On Friday, the Wall Street Journal ran a long story on e-discovery. It highlights some of the current issues but also, in my opinion, oversimplifies them.  Tech Firms Pitch Tools For Sifting Legal Records (22 August 2008) by Justin Scheck opens with a provocative statement:...

AmLaw 100 law firm Dorsey & Whitney last week announced LegalMine, an integrated e-discovery service at a fixed price per document.  LegalMine is “a powerful tool to review huge quantities of documents – efficiently, thoroughly and accurately.” According to the FAQ page of LegalMine: “Dorsey...

If corporations succeed in managing and preserving information, will e-discovery collection problems disappear?  I’ve previously written about “e-discovery convergence,” the idea that enterprise “information life cycle” management products may reduce or eliminate the need for EDD collection. Is Preservation in E-Discovery Overrated? at the Clearwell...

E-discovery is hot. As well it should be with the explosion in data volume and relatively swift (for the legal market) transition from paper to digital data. A just-released salary survey of law firm EDD and litigation support staff puts some parameters on the market...