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LAW PreDiscovery vs Microsoft Purview eDiscovery comparison

LexisNexis and Microsoft are both solutions in the eDiscovery category. LexisNexis is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0, while Microsoft is ranked #2 with an average rating of 7.6. LexisNexis holds a 1.9% mindshare in eD, compared to Microsoft’s 26.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of LexisNexis users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.
LAW PreDiscovery
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100% willing to recommend
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery
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87% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 6, 2024

LAW PreDiscovery and Microsoft Purview eDiscovery compete in eDiscovery solutions. Microsoft Purview eDiscovery has the upper hand due to its comprehensive features and advanced tools, even though LAW PreDiscovery is more cost-effective.

Features: LAW PreDiscovery offers processing efficiency, robust document review, and effective data handling. Microsoft Purview eDiscovery provides advanced AI capabilities, seamless cloud integration, and strong case management. Microsoft Purview is integrated with other Microsoft tools, enhancing its usability compared to LAW PreDiscovery.

Room for Improvement: LAW PreDiscovery needs better integration with third-party systems, improved scalability, and enhanced modern features. Microsoft Purview requires more flexible reporting tools, intuitive workflows, and simplified interface adjustments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: LAW PreDiscovery is easier to deploy in on-premise setups and has responsive customer service. Microsoft Purview has a complex cloud-based implementation but benefits from automatic updates, though customer service response times could be better.

Pricing and ROI: LAW PreDiscovery is more affordable with promising ROI for smaller projects due to competitive setup costs. Microsoft Purview, with its higher investment, offers long-term value through its advanced features, justifying its premium pricing.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

LAW PreDiscovery
Ranking in eDiscovery
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery
Ranking in eDiscovery
2nd
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Microsoft Security Suite (25th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the eDiscovery category, the mindshare of LAW PreDiscovery is 1.9%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is 26.4%, up from 19.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Brian Grossman - PeerSpot reviewer
A powerful tool for litigation support services, such as production processing to meet client requirements
LAW PreDiscovery can simplify its interface and offer a cloud-accessible version tailored to customers. We often use other cloud-based document review software alongside LAW PreDiscovery to meet specific needs. This interchangeability allows us to handle specialized export requests more effectively. There also needs to be a more straightforward process for upgrading licenses without contacting support.
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Frank Radeck - PeerSpot reviewer
Tasks that took an entire day before we implemented the solution now take just 30 minutes.
The most valuable feature of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is its ability to search across various platforms, including Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive. It enables a streamlined, unified process for searching across these platforms. It is critical for Purview to be able to connect to iOS, Mac, and Android devices and data in other SaaS apps. From a support perspective, I can do things while I'm eating lunch or something else. It's more dynamic and responsive. I think everybody appreciates it. We're not tied to one device. Purview's multi-cloud capabilities are also essential for the same reasons. Keeping everything under one umbrella further increases the time savings. Purview accounts for critical regulations from around the world. This is crucial because we hold ourselves accountable to standards and need to align with them. Working at a law firm, we have clients who dictate to us what standards they expect. The visibility is excellent. As we move more things into the cloud, more opportunities exist to put everything under one umbrella.
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The sourcing and the detailed background checklist are the most valuable features of this solution."
"I've found the ability to customize exports and indexing in LAW PreDiscovery to be the most valuable feature. It allows us to meet our customers' specific needs effectively."
"Microsoft Purview eDiscovery has saved me personally a lot of time because I can query it, and it touches everything we have as a full Microsoft shop."
"Tasks that took an entire day before we implemented Purview now take just 30 minutes."
"The ability to query everything that's in Microsoft and send links or add people, like managers, to review the documents is valuable. It's easy as I don't have to download and email anything. I just add them as a reviewer, and they can access it from there."
"The return on investment is saving the equivalent of one or two full-time IT department employees and a few hours per week for legal staff."
"The machine learning wasn't half bad. I really like that part. I thought it was novel. It pretty much automated it, once you trained the model."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is the content search. We can use it to find the data we need by searching for keywords, phrases, or the sender or recipient. It helps us gather information from current employees or ones who have left the company."
"I think eDiscovery Premium has made dealing with data from Teams much more accessible than any other platform."
"The tool has been beneficial. Some of our previous users left the organization without sharing the information they had at a personal level. This information was related to the organization, and they didn't disclose it. Thanks to the product, it's easy for me to search and find out what communication a specific user has done, whether it's from SharePoint or any other platform. With Microsoft Purview eDiscovery, we can easily retrieve and restore this data."
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Cons

"LAW PreDiscovery can simplify its interface and offer a cloud-accessible versiontailored to customers. We often use other cloud-based document review software alongside LAW PreDiscovery to meet specific needs. This interchangeability allows us to handle specialized export requests more effectively. There also needs to be a more straightforward process for upgrading licenses without contacting support."
"If these details, photos, dates of birth, and so on are not possible to include, I believe it would be much more efficient if multiple people could log in using the same email address, as we can in some other programs."
"We find that many critical functions are available only to E5 license holders. It would be beneficial to have more options available for E3 customers. Enhanced Teams functionalities and better capture of text message data, both SMS and MMS, would also be improvements."
"The query language can be time-consuming to figure out if you don't know it initially. While there are options with dropdowns to select criteria, having a natural language feature would be beneficial. Copilot is expected to add such functionality in the future."
"We find that many critical functions are available only to E5 license holders."
"I see two significant challenges with many of my clients. One is that there are some functionality gaps compared to specialized tools in the legal industry, like a legal hold tool or a document review tool. They have features that Purview eDiscovery lacks. Those gaps create a situation where I almost have to do things twice. I need to collect all my data in eDiscovery and ship it to another platform to complete the review."
"I would suggest adding more platforms."
"The sorting and filtering of the result data need improvement, and the interface for writing queries is not user-friendly for business users. We still need all the backend stuff. We have to use Graph API to interface with everything and create custom interfaces on the front end to make it easier for the end users, which is costly. The reporting, sorting, and filtering capabilities that other products have aren't available natively in Purview."
"Microsoft Purview eDiscovery should be cheaper."
"Purview Data Loss Protection for remediating policy violations needs refinement, for example, in defining what constitutes a credit card because that is where I get the most false positives."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"LAW PreDiscovery licenses are pretty costly and are on a yearly subscription basis. Before committing to LAW, it's crucial to calculate and ensure that you'll see a return on investment."
"The costs associated with E5 licensing are currently expensive for us, so we use the E3 license, which comes with fewer features and functionalities."
"With the full bundle, pricing is not a significant concern. As an M3, I find the Purview pricing of 1250 per user worthwhile."
"In the positions that I've had through contracting over the years, I've heard talk of it being overpriced and underperforming compared to its competitors."
"The pricing and licensing with Microsoft can be complex, and licensing is known to be a challenge because it changes frequently. While the licensing for Purview is not as tricky as other Microsoft products, navigating licenses since the shift to E3 and E5 plans has been a task, as individual licenses must now be purchased separately."
"Microsoft Purview eDiscovery comes as part of Microsoft 365 licenses."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Legal Firm
47%
Government
12%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Healthcare Company
8%
Government
13%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
10%
University
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with LAW PreDiscovery?
LAW PreDiscovery can simplify its interface and offer a cloud-accessible version tailored to customers. We often use other cloud-based document review software alongside LAW PreDiscovery to meet sp...
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What is your primary use case for LAW PreDiscovery?
We primarily use LAW PreDiscovery for litigation support services, such as production processing, importing native files, converting PDFs, bate numbering, batch printing trial exhibits, and archiva...
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What advice do you have for others considering LAW PreDiscovery?
If you're a more prominent law firm or a litigation support vendor dealing with extensive document processing, LAW PreDiscovery could be a good fit. However, for smaller companies or law firms need...
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What do you like most about Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?
The tool has been beneficial. Some of our previous users left the organization without sharing the information they had at a personal level. This information was related to the organization, and th...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?
The setup process was very straightforward. We acquired pricing through our reseller in NASDAQ, eliminating the need to search for prices ourselves.
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What needs improvement with Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?
The query language can be time-consuming to figure out if you don't know it initially. While there are options with dropdowns to select criteria, having a natural language feature would be benefici...
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Overview

LAW PreDiscovery software works as an all-in-one "eDiscovery engine" to scan, import, and produce all of the potential evidentiary documents needed during legal discovery. LexisNexis LAW PreDiscovery leads the way in document production, including the most flexible imaging and endorsing capabilities. Hundreds of file types exports directly to Concordance software and other leading document review platforms in a wide range of formats and Identifies and extracts content from file types, scan documents from scanners, and produce printed or digital output. LAW PreDiscovery handles even the largest imaging, endorsing, OCR, or print jobs by just adding additional workstations.

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Efficiently respond to legal matters or internal investigations with intelligent capabilities that reduce data to only what’s relevant. Discover data where it lives. Discover and collect data in place, within your Microsoft Purview boundary. Manage workflows efficiently. Streamline your eDiscovery process with an end-to-end workflow from one platform. Accelerate your process. Get insights quickly with built-in capabilities, reducing review time and costs.

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Sample Customers

Murphy & King, BDO Consulting, Beasley Allen
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