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, [...]

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]

eTERA Consulting has opened its National Project Center in the heart of Washington, DC, to serve clients locally, nationally and globally. “The combination of our Project Center, National Processing Center and subject matter experts in one location, allows us to provide cost-effective and centralized litigation and legal management solutions under one roof,” said company President [...]

                 The DOJ confirmed yesterday that its Antitrust Division is investigating possible anti-competitive practices involving credit derivatives.  The statement read:  “The Antitrust Division is investigating the possibility of anti-competitive practices in the credit derivatives clearing, trading and information services industries.” The statement came the day after Markit Ltd, a dealer-owned provider of prices in the [...]

We spent the last 3 weeks in Chicago, D.C., LA and NYC.   We met with Posse List members, law firms, e-discovery companies and staffing agencies, as well as a few in-house corporate legal departments where we have contacts, plus a few Federal government contacts. What follows are some brief observations on trends we see in [...]

The market for mergers and acquisitions sprang back to life yesterday when 10 deals totalling more than $27bn were announced, with over half of their total value paid in cash.  After months of deal inactivity, Oracle agreed to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4bn; GlaxoSmithKline paid $3.6bn for Stiefel Laboratories ; and PepsiCo offered $6bn in [...]

  Even with contract attorneys providing law firms the opportunity to cut their bills/its costs with respect to e-discovery, the expenditures can still be prohibitive, particularly in high-cost regions like D.C. and New York where the cost to house document reviewers on a contract basis is higher than elsewhere in the U.S.   As we have reported [...]