In our series “Data! Data! Data!” – Cures for a General Counsel’s ESI Nightmares”  we have been interviewing thought leaders in the ESI management and e-discovery universe who can help us navigate through “the perfect storm”:  ever increasing data volumes; more litigation and government inquiries, and skyrocketing e-discovery costs.  That series will continue next week for several [...]

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, [...]

                    
Guidance Software, a sponsor of The Masters Conference, issued a press release today announcing the launch of their new Professional Services offering, the Guidance Software Advisory Program (GAP) which is designed to help create and refine business processes and incorporate industry best practices around e-discovery, digital forensics, cybersecurity, and other digital investigations.  The press [...]

EDRM advancements reflect two years of collaboration, refinement and modeling amongst e-discovery service providers, law firms, corporate practitioners and individual contributors
ST. PAUL, Minn. – October 13, 2009 – The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) project today announced that it is now easier for users to find the valuable research and standards created by the leading [...]

 
The Masters Conference starts tomorrow in Washington, DC and runs for two days (click here).   A number of presenters are already in D.C., as well as a number of vendors, so we have been able to begin our coverage.  One of them is DC-based eTERA Consulting.
With the continued growth and expansion of eTERA Consulting, the [...]

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 [...]

Here are a handful of articles that popped up over the weekend and which we think would be of interest to our readers.   As if you don’t have enough to read as you start your Monday morning:
* A relook:  “Lock the law school doors” (now with 152 comments)  http://sn.im/s6ads
* How to Budget for Ediscovery Costs   http://sn.im/s61ap
* [...]

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 [...]

 
 
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 more on ILTA later [...]

          
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 [...]