Link to press release: Dallas, TX (PRWEB) January 9, 2008 — InterLegis, Inc., a Dallas-based innovator of Web-based litigation technologies, today announced the addition of Visual Analytics review capability to its flagship product, Discovery360™. This is the next evolutionary phase of electronic discovery technology. The company has developed a unique, visual approach as a means to both search and review discovery databases. This new technology offers graphical mapping of the data, making the entire review process easier, faster, and more enjoyable. Read the rest of this entry »

Link to press release:  Sterling, VA (OPENPRESS) January 15, 2008 — The Investigative and Litigation Support Services segment of First Advantage Corporation (NASDAQ: FADV), a global risk mitigation and business solutions provider, today announced that it will unveil Global RPM™, the newly renamed version of its market-leading electronic discovery review tool, at LegalTech® New York 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

Link to press release:  Dallas, TX (OPENPRESS) January 3, 2008 — InterLegis, Inc., an innovator of Web-based digital document management services, today announced the release of its latest white paper, “Using ‘Document Personalities’ to Speed Electronic Discovery Review” by InterLegis President Kevin Carr. The paper discusses one of the newest methods available today in the evolution of discovery review technology – leveraging document personalities for relationship mining to further streamline and speed the process of review. Read the rest of this entry »

Link to press release:  Dallas, TX (PRWEB) January 3, 2008 — InterLegis, Inc., an innovator of Web-based digital document management services, today announced the unique “relationship mining” feature available through Discovery360™, the company’s flagship e-discovery processing, culling and review application. Relationship mining allows users to identify distinctive relationships shared by documents in a collection. Using this new feature, reviewers can retrieve the attributes of any document or document list, quickly finding related documents - those that share relevant “common threads” - with one click of a mouse. Read the rest of this entry »

Press release:  Annandale VA. – 12/11/2007 – LitSoft, Inc. (www.litsoftinc.com) today announced plans to release LitScope; the electronic discovery industry’s first Web 2.0 electronically stored information (ESI) review platform. LitScope will be officially unveiled to the public in February at LegalTech New York. Read the rest of this entry »

Article about interview with Marc Eisner, Senior Consultant to SPi Technologies, posted on The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, December 2007:

The Editor interviews Marc Eisner, Senior Consultant to SPi Technologies.

Editor: Would you tell our readers a little about your professional experience?…

Article by Courtney Ingraffia Barton, Esq., LexisNexis Applied Discovery, posted on The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, December 2007:

E-discovery is big business: according to the 2007 Socha-Gelbmann survey it is anticipated that spending on e-discovery will reach $2.45 billion in 2007 and grow at a rate of around 30 percent annually. Although this is a reality that most corporate counsel have been desperately attempting to address for a few years, this issue is just now appearing on the radars of many c-level executives and boards of directors who are wondering how it has come to pass that companies are spending so much on discovery. Not surprisingly, there is enormous pressure from the corporations to reduce these skyrocketing costs….

Article by Bobby Malhotra, Esq., Senior Project Manager, Professional Services Group, Encore Legal Solutions, posted on Encore Legal Solutions:

Introduction

Privilege review is usually one of the most critical and sensitive aspects of the document review process.  Inadvertent production of privileged documents can result in waiver of privilege for the produced materials. If these protections are waived, any privileged documents disclosed may be deemed waived for all purposes, not only as it relates to the current matter but also as a basis for new civil filings. While the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure do provide some structure to resolve the dispute if a party inadvertently produces privileged material–and notifies the adversary–a much safer strategy is to make sure that privileged documents are not produced in the first place.

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Article by Richard Raysman and Peter Brown posted on Law.com, November 13, 2007:

Over-stuffed file cabinets that hold business records and personal information have been replaced by compact computer hard drives that offer easy and convenient storage of and access to a variety of items, including correspondence, forms, memos, photos, account information and Internet transactions.

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Press release:  New York, NY – November 1, 2007 – The Glenmont Group, the New York metropolitan area’s leading provider of legal technology staffing services, today announced the addition of contract attorney placement to their portfolio of services for law firms and corporations in New York and New Jersey.  Temporary attorneys are primarily utilized for document review, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, litigation support and legal consulting. The new service group will be headed by Kate Potters, co-founder of The Glenmont Group. Read the rest of this entry »