kCura has launched Method, a workflow and notification system designed to manage legal hold and risk assessment processes performed by law firms, corporations, and service providers.

The enterprise solution, which runs on the e-discovery review platform, Relativity, allows those individuals who oversee legal holds to streamline workflows and mitigate risks. Using Method, the hold process can be centralized in a straightforward, repeatable progression.

Instead of using several software products, spreadsheets, locally-saved documents, and individual e-mail accounts, users can quickly initiate a legal hold through a customized, web-based workflow. They can send out legal hold notifications by e-mail, interview custodians to gather relevant information, track and analyze responses, and generate detailed reports to maintain a defensibly-sound audit trail of all communications. This alleviates a resource dependency within organizations, allowing multiple users to repeat the workflows that have been developed and saved in Method.

In addition, Method’s flexible feature set and granular security model give users the freedom to build unique workflows within the software, including customized hold notices, question sets, and e-mail templates. This functionality can also be used to assess business risk for purposes of litigation preparedness.

Method is available either on premises, or as a hosted, on-demand model. Current Relativity customers can purchase Method as an add-on to their review platform. New customers purchasing Method receive the benefit of light legal review through Relativity, which comes with Method in a five-seat format.