DTI Announces it has Become a DocSolid Premier Partner

Increased technology offerings now available for DTI facilities management clients

ATLANTA – January 30, 2013 – DTI, the nation’s largest private independent provider of e-discovery services, facilities management, and knowledge process outsourcing, announced today that it has become a DocSolid Premier Partner. DocSolid’s Premier Partners provide high-value services around the KwikTag Legal scan capture solution.

“This partnership provides DTI clients with a proven solution for converting paper documents into searchable image information across a firm-wide platform for scan capture,” said Robert McAllister, vice president of DTI’s Facilities Management operations. “In addition to day-forward scanning for records management, it provides an efficiency return for firm staff as it relates to converting paper to electronic, with DTI using proven methodologies and staff to accomplish the firm’s document management goals.”

DocSolid’s scan capture solutions increase productivity and reduce operating costs by removing paper from business processes. Its patented process captures paper and integrates images with document management, records management, and business software.

Steve Irons, president of DocSolid, said, “At law firms using KwikTag Legal for enterprise scanning, we have several significant success stories with DTI, where DTI offloads the labor, logistics and audit controls. This model enables a paper-free law firm, and it’s a game changer. Our DTI partnership recognizes a serious service provider for law firms ready to get serious about scanning.”

About DTI
DTI is the nation’s largest independent provider of e-discovery, managed document review, facilities management, and knowledge process outsourcing. DTI serves the nation’s leading law firms and Fortune 500 corporations through its 27 highly secure service centers located in major cities across the United States. For more information, visit www.DTIglobal.com.

About DocSolid
DocSolid creates, sells and supports scanning and document imaging solutions for the legal market, managed print services, and the corporate enterprise. These patented solutions are enterprise-level implementations that streamline paper-burdened business activities and integrate with line-of-business software. DocSolid integrates with leading legal industry solutions, including Autonomy iManage, Open Text, Worldox, Thomson Elite and Aderant. DocSolid represents the industry’s most experienced team of capture experts and serves thousands of worldwide users. Advancing simple, productive ways for clients to do more with less paper™, DocSolid connects people, process and documents. More information about DocSolid, including solution demos, is available at www.docsolid.com.

SpeakWrite can have a dramatic effect on the way you provide document preparation services.

By using SpeakWrite as a supplement or ancillary to your in-house legal word processing staff, you can:

• Shift your word processing capabilities out of your office to us, and refocus your existing staff,
• Immediately fill your needs for word processing staff arising from vacation/absentee/FMLA absences, etc., all on a pay-as-you-go basis
• Immediately provide word processing staff for unexpected spikes in workload, with unlimited staff available any time,
• Use our staff for nights/weekends/holidays and any other periods when your in-house staff is unavailable,
• Realize substantial cost savings from better use of your resources - more mileage from your budgeted dollars,
• Maintain better cost control by eliminating the fixed costs of an additional employee,
• Move all payroll burden and other hidden 'costs' of an employee to someone else - (training, insurance, FICA, etc.), and
• Establish complete flexibility in staffing - never again pay for any capacity not needed.

By Guest Blogger: SpeakWrite

See how SpeakWrite Workflow can boost your team's document management in just weeks.

Imagine a world where you can see all your resources, projects and progress from a simple dashboard, a world where you can manage those resources in real-time and increase capacity with the touch of a button. And all this with no costly servers to maintain or complex software to learn. Welcome to SpeakWrite WorkFlow!

By Guest Blogger: SpeakWrite

SpeakWrite WorkFlow Sees Rapid Deployment to the Cloud by Customer Base

SpeakWrite WorkFlow was launched in August 2012, after a beta period with select customers. The company offers a free, 30 day trial period to all new customers, and it reports today that most customers have deployed the service company wide, often across multiple locations, weeks before the pilot even ends.

By Guest Blogger: SpeakWrite

IDM helps clients capture interactive Web content with Smarsh Web archiving.

IDM helps clients capture interactive Web content with Smarsh Web archiving. Smarsh Web Archiving is designed to capture and preserve the Web experience as it existed at specific points in time. Whether to prepare and protect your company for litication and e-discovery, to comply with regulatory obligations for retention and supervision, or to keep a historical record of the websites that affect your busines.

By Guest Blogger: Smarsh

IDM helps clients capture interactive Web content with Smarsh Web archiving.

IDM helps clients capture interactive Web content with Smarsh Web archiving. Smarsh Web Archiving is designed to capture and preserve the Web experience as it existed at specific points in time. Whether to prepare and protect your company for litication and e-discovery, to comply with regulatory obligations for retention and supervision, or to keep a historical record of the websites that affect your busines.

By Guest Blogger: Smarsh

TeamConnect CompuLaw Integration Saves Time and Mitigates Risk for Corporate Counsel

AUSTIN, Texas, January 30, 2013 – Mitratech, the leader in enterprise legal management solutions including matter management, e-billing and GRC management automation, today announced TeamConnect Deadlines will be available to clients in its forthcoming release.

Since partnering with Aderant in 2012, Mitratech has been working to fully integrate the CompuLaw-powered Deadlines.com engine into its TeamConnect Matter Management solution. With TeamConnect Deadlines, users have access to CompuLaw’s accurate date calculation engine utilizing the most complete, comprehensive database of court rules available on the market. This unique offering that supports automated docketing for litigated matters earned Mitratech a “Highly Innovative” designation in Hyperion Research’s 2013 Enterprise Legal Management MarketView Report.

“We are excited for another Mitratech first in the area of litigation management, for our clients and for the market at large,” said Eric Thurston, Mitratech president. “Through this integration, Mitratech is providing the automated deadline functionality used by most of the top law firms in America to corporate legal departments.”

Corporate legal staff members involved in docketing for litigation will, on average, spend over an hour researching the rules for a single jurisdiction and calculating court dates. The entire process is reduced to a matter of minutes using TeamConnect Deadlines. When combined with TeamConnect’s native rules engine, companies can generate reminders, tasks and run reports to track compliance creating the most powerful solution for managing litigation matters on the market today.

According to a survey from the American Bar Association, calendar and deadline-related errors are the leading cause of malpractice actions against lawyers. A single end-to-end solution not only creates additional efficiencies for legal staff members, but it protects staff attorneys involved in litigation from missing court deadlines which leads to potential malpractice risks.

“Accurately calendaring court dates and deadlines can be complicated and time consuming,” said Mike Barry, Aderant senior vice president. “We are excited to be partnering with Mitratech to bring the Aderant CompuLaw engine to corporate legal departments, providing them the same calendar automation capabilities utilized by top law firms.”

Deadlines.com’s database is monitored by a team of attorneys and specialists who continually check for rule changes and publish hundreds of updates each year. More than 70 percent of the nation’s largest law firms and 75,000 licensed timekeepers use CompuLaw’s technology today.

Mitratech will be present at LegalTech New York on January 29-31 to showcase available solutions, including TeamConnect Deadlines. Visit the Mitratech team at booth 2127 for more information.

 

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ABOUT MITRATECH

Mitratech is the leading provider of enterprise legal management solutions. Law departments from Fortune 500 companies and large enterprise organizations around the world rely on Mitratech to help them manage their core legal processes, as well as governance risk and compliance. Using Mitratech’s TeamConnect platform, legal departments can automate and streamline their matter management, e-billing, legal hold, e-discovery and compliance activities, resulting in reduced costs, improved performance and increased client satisfaction. Available as an on premise, hosted or SaaS-based solution, TeamConnect can adapt to any organization’s business and IT infrastructure requirements. To learn more, visit http://www.mitratech.com.

 

MEDIA CONTACT:
Jessi Marshall
Mitratech
jessi.marshall@mitratech.com

512-382-7322

By Guest Blogger: Mitratech Holdings, Inc.

Catalyst and Proofpoint Partner to for Cloud-Based End to end e-discovery platform

Catalyst Repository Systems, Inc., a pioneer in cloud-based document repositories for e-discovery and other complex legal matters, today announced that it has partnered with Proofpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ:PFPT), a leading security-as-a-service provider to provide innovative cloud-based technology that spans the entire e-discovery lifecycle, from information governance to review and production.

This partnership will enable corporations and their counsel to manage the full spectrum of legal, investigative and regulatory e-discovery, from collection, identification and archiving through search, review and production. Because the process is managed entirely in the cloud, the combination of Catalyst’s and Proofpoint’s offerings can enable organizations to save an average of 35% over the total cost of on-premises archiving, search and review platforms. By seamlessly aligning their powerful, scalable, grid-based technologies, Catalyst and Proofpoint empower legal teams to achieve greater productivity with fewer headaches and hassles.

By Guest Blogger: Catalyst Repository Systems, Inc.

Vaporstream CEO Jason Howe Addresses Growing eDiscovery Concern at LegalTech

Vaporstream CEO Jason Howe Addresses Growing eDiscovery Concern at LegalTech Conference

Vaporstream Launches Secure Recordless Messaging Service that eliminates Electronically Stored Information (ESI)

CHICAGO – (January 2013) Jason R. Howe, CEO of Vaporstream Inc.(Booth 429), a Secure Recordless Messaging Service (SRMS) provider that offers private and secure messaging channels for business communications, joins leading voices from law firms, law enforcement and the judiciary at the LegalTech New York on January 29-31, 2013, at The Hilton New York in midtown Manhattan.

On January 30 at 5:00pm, Howe will moderate a discussion on “Managing the Data Abyss,” during the CIO breakout session. The panel will discuss the risks inherent in firms’ daily usage of email, text and instant message to communicate sensitive information. Howe will also address the necessity of recordless communication in this increasingly digital world. Speakers in the session include Anne Kershaw, Esq., Founder, A. Kershaw, P.C. Attorneys & Consultants; Co-founder non-profit, eDiscovery Institute; Shannon Spangler, Attorney/Consultant, Shannon Spangler P.C William Mahone Managing Director Berkley Holdings and Magistrate Judge James J. Peck, United States District Court, Southern District of New York.

“Confidentiality is the hallmark of attorney-client privilege and the backbone of the legal profession,” said Jason Howe, CEO of Vaporstream. “Implementation of Secure Recordless Messaging is vital for all organizations in today’s unsecure world. It’s the only way to empower the legal profession to digitally communicate with the velocity of an instant message and the efficiency of an email, while maintaining the security and privacy of a face-to-face meeting.”

As the only truly recordless digital communication platform in the world, Vaporstream helps protect businesses and investors from the $80 billion a year problem caused by security breaches, unintended propagation and unnecessary eDiscovery. According to a Ponemom Institute study, cybercrime alone can cost a company up to $46 million in one year. In addition, the frequency of such incidents has made data security the top legal concern of 55 percent of in-house counsel, according to the 2012 Law and the Boardroom Study by Corporate Board Member and FTI Consulting.

Vaporstream’s patented SRMS protects messages by securely transmitting them through cyberspace, while never creating Electronically Stored Information (ESI) or leaving a digital footprint. Communications can never be copied, forwarded, printed, saved or traced, restoring privacy and control to the sender of the communication

Vaporstream’s recordless messaging service is used for confidential digital messaging for executive and high-level communication in the legal profession including attorney-client, confidential communications, in-house counsel, sensitive communications, partner-to-partner private communications and transitory intellectual property communications.

For more information, visit www.Vaporstream.com or call 1-800-367-0780.

 

About Vaporstream

Based in Chicago, Vaporstream is a Secure Messaging Service (SRMS) provider that offers the only completely secure and confidential digital messaging channels for executive and high-level communication. Our patented SRMS protects messages by securely transmitting them through cyberspace, while never creating Electronically Stored Information (ESI) or leaving a digital footprint. Vaporstream communications or “Vispers” can never be copied, forwarded, printed, saved or traced, restoring privacy and control to the sender of the communication. By providing authorized personnel the proper policy and the appropriate tools to communicate securely, Vaporstream helps protect businesses and investors from an $80 billion a year problem, arising from security breach, unintended propagation and unnecessary eDiscovery.

 

Vaporstream currently has more than 150 corporate clients and is used by almost every industry in which highly-sensitive information is communicated including: banking and finance, federal and state government, healthcare, human resources, insurance, legal, high-technology and national defense. For more information, visit www.vaporstream.com

 

 

By Guest Blogger: Vaporstream

Advanced PC Algorithms Work w/Rolling Collection Accommodating Real-World Workflow in Doc Review

Catalyst Repository Systems, Inc., a pioneer and long-time industry leader in cloud-based document repositories for e-discovery and other complex legal matters, announced the release of its integrated predictive coding tool for e-discovery, Insight Predict. With Insight Predict, review teams are able to identify the most relevant documents much earlier in the review process, making the entire review workflow more focused and efficient. Legal teams are also able to run smarter searches, document tagging is more accurate and consistent, and attorneys can identify key legal issues and assess exposure much earlier in the process. All of this translates into more efficient, less expensive review.

Catalyst’s Insight Predict is based on more than four years of experience using and testing predictive coding techniques and uses artificial intelligence to streamline and enhance human review.

By Guest Blogger: Catalyst Repository Systems, Inc.

Mitratech's TeamConnect 3.4 Release features new e-billing features, Accounts Payable Link

Mitratech, the leader in enterprise legal management solutions including matter management, e-billing and GRC management, today announced the latest release of its legal operations platform, TeamConnect 3.4.

In addition to improvements to the core TeamConnect platform, Mitratech is offering new functionality and options for its e-billing and matter management products. By replacing manual processes, increasing collaboration with outside counsel and advancing overall platform flexibility, these enhancements will help clients accomplish even more with TeamConnect.

For more information on this release, visit the Mitratech team in booth 2127 at LegalTech New York or visit http://www.mitratech.com/products/release-updates.

By Guest Blogger: Mitratech Holdings, Inc.

Ricoh Data Forensics Solutions Announcement

 

For better or worse, any piece of information in an organization can end up being evidence. And with information increasingly stored electronically, and growing exponentially, organizations have a formidable challenge properly identifying and collecting electronically stored information (ESI) for litigation.

That’s why Ricoh Americas Corporation today introduced Ricoh Data Forensics Solutions, a spectrum of services that can help corporate legal divisions and outside counsel quickly, safely and cost-effectively manage this critical component of eDiscovery.

By Guest Blogger: Ricoh Americas Corporation

#LTNY Exhibitor @mindSHIFT_Tech Talks Technology at @LegalTechShow Booth 1321 & BYOD Seminars

mindSHIFT Talks Technology with Legal Professionals at LegalTech New York and BYOD Seminars

NEW YORK, New York. – January 23, 2013

mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of managed IT, cloud, data center and professional services to law firms, today announced that it will be exhibiting at LegalTech^® New York 2013 on January 29-31, 2013. Taking place at the Hilton New York Hotel, LegalTech New York is the largest legal technology event in the United States, providing an in-depth look at innovative products and services designed to help law firms and corporate legal departments meet their current and future technology needs.

“Having served as a trusted technology advisor to the legal community for over 10 years, we are proud to be an exhibitor at this prominent industry event. As technology changes, the need for flexible IT services to improve a firm’s day-to-day operations and bottom line remains constant,” said Silas McCullough, general manager of Legal Professional Services for mindSHIFT. “We are committed to helping firms manage the unique technology challenges they face by providing best-in-class IT services specifically designed for their needs. LegalTech New York attendees can come and visit us at booth 1321 to talk about mindSHIFT^® managed IT, professional and cloud services as well as other technology requirements they may have.”

mindSHIFT provides cloudSHIFT^SM infrastructure solutions, managed IT solutions including Total IT Management for Law Firms, and also project-based solutions to law firms of all sizes, nationwide. The Company, with two New York offices in Manhattan and Commack, Long Island, and 10 additional offices across the U.S., sponsors numerous chapters of the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) and is a Platinum Sponsor of the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA).

mindSHIFT has also joined with Biscom, provider of industry-leading legal document exchange technology, to present a multi-city roadshow titled “Manage and Secure Law Firm Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).” Developed for ILTA, the sessions are open to all legal professionals and focus on trends, best practices and technologies for managing the proliferation of personal mobile devices in the legal environment. Roadshow sessions were presented in Wilmington, DE and Baltimore, MD in early January.

Additional cities and session dates include:

• Boston - Feb. 5, 2013
• New York - Feb. 7, 2013
• Philadelphia - Feb. 19, 2013
• Washington, DC - Feb. 20, 2013
• Minneapolis - Mar. 26, 2013
• Chicago - Mar. 27, 2013

To learn more about the roadshow or to register, visit http://www.iltanet.org/MainMenuCategory/Meetings/Seminars.

To learn more about mindSHIFT’s Legal IT Services, visit http://www.mindSHIFT.com/Services/Managed-IT-Services/Law-Firms.aspx.

About mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc.
mindSHIFT Technologies is one of the largest IT outsourcing and cloud managed services providers, serving small and mid-size businesses for more than 10 years. At mindSHIFT, we’re about keeping your IT systems up and running, providing personal attention and making you more productive. We’re big enough to offer the facilities, services and expertise you expect, but small enough to provide the support and attention you demand. Learn more at www.mindSHIFT.com.

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Contact:
Lisa Masiello
mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc.
617-243-2757, lisa.masiello@mindSHIFT.com

mindSHIFT and the mindSHIFT Technologies logo are registered service marks, and cloudSHIFT and Delivering IT Peace of Mind are service marks of mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. Copyright © 2013 mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc.

By Guest Blogger: mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc.

ess Release: Onit Unveils 10 Legal Apps at Legal

NEW YORK, Jan. 29, 2013 – Onit, a leading provider of business productivity and process management Apps, today announced that it unveiled 10 Legal Apps at LegalTech New York 2013. Onit is sponsoring the Cyber Café on the 3^rd floor of the Hilton New York and will be offering a two–week trial of two Legal Apps to LegalTech New York attendees.

“Onit Apps for Legal streamline processes within legal, and across all departments, business units and divisions that interact with them, to achieve complete transaction visibility,” commented Eric M. Elfman, CEO of Onit. “Too many processes are manual and paper-intensive, handled with email, Word documents or Excel spreadsheets. We’re excited to show LegalTech attendees a variety of Legal Apps that are simple to use and easy to deploy so business users can reduce the time it takes to get work completed.”

Onit Apps for Legal are highly configurable, flexible and do not require significant IT time or an expensive investment. In fact, a user can start using one of our pre-configured Legal Apps in five minutes. In thirty minutes, a user can configure one of our 10 Onit Apps for Legal to suit their specific needs. In 60 minutes, a user can completely define and deliver a new custom Onit App to automate processes with the Onit App Builder.

Below are the 10 Legal Apps Onit will be demonstrating at the tradeshow:

• Contract Review & Approval App

The Onit Contract Review & Approval App takes your broken, manual and time-consuming contracting process and automates it. No longer will your staff have to search their inbox or hard drive for the latest version or keep an Excel spreadsheet to track their contracts. With the Onit Contract Review & Approval App, you can compress your revenue cycle, improve supplier and vendor relationships, achieve higher contract compliance rates, and mitigate risks by having fewer contractual exceptions and increase internal and external customer satisfaction.

• Contract Administration App

The Onit Contract Administration App lets you easily manage contracts and business documents in one central location. Contract administrators typically have very little control or visibility into the contract lifecycle. The Onit Contract Administration App eliminates this problem and provides administrative insight that is not possible when using spreadsheets or email.

• Matter Management App

The Onit Matter Management App organizes all of your company’s legal information — from documents to emails, to invoices for outside counsel, time spent by employees, deadlines and dockets. Your team will have immediate access to critical matter, financial and performance metrics through simple information collection, management and workflow.

• E-hold Management App

The Onit E-hold Management App reduces risks, simplifies compliance and lowers administrative overhead. If your organization is managing custodians with a spreadsheet, it is time to stop. Onit makes it easy to create holds, send hold notifications and ensure acknowledgment.

• NDA Request App

The Onit NDA Request App lets you provide better customer service, reduce cycle time and drive down cost. Whether providing self-service NDAs or moving third-party NDA review to a legal process outsourcer, the Onit NDA Request App is the easiest answer.

• Collaborative Budgeting App

The Onit Collaborative Budgeting App allows you to completely organize the process of requesting, collecting, reviewing and approving budgets from outside counsel. Traditionally, a process is managed with emails and spreadsheets, requiring duplicate data entry and difficulty in managing. With the Onit Collaborative Budgeting App, it is now straightforward to request, compile and collaborate on budgets so that you can get a handle on spend forecasts and matter staffing plans.

• Alternative Fee Arrangement Approval (AFA) App

The Onit Alternative Fee Arrangement Approval App helps pricing staff and committees manage the review and approval of AFA requests by enabling the collection of key information about the request, providing a shared workspace for discussion, collaboration and decision-making and an ability to review a history of transactions to spot trends and patterns. The AFA App simplifies the process, improves response times, replaces email and spreadsheets, and eliminates an unruly and complex process.

• Outside Counsel Engagement App

The Onit Outside Counsel Engagement App simplifies how you manage your outside counsel while making your matter management system more valuable. It is easy for outside counsel to use and ensures that every legal matter is budgeted and that your matter management system reflects all outside work. It can also be deployed in a way that allows business users to be engaged during the retention process.

• Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) App

Outsourcing work and the complexities of assigning work, tracking progress and reporting on service level agreements in email and spreadsheets is not efficient. The Onit Legal Process Outsourcing App allows you to manage the work through simple but robust forms, automating workflow and notifications, enabling your LPO to easily reroute transactions back into your organization when necessary. Additionally, the LPO App provides a real-time dashboard that enables you to view the status of all the transactions in your portfolio.

• Matter Intake App

The Onit Matter Intake App is a remarkably valuable capability for law departments that have a matter management system. It helps you collect all the data necessary to get a matter opened and assigned to the right attorney. It also provides the capability to automatically acknowledge new matters and ensure that your attorneys have all the information they need to get started right away. You will see benefits as broad as distributing work more evenly, improving response times and ensuring that the data in your matter management system is as up-to-date as possible.

By Guest Blogger: Onit

.@KrollOntrack and @Hudson Legal partner to provide next generation ediscovery solutions

Kroll Ontrack and Hudson Legal announced a partnership that combines robust technology assisted review (TAR) functionality with highly skilled and experienced review teams. Together, Kroll Ontrack, a world leader in ediscovery and data recovery software, and Hudson Legal, a global provider of ediscovery solutions, managed review and legal staffing, will offer law firms and corporations world-class next-generation discovery solutions. Learn more about this partnership at http://www.krollontrack.com/company/news-releases/?getPressRelease=61915

By Guest Blogger: Kroll Ontrack, Inc

.@NightOwl partners with @KrollOntrack for its leading ediscovery platform

Kroll Ontrack announced that NightOwl Discovery has added Kroll Ontrack’s world-class ediscovery platform to its managed services product portfolio. Through this partnership, NightOwl Discovery, whose recent growth has been fueled by its concentration on combining top technology with an exceptional client service team, is gaining access to the most robust processing engine in the industry, a world-class secure data center, and award-winning review technology. Read more about the benefits of this relationship: http://www.krollontrack.com/company/news-releases/?getPressRelease=61916

 

 

 

By Guest Blogger: Kroll Ontrack, Inc

The verdict is in: 1 in 3 Top Law Firms Rule in Favor of @Accellion http://goo.gl/tcl5U

Today, Accellion annoucned that 1 in 3 law firms on the AmLaw100, 1 in 3 of the top 100 law firms in the NLJ350 and more than 1 in 4 of the law firms on the American Lawyer Global100 list are Accellion customers. As an award-winning pioneer in providing enterprise-class, secure mobile file sharing solutions, Accellion knows that the sensitivity of information handled by law firms, combined with compliance and security concerns over the increasing use of mobile devices and BYOD, are driving the need for secure mobile file sharing solutions by legal firms around the globe.

“Our employees embraced the productivity gains from mobile devices, and successfully leverage ubiquitous access to digital data,” stated Andrew Jurczyk, CIO Seyfarth Shaw, LLP.  “At the same time, we have an obligation to our clients to make absolutely certain that their critical information is transported and resides in a secure, managed and trackable manner. Accellion addresses both needs very well.”

 “Legal firms are one of the fastest growing market segments for Accellion,” said Paula Skokowski, Chief Marketing Officer at Accellion. “While growth in usage of mobile devices is driving demand for secure file sharing solutions across industries, legal firms along with organizations in regulated industries, are becoming increasingly aware of the need to protect confidential information access and sharing on mobile devices.”

Accellion Chief Marketing Officer, Paula Skokowski, will lead a panel on “Protecting Legal Documents in the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Post PC Era” with Chris Zegers, CIO of Lowenstein Sandler, Chad Ergun, Director of Global Services & Business Intelligence at Gibson & Dunn and Avi Solomon, Director of IT at Becker and Poliakoff  P.A. at the Law Firm Chief Information and Technology Officers Forum. The panel will take place on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 from 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. ET in conjunction with the LegalTech New York 2013 conference.

Accellion will also be exhibiting at the LegalTech New York 2013 conference at booth #1403.

 

By Guest Blogger: Accellion

Digital WarRoom 8.4: Smart (and painless!) privilege management

GGO, creators of the Digital WarRoom platform for accessible, affordable e-discovery, announce the release of Digital WarRoom version 8.4 this week.  E-Discovery experts will provide demonstrations of Digital WarRoom version 8.4 e-discovery software at the LegalTech 2013 Conference in New York.  

 

New features in version 8.4 include enhanced identification and management of privileged documents.

It is commonly assumed that the duplicates of a given privileged document will always be categorized as privileged.  But in fact, in many situations, counsel may determine that some copies of a privileged document are in fact responsive.  The distinction may have to do with the identity of individuals sending or receiving a communication, or the existence of attachments associated with one or more of the duplicate copies.

 

The DWR advanced privilege management identifies existing duplicates, and provides document family groups (with associated attachments and conversation threads) to allow attorneys to examine potentially privileged content in a contextual view.  In review, Digital WarRoom provides the ability for review attorneys to select from custom-created privilege phrases that can be edited at the document level and attached at time of privilege determination.  In the production phase within Digital WarRoom, the system provides consistency checking at time of production to reduce risk of inadvertent waiver of privilege.  

 

Documents marked privileged, along with annotations, reviewer decision details are automatically included in a system-generated privilege report.  The Privilege Log is an exportable spreadsheet including document title, subject, reviewer details, reviewer’s privilege notations, marks, and other key details.  Once exported, the privilege log is easily edited.  All privileged documents may be saved in a binder for sharing with counsel or client, or for archiving.  “Creation and management of a Privilege Log is one of the most time-consuming and painful processes that litigation support teams have to deal with” said Barry O’Melia, who heads up the Digital WarRoom product division.  “Our automated privilege log will easily save hundreds of hours of work on the typical e-discovery case, and free up paralegals and litigation support staff to focus on more strategic efforts for their clients.”

 

Efficient Redaction

Enhancements to the redaction features in Digital WarRoom save time when working with large documents.  An ‘inverse redaction’ capability allows the review attorney to select responsive content and automatically redact the remainder of the document.  Redaction placement, fonts, phrases and colors are also customizable.

 

About Digital WarRoom e-Discovery Platform

 

The Digital WarRoom platform is unique in its ability to create and save case data in a portable form.  A case database created on any Digital WarRoom product can move seamlessly from Digital WarRoom Pro on a Windows desktop, to Digital WarRoom WorkGroup on a server behind the corporate firewall or , or the DWR Remote full-service SaaS hosted environment, with all attorney work product preserved. This unmatched flexibility allows organizations to cost effectively handle early case assessments and complete e-discovery on routine matters in-house, while retaining the option for full-service hosted review on larger, complex and global matters.   The features, menus and workflow are consistent, providing the ability to standardize the process of e-discovery for all matters regardless of size.

 

1. The Digital WarRoom platform has been acclaimed by e-discovery experts, law firms, and corporate clients as “impressive, seamless, and easy to use”.  An LTN product review compared the platform favorably with better-known but far more expensive solutions, saying “DWR seems to have adopted the best features offered by leading e-discovery software makers such as Clearwell and kCura Relativity and packaged them all together in one functional, integrated platform, which can operate on a desktop, or laptop, computer in a distributed computing environment that incorporates other computers, such as a back-end database server.”   To learn more about Digital WarRoom visit www.digitalwarroom.com.

 

About Digital WarRoom e-Discovery Platform

Digital WarRoom is the first e-discovery platform to provide law firms, corporate legal and e-discovery teams with complete ESI processing, document review and production in a single application, eliminating traditional high-cost volume-based processing fees.  GGO created the Digital WarRoom technology for in-house use by solo attorneys, corporations and law firms to address document processing, review and production in legal matters of all types. The software is licensed in a variety of forms, addressing any size law firm or matter:

• Digital WarRoom Pro, the first Windows PC-based product for e-discovery, allowing an individually licensed user to conduct complete e-discovery on a Windows computer;
• Digital WarRoom WorkGroup, a client-server application that allows corporate IT, in-house legal, or law firm e-discovery practitioners to manage e-discovery case data processing, document review and production without high priced volume-based processing; 
• Digital WarRoom Remote hosted e-discovery, a full-service hosted platform designed for distributed and virtual team access to case data. 

 

The Digital WarRoom platform is unique in its ability to create and save case data in a portable form.  A case database created on any Digital WarRoom product can move seamlessly to any other Digital WarRoom product, with all attorney work product preserved. This unmatched flexibility allows organizations to cost effectively handle an entire portfolio of matters in-house, while retaining the option for full-service hosted review on larger, complex and global matters.  To learn more about Digital WarRoom visit www.digitalwarroom.com. 

By Guest Blogger: Digital WarRoom by GGO

Demo the #NuixLuminate and win a #iPadMini! Visit @Nuix at booth #1503

“Nuix is once again leading the trend in using technology to leverage the value and minimize the risk of dark data, taking what we’ve learned from eDiscovery search and analytics and applying it to the larger problem of information governance,”  said Bennett B. Borden, Chair of the eDiscovery and Information Governance group at legal firm Williams Mullen. “I look forward to using Nuix’s new platform and solutions to solve my clients’ most pressing information governance challenges.” 

By Guest Blogger: Nuix

Piganelli & Associates, Inc. selects Catalyst Insight for preferred provider

Catalyst Repository Systems, Inc., announced that a national discovery and trial consulting firm, Piganelli & Associates, Inc. (P&A), has selected Catalyst Insight as a preferred platform for hosted review and discovery management needs for its clients. Arizona-based P&A helps attorneys manage evidence in large, complex cases using computerized tools throughout the litigation lifecycle, from complaint and discovery through to assisting trial teams with the strategy of electronically presenting evidence and demonstratives in trial.

By Guest Blogger: Catalyst Repository Systems, Inc.

Onit Apps for Legal

Onit Apps for Legal streamline processes within legal, and across all departments, business units and divisions that interact with them, to achieve complete transaction visibility.

By Guest Blogger: Onit

Onit Ap Builder

Onit App Builder combines business process management, collaboration and transaction management functionality
into one innovative tool. With Onit App Builder, it is easy to develop and deploy Apps that streamline business
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By Guest Blogger: Onit

SharePoint E-discovery Workflow with ESI Processing, Early Case Assessment, Review, Production

Digital WarRoom today announced a cooperative relationship with Metalogix that will allow organizations to effectively process, search and analyze potentially responsive documents when litigation or government investigations occur.

 

Metalogix is the trusted provider of innovative content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange and Cloud platforms. Metalogix solutions help organizations manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content.  Thousands of organizations rely on Metalogix systems to efficiently manage ESI (electronically stored information) while ensuring compliance with records management and retention rules.

 

Digital WarRoom by GGO is the first e-discovery platform to provide law firms, corporate legal and e-discovery teams with complete ESI processing, document review and production in a single application.  With Digital WarRoom in-house, the IT and legal teams can conduct searches in Metalogix stores, then transfer potentially responsive content into the Digital WarRoom WorkGroup server,  where it is processed and indexed in a dedicated database for the case.  The server administrator may then extend access to authorized internal users or outside counsel to complete the legal e-discovery process.  The result is an efficient, compliant system for responding to e-discovery at a lower cost.

 

“SharePoint content stores and Exchange e-Mail are often the high volume sources of discoverable data in the face of litigation or government investigations,” said Matthew Bruendl-Pandzich, director of the Archiving business unit at Metalogix.  “We are excited to partner with Digital WarRoom to introduce extended e-discovery capability to our customers.”

 

“Organizations adopting the combined power of Metalogix and Digital WarRoom have a self-contained, in-house repository with the ability to assess key information about a case without expensive outsourcing of processing and analytics on large document sets”, said Barry O’Melia, head of product operations for Digital WarRoom.  “Digital WarRoom leverages Microsoft SQL database structure and is fully compatible with the Microsoft environment, so our systems are readily accepted and implemented in many organizations.”

 

According to Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) well over half of all corporations are now using SharePoint Server and in 22% of those companies, every employee uses this popular Microsoft collaboration tool. The SharePoint collaborative design and flexibility make it appealing for enterprise search, enterprise content management (ECM), Business Process Management, business intelligence, records management, archiving, Intranet/Extranet, file sharing and intranet and public-facing websites.

 

About Digital WarRoom e-Discovery Platform

 

The Digital WarRoom platform has been acclaimed by e-discovery experts, law firms, and corporate clients as “impressive, seamless, and easy to use”.  An LTN product review compared the platform favorably with better-known but far more expensive solutions, saying “DWR seems to have adopted the best two or three features offered by leading e-discovery software makers such as Clearwell and kCura Relativity and packaged them all together in one functional, integrated platform, which can operate on a desktop, or laptop, computer in a distributed computing environment that incorporates other computers, such as a back-end database server.

To learn more about Digital WarRoom visit www.digitalwarroom.com. 

By Guest Blogger: Digital WarRoom by GGO

Visit Digital WarRoom booth 1516, See iPAD document discovery, win the iPAD

Digital WarRoom, the e-discovery platform for affordable, accessible e-discovery, will be on exhibit at LegalTech 2013 in New York, January 29-31 at the New York Hilton. E-Discovery experts will be on hand in booth 1516, inviting visitors to try Digital WarRoom document review on an Apple iPAD.  Visitors registering at the booth will be eligible to win the iPAD at the close of the conference.

 

 “Our 10 years experience in hosting high-volume and complex matters for GGO clients drove the design of Digital WarRoom - the first e-discovery software platform to include ESI processing, analytics, review, and production in a single software application. Digital WarRoom WorkGroup, a multi-user server for in-house e-discovery, and Digital WarRoom Pro, a single-user desktop product, were built on the core technology behind our successful hosted service, to provide powerful tools to corporations and law firms who want to cost-effectively manage everyday e-discovery projects in-house,” said Bill Gallivan, CEO of parent company, the leading e-discovery service provider, GGO LLC.

 

Digital WarRoom is positioned squarely to advance the in-house e-discovery trend.  The client-server design allows mobile workers access from tablet devices.  When installed behind the firewall, Digital WarRoom is compatible with numerous repositories such as MS Exchange, MS SharePoint, and other Wiki and collaborative applications.

 

“Implementations of WorkGroup and Pro have more than doubled year-over-year since the product introduction at LegalTech 2011.  That’s a resounding affirmation of the need for more efficient in-house solutions,” said Barry O’Melia, head of the Digital WarRoom product division.  “Organizations can confidently implement e-discovery on the Digital WarRoom platform, knowing that Digital WarRoom training and support will assure their success. So they are on their own, but not going it alone.”

 

Visitors are invited to booth 1516 to learn more about Digital WarRoom, or visit the Digital_WarRoom site in advance to request a private demonstration onsite at the Hilton Sky Suite.

 

 

About Digital WarRoom e-Discovery Platform

Digital WarRoom is the first e-discovery platform to provide law firms, corporate legal and e-discovery teams with complete ESI processing, document review and production in a single application, eliminating traditional high-cost volume-based processing fees.  GGO created the Digital WarRoom technology for in-house use by solo attorneys, corporations and law firms to address document processing, review and production in legal matters of all types. The software is licensed in a variety of forms, addressing any size law firm or matter:

• Digital WarRoom Pro, the first Windows PC-based product for e-discovery, allowing an individually licensed user to conduct complete e-discovery on a Windows computer;
• Digital WarRoom WorkGroup, a client-server application that allows corporate IT, in-house legal, or law firm e-discovery practitioners to manage e-discovery case data processing, document review and production without high priced volume-based processing; 
• Digital WarRoom Remote hosted e-discovery, a full-service hosted platform designed for distributed and virtual team access to case data. 

 

The Digital WarRoom platform is unique in its ability to create and save case data in a portable form.  A case database created on any Digital WarRoom product can move seamlessly to any other Digital WarRoom product, with all attorney work product preserved. This unmatched flexibility allows organizations to cost effectively handle an entire portfolio of matters in-house, while retaining the option for full-service hosted review on larger, complex and global matters.  To learn more about Digital WarRoom visit www.digitalwarroom.com. 

By Guest Blogger: Digital WarRoom by GGO

Tom O'Connor, author and e-discovery expert, used Digital WarRoom, then joined the team!

GGO, creators of the Digital WarRoom platform for accessible, affordable e-discovery, today announced that e-discovery expert, author and attorney Tom O’Connor has joined the company in a Senior Consultant role.

 

“I’m excited to join the team who is making significant advances with e-discovery technology”, said O’Connor. “A few years ago, in my consulting role as Gulf Coast Legal Technology, I brought GGO in to support hosted e-discovery in matters related to the BP Oil spill litigation. The process was flawless, and the client was very satisfied with the software and the project results. In the course of working with GGO, I realized how wicked smart these guys are. I can bring them any database or document analytics challenge, and they take it on with gusto. After several clients had the same positive experience (some with GGO full-service hosted review, and some on Digital WarRoom in-house software), I knew that this company has a roadmap for success.”

 

1. The price tag is high, often too high for the average case. The relative lack of affordable solutions leaves attorneys to improvise and ‘hack’ at document review for everyday matters,” said O’Connor.

 

1. Law firms and corporate legal teams should know that there truly is a universal e-discovery solution, and a great resource here.”

 

Law firms, Litigation Support teams, and Corporate Counsel are invited to contact Tom for a low-key complimentary evaluation and discussion of their e-discovery plans. Contact Tom at tom@ggollc.com.

 

About Tom O’Connor

Tom O'Connor is a nationally known consultant, speaker and writer in the area of computerized litigation support systems. He serves as Senior E-Discovery consultant at GGO. Tom is a frequent lecturer on the subject of legal technology. He’s also a prolific writer, having authored numerous articles in legal publications such as this one and several books, most recently E-Discovery for Small Cases from the ABA. Tom is a New England native, but currently resides in New Orleans where he is engaged in a number of pro bono activities for the Gulf Coast legal community.

 

 

About GGO

Since its inception in 2002, GGO has provided e-discovery hosting services, consulting and project management on over 3500 complex e-discovery matters in response to litigation, government investigations, M&A actions and other legal challenges. Custom services include forensic analysis, target data preservation from Enterprise ECM systems, WIKIs, collaborative tools, web and cloud-based applications, and Gist™ Technology Assisted Review. In 2011, GGO introduced the Digital WarRoom® line of software products, spanning the entire e-discovery lifecycle from capture through processing, review, and production.

Headquartered in Seattle, GGO also provides hosting and services at offices in New York, Santa Clara, San Francisco, Dallas, Los Angeles, New Orleans and London, serving all markets in Europe, Asia and North America. Leading global corporations, Fortune 1000 companies, Am Law 100 law firms, and government agencies, including the Library of Congress, rely on GGO for robust technology and personalized service. To learn more about GGO, visit www.ggollc.com

By Guest Blogger: Digital WarRoom by GGO

kCura to Showcase Newest Version of Software, Relativity 7.5, at LegalTech New York 2013

kCura, developers of the e-discovery software Relativity, will be offering hands-on exercises and demos of their software at this year’s LegalTech 2013 conference in New York. These labs and demos will be available in Concourse A at the Hilton New York from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, January 29 and Wednesday, January 30. Several of kCura’s development partners will also be available in the hands-on labs to demo their integrations and applications. No reservations are necessary.

 

The kCura team will also be available throughout the conference at booth 210 to exhibit Relativity and highlight Relativity 7.5. kCura’s latest release introduces Relativity Processing, which tightly integrates complete processing capabilities with fully featured review, so you can process and review data without ever leaving the system.

 

Additionally, 7.5 includes major enhancements to usability, analytics, infrastructure management, and Relativity’s SDK, as well as significant updates to Relativity Assisted Review. Assisted Review is the flexible and transparent computer-assisted review workflow that allows users to train Relativity based on their expertise.

 

“LegalTech is an awesome event, and we always look forward to connecting with the rest of our community,” said Andrew Sieja, president and CEO of kCura. “This year, we’re particularly excited for attendees to get hands-on with Relativity 7.5. It’s our most comprehensive release yet, and we hope everyone comes by to check it out.”

By Guest Blogger: kCura

USA release of EFFACTS

PRESS RELEASE

EFFACTS announces USA Release

The Dutch software company Effacts BV, creator of the corporate database solution EFFACTS, today announced the formal release of its USA web service.

January 20th 2013, New York, United States - The Dutch software company Effacts BV, creator of the corporate database solution EFFACTS, today announced the formal release of its USA web service. Globally, more than 1,000 companies are already using EFFACTS to manage legal entities, orgcharts, contracts, board meetings, IP rights, claims and other legal matters.

One of the key business challenges facing every legal department is finding the best way to manage the legal risks and compliance of the company effectively. The process of Laying down the facts Controlling the relevant workflow Creating intelligent management reports needs to be streamlined. Excel sheets, custom-built databases and paper workflows are simply not sufficient anymore. Without the appropriate consolidation of management information, legal departments bear unacceptable risks searching for key management information on an ad hoc basis.

The success of EFFACTS is related to the unmatched flexibility of the object-oriented corporate database. Customers of all sizes benefit from the easy-to-use reporting tools including orgcharts, pivot tables and statistics. The competitive and transparent pricing makes EFFACTS a very attractive value-adding component for law firms, accountants and other corporate service providers.

EFFACTS is now open for registration in the USA. Subscriptions are available from $65 per month, which includes the secure database and an initial set-up. Custom intranet installation options are available upon request at sales@effacts.com.

This year, EFFACTS will focus on the development of a business partnership with several USA based legal IT consultants. EFFACTS users require support services for implementation, training and data conversion. If you are interested in the partnership, please contact harm.bavinck@effacts.com.

For more information about EFFACTS, please visit www.effacts.com.

ABOUT EFFACTS

EFFACTS is hosted on secure redundant systems located in the USA and Europe. The software is compatible with all major browsers, including but not limited to Internet Explorer and Chrome. Effacts BV has been developing legal software and Internet application systems since 2002 and is based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The USA service office is located in Palo Alto, California.

By Guest Blogger: Effacts BV

Vaporstream's Secure Recordless Messaging Service eliminates Electronically Stored Info

 

• Vaporstream is a Secure Messaging Service (SRMS) provider that offers the only completely secure and confidential digital messaging channels for executive and high-level communication in the legal industry.
• Vaporstream’s patented secure recordless messaging service protects messages by securely transmitting them through cyberspace, while never creating Electronically Stored Information (ESI) or leaving a digital footprint. 
• Vaporstream communications can never be copied, forwarded, printed, saved or traced, restoring privacy and control to the sender of the communication.
• Vaporstream’s recordless messaging service is used for confidential digital messaging for executive and high-level communication in the legal profession including attorney-client, confidential communications, in-house counsel, sensitive communications, partner-to-partner private communications and transitory intellectual property communications.
• Secure Recordless Messaging Service (SRMS) can empower the legal profession to digitally communicate with the velocity of an instant message and the efficiency of an email, while maintaining the security and privacy of a face-to-face meeting.
Secure Recordless Messaging Service (SRMS) can empower the legal profession to digitally communicate with
the velocity of an instant message and the efficiency of an email, while maintaining the security and privacy of a
face-to-face meeting.
•  By providing authorized personnel the proper policy and the appropriate tools to communicate securely, Vaporstream helps protect businesses and investors from an $80 billion a year problem, arising from security breach, unintended propagation and unnecessary eDiscovery.
• Vaporstream currently has more than 150 corporate clients and is used by almost every industry in which highly-sensitive information is communicated including: banking and finance, federal and state government, healthcare, human resources, insurance, legal, high-technology and national defense. For more information, visit www.vaporstream.com

 

 

By Guest Blogger: Vaporstream

Bridgeway Unveils New Maturity Assessment Model -- Helps Legal Departments Achieve Business Goals

Bridgeway Software, the most recommended provider of legal services management solutions, today announced the immediate availability of their new Law Department Maturity Assessment Tool, a comprehensive, self-service measurement tool that enables legal departments to assess their operational maturity and gauge how well their department is contributing to their organization's over-arching business goals.  By helping legal professionals understand how effectively they are utilizing people, process and technology, they can move away from being a reactive responder towards a position that is proactive and fully-aligned with business goals and priorities.  To learn more, visit the Company in booth number 225 at the  LegalTech New York show on January 29-31 at the Hilton New York.

 

Today’s legal departments are expected to run like a business.  While this mandate is tried and true, it alone doesn’t enable the legal function to maximize its value and fulfill its purpose within the organization.  The Bridgeway Law Department Maturity Model^SM is designed to identify ways to improve attorney productivity and promote value-add decision making.  The model enables legal teams to perform simple diagnostics that help them gain an understanding of their current position on the maturity curve, and then identify tactics to establish a realistic action plan for achieving success.  By ensuring people, processes and technology all work in harmony, legal departments can achieve greater results while contributing to the primary goals of their company.

 

"Legal departments need to determine where they fall in the Law Department Maturity Model in order to become fully business-aligned," said Bill Young, Product Line and Law Department Operations Executive at Bridgeway Software and creator of the Law Department Maturity Model.  "Legal teams should start by performing some simple diagnostics to gain an understanding of their current position on the maturity curve and their utilization of three key levers of success; People, Process and Technology. T hen, they can identify tactics to establish a realistic action plan for achieving success."

 

For the second consecutive year, Bridgeway is sponsoring a two-session track at LegalTech New York titled, Legal Operations: Forming a New Identity.  The session is geared towards  professionals who support and manage the business of running large corporate and government law departments, and is designed to give practical advice on how to increase the value of the legal services that they deliver.

 

The first panel session is titled Leap Ahead, Don't Lag Behind: Enhancing Value From Your Legal Service Delivery Model and takes place on January 31st from 10:30 – 11:45 AM.  Moderated by Bill Young, Product Line and Law Department Operations at Bridgeway Software, and with participation from panelists such as David Cambria, Sr. Director, Enterprise Information Management, CDW and Kim Townsan, Senior Manager, Legal Administration at United Technologies Corporation, the session will discuss how to leverage the Law Department Maturity Model^SM concepts to transform your department from responding to requests for legal support to proactively delivering legal value that is tightly aligned with corporate priorities.

 

The second session takes place from 1:45 – 3:00 PM on January 31st and is titled, Success Is As Success Does: Leading Cross-functional Teams to Create Positive Change.  In this panel, Christine Crawford, Director, Global IT, G&A Systems, Edwards Life Sciences, Deb Tatar, AVP Global Corporate Systems, MetLife and moderator Bill Young, will discuss proven strategies for building strong, interdependent relationships from legal operations with IT, Accounts Payable, HR and Procurement.  Participants will also discuss how these relationships can provide a path that encourages cross-functional teams to drive success with legal operations projects.

By Guest Blogger: Bridgeway Software / Marketing Specialist

MUST SEE at LegalTech NY -- Integreon's Super Session

You won't want to miss Integreon's LegalTech Super Session taking place Wednesday, January 30th in Concourse G. Integreon's ESI experts and a great line-up of guest panelists are set to address some of the hottest topics in the legal field, including technology-assisted review, legal process outsourcing, and the discovery implications of the Jackson Reforms going into effect in April 2013.

1:00-2:15pm EST

Technology-Assisted Review: Panel Discussion and Q&A

Many at LegalTech have heard about “predictive coding,” but confusion remains over what it really does and how can it be used defensibly. Is it just a technology? What about workflow and quality control? This session will cover what you need to know, how it works, pros and cons, and much more including:

• Evolution of document review – linear to predictive coding
• Overview of predictive coding
• Relevant case law
• Panelist Q&A

Moderator: Caragh Landry, Vice President, Integreon

Panelists: Jonathan Sablone, Partner, Nixon Peabody LLP; Robin E. Stewart, Of Counsel, Lathrop & Gage LLP; Juliet Hanna, Vice President of Legal Services, Integreon

2:30-3:30pm EST

Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO): Ethical, Practical and Legislative Considerations (ethics credit eligible)

With the maturation of the LPO industry, legal services are now being outsourced en-masse to LPO providers located both onshore in the U.S. and offshore in countries such as India and the Philippines. The outsourcing of legal work by a law firm or legal department to an LPO provider raises specific issues pertaining to the outsourcing lawyer’s ethical obligations to his or her client. Law firms and legal departments must ensure that they are in compliance with the relevant ethical rules. This presentation will help attendees to:

• Avoid the unauthorized practice of law and comply with the duty to supervise
• Ensure competent client representation when outsourcing legal work
• Comply with appropriate legislation impacting the ability to outsource legal work (including Export Control Regulations and EU Data Protection)
• Keep up to date with developments from relevant regulatory and professional bodies

Instructor: Mark Ross, Vice President of LPO, Integreon

3:45-4:45pm EST

Jackson Reforms: The UK’s New Standard for Transparency and Proportionality of Discovery

With the implementation of the UK’s Jackson Reforms in April 2013, proportionality and cost transparency move to center stage. Litigants must now manage the e-discovery and disclosure process like never before, including proactive budgeting and cost reporting, discussion of sources, scope and proposed methods, and other requirements. This session will cover what to expect and how organizations operating or doing business in the UK can best prepare. Discussion will cover:

• An Overview of the Rules, esp. Civil Procedure Rule 31.5 and e-Disclosure Practice Direction 31B
• How to Prepare: Perspectives from Integreon and kCura
• UK Impact: Relevance and Opportunity
• US Impact: Looking ahead at Proposed FRCP Changes

Moderator: Juliet Hanna, Vice President of Legal Services, Integreon

Panelists: Chris Dale, The e-Disclosure Information Project; Steve Couling, Director, kCura; Judy Lee, Director of Legal Services, Integreon

See recent blog posts by Chris Dale and Judy Lee.

4:45 to 5:30PM EST: Networking Reception

Be sure to also visit Integreon's booth #309 in the exhibition hall to learn about our extensive range of legal outsourcing capabilities, including e-discovery (from collection thru production), digital forensics, document review and staffing, contract review, and other services.

By Guest Blogger: Integreon

#Nuix 4.2 Release addresses faster better visualized #eDiscovery. Demo during #LegalTech booth 1503

“The legal industry has been reluctant to accept ‘black box’ predictive coding technologies it couldn’t understand, much less defend in court,” said Stewart. “Nuix 4.2’s predictive coding provides a powerful way for eDiscovery professionals to quickly sort the relevant from the irrelevant to minimize onerous manual reviews.

“Our approach relies on open technologies that have been used for more than a decade in applications such as spam filtering and data mining, combined with Nuix’s patented unstructured data indexing engine and our searching, tagging and clustering features. The best part for our customers is that it is free to anybody who has a four core Nuix license.”.

By Guest Blogger: @Nuix

Chief Scientist of RenewData to Host Language-Based Analytics Discussion at #LTNY

RenewData, a full-service eDiscovery provider that offers the industry’s broadest spectrum of review acceleration solutions, today announced that its chief scientist, Andy Kraftsow, will host a series of small-group discussions on eDiscovery market trends and Language-Based Analytics during LegalTech New York. Media, corporate counsel, eDiscovery and litigation attorneys and legal professionals are invited to attend.

These intimate, one-hour sessions will be limited to eight people and be held daily at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. in RenewData’s SkySuite, which adjoins the LegalTech exhibit hall. A registration form for these sessions is available to determine session availability. 

As the reliance on electronic communications continues to grow and yield an inordinate amount of discoverable data, the cost of review has also escalated – something legal professionals have been struggling to control. Traditionally, this problem has been addressed by reducing the cost of labor involved in review and increasing the number of documents a reviewer can read in an hour. More recently, organizations have turned to artificial intelligence to accelerate review. None of these solutions have delivered optimal results. 

“At this point, legal professionals have done everything they can to increase flip rates and lower the cost of labor for eDiscovery,” said Kraftsow. “Now our focus has turned to the third option: review fewer documents – only the relevant ones. The right technology can make this happen in a defensible, transparent manner, and yield additional benefits that previous cost-control solutions cannot match.”

Kraftsow’s discussion will focus on: 

• The pros and cons of each method for accelerating review.
• The inherent “blind spots” associated with artificial-intelligence-based review technologies.
• The importance of cross-document knowledge extraction for achieving optimal savings.
• Viable, proven, cost-saving alternatives to artificial-intelligence-based solutions.

 To reserve your seat for this session, please visit the registration form or contact Kathy Rogers at 512-276-5507 for more information.

By Guest Blogger: Joseph Garber, RenewData Corp.

Your Global Tape partner

Trusted Data Solutions to Exhibit at Legal Tech New York 2013

 

opening new offices in Los Angeles and London

 

Trusted Data Solutions, LLC (TDS), the industry leader in backup tape restoration and legacy data management services, announced that its expanded portfolio of Solutions will be on display at the LegalTech New York conference starting January 29, 2013. 

Attendees can visit TDS in Booth 1402 during the show to learn about the company's expansion with new offices and processing facilities in Los Angeles and London. This will enable the delivery of the company tape restoration and legacy data management services Worldwide

Trusted Data Solutions’ President Chris Clark acknowledged that the company’s expansion is driven by the need to service its customers around the world. He further added that these initial steps make TDS better positioned to deliver its specialized services both nationally and internationally with the same level of excellence and security.

Tape Restoration

Trusted Data Solutions can restore, catalog and process every backup tape format, optical disk format, and logical format that has been in commercial use over the past three decades.

This includes all major backup software systems in use.

TDS engineers have successfully delivered more than 10,000 projects, including tape restoration projects with more than 90,000 tapes.

 

Email Archive Extraction and Migration

TDS has developed proprietary tools and processes to access, extract and convert and migrate email data from most commercial email archive platforms. TDS recently developed the exclusive capability to migrate from NearPoint Autonomy platforms in a legally defensible manner without utilizing the native archive applications.  Since 2003 the migration practice group has performed nearly 400 projects for clients in 4 countries. 

TDS’ services also include risk mitigation solutions such as the Restoration Assurance Program and extraction capabilities for voice messages (v-mail and v-loggers)

LegalTech New York will be taking place January 29 to January 31, 2013 at the Hilton New York hotel in New York, NY. For more information or to sign up for the show, please visit http://www.legaltechshow.com.

Attendees can register to meet TDS key executives in advance by emailing info@tdsllc.co or by visiting the TDS both at 1402. 

About Trusted Data Solutions

TDS is a leading expert in backup tape restoration and legacy data management services. We are a trusted partner to Fortunes 500 corporations, AmLaw 200 law firms and leading electronic discovery providers.

TDS is comprised of a team of professionals with unparalleled experience and commitment to excellence.  This team has been innovators in the field of backup tape related electronic discovery and legacy data management for over 20 years.  TDS offers world class tape restoration, email processing, voice log and voicemail processing and email archive extraction/migration services to corporations world-wide. TDS is headquartered in New York with offices and processing capabilities in New Jersey (USA), Los Angeles, Canada and the United Kingdom.

For more information, visit http://www.tdsllc.com or call 212.679.7600.

By Guest Blogger: Trusted Data Solutions, LLC

RenewData Launches Language-Based Content Filtering

RenewData, a full-service eDiscovery provider that offers the industry’s broadest spectrum of review acceleration solutions, today announced the latest addition to its Language-Based Analytics family of offerings: Language-Based Content Filtering. This highly differentiated service will provide significant eDiscovery time and cost savings by quickly and accurately identifying documents that cannot possibly be relevant to a matter and providing an auditable record of why each document was set aside from further consideration for optimum defensibility. 

Language-Based Content Filtering revolutionizes the way keywords are selected and applied in discovery by turning the process around. Instead of the traditional approach of making guesses in a vacuum on what keywords might be applicable to a matter, this approach ingests all words in a document collection and then provides a methodical framework for choosing the keywords from a pre-populated list. In short, it turns a fill-in-the-blank exercise into a multiple-choice exercise -- thereby delivering more comprehensive results with less cost and risk.

"Keywords are as applicable to eDiscovery today as they were many years ago, but it is clear that the way they are utilized needs to evolve to keep up with increasing data volumes and shorter timeframes,” said Joe Garber, vice president of marketing for RenewData. “Our language-based approach solves an important market problem – defensibly addressing escalating review costs – and has already delivered proven results for numerous high-profile clients. No other alternative can match its extensive benefits.”

Language-Based Content Filtering:

• Eliminates a significant number of false positives that result in wasted dollars and time during review.
• Provides greater assurance that relevant documents haven’t been missed by providing a logical framework in which documents can be precisely targeted.

• Delivers increased defensibility by ensuring all search terms are systematically considered, giving consistent results over time because it is systematic and repeatable.
• Provides an auditable record as to why each document was determined to be non-responsive.
• Enables better cooperation and negotiations with opposing counsel with a transparent and open process for collaboration.
• Ensures greater insight into the total document collection, allowing users to see the issues with which each document is associated.  

Language-Based Analytics is a language-based approach to methodically narrow down any size of document collection to identify potentially relevant information in the early phases of eDiscovery. With a series of interrelated processes and technologies, organizations are able to quickly and cost-effectively analyze a document collection, understand what each document is about, and make important decisions based on this understanding.

To learn more about Language-Based Content Filtering, go to http://www.renewdata.com or visit RenewData at LegalTech New York, January 29-31, 2013.  RenewData’s booth at LegalTech is #310, and executives will be on site in a SkySuite to discuss this news in greater detail.  Click here to register for an executive one-on-one session.

By Guest Blogger: Joseph Garber, RenewData Corp.

RenewData Launches Language-Based Review Acceleration Offering

RenewData, a full-service eDiscovery provider that offers the industry’s broadest spectrum of review acceleration solutions, today announced another addition to its Language-Based Analytics family of offerings: Language-Based Review Acceleration. 

A key feature in this offering is Cross-Document Knowledge Extraction, which is unmatched in the industry. The output of other review solutions is simply a subset of documents from the collection that might be relevant, but which requires additional analysis in order to learn more about each document’s content. Cross-Document Knowledge Extraction adds deeper insight into these results, yielding a better categorization of results that can lead to strategic advantages and additional cost savings. 

“The objective of document review is really twofold: understanding what documents may be relevant and understanding what those documents are about,” said Andy Kraftsow, chief scientist for RenewData. “Today’s technology solutions are adept at addressing the former, but fall short on the latter. RenewData’s Language-Based Review Acceleration now addresses both critical objectives, establishing it as the next generation of Technology-Assisted Review.”

Language-Based Review Acceleration is uniquely able to deliver Cross-Document Knowledge Extraction because it leverages language to understand content. As a result, it delivers:

• Deep insight into each issue.
• Rapid recognition of sub issues in the matter.
• Visibility into what additional documents can be set aside.
• Unmatched insight into issue-relevant language in summary form.

Language-Based Review Acceleration is an alternative to artificial intelligence-powered solutions that use brute technical force and pattern matching to “predict” document relevance. It delivers similar time and cost savings as these alternatives, as well as Cross-Document Knowledge Extraction, superior transparency into coding decisions, better control and auditability and the ability to re-use work product from one project to the next.

To learn more about Language-Based Review Acceleration and Cross-Document Knowledge Extraction, go to http://www.renewdata.com or visit RenewData at LegalTech New York, January 29-31, 2013. RenewData’s booth at LegalTech is #310, and executives will be on site in a SkySuite to discuss this news in greater detail.  Click here to register for an executive one-on-one session.

By Guest Blogger: Joseph Garber, RenewData Corp.

Time for Firms to Open Up the Doors to Greater Productivity

Social networking is more than just another communications medium.  It has become the primary means of sharing knowledge and information for increasing numbers of individuals and organizations.  Traditionally, businesses and law firms, especially, have been  more concerned with the potential risks of adopting social network models into their workflows than with the profit-impacting benefits of social networking tools on their organizations.  Deploying and adopting a social network based work flow system would enable a law firm to increase productivity and enhance the quality of the work product of its attorneys, and at the same time, increase client satisfaction.  It is a system that complements or otherwise extends the social dynamics of a law firm, encouraging constructive competition among its service professionals and increasing transparency of its workflow to the clients. In the long run, greater client satisfaction will increase law firm revenues, and in our new legal era, that is everything. 

How, then, can these powerful networking tools be leveraged in a large organization such as a law firm with thousands of professionals and clients—securely?  A large law firm, for instance, has all the concomitant characteristics of a social network structure:  groups of social influencers and followers, web of different professional and social associations, and project teams formed for specific client projects.  The sum total of their interactions, i.e., communications and work product, constitute proprietary Big Data of the organization, from which the law firm can leverage and monetize. 

There is an answer:  Closed circuit social networks in which the law firm’s staff and clients are invited to and participate in a social network managed and controlled by the law firm.  

Best of breed social network tools should allow the users to organize themselves in public or private groups.  Each group will have an area for discussion and a virtual library for storing documents.  Public groups would permit anyone in the closed community to join while private groups can only be joined with the group owner’s permission.  Private groups are tantamount to closed-door meetings.  On the other hand, public groups are more free-wheeling, to the extent allowed by the group moderator, and may be used for bond-building purposes or for general interest discussions around topics such as intellectual property law development, cross-border litigation, and securities law. 

These groups will increase the quality of the work product of the lawyers as they will be pressured to demonstrate to their colleagues their breadth and depth of knowledge and expertise of their chosen fields of law.  Healthy competition among the lawyers will benefit the law firm as a whole.  The closed private groups can be used for confidential discussions, information gathering and document collection by client and professional teams for purposes such as possible M&A transactions or litigation materials protected by a court protective order.  Once inside these closed private groups, the invited clients and professionals can freely and confidentially discuss and share documents.  All comments are recorded and ownership of documents is indicated so that everyone is on the same page.  

By Guest Blogger: NeuLexa Corp

Press Releases, New Release

Konica Minolta to Exhibit Legal Solutions and IT Services at LegalTech® New York 2013

 

Integrated Platform and Services Help Streamline Legal Data and Document Management

for Increased Productivity

 

Ramsey, N.J. – January 23, 2013 – Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta) today announced participation in LegalTech® New York 2013, January 29 – 31 at the Hilton New York. Konica Minolta will showcase its EnvisionIT Legal solutions and services designed to streamline legal data and document management for increased productivity.

 

“Konica Minolta’s EnvisionIT Legal solutions provide a single and convenient platform for law firms and legal departments that integrate professional services, eDiscovery, computer forensics, hardware, IT Services, solutions and support,” says Sam Errigo, senior vice president, Business Intelligence Services, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. “Show attendees will see why top law firms throughout the country count on Konica Minolta solutions and services to streamline legal data and records management in a secure way to achieve immediate results while reducing costs.”

By Guest Blogger: Konica Minolta Business Solutions U. S.A., Inc.

Biscom Bolsters BYOD & Mobile Security with iPad App Enhancements

Biscom Bolsters BYOD and Mobile Security with iPad App Enhancements

Enhancements further secure the exchange of privileged and regulated information in the legal environment

Chelmsford, MA – Jan. 21, 2013 – As Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the adoption of multiple mobile devices to conduct business gather stronger acceptance in the legal community, Biscom, provider of the legal industry’s most trusted document exchange technology, today announced enhancements to its iPad application that further secure mobile document exchange.

The new additions to Biscom’s iPad app extend secure transfer to all files on an iPad, including documents, photographs and videos. Legal professionals can now create secure mobile deliveries of documents, files and multimedia that were downloaded from other iPad apps such as email or document management systems. 

This advanced feature joins the initial iPad functionality that allowed users to receive secure Biscom deliveries and securely send documents initially downloaded by the Biscom app.

“Legal IT departments are struggling with the burden of not only supporting personal mobile devices such as iPads and mobile communications in general but also with ensuring the security of all transactions completed on those devices. At the same time, attorneys and legal professionals need intuitive software to protect their document exchanges while keeping them focused on practicing law, not learning new applications. Biscom’s iPad app satisfies both parties with its ability to secure file transfers to satisfy client confidentiality and government regulations while offering a simple interface for iPad users,” said Charles Magliato, Legal Practice Director of Biscom.

From an iPad, an attorney can initiate a Biscom secure transfer from his or her email, PDF annotation app or other iPad app. The transfer is uploaded to the Biscom secure server. Recipients then receive notice of a pending Biscom delivery that contains a link. Pre-registered and authorized parties can access the information and the attorney will receive notice of delivery and opening for auditing purposes.  The recipients can then review, edit or simply reply to the original message and return it as an equally secured delivery with the click of a button.

Biscom secure document exchange solutions – including its iPad application - are in use in three of the top-10 AmLaw firms and a growing number of the AmLaw 200 and include more than 10,000 users worldwide.

About Biscom’s Secure File Transfer for Legal

Biscom's Secure File Transfer for Legal protects law firms from data breaches or noncompliance with government regulations that result from unsecured file exchanges. Specifically designed to meet the demanding secure document exchange requirements of today’s complex legal environment, Biscom eliminates inefficient and often unsecured transmission methods such as email, FTP sites, or physical delivery of media. Read what law firms have to say about Biscom by visiting www.biscom.com/legal.

About Biscom

Biscom, the leading supplier of secure document delivery for the legal industry, delivers advanced technology that enables users to send and receive large files easily and securely. Biscom has been selected by a growing number of AmLaw 200 law firms to resolve the security, compliance, and file attachment challenges of email, FTP, and fax. Since 1986, Biscom has been providing enterprise document delivery and workflow solutions for Fortune 1000 companies. Learn more at www.biscom.com/legal.

 

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By Guest Blogger: Charlie Magliato, Legal Program Director, Biscom

Lateral Data, A Xerox Company

Xerox Continues Accelerated Growth in E-Discovery Market

Xerox Litigation Services’ Technology and Services Used in Thousands of Litigation and Investigation Matters; Number of Client End Users Increase 100% over 2011

ROCHESTER, N.Y., January 22, 2013 – Demand for Xerox Corporation’s (NYSE: XRX) e-discovery offerings continues to rise as businesses and law firms grapple with the challenges of extracting value from “big data” to meet legal and regulatory compliance objectives. Xerox Litigation Services, the e-discovery division of Xerox, today reported a 100% increase in the number of law firm and corporate legal department client end users over 2011. Data under management – data that Xerox Litigation Services hosts in its SSAE 16 Type II-compliant datacenters and makes accessible to clients via its cloud-based e-discovery platforms – also increased 60% year-over-year.

Xerox Litigation Services’ e-discovery offerings help clients efficiently and cost-effectively address the massive challenges associated with identifying, collecting, analyzing and reviewing information potentially responsive to a matter.

“Our clients are drowning in data,” said Randall Burrows, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Xerox Litigation Services. “Our offerings help clients address challenges where the sheer volume of data involved in a matter is outpacing the capacity to understand it. One example is CategoriX, our machine learning-based technology-assisted review tool, that automates the prioritization of documents most important for attorneys to set eyes on. Another example is the addition of native and automated redactions functionality to our technology, which increases client productivity and helps them cut costs. Efforts like these make e-discovery more manageable for our clients.”

Xerox Litigation Services continued to experience growth in other areas as well. In July 2012, the company acquired Lateral Data and its all-in-one Viewpoint e-discovery platform.
The acquisition strengthens Xerox’s full suite of services, technology and consulting offerings, and gives clients greater flexibility in how they choose to conduct e-discovery. Clients can opt for fully managed services, install Viewpoint on-premise or leverage Xerox’s Viewpoint IT hosting service for do-it-yourself e-discovery, or deploy Viewpoint on-premise for upstream e-discovery tasks – such as data identification, collection and early case assessment (ECA) – and move hosting and production to the Xerox cloud.

Other 2012 developments include the addition of in-house managed review capabilities to support clients’ e-discovery projects, as well as expanded operations in the United States and internationally to meet growing demand for Xerox’s e-discovery solutions.   

Xerox Litigation Services introduced its flagship cloud-based review platform, OmniX, in 2002 as Amici LLC, a software company that was acquired by Xerox in 2006. As part of Xerox, the e-discovery division has grown to be one of the largest global providers of e-discovery services and technology, with footprints in major cities in the U.S., Europe and India. Xerox Litigation Services regularly leverages hundreds of millions of dollars in research and development efforts by Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE). Clients include Fortune 500 companies in financial services, insurance, technology, pharmaceutical, energy and other industries, along with AmLaw 100 law firms.

By Guest Blogger: Lateral Data, A Xerox Company