Category: eDiscovery and Litigation Support

The Wall Street Journal today reports on an upcoming survey on the growing cost of e-discovery costs.  Digital Data Drive Up Legal Costs (WSJ, 6 Sep 08) reports on a survey by American College of Trial Lawyers and the Institute for the Advancement of the...

Another e-discovery acquisition.  Access Litigation, a DC-based litigation support and e-discovery provider plus developer of NatiView Analytics, has been acquired by Edmond Scientific Company. I could not find press releases on either company’s web sites but the Washington Business Journal reports this in Edmond Scientific...

On Friday, the Wall Street Journal ran a long story on e-discovery. It highlights some of the current issues but also, in my opinion, oversimplifies them.  Tech Firms Pitch Tools For Sifting Legal Records (22 August 2008) by Justin Scheck opens with a provocative statement:...

AmLaw 100 law firm Dorsey & Whitney last week announced LegalMine, an integrated e-discovery service at a fixed price per document.  LegalMine is “a powerful tool to review huge quantities of documents – efficiently, thoroughly and accurately.” According to the FAQ page of LegalMine: “Dorsey...

If corporations succeed in managing and preserving information, will e-discovery collection problems disappear?  I’ve previously written about “e-discovery convergence,” the idea that enterprise “information life cycle” management products may reduce or eliminate the need for EDD collection. Is Preservation in E-Discovery Overrated? at the Clearwell...

E-discovery is hot. As well it should be with the explosion in data volume and relatively swift (for the legal market) transition from paper to digital data. A just-released salary survey of law firm EDD and litigation support staff puts some parameters on the market...

On July 24, Interwoven, best known in the legal market as a leading developer of document management software for large law firms, announced it will acquire e-discovery player Discovery Mining, Inc.  According the Interwoven press release, “The acquisition of Discovery Mining extends Interwoven’s offering –...

The American way is “innocent until proven guilty.” The American Lawyer way seems to be “guilty by association”.  The July 2008 American Lawyer, in the “Bar Talk” section, has an article Irony, Thy Name is Guidance sub-titled “Howrey’s EDD provider has EDD problems of its...