In follow-up to the success of its live certification program in D.C. and NYC, Catalyst is rolling out  its Catalyst CR Certified Reviewers program (CRCR) to LA next week.  CRCR is the certification program for Catalyst CR (for information on the software click here) which is gaining significant market share and being requested by many corporations and law firms due to [...]

In an effort to cut expenses, WilmerHale has decided to “in-source” its business operations to Dayton, Ohio.  But other law firms could also benefit from relocating support staff and even attorneys to less costly locales beyond the urban hubs according to an article in yesterday’s Law360.   The WilmerHale facilities, which are slotted to open in September, [...]

Catalyst Repository Systems announced that its inaugural Certified Reviewer Training, recently held in Washington DC, was so overrun with registrations that the company added two additional sessions in attempt to meet the demand. “We were thrilled with the enthusiastic response,” said Patty Daly, Catalyst’s Director of Training. “After the first round of sessions filled up, [...]

  An excellent program for contract attorneys, law firms and in-house counsel. Catalyst’s consulting team will share best practices on how to find potentially-privileged documents, defensible ways to maintain privilege, and techniques to reduce the time and expenses associated with privilege review.  The presentation will include: * Creating queries to find attorney names, email addresses [...]

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 [...]

    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 [...]

The 32nd annual educational conference of the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) starts today, August 23rd.   This year it is at the Gaylord National just outside Washington, DC in National Harbor, Maryland. It is considered one of the premier events for ILTA members and decision-makers to come together to share their experiences as technology leaders to talk about how they [...]

ILSLC (Part 2:  wrap-up) We want to finish our review of last week’s International Legal Support Leaders Conference (ILSLC) with a focus on U.S. foreign language document reviews and document reviews outside the U.S. (for our others posts on the ILSLC click here). As we have indicated in previous posts the last few months, foreign language [...]

The International Litigation Support Leaders Conference starts tomorrow in D.C. for two days, May 7-8, here in D.C.  It is the industry’s premiere educational and networking event for international litigation support.  We are covering both days of the event and attending the seminars and speaking with all the vendors. As we have indicated there has [...]