19 November 2009 Reporting for The Posse List:  Gregory Bufithis, Scott Madsen and Alex Hania Last week Georgetown Law CLE, in cooperation with the Sedona Conference, presented its 6th Annual Advanced E-Discovery Institute.  It was one of the best conferences we’ve attended on e-discovery and that is based on the content covered, the experts/luminaries in the e-discovery field that [...]

   15 November 2009 The presentation was made by David Shonka (Principal Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission), Miriam Smolen (associate general counsel in Fannie Mae’s litigation department, and in this role she manages complex commercial litigations and government investigations) and moderated by Andrew Goldsmith (First Assistant Chief in the Department of Justice). [...]

15 November 2009 The presentation on Advanced Search and Retrieval Technology was made by Jason R. Baron, Maura Grossman and Ralph Losey, all powerhouses in the e-discovery world. Baron and Losey started off with their multimedia PowerPoint presentation (to the tune of Darude’s Sandstorm which we had just seen at the Capital One Future of [...]

There’s an unusual dichotomy in the e-discovery industry right now. Industry observers see scores of e-discovery companies that have folded or disappeared as part of an industry shakeout, but at the same time there is agreement that there is still a growing opportunity to be had despite a slow economy.  “There’s more than enough work [...]

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 [...]

Last week we attended the IQPC conference ”Information Retention & E-Disclosure Management Europe” which was held in Brussels September 30th and October 1st.   For a link to the program click here.  The program is one the most elite and information-packed conference on European information retention and e-disclosure management, with the experts being the “elite of the elite”.  The event was [...]

         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, [...]

  Much has been written of late about the growing need for electronic discovery project management in the new e-discovery environment.   In today’s multimillion-dollar, multimillion-document lawsuits and regulatory inquiries, the ideal project managers are a new, absolutely unique breed.   And, as Erika Santiago of Litworks recently posted, project management is not limited to IT professionals, litigation support [...]

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 [...]

           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 [...]