Category: eDiscovery and Litigation Support

LexisNexis announced in a July 11, 2003 press release that it has acquired Applied Discovery, an e-discovery company. I have always been struck by the seeming fragmentation of the e-discovery and litigation support market. My recollection is that a couple of bigger companies tried a...

Reading the June 23, 2003 issue of Information Week magazine was a trip down memory lane for me. An article titled Imaging Gets a Second Look reports on renewed interest in imaging. In the early 1990s when I worked at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, I...

A recently posted article in the Automated Lawyer area of law.com titled The Litigation Arms Race describes the ever increasing costs of litigation. The focus is on product liabilities contingency fee work, but the lessons may well apply across a wide range of commercial litigation....

Picking up on the theme of my last posting concerning compliance and Sarbanes-Oxley, I’ve been struck over the last few weeks by the number of vendors offering “compliance solutions.” More interestingly, I wonder if this suggests a trend toward “preventive litigation support.” One announcement that...

Yesterday both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reported that NASD will now require its members to save instant messages for at least three years (just as they must e-mail messages). The same articles mention that NYSE had imposed the same requirements...