The Morgan Lewis eData team and Recommind are sponsoring what looks to be a very informative live seminar on March 18th (next Thursday) at 4:00pm in the New York offices of Morgan Lewis.   The seminar will focus on successfully leveraging technology to improve early case assessment (ECA), preservation, collection, and document review.
For the Morgan Lewis team:  Stephanie “Tess” Blair and [...]

 
As reported today in Corporate Counsel magazine, anti-corruption enforcement is bulking up (click here for article).    Mark Mendelsohn, deputy chief of the DOJ fraud section’s criminal division, said his section “may grow as much as 50 percent in size in the next year or two.”  At the same time, he added, he expects companies to play [...]

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

Laura Kibbe (Senior Vice President at Epiq Systems) led a spirited panel titled “Achieving a Cost-Efficient, Defensible Document Review”.  Panelists included Vince Neicho (Litigation Support Manager at Allen & Overy) and David Kessler (partner at Drinker [...]

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.

As Posse List members know, especially members of Posse List Asia, e-discovery work in Asia has exploded.  We have seen work expand in China, Japan and Korea with the greatest [...]

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.

Merrill Corporation has a wide reach.  It is one of the largest world-wide vendors for outsourced services in business communication and information management.  Merrill’s services include document and data management, [...]

 
Relativity is a web-based document review and management software used by corporations and law firms during the discovery phase of litigation.  Many Posse List members have used it.
It is highly popular because you can manage  documents from initial review all the way to production.
If you want to learn how to use it, or just brush up, link to the free [...]

Merrill Corporation has announced the launch of a Document Review Service to help customers more efficiently manage document review and control rising discovery costs. Merrill`s Document Review Service uses teams of experienced attorneys who are specially trained and Lextranet certified.
Merrill can handle cross-jurisdictional and multi-national litigation as well as regulatory matters. For multi-lingual and cross-border cases, Merrill [...]

 
D.C. has regained the top spot in number of document review projects, number of contract employees employed.  We are going to update this report as more info comes in from Posse List members:
The big news is that the Microsoft/Yahoo document review is coming to town.  Well, being restarted since the review was started a few months [...]

 
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 to the creation [...]

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 most recently [...]