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www.tcdi.com - TCDI Tom MacKenzie, 336-232-5800 t_mackenzie@tcdi.com TCDI(R) (www.tcdi.com), a market leader in litigation support solutions for electronic data discovery and litigation case management, announces that it has joined, as a participant, in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model Project (EDRM). In joining EDRM, TCDI will contribute to the organizations collective knowledge and expertise to

help bring guidelines and standards to the exploding field of e-discovery

"Currently the challenges and complexities of e-discovery are vast and growing quickly while at the same time e-discovery standards and accepted practices have been slow to evolve," says TCDI President Bill Johnson. "The dialogue, driven by the EDRM, to develop these standards and guidelines is important work for our industry and our company, and we're pleased to participate." Johnson continues, "The work we do in e-file processing, as well as the features and capabilities we offer through our online review and production platform, ClarVergence(R), will be enhanced through the development of these industry standards. These efforts, ultimately, will allow us to provide a higher level of service to our Clients."

Comprised of legal, IT, and e-discovery industry experts, the EDRM brings together a broad range of expertise, experience and perspective to the issues being addressed. "With its longstanding industry experience as a software and service provider, TCDI is an excellent addition to those participants who have joined to provide solutions," says George Socha, independent e-discovery consultant and co-founder of the EDRM Project.

In May 2005, the EDRM Project was created to address the lack of standards and guidelines in the electronic discovery market. The completed reference model provides a common, flexible and extensible framework for the development, selection, evaluation and use of electronic discovery products and services. Expanding on the base defined with the original model, the EDRM now has six distinct but related projects in its focus. Additional information on the EDRM can be found at www.edrm.net.

About ClarVergence:

For discovery, ClarVergence is designed to efficiently and effectively move large numbers of potentially relevant records from the e-discovery file processing environment through all review and production phases. For litigation case management, it allows for instant, secure, online access to all case related files and data, collaboration among all attorneys, and the ability for comprehensive reporting and exporting of information and data. Through organization and automation, ClarVergence brings greater efficiency to today's data intense litigation.

About TCDI:

In business since 1988, TCDI(R) is a market leader in litigation support solutions aimed at electronic data discovery and large-scale litigation case management. Our experience includes developing software and managing systems for some of the largest product liability litigation in U.S. history. TCDI has the technology, service, and most importantly, talent to meet some of today's most pressing legal IT challenges. To learn more, visit www.tcdi.com or call 888.823.2880.

TCDI joins EDRM as a project participant working with other legal
and industry experts to help establish guidelines and standards in the
expanding e-discovery field