With two major conferences back-to-back, The Masters Conference (click here) and the ACC Annual Meeting (click here) we have been a bit pressed for time to write up our thoughts on both plus all the interviews we conducted at each.
We agree with Brett Burney’s observation:  vendors at the Masters Conference seemed to emphasize a general lean towards [...]

 
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 included [...]

Clearwell has put together a web page called “E-Discovery Central” which is a comprehensive resource on all issues pertaining to e-discovery including news, free downloadable content, and insights from a variety of expert sources. It’s a great resource to help you develop your knowledge of e-discovery practices and complex e-discovery issues.  For the page click here.
One of the [...]

Our “Posse List moment”
At the panel entitled “Document Review: Establishing the Team & Utilizing the Technology” Browning Marean, senior counsel in DLA Piper’s San Diego office and a member of the DLA Piper Litigation group and co-chair of the Electronic Discovery Readiness and Response Group (click here) gave us a nice shout out during the session [...]

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 [...]

Senior Administration officials today took the wraps off of their latest effort to stabilize the American economy:  The nationalization of the electronic discovery industry. According to a senior official who declined to be identified, “Even before the beginning of the current turmoil, everyone acknowledged that electronic discovery costs were out of control. Now, with litigation [...]