Category: eDiscovery and Litigation Support

A boutique law firm has just formed that will focus on e-discovery.  New Law Firm Targets E-Discovery Angst on law.com (in The Recorder) reports that a new, four lawyer, virtual firm “will offer strategic advice to businesses on improving the management of their digital information...

A leading electronic evidence discovery vendor may be changing ownership structure.  The August 26th Transaction Granted Early Termination published by the FTC (PDF) lists private equity investor Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, e-discovery vendor Electronic Evidence Discovery Inc., and EED founder and CEO John Jesson....

The August Corporate Legal Times reports on ways to reduce litigation costs. Technology plays a big role and one of my favorite approaches – decision trees – is featured.  GCs Offer Strategies for Reining in Litigation Costs reports on a recent general counsel roundtable. The...

“IBM plans to give away key search technologies for corporate data retrieval that use concepts and facts instead of simpler “keyword” searches” according to a press release. This could have implications in the e-discovery market.  An IBM spokesman notes that major players such as Google...

The e-discovery explosion creates a risk that firms will lose sight of the larger litigation support picture. There may not be a single right way to “do lit supp” but firms should analyze their processes and strive to develop consistent guidelines.  The table here presents...

Decision trees are a formal method to assess risk in litigation and estimate the expected value of a case. My former colleague and now law professor David Post and I explained the basics of risk analysis and decision trees in a 1990 article (the concepts...