Strategic Legal Technology Blog

I recently learned about another e-discovery tool called Engenium, “a next-generation conceptual search technology created using patented methods of automatic learning and semantic analysis.”  Organizations adopting it for search recently include CaseShare (a cross-enterprise collaboration tool, including litigation support and deal rooms) and Foley Lardner...

Attenex, an e-discovery vendor with an interesting visualization interface, has raised $5 million in VC money according to the Seattle Post Intelligencer. Another sign of the rapid growth in the e-discovery market.

The jury verdict against Morgan Stanley of $604 in the Perelman-Sunbeam case – based to a large extent on doing e-discovery wrong – raises the question of just what is happening in e-discovery practices. Good data on actual practices are scarce, a problem my friends...

The lead feature story of the Wall Street Journal today is Age of Discovery – How Morgan Stanley Botched A Big Case by Fumbling Emails (subscription req’d). If litigants have not already been put on notice about e-discovery, this article is the wake-up call.  Both...

The volume of documents to review in discovery continues to explode. Can lawyers rely on full-text and concept-searching instead of lawyers to review documents? Craig Ball provides a good analysis of this question in Unclear on the Concept in Law Technology News.  Ball’s answer is...