Category: eDiscovery and Litigation Support

The WSJ Law blog recently wrote about “a horrific tale of document review drudgery.”   Sound of the First Year Workin’ on the . . . Doc Review Gang (15 Feb 08): “the Law Blog was regaled with a horrific tale of document review drudgery…...

More consolidation in e-discovery.  “FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE:FCN), the global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations protect and enhance their enterprise value, today announced the acquisition of Strategic Discovery, Inc. (“SDI”), a premier firm known for its market and thought leadership as well as...

Live from Legal Tech NYC, a session on empirical research on e-discovery, specifically the reliability and value of using computers to review document.  The session: “The Electronic Discovery Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation dedicated to resolving the legal community’s electronic discovery challenges. The Institute’s...

Some industry commentators speculate that e-discovery as a separate product category (if not discipline) will disappear as enterprise software vendors get in on the act.  I’ve previously written about EMC’s foray into EDD. Now, HP joins the game. A Clearwell press release (29 Jan 2008)...

I’ve previously posted about the convergence of corporate information life cycle management systems and the e-discovery market, including the entry of EMC into the market in February 2006. Now, the next move.  In the current (Jan 2008) issue of American Lawyer magazine EMC has a...

Alas, we may never know the legal standard of care for an e-discovery vendor.  A pair of lawsuits that could have made for some great drama and established a vendor standard of care has been settled. I previously blogged about a dispute between Sullivan &...

Consolidation of the e-discovery (EDD) market continues apace.  Press Release excerpt: “Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP (Deloitte FAS) announced today that it has acquired certain assets of Barrasso Consulting LLC (Barrasso), a firm specializing in planning and executing litigation discovery programs, to further enhance Deloitte...

Everyone who works in e-discovery knows it is a messy process and prone to errors. How many mistakes are too many though? We may soon find out.  Sullivan & Cromwell Suit Against Vendor Highlights Problems With E-Discovery (National Law Journal, 7 Jan 07) reports that...