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. Mary Mack is Corporate Technology Counsel for Fios Inc.  She is one of the leading speakers and authors on electronic discovery issues, technology and the law. She is co-author [...]

  As last week’s sessions at ACC Boston (click here) certainly stressed — stress being the operative word — in-house legal departments have been forced to cut their budgets just like their “sisters”, the law firms.   But with a greatly increased workload.  And it is due not just to the increase in litigation/investigations but because of [...]

                   Fios Inc. and Ajilon Legal today unveiled at ACC a partnership to helpcorporations and law firms effectively inject cost control and predictability into the complex e-discovery process. The full press release can be found here:  http://sn.im/sma3q

Yesterday, Fios put on an excellent webinar titled The Value of Project Management in e-Discovery (for details click here for link).   Fios will make available an audio recording of this webinar (which they do for all of their webinars) so be sure to check the link to the Fios e-Discovery Knowledge Center (see link in [...]

    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 [...]

Fios has announced that Chris Junker has been appointed as the company’s new CEO.  For the full press release click here.   Junker led global sales for the iManage unit for Autonomy (formerly Interwoven) for more than 10 years.   Fios is the home of e-discovery guru Mary Mack.  Mary and Fios have provide The Posse [...]

The 32nd annual educational conference of the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) starts today, August 23rd.   This year it is at the Gaylord National just outside Washington, DC in National Harbor, Maryland. It is considered one of the premier events for ILTA members and decision-makers to come together to share their experiences as technology leaders to talk about how they [...]

The May 2009 issue of the ACC Docket, the magazine of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), is devoted to the subject of litigation: effective management of e-discovery, running large document reviews, litigation holds, managing expenses, etc.    Although written for the in-house counsel audience, the issue is nevertheless a gold mine of information for everyone [...]

A Review of Day 2 of the ILSLC (Part 1) As we said in our coverage of Day 1 of the ILSLC (click here) the focus of almost all of the speakers during this conference was:  the fundamental problem facing the legal profession today is the search for truth and justice in a digital world.  A world where the [...]