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Category Archives: E-Discovery Suppliers
Anacomp captures new sources of information
Anacomp announces new alliances which bring hosted capture to its already broad range of services. The trend towards a one-stop shop will appeal to many. Anacomp, best known until last year for its docHarbor document repository, has taken a further … Continue reading
The Qualcomm CREDO Program
The judge who heard the sanctions part of the Qualcomm case set out a program for devising an action plan to prevent future disclosure violations. UK companies may like to measure their own preparedness against it. On 30 January I … Continue reading
Discovering what to do about e-disclosure
The paucity of blog postings recently does not imply that there is nothing to write about On the contrary, there is too much going on to stop and write it all up. A quick summary of what has come up … Continue reading
UK judge flies e-Disclosure flag in New York
His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC of the Birmingham Mercantile Court went to New York last week to take part in a judicial panel on the subject of eDisclosure. The resulting debate should make audiences sit up on both sides … Continue reading
Networking thoughts after LegalTech
The LegalTech cud is still being chewed. The graph below show page views on this blog down to today, with an encouraging upward trend. The actual visits are not huge in absolute terms – 163 page views on one day … Continue reading
The Portability of H5’s Process
Contrary to my assumptions, H5’s very different approach to document review can be made available in the UK on data hosted here. Those with bigger cases should consider adding H5 to their list of possible solutions I had breakfast with … Continue reading
EPIQ Systems and ECM join forces
A long working relationships between Epiq Systems and Effective Case Management (ECM) reached a natural culmination on 1 February when the two businesses were combined. Tony Ratcliffe, the founding owner of ECM becomes a member of Epiq’s London office team.
LDSI and LiveReview
I am not sure how I have worked in the litigation support industry for 15 years without meeting Noel Kilby, nor why it should, eventually, have been easier to do so in LDSI’s office in New York when we are … Continue reading
Guidance on the Human Factor in eDiscovery
My first port of call in New York last week was Patrick Burke, Assistant General Counsel at Guidance Software. I did a webinar with Patrick over Christmas (Americans don’t really do Christmas I discover – the last e-mail in on … Continue reading
Basketball pointers for litigation management
eDiscovery Tools is an Australian company which makes software for processing e-mail and other electronic documents for litigation and similar purposes. Its main product is eDiscovery Processor, used by law firms, corporate clients, government departments and litigation support bureaux to … Continue reading
Trilantic sessions round off LegalTech
As in previous years, Trilantic organised three sessions for the last day of LegalTech. They are generally less formal than the other sessions and, as I have said elsewhere, take important subjects with a light tone. I thought I would … Continue reading
Trilantic delivers Translation Services
Trilantic has launched Trilantic Translation Services (TTS) which, they say, is the first translation service which uses the accuracy of human translation with the power of technology. TTS is described as a robust, highly effective, fast translation service [which] is … Continue reading
Trilantic sets out EU Data Protection Rules
The EU Data Protection Rules – Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council – On the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data to give … Continue reading
Anacomp and IPRO announce strategic alliance
Anacomp has announced an alliance with IPRO which will integrate IPRO’s eCapture software application into CaseLogistix. Anacomp does rather good press releases this days and I cannot better their own description The integration between IPRO eCapture and CaseLogistix eliminates batch … Continue reading
Anacomp introduces hosted CaseLogistix
Anacomp, the business process solutions company which acquired CaseLogistix last year, has announced that it is now making CaseLogistix available on-demand via its hosted docHarbor information platform. CaseLogistix was anyway one of the most interesting litigation support review applications on … Continue reading
Why no UK lawyers at LegalTech?
“When does the full LegalTech blog get released” asks a reader, obviously impatient with my chatty discursive wanderings around the subject. I assume he expects a full narrative, starting at Session 1 on Day 1 and ending with an extended … Continue reading
Service with a snarl undoes technology miracles
Good technology must be matched by good people, and it is often the people who let it down. Any technology budget must include a large element for support and training. It is not just the salesmen who need a good … Continue reading
Pocketing the key technology at LegalTech
My new Blackberry helps me organise what is important. It does not decide what is important. The same should be true of e-disclosure applications. Both are an aid to efficient processes, not a substitute for them. My heading may have … Continue reading
Legal Technology Awards 2008
The Legal Technology Awards 2008 happened five days and an ocean away – two oceans, in fact, one called the Atlantic and one poured from various bottles on both sides of the Atlantic. Both time and tide mean that my … Continue reading
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Discovery Mining passes source code audit
Discovery Mining has announced that the source code of its Web-hosted online review application has passed a rigourous security audit. The security of the data we put into the hands of others is a hot topic at the moment, as … Continue reading
E-Disclosure – What does the court expect?
His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC told a London conference audience what the UK courts expect from those who appear before them when electronic disclosure is a big element in a case. I have written separately about the conference organised … Continue reading
Heavyweight appointments by H5
H5, the San Franciso-based provider of automated document analysis and information risk management services for the legal industry, has made two top-flight appointments in the last few days. Raymond L Ocampo Jr, former senior vice president, general counsel and secretary … Continue reading
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Marcus Evans conference – E-Discovery Strategies
A good e-Disclosure conference will make you want to know more or, at least, will ring an alarm bell in due course. There are pitfalls to know about and practice development opportunities being missed. I am just back from a … Continue reading
LDSI appoints Deborah Coram as UK MD
Legal Document Services International – LDSI – has appointed Deborah Coram as Managing Director of LDSI’s UK business operations. Deborah Coram has a legal background and practiced at two major Australian law firms. She was head of international business development … Continue reading
Victor Limongelli now CEO of Guidance Software
Guidance Software announced last week that Victor Limongelli has been appointed Chief Executive Officer. I met Victor at a conference in London earlier this year. He is easy to spot – an American executive who speaks knowledgeably about the English … Continue reading
First e-disclosure training for judges
I led an e-disclosure training session in Birmingham last week for a room-full of District Judges and Specialist Judges from Chancery and Mercantile Courts in Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester and Leeds. We covered the Practice Direction to Part 31 CPR, the … Continue reading
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T3 – Trial Tactics and Technology in London
A mock eDiscovery hearing yesterday in front of real judges would have put UK litigation lawyers on notice of rough rides ahead if they are less than fully prepared to justify what has been done or not done to control … Continue reading
Richard Susskind and the End of Lawyers
Richard Susskind’s long-term prediction that the work of lawyers will break up into “identifiable and discrete pieces” applies here and now to electronic Disclosure. The discrete stages of first identifying and culling, and only then analysing, document populations do not … Continue reading
Training for judges in e-Disclosure
“I have been asked to develop and deliver a training course for judges on the subject of e-disclosure. There are two broad headings – the nuts and bolts of the technology and the proactive use of the CPR to encourage … Continue reading
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IT goes a lot faster than people for discovery
My heading comes from an article called The Data Explosion at Forbes.com (you need to sign up as a member, or more easily found here) about H5, the San Francisco company specialising in large-scale document analysis and the management of … Continue reading
Small PDFs and best OCR for eDiscovery
Use Abbyy FineReader to OCR .tiff images and save to .pdf and then use Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional to save in JBIG2 format. It sounds a long route but the results are smaller and better than anything else I have … Continue reading
E-Disclosure, Needles and Haystacks 3 – Keywords
This is the third article which looks at issues raised by Alex Charlton and Matthew Lavy in an article in the April / May 2007 edition of the SCL’s Computers & Law Magazine. The opening article is here. This section … Continue reading
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TRILANTIC cited as a top eDiscovery provider
A coup for Nigel Murray and TRILANTIC as ILTA opens in Orlando. Trilantic was named as a Top 20 eDiscovery provider based on Law Firm recognition. In addition, they were cited as a Top 10 provider in the (trial) presentation … Continue reading
FTI Consulting meets EU Safe Harbor Standard
FTI Consulting is a global company advising businesses on investigations, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory issues and the like. They are perhaps best known in the UK litigation market as suppliers of Ringtail Legal, the well-established litigation document management platform. … Continue reading
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OutIndex imports orators as well as Outlook
OutIndex, makers of low-cost software which imports and processes mail files and electronic documents, invited some top US e-Disclosure experts to speak at their Legal Technology Summit yesterday. English judges are showing increasing interest in using their CPR powers to … Continue reading
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Anacomp buys CaseLogistix
Anacomp Inc, a large US provider of document and business process management solutions, has acquired CaseLogistix, the evidence and litigation management software company from Nashville, Tennessee.
Business and pleasure mix at Trilantic party
To Broadgate last night for Trilantic’s last Third Thursday party, although by the time I got home it felt as if it had been last Thursday’s third party. Nigel Murray’s parties tend to leave one feeling as if one has … Continue reading
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SCL Call to Suppliers
My article Uncovering the Mysteries of Disclosure is published on the web site of Computers & Law, the magazine of the Society for Computers & Law. It can be found here The article was written in response to the suggestion … Continue reading
eDisclosure Information Project 