BDO Seidman and Stratify

Announce Strategic Business Relationship to
Provide Advanced eDiscovery and Computer Forensics Services

BDO Seidman, LLP (“BDO”) a national professional services firm, and Stratify, Inc., a leader in eDiscovery, have formed a strategic business relationship to enable BDO to make available Stratify’s advanced electronic discovery capabilities to its clients. The combination of BDO’s significant computer forensic and investigation experience and the advanced eDiscovery capabilities of the Stratify Legal Discovery™ service will offer AmLaw 200 and Fortune 1000 clients powerful capabilities for proactive, internal investigations as well as fast, accurate responses to regulatory investigations and litigation.

Under this arrangement, clients who rely on BDO’s team of accountants, investigators, certified computer forensic specialists, and technology professionals across a wide variety of practice areas may benefit from Stratify’s robust review and analysis application in litigation, regulatory, and internal investigations.

“The strategic business relationship with Stratify will help our clients reduce eDiscovery and litigation-related expenses while enabling us to provide the investigative and analytic insights for which BDO is well known,” said Stephanie Giammarco, Director of eDiscovery and Computer Forensics for BDO Seidman. “The recent changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure highlight the growing importance of electronically stored information for litigation and internal investigations. The strength of BDO’s professional services team coupled with Stratify’s advanced eDiscovery capabilities will allow BDO to assist our clients to respond quickly and effectively to internal investigations, regulatory, or litigation-related discovery.”

The Stratify Legal Discovery service provides one of the most comprehensive, easy-to-use and reliable eDiscovery capabilities for early case assessment and efficient review. Stratify has consistently introduced new eDiscovery capabilities including concept-based review, near-duplicate detection and visual email analytics that enable customers to achieve review rates that are significantly faster than in-house systems and other online review systems. The Stratify Legal Discovery service provides clients a single review application for native electronic documents with complete feature support for European languages as well as complex languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Stratify’s ability to securely manage documents through the entire discovery lifecycle regardless of language and across countries and continents removes all barriers to in-depth eDiscovery for clients active in today’s expanding global economy.

“Our relationship with BDO Seidman responds directly to the needs of corporate and law firm clients today,” said David Bayer, VP Stratify. “Corporations and their outside counsel are under enormous pressure to respond to discovery requests and manage internal investigations as quickly and cost-effectively as possible. BDO Seidman can now use Stratify’s advanced eDiscovery solution to achieve maximum review throughput with highly flexible analysis and reporting capabilities. We look forward to working with BDO in the context of litigation and other investigative imperatives for their clients.”

For more information, please visit www.bdo.com/services/financialadv/litigation or www.stratify.com

About Stratify, Inc.

Stratify, one of the largest providers of electronic discovery services, currently provides Discovery services to many of the AmLaw 200 firms and leading Fortune 500 corporations. Founded in September 1999, Stratify is a privately held company that has received funding from Mobius Venture Capital and In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA. Stratify is headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information about Stratify, please visit www.stratify.com

About BDO Seidman LLP

BDO Seidman, LLP’s Computer Forensics and e-Discovery Practice is comprised of dedicated professionals that have the experience to discreetly access and image computers, networks and other storage media, as well as perform in-depth forensic analyses in a secure lab. As needed, BDO Seidman professionals prepare the collected data for review. BDO Seidman professionals have facilitated and managed data review by attorneys throughout the United States and internationally.

BDO Seidman, LLP is a national professional services firm providing assurance, tax, financial advisory and consulting services to a wide range of publicly traded and privately held companies. Guided by core values including competence, honesty and integrity, professionalism, dedication, responsibility and accountability, for almost 100 years BDO Seidman has provided quality service and leadership through the active involvement of our most experienced and committed professionals.

BDO Seidman serves clients through 34 offices and more than 300 independent alliance firm locations nationwide. As a Member Firm of BDO International, BDO Seidman, LLP serves multi-national clients by leveraging a global network of resources comprised of 621 Member Firm offices in 107 countries. BDO International is a worldwide network of public accounting firms, called BDO Member Firms, serving international clients. Each BDO Member Firm is an independent legal entity in its own country. For more information, visit www.bdo.com.

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