This post is one of several summarizing our coverage of LegalTech New York 2010.  For our other LegalTech posts click here.

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There were multiple sessions covering early case assessment (ECA) so we’ll summarize a few of them.  We followed the  General Counsel Track and attended “Data Retention Plans and [...]

This interview is part of our new series “Data! Data! Data!” — Cures for a General Counsel’s ESI Nightmares”.  For our introduction to the series  [click here].

Steve d’Alencon is as vice president of product management and marketing and Chief Marketing Officer for CaseCentral.  He is responsible for leading go-to-market programs for CaseCentral, including product management, demand [...]

 
In the latter part of the last decade — ok, the fall of 2009 — we completed what we call the trifecta:  full coverage of three of the premier electronically stored information (ESI) and e-discovery events for the litigation industry:  The Masters Conference (click here), the ACC Annual Meeting (click here), and the Georgetown Law Advanced E-Discovery [...]

 
As last week’s sessions at ACC Boston (click here) certainly stressed — stress being the operative word — in-house legal departments have been forced to cut their budgets just like their “sisters”, the law firms.   But with a greatly increased workload.  And it is due not just to the increase in litigation/investigations but because of regulatory/compliance [...]

As we have reported in several posts these last few months, early case assessment (ECA) is the key technology to reducing the cost of e-discovery.  There have been multiple vendors in this space with Clearwell Systems the leader (click here).
Most new ECA platforms have been standalone applications that required users to import and export data [...]