George J. Socha, Jr., Esq.


2008 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey

Top Electronic Discovery Service Providers - By Experience, Capacity, Corporate & Law Firm Ranking

The overview results of the 2008 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey Report are available here in summary form. The full report - 360 pages long - is available for purchase.

The public report was in the August issue of Law Technology News and is on LTN's website at Law Technology News.

Survey rankings can be searched at http://www.sochaconsulting.com/topproviders.php

The Warning

Once again, we offer lists of leading EDD services and software providers. We stress, however, that anyone who makes buying decisions primarily on these rankings is a fool.

As with any top-X list, it is important to keep these lists in context and use them only as appropriate. You should not choose a provider based solely on these lists, or solely on the basis of any other top-X list. The factors we examined may not apply to your circumstances, and mostly likely will not apply with the specific weightings and ratings we used. In addition, you will have needs and considerations we could not have taken into account.

It also is important to note that our evaluation model relies heavily on information provided through interviews or questionnaires (spreadsheets). We recognize that there are other vendors with the qualifications to rank within the top X, however the data on them was not available to us. Some providers, including prominent ones, did not provide any data and others, including prominent ones, provided only limited information.

The Rankings

Following are electronic discovery service provider rankings by top-level category for four of the sets of criteria we used - experience, capacity, corporate and law firm rankings:

1-5 = 1-5   = 6-10   = 11-20   = Listing at Socha Consulting vendor page

Provider Experience Capacity Corporate Rankings Law Firm Rankings Listing
ALC Legal Technologies
11-20
AlphaLit, a Division of Alpha Systems
11-20
Anacomp, Inc.
11-20
Autonomy ZANTAZ
6-10
11-20
6-10
CaseCentral, Inc.
6-10
11-20
Catalyst Repository Systems, Inc.
11-20
Computer Forensic Services
11-20
1-5
Daticon
6-10
11-20
Discovery Mining Inc.
11-20
1-5
DTI Global (Document Technologies, Inc.)
11-20
Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc.
1-5
11-20
11-20
11-20
eMag Solutions
11-20
Encore Discovery Solutions
11-20
1-5
1-5
Epiq Systems, Inc.
11-20
6-10
11-20
6-10
Equivalent Data
11-20
Ernst & Young
6-10
1-5
Fios, Inc.
1-5
6-10
6-10
Focus Solutions
11-20
FTI Consulting
11-20
11-20
1-5
Guidance Software, Inc.
6-10
1-5
6-10
Huron Consulting Group
1-5
11-20
IE Discovery, Inc.
1-5
Integreon Managed Solutions, Inc.
6-10
Ivize
11-20
Kiersted/Systems, Inc.
1-5
11-20
KPMG LLP
1-5
1-5
11-20
Kroll Ontrack
1-5
1-5
LDiscovery
11-20
LexisNexis
11-20
1-5
1-5
LuciData, Inc.
11-20
Merrill Corporation
11-20
11-20
Océ Business Services
11-20
11-20
ONSITE3
11-20
11-20
Pitney Bowes Legal Solutions
1-5
11-20
6-10
Renew Data Corp.
6-10
6-10
6-10
SPi
6-10
11-20
Stratify, Inc.
1-5
11-20
Symantec Corporation
11-20
TechLaw Solutions
6-10
6-10
11-20
TRILANTIC
11-20
Xact Data Discovery
6-10