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:  /PRZOOM - Newswire/ - Tusker Group, a legal document review company providing high-quality and cost-effective solutions to corporate counsels and law firms, has become an Attenex Advantage™ Review Partner to serve its clients in the sphere of electronic document review.

Austin, TX, United States, 10/25/2007 – As a Review Partner, Tusker Group now offers a training and certification program to certify attorneys in the use of Attenex® Patterns® E-Discovery Software to identify and review electronic legal documents. Read the rest of this entry »

Article by Rich Wersinger posted on Fios‘ The Electronic Discovery Counselor:

In helping clients develop effective strategies and approaches for managing review during e-discovery, we have developed a list of hints and tips that can make the process more efficient and successful. Following are three scenarios and approaches that can be applied in your future e-discovery engagements:…

Press release:  Attorneys Can Manage Complex Data with Higher Performance to Drive Review Rates and Efficiencies

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – October 1, 2007 – Stratify, Inc., one of the largest providers of electronic discovery services, announced today the release of the Stratify Legal Discovery™ 8.0 service optimized to handle complex documents and large-scale eDiscovery matters. The new version enables attorneys to more efficiently review complex documents, including compound documents (such as Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF documents that contain other documents) and Microsoft Office documents containing hidden metadata. These improvements help prevent the inadvertent waiver of privilege or release of damaging materials. The Stratify Legal Discovery 8.0 service also enables attorneys to overcome existing search limitations in the legal industry with multi-byte foreign languages (such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) to retrieve more accurate and complete search results and to begin reviewing documents 40% faster based on improved processing performance. Read the rest of this entry »

Press release, September 27, 2007:  iCONECT’s compatibility with SynthetixND enables legal teams to streamline their review of near-duplicate documents. Use SynthetixND (from Syngence Corporation) to identify near-duplicates and then load that data into iCONECT (from iCONECT Development, LLC) where the documents can be reviewed and coded in bulk to save time and ensure consistent treatment. Read the rest of this entry »

Article by Jerry F. Barbanel and Thomas W. Avery posted on Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, October 2007:

The review and production phases of an electronic discovery project are laden with minefields destined to trap unsuspecting counsel. Effective project and time management are among the practical solutions that can significantly impact the outcome of a case and the related expenses. Equally critical is having an understanding of potential traps that can delay the processes and require the need for additional resources….

Press release: Litigation Teams Can More Efficiently and Cost-effectively Review Large Collections of Documents in their Native File Formats

NEW YORK, N.Y. (October 1, 2007) – Océ Business Services, Inc. today announced that it has incorporated an integrated native file electronic document review capability into its electronic discovery platform. This enhanced functionality will help corporations and law firms increase productivity, lower risk, and significantly reduce costs. Read the rest of this entry »

Article by Conrad J. Jacoby posted in LLRX.com, September 28, 2007:

Civil litigation in the United States is a largely self-policing activity that requires litigants to trust that their opponents are playing by the same rules as they are. Through the interface of their legal counsel, litigants who may personally (and deeply) dislike each other are nonetheless expected to cooperate in arranging the parameters of fact discovery and other logistical aspects of a case. And amazingly, more often than not, this system actually works. Sometimes, though, a party may strongly believe that their opponents are holding back relevant discovery materials in violation of their legal obligations to turn them over. If the materials are thought to be important enough, one option open to requesting parties under both federal and state rules of civil procedure is to ask the judge to permit them to inspect the materials directly instead of relying on the producing party to organize the materials for them. Such requests have been made for both hardcopy and electronic materials for many years, though somewhat remarkably for the constantly-evolving law of e-discovery, most courts have consistently denied this relief, finding it unwarranted and overly intrusive….

Article by Mark Reichenbach posted on Law Technology Today, September 2007: Concept search and content analysis could be the ideal electronic document review technology if executed properly. While trepidation and misconception have kept the legal community from adopting these discovery strategies, now this technology has the opportunity to become standard practice, that is, once we clear away the miasma of ambiguity.

In a recent United States District Court decision by Magistrate Judge Facciola, his honor touched upon the use of concept searching by referencing recent scholarship that argues concept searching is “more efficient and more likely to produce comprehensive results” than its counterpart - keyword Boolean searches. While the security and efficacy of concept searching is understood and accepted by some members of the judiciary and bar, it is unknown to or misunderstood by many others. Trepidation by those with little or no experience with concept searching, content analysis, and the underlying technology is understandable. After all, the downside of a poorly executed eDiscovery effort is enormous and can result in the loss of a case, sanctions, and large penalties and monetary awards….

Blog entry posted by Ralph Losey on e-Discovery Team, September 16, 2007:

The Sedona Conference has just released its Best Practices Commentary on the Use of Search and Information Retrieval Methods in E-Discovery (August 2007) for public comments. A copy may be downloaded for personal use. This Best Practices Commentary, like all of the Sedona publications, was written by a committee of expert members of The Sedona Conference, who agreed upon the content and wording. This particular group is called the “Search and Retrieval Sciences Project Team.” Writings by committee are usually an invitation for disaster, but Sedona consistently manages to pull it off, and do a first rate job, primarily, I think, because of the quality of their editors. The Editor-in-Chief for the Search Team is Jason Baron, about whom I have written several times previously, along with Executive Editors Richard Braman and Kenneth Withers, and Senior Editors Thomas Allman, James Daley and George Paul….