Press release:  Leading E-Discovery Consulting Firm to Adopt Innovative New Legal Hold and E-Discovery Solution

Chicago, Illinois, October 29, 2007 – DiscoveryBox announced today that its integrated legal hold and e-discovery software product has been selected by Strategic Discovery, Inc. (Strategic Discovery) to be implemented on a beta test basis.  Strategic Discovery, a consulting firm that provides litigation and records management services to global Fortune 500 companies, is interested in the ability of DiscoveryBox to assist its clients in streamlining their e-discovery processes and in reducing e-discovery costs. Read the rest of this entry »

Press release: Findings also Suggest that Costly Storage Resources are Wasted Archiving Messages that are Deemed ‘Unimportant’

SAN FRANCISCO, October 9, 2007 – Recommind, a leading provider of enterprise search, automatic categorization and eDiscovery systems for law firms and enterprises, today released the findings of a recent study conducted with analyst firm Osterman Research, which reveals that many North American organizations may not be prepared to meet the eDiscovery requirements of litigation or regulatory investigations. The research also shows that costly storage resources are spent stockpiling email messages that are of little or no value to the organization and could even subject companies to unnecessary exposure in subsequent litigation. These results suggest that such operational challenges are due in large part to antiquated, overly manual email management practices that rely on inefficient and ineffective identification of content by the user. Read the rest of this entry »

Blog entry by Ralph Losey posted on e-Discovery Team, October 6, 2007:

A new survey of records managers by Cohasset reveals continued neglect in the management of electronic records. The survey shows 40% of organizations do not include electronic records in their retention schedules and 55% do not include emails; only 14% always follow their records retention policy; 44% do not include electronic records in their litigation hold procedures; and, 46% do not think their electronic records are accurate, reliable or trustworthy. 

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Webinar:  Central time.  MessageOne Inc. Read the rest of this entry »

Electronic discovery webinar:  Central time.  Mimosa Systems, Inc. Read the rest of this entry »

Press release, September 26, 2007:  PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced new solutions and services to its Business Technology portfolio that help customers better manage and optimize business information as well as their technology infrastructures.

The new offerings help CIOs accelerate better business outcomes by mitigating risk in electronic data discovery and compliance, driving growth through better alignment of IT and business, and lowering cost through better use of data center assets. Read the rest of this entry »

Press release, June 18, 2007:  SAN ANTONIO, TX . — Transportation has evolved from the horse to supersonic jets.  So has communications from the town crier to the Internet.   Yet, Lee Johnson, the chief executive officer of Mind Talent, Inc., said reading has not evolved in the 600 years since the Gutenberg Press’ first production of the Bible.  Johnson and his San Antonio, TX., based company hope to revolutionize that way people comprehend the written word with a computer based product. Working with MC 2, another San Antonio technology company, Johnson has created the first Mind Talent product, designed for those who need to read a lot of documents at 300 to 600 words a minute instead of the customary 100 to 150 words per minute.    Johnson will officially release the software June 21st at the ALM Legal Tech conference in Los Angeles. Read the rest of this entry »

Press release:  Modern accurate retention program fast track to modern enterprise retention management

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – September 4, 2007 – PSS Systems, providers of Atlas LCC and Atlas ERM, announced that an advanced retention kit has been made available for financial services companies.  Developed by a leading law firm for a leading global financial services company, the retention kit includes a comprehensive set of retention schedules and a library of legal citations to support the schedules.  The kit is an excellent accelerator to a sophisticated, accurate retention program for all financial services companies, particularly given the commonality in records classes and applicable laws in the industry.  The retention schedule set covers the 288 classes of records typically found in global financial companies; each retention schedule on the specific laws that drive its retention period. Read the rest of this entry »

Article by Brad Harris posted on Computer Technology Review: The slow and relentless march to gain control over the information assets of a corporation…enabling users to more efficiently collaborate and share information…facilitating records management principles to the world of electronic data… Read the rest of this entry »

Press release, May 30, 2007:  Atlas LCC Litigation Communications and Collections Software Enables Corporations to Confidently Implement Legal Holds While Reducing the Burden of Litigation

BELLEVUE, Wash. & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–LexisNexis, a leading provider of information and services solutions, and PSS Systems, the market leader in legal holds and document retention management software, today announced an agreement whereby the LexisNexis® Discovery Services group will offer PSS Systems’ Atlas LCC™ litigation communications and collections software to its corporate e-discovery clients. Read the rest of this entry »