12 November 2009

Kroll Ontrack named leading electronic discovery expert in 14th annual AmLaw tech survey

Top 200 American law firms rank company as their preferred electronic discovery services provider for the eighth consecutive year

Minneapolis – November 12, 2009 – Kroll Ontrack^®, the industry's largest provider of paper and electronic discovery, computer forensics, ESI consulting, and courtroom and presentation services, today announced that it was recognized as the most used electronic discovery provider in American Lawyer's 14^th Annual Am Law Tech Survey. This survey, appearing in the November issue of American Lawyer, marks the eighth consecutive year that Kroll Ontrack has been awarded this honor.

Since the survey began asking firms to name their most used electronic discovery vendor, Kroll Ontrack has won this award. Of the 110 firms surveyed in the e-discovery category this year, 52 percent of the respondents identified Kroll Ontrack as their electronic discovery provider of choice.

"Just when organizations thought they understood the impact of electronic discovery on their businesses, the economic crisis placed new burdens on corporations and their counsel. In these times, every organization is looking to handle more cases with fewer resources," said Michele Lange, director of Legal Technologies for Kroll Ontrack. "Kroll Ontrack is committed to significantly reducing litigation spend, so clients can focus resources and budgets on their organizations' success strategies. In 2009, we are truly humbled that law firms continued to choose Kroll Ontrack to serve as their valued partner when managing electronically stored information in preparation of, or response to, a dispute or incident."

The Am Law Tech Survey is available to subscribers of American Lawyer. Polling the largest 200 law firms in America since 1995, the Am Law Tech Survey aims to reveal information about hardware, software, budgets, new developments and the latest legal trends.

About Kroll Ontrack Inc.

Kroll Ontrack provides technology-driven services and software to help legal, corporate and government entities as well as consumers recover, search, analyze, produce and present data efficiently and cost-effectively. In addition to its award-winning suite of software, Kroll Ontrack provides data recovery, advanced search, paper and electronic discovery, computer forensics, ESI consulting, jury consulting, and presentation services. Kroll Ontrack is a technology services division of Kroll Inc., the global risk consulting company.

About the Am Law Tech Survey

American Lawyer surveyed Am Law 200 firms to find out about technology trends and which products and services the firms were using. The survey received responses from at least 110 firms.