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ALLEGORY

ABA TECHSHOW 2016

Booth 815

54 West 40th St. New York, NY 10018 | 1-800-531-1742 | [email protected] | allegorylaw.com 2

Table of Contents 1. ABA TECHSHOW Press Release 2. Allegory Overview

Automating Everyday Litigation Tasks Connecting the Case from Every Angle Giving lawyers the answers they need at their fingertips Sample Product Images

3. About Allegory

The Company Allegory’s Customers Allegory’s Partners Sample of Allegory in the News Allegory’s Founder

For more information on this press packet please contact: Pavla Kopecna | PR Consultant | 917-635-2385 | [email protected].


1. ABA TECHSHOW PRESS RELEASE

EMBARGO WEDNESDAY MARCH 16, 2016

Allegory Introduces Automated Litigation Features at ABA TECHSHOW

Litigation software provider Allegory Law, Inc. continues to be a

leader in litigation management with the introduction of new automation features that cut paralegal costs by up to 75%.

New York, NY and Chicago, IL, Wednesday, March 16, 2016 – In the first decade of this century, e-discovery reached a tipping point, overwhelming the capacity of outside counsel and crushing the budgets of corporate legal departments. Accordingly, the multi-billion dollar e-discovery market was born to bring chaos into order.

Today, the same phenomenon is taking place in the traditional litigation process, as lawyers try to wind their way through depositions, summary judgment, hearings, and trial with a data dump of thousands – often, tens of thousands – of “highly relevant” documents. It is no longer sufficient to limit technology use to e-discovery tools designed solely for triage.

Recognizing the increasing importance of technology to streamline the traditional litigation process, Allegory launches a series of client-responsive features designed to automate everyday litigation tasks. Allegory – already a leader in litigation management with its smart software approach and intuitive, lawyer-friendly interface – is increasingly winning over lawyers and paralegals with new features that convert daily hours-long headaches into few-seconds tasks at the click of a button, including:

§ Automated Binders: Allegory enables users to create, edit, and re-order Binders, including automatically creating a Binder from a simple list of Bates numbers. Litigation teams create Binders 12x faster* with Allegory.

§ Automated Exhibit Versions: Allegory enables litigation teams to consolidate e-mails and attachments at the click of a button to create their exhibit versions without having to export and merge PDFs. Litigation teams create exhibit versions 2x faster* with Allegory, without any loss of original data

§ Automated Exhibit Sets: Allegory enables deposition, motion, and trial teams to export hundreds of exhibits (cover sheets and all) at a moment’s notice. Litigation teams create exhibit sets 30x faster* with Allegory.

§ Automated Information Retrieval: Allegory’s context-display results, enhanced filters, and real-time search updates enable quick and easy retrieval of documents, key excerpts, and notes across the entire case at once – a favorite


feature for senior partners using the tool. Litigation teams find the information they need 56x faster* with Allegory.

§ Automated Witness Prep: Allegory automatically cross-references everything in the case relevant to a witness, from affidavits to transcripts to key evidence excerpts. Litigation teams prepare for witness interviews and prep sessions 5.5x faster* with Allegory.

“When lawyers can be both effective and efficient, everyone wins,” said Alma Asay, founder and CEO of Allegory, who founded Allegory following six years as Litigation Attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP. “Lawyers are able to spend more time doing what they do best – the lawyering they were hired to do – and clients get what they paid for, both in terms of value and results.” Allegory’s recent introduction of enhanced automated litigation tasks can cut paralegal and lawyer time spent on such tasks by up to 75%*.

Allegory works closely with its clients, comprised of talented litigation teams from BigLaw and boutiques alike, to design features that incorporate and improve upon the best practices of some of the best law firms (including Vault 10 firms) in the world.

Allegory has also recently introduced other client-friendly features, including a Relativity plug-in, Outlook integration, and easy offline exports with linkable indexes for teams in trial without Internet access. Allegory releases new features steadily throughout the year in response to client requests – as often as weekly – to deliver what lawyers need most when they need it.

For previews of Allegory, its newest features, and latest customer news, come by Booth 815 at ABA TECHSHOW, being held in Chicago, IL, March 16-18, 2016.

www.allegorylaw.com

*As measured by side-by-side comparisons by Allegory Inc., 2015 – 2016.

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Press contact and images: Pavla Kopecna | PR representative

917-635-2385 | [email protected] About Allegory Allegory is a cloud-based litigation management tool designed and operated by a team of BigLaw veterans. Founded by Gibson Dunn litigator Alma Asay, Allegory delivers a first-of-its-kind software built specifically around the way litigation teams think and work. Where Excel and Shared Drives are the rotary phone, Allegory is the smartphone of litigation management, connecting everything litigation teams need at their fingertips in the easiest, most intuitive way possible. Allegory clients include litigation boutiques, AmLaw 100 law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies.

Learn more at www.allegorylaw.com. Follow on Twitter @allegorylaw.


2. ALLEGORY OVERVIEW

Allegory is a mobile and secure cloud-based litigation management software that helps lawyers win cases by:

• Automating everyday litigation tasks • Connecting the case from every angle • Giving lawyers the answers they need at their fingertips

Automating everyday litigation tasks

Allegory regularly introduces new features targeted at streamlining and automating the most common litigation tasks. For example, Allegory automates:

Binders: Allegory enables litigation teams to create, edit, re-order, and export any collection of documents in seconds.

Exhibits: Allegory enables litigation teams to create exhibit versions made up of e-mails with attachments in one click, and automatically export exhibit sets with cover sheets on a moment’s notice.

Order of Proof: Allegory tracks evidence linked to themes throughout the case, enabling litigation teams to see at a glance how their evidence is stacking up and easily organize – and support – their order of proof.

Connecting the case from every angle

Allegory connects the entire case in one place – and from every angle – so no piece of evidence or legal argument is viewed in isolation. Allegory connects:

Evidence: “Key” documents – and other kinds of evidence such as audio-visual files – such as those intended for use as deposition or trial exhibits.

Witnesses: The entire witness list, including fact witnesses, expert witnesses, and persons with knowledge (e.g., 30(b)(6)).

Issues: Key issues in the case, including witnesses, themes, and/or facts.

Transcripts: Deposition, Trial, Hearing, and other types of transcripts.

Filings: The entire docket, organized by type of filing, including pleadings, written discovery, motions, stipulations, and orders.

Correspondence: Letters, e-mails, and memoranda among counsel, clients, and the court.


Work Product: Legal memoranda, interview notes, deposition outlines, and other internal work product.

Giving lawyers the answers they need at their fingertips

Allegory is smart software for smart lawyers, incorporating the best features of everyday “smart” technology to enable lawyers to be at their best in the moments that count.

Search: Allegory provides “Google-like” search results across the entire case at once, with context display enabling easy identification of targeted information with minimal input.

Multiple Angles: Allegory enables the team to easily access the whole case from the perspective of any one piece of information, whether a single document, a filing, or a deposition.

One Tool: Allegory interconnects everything the litigation team needs in one place, including evidence, witnesses, issues, transcripts, and case documents.

Only What You Need: Allegory enables litigation teams to target exactly what they need, while weeding out what they don’t need.

At a Glance View: Allegory shows litigation teams not only what they have, but also what they are likely missing, by designing information inputs and displays around what information a team would ordinarily be expected to have.


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3. ABOUT ALLEGORY

The Company

Allegory is a secure cloud-based litigation management platform designed and operated by a team of BigLaw veterans. Where Excel and Shared Drives are the rotary phone, Allegory is the smartphone of litigation management.

Initially designed by a former Gibson Dunn attorney, Allegory has evolved to incorporate feedback, suggestions, and best practices from some of the top litigators in the country. Allegory delivers a one-stop litigation solution that connects all of the key pieces of the case, so litigation teams can focus on a successful outcome for their clients.

As more and more lawyers seek to spend their time on the lawyering work they were hired to perform, Allegory has become a sought-after tool, by small and big firms alike, to help litigation teams take hold of their cases and be quick on their feet. Allegory innovates not only on technology, but also on the legal processes incorporated into the tool, to deliver a solution that makes litigation teams the best that they can be.

Founded in 2012 by Alma Asay, Allegory has raised just under $1 million from investors and relies on keeping lawyers, paralegals, and other litigation professionals as customers in order to fund its business.

Allegory Customers

Allegory customers include Am Law 100 law firms, litigation boutiques, Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies. Among Allegory’s customers are firms listed in both Vault Law’s Top 10 for 2016 and the NLJ350’s 2016 Litigation Boutiques Hot List.

Allegory is known for its dedication to working side-by-side with clients to maximize their advantages from using Allegory. The team at Allegory understands that technology is best used by legal teams through a combination of technology and people. Accordingly, Allegory delivers optional complementary services to get and keep cases up to speed, so lawyers and paralegals can focus on maximizing outputs while Allegory focuses on input.

Allegory also regularly releases new features – as often as once a week – in direct response to client needs and requests. By releasing new features as soon as they’re ready, Allegory makes the most of the cloud and close client relationships to deliver clients the new features they need when they need them.

Allegory often starts on one case, but is regularly adopted as a multi-case tool with increasing frequency as new cases come into the firm and more lawyers and paralegals become loyal customers as they are exposed to Allegory’s advantages.


Allegory Partners

Allegory has partnered with leading legal service providers to deliver all-in-one e-discovery + litigation management solutions, as well as deliver on-call litigation services through Allegory. With the assistance of its partners, Allegory’s team regularly augments litigation teams by assisting with tasks such as witness meetings, deposition review, and trial prep. Allegory’s partners include:

Huron Legal (now Consilio): Huron Legal is the exclusive reseller of Allegory, hosting its own instance of Allegory on the same servers as its e-discovery services. As part of its delivery of e-discovery + litigation management services, Huron Legal has developed a Relativity plug-in that enables one-click transfer of key documents from Relativity into any instance of Allegory. For inquiries about Huron Legal’s services, including Allegory, please contact Huron Legal’s dedicated Allegory representative, Melisa Twomey, at [email protected].

Pangea3 (a Thomson Reuters subsidiary): Allegory works closely with Pangea3’s LPO team to deliver next-level services to clients looking to reduce (and, via Allegory, flat-rate) costs for repeatable litigation tasks such as deposition prep. By delivering services through Allegory, Pangea3’s team can provide on-call support for a variety of litigation services, while the lawyers and paralegals litigating the case know exactly how the services will be delivered via Allegory. For inquiries about how Pangea3 works with Allegory to serve litigation clients, please contact your Pangea3 representative or [email protected].

Cicayda: Innovative e-discovery services and innovative litigation management combine through use of Cicayda + Allegory. Together, the two services make the transition from the e-discovery stage of your case to the litigation stage seamless, so that you’re using the right tool for the right tasks at every step of the case. For inquiries about how to work with Cicayda + Allegory, please contact Aaron Vick at [email protected].

Sample of Allegory in the News

Monica Bay, Stanford Law School | CodeX, “Startup Watch: 2016 Legaltech & Beyond” (January 31, 2016)

NYU Law Magazine, Making Software for Hard Cases (September 2015)

Erin E. Harrison, Legaltech news, “Legaltech News Announces Innovation Awards Finalists” (May 28, 2015)

Inside Counsel, “Huron Legal e-discovery consulting and Allegory Law join forces to create a full-suite litigation solution” (April 29, 2015)

Gabe Friedman, Bloomberg BNA, “Huron Legal Strikes Alliance to Extend eDiscovery Services” (April 22, 2015)


Eva Hibnick, The Recorder, “So You Want to Leave the Law Firm for a Startup…” (February 25, 2015)

Nicole Black, The Daily Record, “LegalTech2015: Documents, data and e-discovery” (February 12, 2015)

Joe Borstein, Above the Law, “alt.legal: I Bet You Haven’t Heard This One Before” (September 25, 2014)

Allegory’s Founder

Allegory was founded by Alma Asay, a former BigLaw litigator in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. At Gibson Dunn, Alma was a go-to second chair for one of the top trial lawyers in the country – Orin Snyder – on high profile cases, including for IAC/InterActiveCorp, NBC Universal, Cablevision, and AMC Networks.

Determined to deliver the software and services of her litigator dreams, Alma is the driving force behind Allegory. As a former litigator herself, Alma understands the motivations, challenges, and pressures of high-stakes litigation, and leads the company with all of these in mind.

After trying and failing to raise money in Silicon Valley, Alma has led Allegory to become a go-to litigation management solution used by many of the best and brightest law firms and corporations in the country on less than $1 million in funding.

Alma is one of a few female legal tech founders and one of the first and only female BigLaw lawyers to found a legal technology startup.

For more information on this press packet

Please contact:

Pavla Kopecna | PR Consultant | 917-635-2385 | [email protected].

Founder and CEO Alma Asay will be available a t Booth 815 of ABA TECHSHOW being held over March 16-18 at Hilton Chicago in Chicago, IL.

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