FRONTEO Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Masahiro Morimoto, hereafter FRONTEO) was announced today by Lilith Bat-Leah, the company's US branch, as an advisory council for EDRM (* 2020) in January 1. I will announce that I have been appointed as a committee member.The council, which was newly established this year, has members from all over the world who have extensive knowledge and experience in eDiscovery (hereinafter referred to as eDiscovery) in companies and organizations, such as lawyers, judges, and other legal service providers. Collected from. Bat-Leah will be a member of the Advisory Council and will be involved in improving eDiscovery projects in businesses and organizations.

EDRM is a community of eDiscovery companies and legal experts aimed at providing information and education to help improve the eDiscovery process and information management.Currently, about 35 companies and organizations from all over the world are listed as sponsors and are working to promote the utilization of eDiscovery through the formulation of frameworks and work indicators, and the development of educational tools.

FRONTEO has been providing e-discovery services for international litigation support for 16 years since its foundation.We comply with the above-mentioned EDRM workflow from an early stage and support eDiscovery in various litigation cases both in Japan and overseas.

Bat-Leah has been involved in eDiscovery as a director of the data science division at FRONTEO's US branch since 2019. He is a Certified E-Discovery Specialist (CEDS) qualification and has been involved in data science and AI / machine learning applications in legal affairs at multiple discovery vendors.

* Bat-Leah's appointment as an advisory council member is also introduced in the EDRM press release.
https://www.edrm.net/2020/01/edrm-announces-new-global-advisory-council-2020-with-special-advisors-and-general-counsel/

<Reference> EDRM website
https://www.edrm.net/

(* 1) EDRM: Abbreviation for The Electronic Discovery Reference Model.In Japanese, it is often translated as an eDiscovery reference model. It defines the workflow for implementing e-discovery recommended by the e-discovery industry, and is the world's standard work index for disclosing electronic information when requesting document submission.

• FRONTEOabout　URL: https://www.fronteo.com/

FRONTEO Inc. has developed its own artificial intelligence engine "KIBIT".^®(Kibit) ”and“ concept encoder^®(Concept encoder) ”is a data analysis company that supports information analysis such as big data.Established in August 2003 as a company that supports e-discovery (electronic discovery), which preserves, investigates, and analyzes electronic data necessary for international litigation, and digital forensic investigations.In-house developed data analysis platform "Lit i View"^®(Lit Eye View) ”,“ Predictive Coding Predictive Coding^®(Predictive Coding) ”technology is used to provide legal proceedings support to companies.The unique artificial intelligence-related technology cultivated and developed in this legal business learns "tacit knowledge" such as expert experience and intuition, and realizes prediction of future behavior from analysis of human thoughts.We have expanded into areas such as life science and business intelligence, and have achieved results in "work style reform" in addition to FinTech and RegTech. Listed on TSE Mothers on June 2007, 6 and NASDAQ on May 26, 2013.The capital is 5 thousand yen (as of March 16, 2,559,206). As of July 2019, 3, the company name has been changed from UBIC Co., Ltd. to the current company name.