Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C. Deploys Relativity Firm Wide #LTNY #LegalIT

Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C. Deploys Relativity Firm Wide

St. Louis-based law firm selects e-discovery platform for its customizable workflow capabilities, scalability, and ease of use

Press Release – Chicago, IL – January 31, 2011 – kCura today announced that Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C. has implemented Relativity for e-discovery document review. Through customizable workflows and an easy-to-understand user interface, Relativity has greatly accelerated the review process for Greensfelder’s case teams.  

“I’ve never seen a piece of software so quickly and easily search such a large database,” said Dana Kujawa, litigation support manager at Greensfelder. “We have a case containing more than one million records in our system, but with Relativity, it feels like there are only one hundred records. The review platform makes our litigation support team more valuable to the firm.”

Relativity provides Greensfelder with the following benefits:

• Customizable Workflows:  Relativity enables case managers to set up customized workflows for faster review. By simplifying Relativity’s user interface and providing case teams with only the options they need, Greensfelder has greatly reduced their time spent reviewing documents. For example, one of the law firm’s cases required more than 30,000 documents to be produced in a limited time frame. With Relativity, eight of Greensfelder’s attorneys were able to complete this review in less than three days.

 

• Scalability:  Relativity gives users the scalability to handle the industry’s most complex e-discovery projects.  With the ability to expand capacity quickly, Relativity has allowed Greensfelder to take million-document cases and place them in a centralized location for analysis, review, and production. 

 

• Ease of Use:  Relativity’s native review features, advanced search capabilities, and streamlined user interface contribute to the platform’s ease-of-use. With minimal training, Greensfelder’s attorneys are able to quickly navigate from document to document in order to make decisions during review.

“It is clear that Greensfelder’s first priority is to fully understand their clients’ legal issues and business goals,” said Andrew Sieja, president and CEO of kCura. “It’s fantastic to see the firm already experiencing success with Relativity, and we look forward to working with them as they continue to provide excellent litigation support solutions to their clients.

About kCura

kCura are the developers of the e-discovery software Relativity. Relativity is a web-based platform servicing the analysis, review, and production stages of the EDRM. In addition to document review, Relativity powers kCura’s legal hold management solution, Method, which is a workflow and notification system designed to manage legal hold and risk assessment processes. kCura helps corporations, law firms, and government agencies with e-discovery challenges by installing Relativity and Method on-premises, as well as providing hosted, on-demand solutions through a global network of partners in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. For more information about Relativity and Method, contact kCura at info@kcura.com or visit www.kcura.com.

By Guest Blogger: kCura

Law Firms Improve Staff Efficiency & Collaberation w/ Riverbed WAN Optimization #LTNY #LegalIT

Riverbed to Showcase Award-Winning IT Performance Solutions at LegalTech 2011

Law Firms Improve Staff Efficiency and Collaboration, While Lowering IT Costs with Riverbed WAN Optimization Solutions

 

Riverbed Technology, the IT performance company, today announced its participation at LegalTech New York 2011, taking place today through February 2 at the Hilton New York Hotel in New York City.  LegalTech attendees can visit the Riverbed booth #408 to learn how the company’s wide area network (WAN) optimization and network and application visibility solutions enable acceleration of applications and data for branch offices, data centers and mobile workers, as well as virtualized, private and public cloud environments.  The company will feature its recently announced cloud-based solutions – Virtual Steelhead™, Riverbed Cloud Steelhead™ and Riverbed Whitewater® – describing how these are being leveraged to improve worker efficiency and collaboration, while lowering costs.

 

As law firms move towards cloud-based IT infrastructures to further reduce costs and increase efficiencies, only Riverbed can help unleash the power of cloud-based computing by accelerating the process of migrating data and applications to the cloud and speeding up access to that data and those applications from anywhere. Riverbed is also the only vendor with an end-to-end IT performance solution that allows customers to understand application performance over networks, optimize the performance of those applications and then intelligently consolidate their IT into private or public clouds.

 

Today, more than 8,700 enterprises worldwide depend on Riverbed to understand, optimize and consolidate their IT infrastructure. The breadth of the Riverbed product family provides enterprise-wide network and application visibility, unmatched performance for large-scale data center-to-data center replication, “local” performance for remote and mobile workers, and acceleration for private and public cloud environments.

 

With deployments at many of the world’s top globally distributed law firms, Riverbed has achieved a high degree of success in enabling attorneys to more easily collaborate across offices and from remote locations. In addition to speeding file transfers from minutes to mere seconds, Riverbed solutions have helped law firms consolidate and optimize dispersed network infrastructures and maximize WAN utilization, while reducing unnecessary servers. This enables legal workers to eliminate long downloads, reduce non-billable tasks and improve client response times, while also reducing bandwidth expenses.”

 

Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP, a a national Labor and Employment law firm with more than 125 lawyers spread across 22 offices, deployed Riverbed WAN optimization to improve the efficiency of their IT infrastructure across their entire enterprise with the adoption of a private cloud computing strategy. After installing Riverbed Steelhead appliances with the Riverbed Services Platform (RSP) – a Steelhead appliance that allows enterprises the ability to run up to five additional services and applications virtually in a protected partition - in each office, the firm was able to consolidate and virtualize remote servers, while eliminating the expense and difficulty of remotely managing hardware and software. Significant cost savings were achieved in both capital outlay for a planned server replacement and in monthly operating expenditures for the servers and network.

 

“Riverbed was the perfect fit to enable us to move to a centralized, private-cloud model for all IT services,” said David Grow, Director of Information Technology at Constangy, Brooks & Smith.  “We were able to leverage better utilization from our WAN without having to increase WAN costs.  In addition, the RSP allowed us to replace all of our 5U mid-range servers with 1U virtualized appliances, move all of the data to our Atlanta headquarters and still get better performance.”

 

In November 2010, Riverbed introduced three new products to address the growing demands of the global enterprise. 

 

• Virtual Steelhead™ enables customers to deploy Riverbed WAN optimization solutions in a broader range of environments that may have specialized requirements, such as ruggedized environments or environments with space limitations, as well as data centers that have been heavily virtualized.

 

• Riverbed Cloud Steelhead™ instances accelerate the process of migrating data and applications to the public cloud, and accelerate access to that data and those applications from anywhere.

 

• The Riverbed Whitewater™ appliance provides organizations with a fast, secure and cost-efficient method to seamlessly integrate cloud storage into their existing backup infrastructure and disaster recovery (DR) strategies.

 

About Riverbed

Riverbed Technology is the IT performance company. The Riverbed family of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions liberates businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide network and application visibility – all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. Thousands of companies with distributed operations use Riverbed to make their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive and more responsive. Additional information about Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.  

 

Riverbed and any Riverbed product or service name or logo used herein are trademarks of Riverbed Technology, Inc.  All other trademarks used herein belong to their respective owners.

By Guest Blogger: Riverbed Technology

LegalTech NY: A panel of Judges weighs in on embracing technology

Day one of LegalTech New York continues...

 

The plenary general session offered an interesting perspective of technology in the legal industry by a panel of judges. The session titled, “Why the Legal Industry Needs to Change and Embrace Technology,” was moderated by Joseph FitzGerald of Symantec Corporation and featured Hon. Dennis M. Sweeney, Hon. David J. Waxse, and Hon. Ron Hedges.

 

The judges discussed such issues as evolving industry standards and what one referred to as the “consumerization” of IT – where employees (and their employers) seek to consolidate personal and work-related applications, devices, etc. and the ramifications of that.

 

Judge Waxse discussed the need to use technology in the context of having “just, speedy and inexpensive” trials, reminding the audiences that case issues should drive the use of technology which means that counsel must agree at the onset of exactly what those issues ultimately are.

 

Judge Sweeney talked about the impact of social media on trials, sharing some interesting examples of jurors being disqualified mid-trial as a result of their activities on social networking outlets including Facebook and Twitter. His Honor advised that lawyers need to catch up to modern day juries in the ways of technology – a good suggestion as it will help them better serve their clients in the long run.

RenewData and kCura team to reduce cost of review #LTNY #LegalIT

RenewData®, a leading provider of eDiscovery, archiving and review-acceleration solutions, today announced the release of Vestigate Elite and Vestigate Pro, new hosted solutions that dramatically streamline the review process by combining the power of RenewData’s proprietary content analytics and review tool with Relativity, the review platform from kCura. The combined solution, exclusively available from RenewData, provides clients with greater transparency into why decisions are being made, improved tagging consistency, greater analysis of the language of a case, and significantly lower total review cost.

By Guest Blogger: RenewData

EMS integrates with Tandberg to coordinated video conference management. #LTNY #LegalIT

When a law firm has clients around the world or a second office on the other side of town, it can make a lot of sense to hold video conferences rather than spend the time and money it takes to meet in person.

But video conferencing still takes coordination and presents a different set of challenges – equipment availability and reservations, not to mention knowing what time it is in Australia or wherever your conference attendees may be.

EMS and TMS streamline the video conference process.

By Guest Blogger: EMS Software By Dean Evans & Associates

CaseCentral and Mitratech Announce Strategic Legal Management and eDiscovery Alliance #LTNY #LegalIT

CaseCentral and Mitratech announce a strategic alliance to combine CaseCentral’s eDiscovery  platform with Mitratech’s TeamConnect Legal Suite.  The joint offering provides corporations with the most comprehensive legal management platform available to meet complex litigation, regulatory compliance, matter management and e-Billing challenges across the phases of eDiscovery.

By Guest Blogger: CaseCentral Inc

The Edge Room's Daily Alert: LegalTech New York Day 1

The Edge Room is here to provide you with a daily overview of interesting events and news surrounding LegalTech New York!

• Where the parties are at
• Vendor Buzz
• Top Blog Posts and Tweets
• Highlight your session, party, tweet or blog

Where the Parties are AT!

MONDAY: Wave Software and Intelligent Discovery Solutions presents a B-Discovery Event When: 9pm, just 2 blocks from the New York Hilton Where: Touch NYC, 240 W 52nd St, New York, NY 10019 Who can come: Join us at Touch NYC, one of the top clubs in NYC, on Monday, January 31st. The doors will open at 9pm for an evening of music, drinks and merriment featuring the exciting tracks of DJ Pat Premier. The first 100 people to arrive will get a free CD. This year there will be a nominal donation of $10 at the door. This year marks the 4th annual all-chapter reception and party in New York benefiting the Harwood Center. To register for this event, visit www.partynyc.org MONDAY: Fios is hosting a cocktail reception When: 6pm - 8pm Where: Remi Restaurant, 144 West 54th Street, New York, NY, 10019 (private room entrance). Who can come: Litigation support professionals, lawyers, paralegals, representatives of government and judges. Be our guest for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres and to hear top e-discovery experts make predictions for the future! TUESDAY: Organization of Legal Profession is offering a Meet 'N Greet Breakfast When: 7am - 8:45am Where: Georgio's Country Grill, 801 Ninth Ave. on the corner of 53rd (only 3 blocks from LegalTech) New York, NY Who can come: Legal Professionals Please RSVP as seating is limited: chere.estrin@theolp.org Be sure to include email, name, firm, and contact information. Sponsored by GGO LLC/Digital War Room, you will meet other members, discuss the most exciting 2011 events and meet the folks who have been instrumental in assisting us in certification exams, courses, publications and plans for the future. Bill Gallivan, CEO of GGO LLC and popular instructor in our eDiscovery@Work courses, will bring us up-to-date on some of the latest technology. We'd also like to introduce the Board at the meeting. TUESDAY: Access Staffing Presents Live Music and Open Bar for Legal Tech 2011 When: Tue, Feb 01, 8pm - 12:30am Where: The Mean Fiddler, 8th Ave & W 47th St, New York, NY 98107 Who can come: Anyone attending Legal Tech 2011 or anyone in the eDiscovery/Litigation Support/Legal Services/Legal technology Consulting/Law Firm technology space.... If you would like to be included on the "OFFICIAL EVITE" please send an email with the subject line- Legal Tech Invite 2011 to ld@accessnyc.com

 

Vendor Buzz

Wave Software (booth #3308) Acquires iFramework Wolters Kluwer Law & Business (booth 234-235) Launches New IntelliConnect Enhancements DocSolid® (booth #315) Announces Airmail2® Enterprise Scanning for Law Firms Biscom (booth 1321) Provides Law Firms Secure Collaboration Capabilities with SharePoint Integration Legal Service Providers Association Launches to Help Companies Increase Knowledge, Performance and Profits Navigant Selects InControl™ by Reveal (Sky Suite #3) for Electronic Discovery Technology Hot Neuron LLC (booth 2118) announces the release of version 2.3 of its Clustify(TM) software Business Intelligence Associates, Inc. (booth 1301) introduces TotalDiscovery.com Synaptec Software (booth 311) announces the arrival of LawBase Concierge - automatic processing and more Huron Consulting Group (booths 2003.2007.2009.2300.2304.2306) Launches Sp3ctrum Tweets & Blogs Look Who's Tweeting about LegalTech Gabe Acevedo Ron Friedmann Sean Doherty Legal IT Professionals Greg Buckles/eDiscovery Journal DeloitteTechnol Danny Johnson netdocuments Biscomds Liquid Litigation Management Inc Workshare Inc StoredIQ Fios AccessDataGroup Oce` IronMountain CommVault Reveal Data Corporation Look Who's Blogging about LegalTech Brett Burney Gabe Acevedo Michael Arkfeld Chris Dale Ron Friedmann Sean Doherty Charles Christian Greg Buckles/eDiscovery Journal NetDocuments much DiscoverReady Biscom Delivery Server LiquidLitigation Workshare StoredIQ DiscoveryResources eDiscovery Insight Oce`   Want to highlight your session? Click here. Want to tell everyone about your party? Click here. Want to highlight your blog? Click here.

Bloomberg Launches Real-time Compliance with Bloomberg Vault #LTNY #LegalIT

BLOOMBERG LAUNCHES REAL-TIME COMPLIANCE WITH BLOOMBERG VAULT

More than 160 financial services firms have adopted Bloomberg Vault

Bloomberg Vault reduces costs and burdens of message archiving

New York, January 31, 2010 -- Bloomberg, the leader in financial services messaging, today announced a new real-time search and analytics console for Bloomberg Vault, the first compliance solution to integrate real-time monitoring,  search analytics, and archiving of Bloomberg messaging and corporate email.  Bloomberg Professional® service executives made the announcement at the LegalTech® conference where they are exhibiting at booth #432.

 "Selecting the right service provider for important compliance, archiving, and eDiscovery processes is critical," said Andrew Wels, chief compliance officer and associate general counsel at Cantor Fitzgerald. "We leverage Bloomberg's proven and cost-effective compliance solutions such as Bloomberg Vault to help stay on top of the ever-changing regulatory environment. Bloomberg's real-time search and content analytics allow our firm to quickly respond to legal and regulatory requests."Bloomberg Vault is a hosted solution with compliance retention services, active policy management, extensive search capabilities, analytics and information governance for corporate email and instant messages, as well as all messaging content on the Bloomberg Professional ® service. “Financial services companies face growing challenges coping with new regulatory requirements, rising litigation risks and swelling volumes of communications,'' said Harald Collet, global business manager of Bloomberg Vault. "As a leader in messaging, we have the experience and expertise to offer an easy, cost-effective and secure way to monitor, search and store their critical information.” 

The new Bloomberg Vault leverages the reliability, security and scalability of Bloomberg's global private network, including biometric authentication of users for security and redundant data centers for disaster recovery. Key Bloomberg Vault functionality includes:

• Support for all enterprise messaging, including Microsoft Exchange email and corporate instant messaging together with Bloomberg messaging data
• Real-time policy management that can automatically supervise communication against pre-defined rules, identifying messages that may require further review.
• Review consoles to manage the entire compliance workflow, including advanced search, policy management, sampling, stamping, escalation, and comprehensive reporting.
• eDiscovery, retention, and legal hold, which allow companies to manage retention with customized policies, support eDiscovery processes, ensure chain-of-custody, and avoid inadvertent deletion of potentially responsive data with compliance storage.

"We have been able to replace our in-house deployed legacy archiving and compliance systems with a fully hosted solution from Bloomberg Vault for all our corporate electronic communications," said Andy Birdsell, vice president of information technology at Incapital. "The integrated real-time search, analytics, and industry-specific policy management gives us instant access to all our content in one place. We have significantly reduced our costs and improved compliance by consolidating with Bloomberg."

Subscribers to the Bloomberg Professional® service may access Bloomberg Vault at BVLT .  Non-subscribers can get more information by contacting Bloomberg Vault sales by calling +1-212-617-6580, emailing vaultsales@bloomberg.net or by visiting http://www.bloomberg.com/solutions/bloomberg_enterprise/bloomberg_vault/

About Bloomberg

Bloomberg is the world’s most trusted source of information for financial professionals and businesses. Bloomberg combines innovative technology with unmatched analytic, data, news, display and distribution capabilities, to deliver critical information via the Bloomberg Professional service and multimedia platforms. Bloomberg's media properties span television, radio, digital and print, making up one of the world’s largest news organizations with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries.

 

 

By Guest Blogger: Bloomberg

IKON Office Solutions Signs Agreement as Exclusive Distributor of Remlox #LTNY #LegalIT

Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions, today announced that IKON Office Solutions, a Ricoh company, has entered into an agreement with Hill Schwartz Spilker Keller LLC (HSSK) to be the exclusive provider of Remlox remote acquisition technology in the United States.  Remlox is a patent pending PC data forensics software product developed by HSSK.  As the exclusive provider of the Remlox technology in the U.S., IKON leverages HSSK's broad expertise in collection and data processing along with their innovative technology.  Utilizing the Remlox technology allows IKON's customers to save time and money while acquiring data related to litigation or related investigations in a defensible manner.

By Guest Blogger: IKON Office Solutions, Inc., a Ricoh Company

LegalTech Day 1 Keynote Session Highlights Taking Time to Understand Priorities

LegalTech New York 2011 kicked off this morning with a keynote address sponsored by KPMG and Content Analyst. The session, titled, “Legal vs. IT: Turn the Battle into a Solution to Meet Compliance,” was delivered by Gabriel Buigas, Deputy General Counsel at Hewlett-Packard Company. Key highlights from this morning's keynote session include:

• Many companies struggle with a disconnect between IT and legal departments, as each has different priorities along with different scorecards and metrics. IT departments seek to improve information management and system performance, along with shifting their spend from maintenance to innovation. Legal departments are focused on compliance and risk management. 

• Mr. Buigas shared some real-world examples of HP’s legal and IT departments working together on successful projects: the implementation of an electronic records management system, establishment of a regulatory compliance process, and updating/consolidating legal IT applications. Critical success factors in each included identifying shared goals, addressing issues that arose before they became escalated, and understanding one another’s challenges and providing assistance to overcome those. He also discussed the importance of establishing project management teams, creating detailed business requirements, and the often over-looked step of training and communication. 

• The overriding message: IT and legal departments must take the time to understand one another’s priorities, which will help identify mutual interests and foster a collaborative working environment for almost any project.