As Relativity branches out from e-discovery, it hasn't entirely forgotten its roots. On Tuesday, it announced a partnership with Cellebrite to deliver mobile device data directly into its Relativity and RelativityOne e-discovery platforms through a new platform created by Cellebrite called Legalview.

“Both Relativity and Cellebrite are market leaders in their own right … but a lot of clients have asked for this [integration],” said Relativity's director of strategic partnerships and developer experience Drew Deitch. He added that the companies started discussing the product and partnership earlier this year during ALM's Legaltech New York conference.

The two companies said the partnership brings together leading e-discovery and mobile forensics providers to streamline and improve the review of mobile device data as the demand for such information intensifies.

“The way we look at the world, e-discovery has traditionally been about finding the data to find the truth about the case. For a long time, most of that key information in a legal dispute, investigation, anything important you want to know about a corporation, traditionally you find that in email or a Word document,” Deitch said. He added, “More and more often they are [finding] that on their phone and not email.”

Relativity and Cellebrite thought it was fitting for a popular mobile data forensics and e-discovery company to partner together to refine the process of mobile e-discovery.

Legalview allows a user to connect a mobile device to a computer with Cellebrite installed on it and select the data they want to collect. With a click of a button they can export the data into Relativity for further review.

Cellebrite and Relativity also noted that any exported messages maintain their “native” format to include all the emojis, GIFs and images that were present, as well as metadata tracking IP addresses, call logs and other data.

Legalview provides an admittedly quicker process for mobile e-discovery, said Shahaf Rozanski, head of business solutions at Cellebrite. Traditionally, users needed to export the messages from Cellebrite, or a similar mobile forensics and analytics platform, and export it as an Excel file that Relativity recognizes to finally use it within that software. With Legalview, you create an “end-to-end” workflow from collection of information in Cellebrite into an “easily digestible” format in Relativity, Rozanski said.

To be sure, Cellebrite is no stranger to supporting e-discovery companies, having previously partnered with digital forensics platform Nuix in 2013. QDiscovery also released QMobile Insight, software that collects and re-formats mobile data for review in Relativity and Exterro, in 2017.

Rozanski, however, argued that Legalview stands out because of its ability to not only solve the inefficiencies of mobile e-discovery workflow, but to also maintain messages' original format which improves the ease of the legal practitioner's overall data review.