Monthly Archives: January 2024

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Mikki Tomlinson. Published: 2012-10-08 09:00:08  I had the pleasure of participating in the fourth of the five 2012 Executive Counsel Institute (ECI) Corporate Exchange meetings last month in Houston.  I have been attending the ECI meetings for a number of years now and never tire of them.  While the agenda is the same for each of the five 2012 events, [...]

Last week, TransPerfect Legal Solutions acquired eDiscovery software provider Digital Reef for an undisclosed amount. Traditionally, TransPerfect has been know for its legal translation solutions, giving the company presence in multi‐language court cases. The company also has eDiscovery and court reporting services. Digital Reef provides software for collection, processing, analysis, and first‐pass review of data.

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Karl Schieneman. Published: 2012-10-10 18:20:34  Nothing with law and technology combined comes with ease (or "E's" as I put in the title).  It should come as no surprise, then, that one of the biggest challenges in the technology-assisted review (TAR) space is how to educate a critical mass of lawyers about how to work with newer technologies.TAR methodologies require some [...]

In response to multiple client inquiries about eDiscovery education and certification programs, eDJ Group ran a survey on the topic this past summer. The survey sought to understand the available eDiscovery and related information governance education, certification and training programs. What we found is that the eDiscovery education market is just beginning to form and that the programs available are deep and complex; far too deep for eDJ cover each program in depth. Instead, we will share our findings throughout a series of articles in the hopes that data will help inform decisions and start fruitful conversations and debates.

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Greg Buckles. Published: 2012-10-16 08:55:11  Can you really place legal holds on email hosted in Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud offering? A recent request from a long time client made me think long and hard about this question. I will leave the many other questions to consider before migrating your data to the cloud for future articles so that we can [...]

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Babs Deacon. Published: 2012-10-17 07:30:00  Job description:  "Senior eDiscovery professional, JD preferred."  To a non-attorney, this is an unsettling trend. During my career, I've spent many years working with litigation attorneys who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into using, not just automated discovery tools, but basic project management procedures. Based on that experience, this new trend seems to [...]

Before I get a string of emails from my fellow experts and friends in the field, I must add that creating new processes in law is never easy because of the barriers pointed out earlier in this post. Also, the additional skills of understanding technology, statistics and law does make each of us experts, even if we are throwing out competing preferred routes to complete a review and confusing the marketplace. Just like your GPS, the customers end up with three suggested routes to choose from and they all get you from A to Z crossing different types of terrain. But, since lawyers are trained to avoid risk and would rather use “precedent” as opposed to coming up with new solutions, there is a risk of following blindly a single route as gospel without doing some homework about the different routes and their applicability for the specific matter at hand.

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Barry Murphy. Published: 2012-10-19 09:00:40  The heat around various topics in the eDiscovery realm ebbs and flows.  Lately, eDiscoveryJournal has published perspectives on predictive coding, mergers & acquisitions in the eDiscovery space (with a focus on service providers), collection and preservation of social media, and mobile forensics.  All are hot topics, all are deserving of the attention.  Don’t think that [...]

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: . Published: 2012-10-22 09:00:00  It’s always exciting when acquisitions occur as it is a gauge of the maturity of an industry.  The eDJ Group analyst team believes that consolidations in the eDiscovery and legal technology space will accelerate over the next three to five years and we are continuing to track these events as they unfold.  Would there be a [...]

It is not only research firms like eDJ Group that are interested in how law firms are building out eDiscovery practices. We now know of a student at John Carroll University doing a survey on this topic for a class. In an effort to help build a substantial set of data, eDJ Group will aware a $250 gift card to a randomly selected survey participant. It's not just about data, however - we are genuinely interested in this topic because it would seem that law firms are a crossroads. Corporations need law firms to be thought leaders on eDiscovery at the same time as needing to control costs. Law firms need to decide if they are providers of eDiscovery services or consumers of eDiscovery services...or both.