Exterro Ranks as Top Provider in 2008 Socha-Gelbmann 6th Annual Electronic Discovery Survey

Top Rankings Highlight Exterro's Leadership in Delivering a Defensible Legal Hold and Discovery Workflow Management Platform


LAKE OSWEGO, OR--(Marketwire - July 28, 2008) - Exterro, a leading provider of advanced workflow technologies for the legal industry, announced today that it has been ranked as one of the top 10 electronic discovery software providers for its work with preservation and legal holds which has become a complicated, multi-faceted, steadily-changing concept in recent years. Exterro was also recognized as a leader by corporations, placing them in the top 15 software provider based on Corporation Ranking. The rankings were compiled as part of the 6th annual Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey.

"Our annual survey has become the leading market indicators for tracking the growth of the electronic discovery market," said George Socha, co-developer of the annual survey and principal at Socha Consulting LLC. "Exterro's high ranking in our survey indicates that it is one of the top EDD software vendors as recognized by the industry."

"Exterro's mission has been to provide corporations and their outside counsel with a total, innovative, and defensible approach to e-discovery with our end-to-end discovery management and legal hold solutions," said Bobby Balachandran, CEO of Exterro. "Exterro's top ranking in this prestigious annual survey is a testament of our success in helping clients solve real problems."

Developed by George Socha and Tom Gelbmann, the 6th annual Electronic Discovery survey provides a comprehensive view of the needs and consumption of EDD software and services of the electronic discovery market. Over a period of 9 months, Socha and Gelbmann gathered information from or about 107 EDD services and software providers, and from 29 law firms and 19 corporations for this annual survey. They factored in more than 350 qualitative and quantitative factors to determine the rankings of providers -- top overall EDD services providers, top overall EDD software providers, and top EDD providers in various categories. The full report on the rankings will appear in the August issue of Law Technology News and will be available at: http://www.sochaconsulting.com/2008survey.php

About Exterro

Exterro is a leading provider of advanced workflow technology and automation solutions exclusively for legal hold and discovery management in legal industry. Exterro Fusion helps legal teams control litigation and discovery processes and costs by tightening collaboration between outside counsel, in-house legal teams, service providers and experts. Exterro believes that process automation and improvements in litigation -- especially in discovery -- can be learned from the quality improvement successes of other industries and disciplines. Exterro's easy-to-use, quick-to-deploy and simple-to-integrate management platforms are built on a patent-pending, open architecture that integrates seamlessly with existing business processes and systems. A built-in management workflow engine provides cost controls, delivers time savings and reduces risks throughout the litigation support process. Exterro is headquartered in Lake Oswego, Oregon. The company also has offices in San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Dallas. Find out more about Exterro and its technologies at www.exterro.com.