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Burt H.

Contributor

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/8/2021

"Big fan of Everlaw, excited for more features"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Everlaw?

The ability to upload masses of files and search for multiple keywords across them. It has allowed me to mine documents that would have been impossible to parse using more traditional methods on my own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Everlaw?

The user interface could be more intuitive -- it took me a while to learn my way around, and I still get confused sometimes about where to find various things. My biggest wish was that Storybuilder functioned in more seamless way with the rest of the database. My dream is to be able to clip paragraph-length quotes of doc review and have them available for review, tagging, organization, etc in story builder. Right now I use two different applications, Scrivener and Keyboard Maestro, to achieve an approximation of that functionality with scripts that are essentially souped-up cutting and pasting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Everlaw solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a journalist, I need to read review huge amounts of text on my own, and find details that are relevant to my stories. This helps me work at a speed and scale that wouldn't have been possible for a lone wolf like me in the past. I also really like the flexibility ... I might be searching for anything — references to events, historical facts and figures, you name it - it's unpredictable and sometimes I don't know what I'm searching for until I get into the docs. I love the ability to refine as I go by searching within a document for keywords other than what was searched for originally. For example, I recently analyzed chat logs that were over a million pages long, where I wasn't sure what kind of slang terms the users used to describe various nefarious activities (early searches for traditional terms didn't turn up much). But because I was able to find a few places where the traditional terms were close to the slang terms, I could figure out by inference, then broaden out my search, if that makes sense. Anyway, the ability to just poke around big data sets and then make more structured searches is so great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.