovery engagement consolidates the EDRM stack, standardizes matter management, and sets review throughput baselines.