Reported by Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq. and Eric Fell, Esq. 18 February 2011 — It’s been two weeks since LegalTech New York and it’s taken that long to digest most of the information we collected. We stayed an extra week after LegalTech for follow-up with interviews and product demonstrations. As always, LegalTech can cause info-saturation (see, [...]

5 January 2011  - Many legal pundits have repeatedly called for teaching e-discovery at law schools.  No one in the e-discovery world can miss what the digital information revolution has done to dramatically alter the discovery process.  Nobody has beat this drum more loudly than Ralph Losey, a reigning e-discovery guru (click here). But if you [...]

We grew to 26,000+ members in 2010.  When we started The Posse List in 2002 our base was contract attorneys, the lawyers who work on document review and production — the “right side” of the EDRM.   These still constitute the largest part of our membership base.   We add 25-30 new such members every week.  But in percentage terms our [...]

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 [...]

                     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 [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]