10 August  2011 — One of the more contentious issues in e-discovery is the value of e-discovery certification.  Rebecca James, Esq. (Program Manager at Fios, Inc.) has been running a series on that topic.   As she points out while “there was skepticism and a lack of consensus on the importance of credentialing … minds were [...]

Not to be outdone by Clearwell Systems, Fios, Craig Ball, Recommind and everybody else making e-discovery predictions/trends-to-watch in 2011, The Posse List presents its 10.5 e-discovery (and other) predictions for 2011.  1.  E-discovery vendors abandon the idea of end to end e-discovery and return to concept of “one trick pony” (“We can scan that for [...]

Our team arrived in NYC yesterday for LegalTech New York.  It opens today (February 1st) for 3 days.  It will be held at The Hilton New York (1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York  1-212-586-7000). The show is presented by ALM Events, a producer of educational and networking events.  And most of us know ALM [...]

  In the latter part of the last decade — ok, the fall of 2009 — we completed what we call the trifecta:  full coverage of three of the premier electronically stored information (ESI) and e-discovery events for the litigation industry:  The Masters Conference (click here), the ACC Annual Meeting (click here), and the Georgetown Law Advanced [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

                  E-discovery guru Mary Mack, Corporate Technology Counsel for Fios Inc., has a free ebook for you to download.  The book is titled A Process of Illumination: The Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery. In this updated version, author Mary Mack does a masterful job of organizing, sharing, and explaining key information related to the expanding field of [...]

There has been much discussion recently about the emerging litigation support profession.  The profession has evolved over the last 10 years right along with the growth of electronic discovery. Estimates indicate that there are over 10,000 litigation support professionals (LSP) in the U.S.   They operate at the intersection of law and technology, helping to steward ESI through processing, analysis, [...]