Merrill Lextranet(TM) 5.6 Features Key Enhancements, Including Social
                    Networking and Conceptual Searching

    ST. PAUL, Minn., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Merrill Corporation, a leading
global provider of technology-enabled services for the financial, health
care, real estate, legal and other corporate markets, today announced the
release of Merrill Lextranet(TM) 5.6, the most robust edition of its
litigation case management solution to date. Merrill Lextranet 5.6, part of
Merrill's comprehensive suite of litigation support services, is used by
top legal professionals, including those in the Am Law 200 and Fortune 500
corporations, to manage case-related information cost-effectively, from
pre-discovery through trial. Merrill was honored to be ranked as a top
provider in the 2008 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey Report.

    The Merrill Lextranet case management system provides a secure,
Web-based environment for multiple parties to quickly search, organize,
evaluate and share litigation-related information throughout the case life
cycle. Version 5.6 features key enhancements over previous editions,
including social networking, expanded workflow tools and conceptual
searching.

    Social networking is a powerful module that allows users to visualize
the relationships between document custodians. It presents a graphic
display of relationships between different e-mail users within a
configurable dataset of e-mails to evaluate communication frequency and
trends between key custodians. "Social networking assists review teams in
identifying potentially unrecognized relationships between custodians, to
focus review efforts and make their discovery strategy more efficient and
effective," said Daniel Pelc, senior director of product management for
Merrill's Electronic Discovery Services. "The intelligence offered by
social networking provides a distinct advantage to Merrill Lextranet
clients."

    Version 5.6 also features Workflow Manager, a document management tool
that enables legal teams to create sophisticated document workflows and
visualize the rules through a configurable data flow diagram. Users can map
out document distribution, set up rules to move documents to the
appropriate coding teams and push responsive documents to a timely and
defensible production.

    Both of these capabilities empower Merrill Lextranet users to stage and
plan their reviews by leveraging powerful intuitive visual analysis and
monitoring tools for proactive planning.

    To improve early identification and review of key evidence, version 5.6
also features conceptual search tools, offered via a licensing agreement
with Cognition Technologies, Inc. Unlike keyword searches, conceptual
searching interprets the meaning of words within the context they are used
to help computers "understand" concepts, significantly increasing the
precision of the discovery results. "Cognition's Semantic NLP program is
revolutionary in the methodology used to conduct complex searching through
algorithms. The semantic natural language search component allows our
clients to conduct more meaningful content searches and uncover relevant
evidence more quickly," said Harold Leach, senior vice president of IT for
Merrill's Electronic Discovery Services.

    About Merrill Corporation

    Founded in 1968 and headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., Merrill
Corporation (http://www.merrillcorp.com) is a leading provider of
outsourced solutions for complex business communication and information
management. Merrill's services include document and data management,
litigation support, branded communication programs, fulfillment, imaging
and printing. Merrill targets markets including the legal, financial
services, insurance and real estate industries. With more than 5,900 people
in over 70 domestic and 15 international locations, Merrill empowers the
communications of the world's leading companies.

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