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, [...]

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 [...]

27 August 2010 — The Posse List team was in Las Vegas this week at the annual International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) conference, led by our Chief Technology Officer Scott Madsen.   It is a four and a half day event with a packed agenda and we find it to be the best event of the year (and each [...]

In an effort to cut expenses, WilmerHale has decided to “in-source” its business operations to Dayton, Ohio.  But other law firms could also benefit from relocating support staff and even attorneys to less costly locales beyond the urban hubs according to an article in yesterday’s Law360.   The WilmerHale facilities, which are slotted to open in September, [...]

Updated March 20, 2010 from our original March 13, 2010 post Last week saw the release of the 2,200-page report by Anton Valukas on the Lehman Brothers collapse.  Valukas was appointed examiner by the U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee probing the reasons for Lehman’s failure in September 2008. Note: Examiners in bankruptcy cases are appointed to investigate accusations of [...]

                       The Morgan Lewis eData team and Recommind are sponsoring what looks to be a very informative live seminar on March 18th (next Thursday) at 4:00pm in the New York offices of Morgan Lewis.   The seminar will focus on successfully leveraging technology to improve early case assessment (ECA), preservation, collection, and document review. For the Morgan Lewis team:  Stephanie “Tess” Blair [...]

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.   Craig Carpenter, Vice President of Marketing for Recommind, oversees all aspects of marketing at Recommind. He has extensive experience in the enterprise software,  information security, and eDiscovery industries, [...]

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 [...]

From the December 2009 issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel® Bob Tennant is the Chief Executive Officer at Recommind, a position he has held since late 2001.  His thoughts on litigation support and e-discovery trends: As we approach the end of a difficult year in 2009, there is no better time to reflect on the [...]

  With two major conferences back-to-back, The Masters Conference (click here) and the ACC Annual Meeting (click here) we have been a bit pressed for time to write up our thoughts on both plus all the interviews we conducted at each. We agree with Brett Burney’s observation:  vendors at the Masters Conference seemed to emphasize a general [...]