At IQPC Brussels last week (click here) we had the opportunity to meet with Denise Backhouse, one of the presenters, and an associate in Morgan Lewis’s Litigation Practice and a senior member of its eData team.  Denise has engaged in eDiscovery motion practice in multiple jurisdictions and has worked on discovery responses to the Securities [...]

                 IQPC put on one of its spectacular conferences last week in Brussels, this one on information retention and e-disclosure management in Europe (click here).  The conference was well-attended and well-received.  But these conferences don’t happen without a strong guiding hand, and in this case that guiding hand was Patrick Burke, Senior Director and Assistant General [...]

         Two of the main topics at the IQPC Conference in Brussels last week on e-discloure (with much written of late in the e-discovery blogs) has been concept searching and “predictive tagging”.  But one vendor appears to be way ahead of the curve: Recommind.   We had the opportunity to interview Hartwig Laute, Director European Operations and Jason Robman, [...]

              One of the rock stars of the IQPC conference in Brussels in Brussels last week was Chris Dale, founder of the E-Disclosure Information Project.  He was on 3 panels at the conference and for his delightful description of the 2-day proceedings click here.   It was great to finally meet Chris.  We have emailed and [...]

The Catalyst CR Certified Reviewers program (CRCR) certification program for Catalyst CR which we announced yesterday (see details immediately below) has added an additional session:                         OCT 6: 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm You can sign up for this additional session by clicking here.  The first 3 sessions we announced yesterday filled in 2 hours so [...]

  As we have indicated in numerous posts, employers (law firms, corporations, agencies, e-discovery vendors) have increasingly requested contract attorneys to have experience with specific software for document review projects.  This is due to: 1. a shakeout of the EDD market forced by the level of competition among the software providers 2. which has led [...]

  Much has been written of late about the growing need for electronic discovery project management in the new e-discovery environment.   In today’s multimillion-dollar, multimillion-document lawsuits and regulatory inquiries, the ideal project managers are a new, absolutely unique breed.   And, as Erika Santiago of Litworks recently posted, project management is not limited to IT professionals, litigation support [...]

It’s getting crowded on the right-side of the EDRM.  Kroll Ontrack has announced it is now providing its clients with document review services.  For the full announcement click here.   Kroll Ontrack already provides paper/e-discovery services, computer forensics, ESI consulting, etc.  The announcement of the launch into document review is natural.  As we have indicated over the last two years and [...]

    The summer and Labor Day holidays are over, and so we are off.   The ILTA conference (our coverage is here) held two weeks ago was an eye-opener on new trend lines, jobs for contract attorneys, etc. — especially the amount of Federal government work in the pipeline and the surge in work in Europe.  We’ll have [...]

Fios has announced that Chris Junker has been appointed as the company’s new CEO.  For the full press release click here.   Junker led global sales for the iManage unit for Autonomy (formerly Interwoven) for more than 10 years.   Fios is the home of e-discovery guru Mary Mack.  Mary and Fios have provide The Posse [...]