Category: eDiscovery and Litigation Support

Every litigation practice may soon need its own e-discovery attorney.  I recently wrote a white paper for Renew Data called for Renew Data discussing the emerging role of “e-discovery lawyer” (see my prior blog post, Managing E-Discovery (EDD) . You can now read it here...

Price umbrellas and inefficiencies create market opportunities. At least so it seems when it comes to reviewing discovery documents in litigation.  General counsels complain about law firm costs to review documents flowing from e-discovery (EDD). The market is listening. One year ago, I blogged about...

E-discovery (EDD) press coverage suggests problems galore. Have we lost sight of the real purpose of discovery in litigation?  E-discovery means more than producing relevant, non-privileged documents. It means winning by telling the best story possible. So much of recent EDD discussion revolves around doing...

It’s hard to keep up with all the developments in e-discovery. Some news and articles of recent note: firms let go of EDD expertise, Autonomy and Zantaz merge, and Information Week provides guidance for corporate IT departments on EDD and the amended FRCP.  The Lost...

How should law firms manage e-discovery?   The Data Boom: Can Law Firms Profit? in LawFirmInc. (May 2007) offers answers to this question, covering economic questions such as whether EDD should be a profit center and how to conduct document reviews. My favorite excerpt: “Fenwick...

I have long argued that deploying armies of domestic contract lawyers to review documents in e-discovery is not a sustainable practice.  Search Software Gets Boost From New Rules in the Wall Street Journal (5/16/07) explains that the December 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of...

With this post, I introduce a new blog category, “Vendors Speak.” Some explanation and then interesting commentary on dealing with audio in e-discovery. Vendors sometimes send me thought-provoking messages. I have been too cautious in sharing these. Vendors often have deep insight into the issues...