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 [...]

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

Reported by:  Gregory Bufithis
InsideLegal counted 96 eDiscovery/litigation support vendors present and as they said — and we agree — everybody’s theme was predictable, up-front, and simple to understand pricing.   Makes sense: increased competition in the e-discovery space, [...]

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.

Ron Friedmann is Senior Vice President of Marketing for Integreon.  He is a leading authority on practice support for lawyers.   Ron managed practice support at then Wilmer Cutler (now WilmerHale), was [...]

The Masters Conference (click here) will be held on October 13th and 14th in Washington, DC.  The Masters conference brings together leading experts and professionals from law firms, corporations and the bench to develop strategies, practices and resources for managing the information life cycle.
The theme for this year’s conference, “Global Corporate Change – Navigating through [...]

        
Two of the main topics at the IQPC Conference in Brussels last week on e-discloure (with much written of late in the e-discovery blogs) has been concept searching and “predictive tagging”.  But one vendor appears to be way ahead of the curve: Recommind.   We had the opportunity to interview Hartwig Laute, Director European Operations and Jason Robman, [...]

          
The industry buzz about the EMC/Kazeon link-up was chatted about and rumored for some weeks (and the hot topic at the bars at ILTA last week).   Here are a few articles examining the whys’n and whatfors:
The press release from EMC and Kazeon  http://snipurl.com/rkh3n
The EMC blog: their view on the deal  http://snipurl.com/rllx6
Why EMC bought Kazeon http://snipurl.com/rkguv
Update: EMC [...]

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 [...]