Category: eDiscovery and Litigation Support

I recently learned about another e-discovery tool called Engenium, “a next-generation conceptual search technology created using patented methods of automatic learning and semantic analysis.”  Organizations adopting it for search recently include CaseShare (a cross-enterprise collaboration tool, including litigation support and deal rooms) and Foley Lardner...

Attenex, an e-discovery vendor with an interesting visualization interface, has raised $5 million in VC money according to the Seattle Post Intelligencer. Another sign of the rapid growth in the e-discovery market.

The jury verdict against Morgan Stanley of $604 in the Perelman-Sunbeam case – based to a large extent on doing e-discovery wrong – raises the question of just what is happening in e-discovery practices. Good data on actual practices are scarce, a problem my friends...

The lead feature story of the Wall Street Journal today is Age of Discovery – How Morgan Stanley Botched A Big Case by Fumbling Emails (subscription req’d). If litigants have not already been put on notice about e-discovery, this article is the wake-up call.  Both...

The volume of documents to review in discovery continues to explode. Can lawyers rely on full-text and concept-searching instead of lawyers to review documents? Craig Ball provides a good analysis of this question in Unclear on the Concept in Law Technology News.  Ball’s answer is...

The explosive growth of electronic discovery may be leading to a new position: large firm lawyers who are discovery specialists.  Law Technology News reports in the April 2005 issue that Sullivan & Cromwell has recently hired an experienced lawyer, Thomas Barnett, as special counsel focusing...

A prior post reported on EDDix’s finding that the e-discovery vendor market would consolidate. Yesterday another acquisition occurred.  FTI Consulting has acquired Ringtail, according to an FTI press release. In my view, law firms need not yet worry about the reduction in number of vendors....

Lawyers use evidence to prove a case. Why not apply that same discipline to law practice itself? Medicine is adopting an evidence-based approach, relying on well-controlled studies to determine which diagnostic tools and treatments work best. An article about contract attorneys makes me think the...