What is Hive Discover? A Lawyer-Friendly Guide to Smarter eDiscovery
eDiscovery has changed, and fast. In today’s digital-first world, critical case information is scattered across various platforms, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, SharePoint, and email. Traditional tools were not designed for this level of complexity. However, Hive Discover addresses this challenge with a modern, lawyer-friendly solution that helps legal teams find, preserve, and produce digital content faster, defensibly, and without disrupting workflows.
Why Traditional eDiscovery Falls Short
In the past, legal eDiscovery tools were built for a simpler time, when most data lived in email and file shares. Now, legal teams face manual exports from multiple platforms, disjointed search tools that fail to connect, and inconsistent retention policies that create compliance gaps. Consequently, this patchwork approach leads to delays, higher costs, and increased risk, especially when dealing with short-lived or unstructured data like chat messages.
The Challenges Legal Teams Face Today
Beyond these challenges, legal teams struggle with missing key messages buried in chat threads or unindexed archives. They also face soiled platforms that require separate collection and review processes, along with chain-of-custody concerns when transferring data between tools. These issues don’t just slow progress; they can compromise the defensibility of an entire case.
What Hive Discover Does Differently
Unlike outdated methods, Hive Discover is built for the way legal teams work today. It captures data from more than 100 sources, including Teams, Slack, WhatsApp, SharePoint, and email. In addition, it supports real-time, cross-platform search using keywords, metadata, and filters. Direct integration with RelativityOne enables seamless review and production. As a result, legal teams can move from identification to production much faster, without sacrificing defensibility.
Use Case
Imagine a litigation case where attorneys need to track every mention of a specific client project across Teams, Slack, and Outlook. Instead of manually combing through each platform, Hive Discover performs a unified search across all systems. Relevant messages, files, and metadata are automatically collected, and the data is pushed directly into RelativityOne for review. What once took days or even weeks now takes only hours.
Why Legal Teams Love It
Hive Discover also provides a defensible process with full audit trails and built-in automation that reduces manual effort and review time. At the same time, it eliminates blind spots common in legacy systems and preserves the chain of custody from collection through production. Ultimately, Hive Discover empowers legal teams to move faster, reduce risk, and stay compliant without requiring a forensic background.
Smarter eDiscovery Starts Here
eDiscovery doesn’t have to be manual, messy, or expensive. Hive Discover brings speed, clarity, and control to modern legal workflows, so your team can focus on strategy, not software.
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