Clearwell Systems has provided on its website a sample e-discovery request for proposal (RFP) created for the acquisition of an in-house e-discovery solution. It includes over 100 questions from real RFPs and promotes many concepts from the Best Practices for the Selection of Electronic Discovery Vendors published by the Sedona Conference Working Group. The sample questions [...]

Catalyst was one of the first companies to use secure Internet technology to help corporations and their counsel manage large volumes of documents. Today, we help manage documents in multiple languages and work with people all over the world.

At this past April’s International Legal Support Leaders Conference (ILSLC) in Washington, DC, a seminar was devoted to the foreign language component of e-discovery and document review hosted by John Tredennick, an attorney and founder and CEO of Catalyst Repository Systems.  He expounded on the “how tos” of these reviews. As he pointed out, the common refer­ence point is Unicode – the buzz [...]

July 27, 2009 Microsoft said on said Friday it will offer European consumers a choice of Web browsers with Windows in an effort to settle an antitrust probe by the European Union. The software giant has been accused of using its dominance to unfairly push its own browser, Internet Explorer, on consumers by tying it [...]

The practice of law firms marking up the cost of contract lawyers has been around for ages.  See some of our previous posts about the subject:  a great analysis by Carolyn Elefant by clicking here and further analysis by clicking here.  This week there was an article rocketing around the internet which was written by Cardozo Law Professor [...]

                  E-discovery guru Mary Mack, Corporate Technology Counsel for Fios Inc., has a free ebook for you to download.  The book is titled A Process of Illumination: The Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery. In this updated version, author Mary Mack does a masterful job of organizing, sharing, and explaining key information related to the expanding field of [...]

This week’s “”Top 10 plus …”  e-discovery articles from Orange Legal Technologies.    How To E-Discover Someone In the Age of Twitter http://tinyurl.com/nt3kr8 The Intelligence Behind Email Patterns – http://tinyurl.com/kq4gjp The Trouble With Discovery of ESI Abroad – http://tinyurl.com/nsd4z3 A Closer Look at California E-Discovery Law – http://is.gd/1HNtk Four Steps to Reducing the Cost of Compliance – [...]

  On June 29, in the midst of the state’s budget crisis, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger quietly signed into law the Electronic Discovery Act (Assembly Bill 5), which enacts comprehensive electronic discovery rules through amendments to the California Code of Civil Procedure. Because the Legislature deemed it urgent legislation, it is effective immediately. Almost identical legislation [...]

There is an expanding need for temporary attorneys across Europe as many European companies and law firms have been adopting the use of temporary workers on a wider basis, as well as many U.S. companies and law firms which have applied the known U.S. model to their European operations.  Much of this is attributable to the use of [...]

                         The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career July 23, 2009    12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Rocket Matter is hosting a free internet marketing webinar by Ari Kaplan, renowned author and speaker on legal business development. We have heard Ari speak and we have read his book.  It is well worth your while to attend [...]