Everlaw

Everlaw is used for ediscovery, internal investigations, and regulatory matters that involve reviewing large volumes of documents for responsiveness, privilege, and substantive content. Lawyers upload data (emails, files, chats, metadata), Everlaw processes and indexes it, and review teams use search, predictive coding, and AI features to find the relevant documents and build a narrative for the case. It's a modern SaaS alternative to older ediscovery tools.

Relativity is the dominant legacy ediscovery platform with a massive installed base, while Everlaw is a younger, cloud-native alternative built from scratch as SaaS. Everlaw is generally considered easier to use, faster to deploy, and more intuitive, while Relativity has a larger ecosystem of third-party apps and broader market coverage. Many teams use whichever tool is mandated by their firm, client, or court; they increasingly overlap in capabilities.

Yes. Everlaw includes predictive coding for responsiveness and privilege (trained on reviewer decisions), AI-powered search and clustering, document summarization, and generative AI features for natural-language questions about the document set. These features are designed to accelerate review while keeping attorneys in control of final classifications. The company invests heavily in both traditional machine learning and modern LLM-based features.

Everlaw does not publish pricing. Contracts are priced by data volume (GB ingested), user count, and modules, and range from tens of thousands to many hundreds of thousands of dollars per year for active matters. Large government and commercial matters can push costs significantly higher. Most customers negotiate enterprise agreements that span multiple matters to manage costs.

Yes. Everlaw is SOC 2 Type II compliant, supports HIPAA configurations, and offers FedRAMP authorization for government customers. It runs on modern cloud infrastructure with encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access controls, and comprehensive audit logs. Security is a core selling point because ediscovery data is by nature highly sensitive and often subject to protective orders.

Everlaw is best for litigation teams, government agencies, and corporate legal departments that handle real ediscovery or investigations work and want a modern, cloud-native platform. Solos and small firms with only occasional low-volume document review should generally look at lighter-weight alternatives or hosted service providers instead of licensing Everlaw directly.