Category: eDiscovery and Litigation Support

The current costly approach to e-discovery document review is not sustainable. I’ve often suggested that offshore lawyers are a cost reducing option. At last, we have a public instance of offshore review – and a big one. At the same time, we have new insight...

In June I wrote about the emerging position of EED attorneys in law firms. Corporations are also creating such positions.  Discovery Trailblazers in InsideCounsel (Aug 2006) reports that many large companies are looking for someone to manage e-discovery. One motivation is cost control: “An e-discovery...

IBM announced today that it will acquire Enterprise Content Management vendor FileNet. Over time, this could change the EED landscape.  Enterprise content management, which increasingly includes records management, is becoming the arena of major corporations. (For example, see my blog post about CA acquiring MDY.)...

The American Lawyer today reports that a Software Glitch May Have Erased E-Mail Text in Enron Suits.  Quoting from the article: “The company [Applied Discovery] handling electronic document production in the Enron civil suits says a software bug may have erased text in e-mails produced...

The e-discovery market continues to grow explosively and evolve. Who are the leaders in service, software, and by stage of e-discovery?  The fourth annual Socha-Gelbman E-Discovery Survey answers these and other important e-discovery market questions. A summary of the results is at Socha Consulting. Here...

Document review in e-discovery is costly. Contract lawyers are less expensive than associates. Going offshore can lower costs yet more.  I await published case studies detailing offshore document reviews. In the mean time, several offshore companies or US companies with offshore operations now offer discovery...

LexisNexis announced yesterday (7/24/06) that it has acquired DataFlight, maker of Concordance software and CaseSoft, maker of CaseMap.  From a L-N press release: “The addition of Los Angeles-based Dataflight (www.dataflight.com) enables LexisNexis to offer attorneys evidence management capabilities via the Concordance solution. Law firms, corporations,...

What’s the best home for an e-discovery company? Yet another acquisition last week raises this question.  “To expand its document management services business, Xerox… announced that it has agreed to acquire privately-held Amici LLC for $174 million. Amici is a leading provider of electronic-discovery (e-discovery)...