Category: eDiscovery and Litigation Support

Just how far can concept searching and semantic analysis go in automating document review in discovery?  No one knows yet. The answer depends in part on another question: Is the ability of software accurately to assess responsive documents in a large collection constrained by linguistics...

Holiday toast overheard tonight: “Long live e-discovery confusion”. EDD confusion is good for service providers, vendors and law firms. Not so for General Counsels, who should do more to reduce confusion.  CommVault, a provider of data archiving, protection, and resource management systems with e-discovery solutions,...

Are you surprised that disk drive maker Seagate Technologies acquired e-discovery software developer MetaLINCS last week?  According to the press release, this and prior acquisitions allow Seagate to “offer corporations, law firms, and litigation service partners a technology leading analytics engine along with one stop...

Does your firm have a clear policy to check and clear conflicts for temp or contract lawyers?  A lawyer / e-discovery expert asked me this yesterday. With all the articles and conferences about EDD, I don’t recall seeing much on this topic. Nor have I...

Who would you rather have review litigation documents: contract (temp) lawyers or full-time lawyers in India?  In Document Review in the US versus India (8/07) I suggested that Indian lawyers likely do better reviewing documents than US contract lawyers. For a well-written, colorful, amusing, and...

Should law firms do e-discovery data collection and processing inhouse?  Most large firms have – and should have – the capacity to process and collect some amount of data. The question is how much. As far as I know, only a handful of large firms...

“McDermott, Will & Emery plans to create a new tier of attorneys — think of them as permanent contract associates — to handle lower-end tasks at lower billing rates.”  So reports McDermott Will to Add Lower-Paid Associates (The Recorder, 11/2/07). A big focus of these...

More consolidation in the e-discovery (EDD) market.  Iron Mountain today announced it will acquire Stratify. Between acquisitions and start-ups, it’s hard to track exactly, but I think the number of free-standing review platforms is going down. For reference, from my The Best Home for an...