Friday, January 31, 2014

LawToolBox calculates state and federal court deadlines based on rules of procedure for each court.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Litigators Use LawToolBox Court Deadline App for Office 365 & 2013
to View Firm Deadline Reports from their Outlook Inbox

DENVER (January 30, 2014) – LawToolBox calculates state and federal court deadlines based on rules of procedure for each court. LawToolBox has offered a deadline management system in the cloud since the late 1990s and court deadlines for Outlook since 2002. But now busy litigators can use the new LawToolBox Court Deadline App for Office 365 and 2013 to view deadline reports by associate, client or firm without ever leaving their Outlook Inbox. Further, Outlook 365 subscribers can also use the App to do an “instant import” of LawToolBox deadlines to their Outlook calendar.

Even before a law firm has upgraded to the powerful Office 365 platform, firms of all sizes can use LawToolBox to calculate deadlines, access reports in the cloud by case, attorney or department. And if the firm uses a “hosted” or “on premise” Exchange with 2003+ versions of Outlook, they can install an enterprise sync add-in for Outlook on a single computer in the firm to automatically synchronize LawToolBox deadlines to potentially hundreds of Outlook calendars every 15 to 30 minutes. "Because LawToolBox automatically synchronizes deadlines to Outlook and those deadlines are pushed to my mobile device, I can look at my deadlines from anywhere” says attorney Troy Rackham, Director at Fennemore Craig, P.C. in Denver, Colorado.

When the existing LawToolBox product is combined with the new LawToolBox App for Outlook 365 and 2013, the user experience becomes even more seamless and easy to use. As LawToolBox users upgrade or move to Outlook 2013 or 365, they can continue to use the same familiar Office tools that they are used to, but now these tools can be enhanced by legal specific apps like the new LawToolBox Court Deadline App on Office.com/store. Once the app has been linked to LawToolBox, with just a few clicks from inside their Outlook Inbox, a litigator or support staff can view their LawToolBox deadline reports by case, attorney or firm. The combination of LawToolBox court deadlines, and the LawToolBox App for Outlook 365, provides all the users involved in a lawsuit (e.g., attorneys, paralegals and co-counsel) with a “single” repository of deadlines, real-time, online, without ever having to leave their Outlook Inbox and thereby increasing awareness and reducing the risk of missed deadlines.

“While there are many innovative products in the legal market, Microsoft Office is almost always the backbone of most law firms. When we first saw apps for Outlook 365, we felt that Microsoft had raised the bar on delivering cloud based solutions to businesses, and that the Microsoft App Store could have a profound impact on the ability of companies like ours to deliver innovative solutions to our customers. The Microsoft Partner Program provided great documentation and tools that guided us through the process, and their support structure was outstanding. We discovered that the process of building an email app was not very different from building a website, and it was surprisingly easy once we jumped in and got our feet wet.” Says Jack Grow, President of LawToolBox.

LawToolBox docketing can be centralized for firms that want to limit access to a small group, and the simple user interface allows anyone to get trained in minutes. LawToolBox has been monitoring and pushing rule-changes to law firms and legal departments online for over 16 years so litigators can focus their time on the substantive issues that impact the outcome of their case.

For typical law firms with more than a couple lawsuits at any given time, the most cost-effective pricing LawToolBox offers for is a subscription model based on a ONE-TIME “per lawsuit” fee that law firms then pass through to their clients (which means law firms typically pay nothing for the online deadlines, reminders and reports, and may qualify for significant discounts on their malpractice premiums). Large firms or attorneys with a high volume can request custom quotes. Sync software is available from a third-party provider for a nominal monthly fee based on the number of calendars to which deadlines are synchronizing.

Contact:
Jack Grow
President and CEO
www.lawtoolbox.com
jbg@lawtoolbox.com
Tel: 303-759-3572

By Guest Blogger: LawToolBox.com, Inc.

LawToolBox calculates state and federal court deadlines based on rules of procedure for each court.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Litigators Use LawToolBox Court Deadline App for Office 365 & 2013
to View Firm Deadline Reports from their Outlook Inbox

DENVER (January 30, 2014) – LawToolBox, a centralized deadline management system in the cloud, calculates state and federal court deadlines based on rules of procedure for each court. LawToolBox has offered a deadline management system in the cloud since the late 1990s and court deadlines for Outlook since 2002. But now busy litigators can use the new LawToolBox Court Deadline App for Office 365 and 2013 to view deadline reports by associate, client or firm without ever leaving their Outlook Inbox. Further, Outlook 365 subscribers can also use the App to do an “instant import” of LawToolBox deadlines to their Outlook calendar.

Even before a law firm has upgraded to the powerful Office 365 platform, firms of all sizes can use LawToolBox to calculate deadlines, access reports in the cloud by case, attorney or department. And if the firm uses a “hosted” or “on premise” Exchange with 2003+ versions of Outlook, they can install an enterprise sync add-in for Outlook on a single computer in the firm to automatically synchronize LawToolBox deadlines to potentially hundreds of Outlook calendars every 15 to 30 minutes. "Because LawToolBox automatically synchronizes deadlines to Outlook and those deadlines are pushed to my mobile device, I can look at my deadlines from anywhere” says attorney Troy Rackham, Director at Fennemore Craig, P.C. in Denver, Colorado.

Contact:
Jack Grow
President and CEO
www.lawtoolbox.com
jbg@lawtoolbox.com
Tel: 303-759-3572

By Guest Blogger: LawToolBox.com, Inc.

No one can see your cloud files without your approval with the new system by Hitachi and TitanFile i

No one can see your cloud files without your approval with the new system by Hitachi and TitanFile in booth #537. Putting the user firmly in control with hassle-free, hacker-proof security combined with powerful information sharing functionality, Hitachi Solutions America, Ltd. and TitanFile Inc. are announcing a collaborative communications system built for today’s corporate legal departments. Secure client communications are essential to successful law firm operations and the new joint effort allows confidential file sharing anytime, anywhere with the user maintaining control of the encryption key to further safeguard confidentiality.

“One way law firms can mitigate their risks and stand out from their competitors is to offer a higher level of security for their clients’ sensitive documents and an information sharing system that allows staff to provide better, faster and more convenient client service,” said Yuji Nakagawa, vice president, Security Solution Department of Hitachi Solutions America.

With the integrated solution, users will be able to directly control who can access and view files while conveniently sharing documents with clients, legal teams and company management. Sensitive files will automatically remain in an encrypted state as they are distributed across platforms or shared on mobile devices.

With its client-side file encryption, Credeon Cloud Data Protection enhances TitanFile file sharing and collaboration services by applying highly-rated FIPS 140-2 certified encryption before files are shared or uploaded.
Since the encryption key is protected with the user’s password, no one – not even Hitachi Solutions or TitanFile – can access the encrypteddata without the owner’s authorization.
Centralized user management makes it easy to add or remove users and groups through an intuitive security admin console.
Role-based access control simplifies security functionality and audited user trails are maintained.
Communications are recorded in historical sequence and can be used as evidence, if needed.
With the system’s three layers of security, flexible BYOD policy and mobile capabilities, IT management can automate the enforcement of firm-specific risk and file sharing standards.

“Just superimposing a manual security scheme over existing information sharing applications often turns out to be expensive, frustrating and ineffective. The challenge is to provide an elegant solution with an easy-to-use, unified file sharing system that automatically protects files. TitanFile integrated with Hitachi Solutions’ Credeon Cloud Data Protection will bring this next generation of competitive, seamless functionality to law firms,” Nakagawa said.

The integrated solution will be shown February 4-6 at LegalTech New York 2014 at the New York Hilton. Hitachi Solutions America and TitanFile are co-exhibiting and will be available to answer questions at booth #537 or contact credeoninfo@hitachisolutions-us.com

By Guest Blogger: Hitachi Solutions America, Ltd

LawToolBox, a cloud based docketing solution, calculates state & federal court deadlines.

Litigators Use LawToolBox Court Deadline App for Office 365 & 2013
to View Firm Deadline Reports from their Outlook Inbox

Contact:
Jack Grow
President and CEO
www.lawtoolbox.com
jbg@lawtoolbox.com
Tel: 303-759-3572

By Guest Blogger: LawToolBox.com, Inc.

Marc is one of the top thought leaders and doers in the areas of litigation and discovery process.

Nashville, TN - cicayda, an eDiscovery software and services provider, announces that its VP of Knowledge Strategy and Vanderbilt Law School Professor Marc Jenkins’ paper From Socrates to Augmented Intelligence: Finding Litigation Knowledge in a Sea of Noise has been selected through a highly competitive process to be published by Law Technology News.

“Marc is one of the top thought leaders and doers in the areas of litigation knowledge management and successful eDiscovery processes”, said Roe Frazer, cicayda’s CEO. “We are excited for Marc and for us to be a part of this very prestigious Conference – Marc will certainly make his mark!”

The paper will be presented as part of the Third Annual ASU-Arkfeld eDiscovery and Digital Evidence Conference to be held March 12-14 in Tempe, Arizona, at the Center for Law, Science, & Innovation at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. The theme of the conference is “Essential Skills and Cutting-Edge Strategies for eDiscovery.” The featured keynote speaker for the conference will be the Honorable Shira Scheindlin, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York. The Honorable John M. Facciola, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and the Honorable Craig Shaffer, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. Judges Schiendlin, Facciola, and Shaffer are widely recognized as highly influential in all matters involving the discovery and admissibility of digital evidence.

About cicayda

cicayda delivers hosted eDiscovery software applications, professional managed litigation support services, and eDiscovery consulting and auditing. cicayda is led by experienced legal technology executives, CEO Roe Frazer and CTO Jason Cox, and eDiscovery pros with a combined 150 years of litigation experience. cicayda’s disruptive eDiscovery apps include litigation hold management, data culling and processing, early case assessment, review, production, production analysis, search, and advanced natural language text analytics. cicayda's eDiscovery software exhibits best-in-class speed and ease of use, while empowering intelligent lawyering. We deliver better value and quality, transparently, with no up-front fees and no long-term contracts. cicayda is better, faster, affordable, and always reliable.

For more information contact Frankie@cicayda.com or simply drop by booth 524 at Legal Tech New York and meet our CEO and team.

By Guest Blogger: cicayda

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Catalyst Showcases Big Data Power of Cloud Discovery Platform with 23+ Million Document Demo Site

When Big Data meets Big Legal, corporations and their counsel need Big Discovery. This year at LegalTech New York, attendees will get to see the speed and power of Big Discovery in action first hand. Catalyst Repository Systems' live database of more than 23 million records demonstrate the Big Discovery capabilities of Insight--the one e-discovery platform specifically engineered with the speed and power needed to meet the global demands of Big Discovery.

The demonstration site, specifically created for LegalTech, is believed to be the largest live database ever used by a vendor at the show, and is nearly thirty-eight times larger than the 600,000-document Enron data set typically used to demo other e-discovery platforms. See Big Discovery in action for yourself at LegalTech Booth 1511.

By Guest Blogger: Catalyst Repository Systems

Japanese Language Expertise and Predictive Ranking Cut Review Set by 52%

Facing review of a set of mixed Japanese and English language documents, a major U.S. law firm wanted to use Predictive Ranking technology on the Japanese
documents. If Predictive Ranking could identify the likely relevant Japanese documents, the cost and time required for review and translation would be significantly reduced, enabling the firm to meet client-dictated budget constraints and court-mandated discovery deadlines.

Technology-assisted review often stumbles at the challenge of analyzing Japanese-language text. Catalyst’s process for first extracting and tokenizing text overcomes this challenge and makes the Predictive Ranking process far more effective for Japanese documents. For our law firm client, that meant a reduction of the Japanese documents requiring review of more than half. With fewer Japanese documents to review and translate, the firm achieved its goal of cutting the cost and time review would require.

By Guest Blogger: @catalystsecure

Corporation Facing FCPA Investigation Uses Predictive Ranking to Cut Documents by 76%

One of Catalyst’s multinational clients recently faced an FCPA investigation that spanned the globe. Its Am Law 10 firm was required to collect more than 3.2 million documents from far-flung locations such as Russia, Azerbaijan, Argentina, China, Spain and Italy. Not surprisingly, the investigation had a short fuse. Counsel had just 80 days to search, analyze and review the files.

Catalyst’s Predictive Ranking enabled the team to cut the final document count to just 750,000 and the team was able to meet its deadline without breaking the client’s budget.

By Guest Blogger: Catalyst Repository Systems

Catalyst Used Predictive Ranking and Power Search to Protect Privilege and Confidentiality

Protecting against the inadvertent exposure of privileged and confidential information is always a concern when a corporation becomes engaged in litigation. For a major
brokerage firm, that task took on Herculean dimensions when it was hit with hundreds of class-action lawsuits and arbitrations after the collapse of a mutual fund that held mortgage-backed securities. Powerful tools replaced manual document review.

By Guest Blogger: Catalyst Repository Systems

Learn about ethics and use of technology-assisted review - ethics CLE credit at LegalTech NY 2014

Xerox to Lead Technology-Assisted Review (TAR) Track at LegalTech New York 2014

ROCHESTER, N.Y., January 30, 2014 – Xerox Litigation Services, the e-discovery division of Xerox (NYSE: XRX), today announced that it will be leading the technology-assisted review (TAR) track at LegalTech New York 2014, the world’s largest legal technology tradeshow. The TAR track will focus on salient issues in the use of TAR by law firms and corporate clients in litigation and investigations.

The TAR track will be held on February 6, 2014. Workshop times and participants for the two sessions are:

10:30-11:45: The TAR Workroom – Standards & Best Practices

This track will offer practitioner insight into developing sound protocols to optimize the use of TAR, foundational standards for generating transparent and statistically sound performance and workflow best practices. This workshop is CLE eligible.

• Moderator: Sheila Mackay, Vice President of E-Discovery Consulting at Xerox Litigation Services • Mira Edelman, Discovery Counsel, Google • Bennett Borden, Partner and Co-Chair of the Information Governance and eDiscovery Group, Drinker Biddle & Reath • Julie Brown, Litigation Technology Executive Manager at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP • Stuart LaRosa, Senior Classification Analyst, Xerox Litigation Services

12:15-1:30: The TAR Ethics Lab – ABA & State Ethics Rules

This lab will address the ethical implications of using TAR to replicate human judgment in the search and review of e-discovery. Participants can expect to become better prepared to meet their ethical obligations when employing TAR. This is the only panel eligible for ethics CLE credit at the conference.

• Moderator: Gabriela Baron, Esq., Senior Vice President, Xerox Litigation Services • Jack Halprin, Esq., Head of e-Discovery, Enterprise, Google • Anthony J. Diana, Partner and Co-Leader, Electronic Discovery & Information Governance practice, Mayer Brown • Julie Brown, Litigation Technology Executive Manager at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

“Technology-assisted review, though advanced by the courts in 2013 and increasingly accepted as one approach to large-scale review by our clients, is still a new and evolving tool for most law firms and corporations seeking to cut costs and expedite the e-discovery process,” stated Ms. Mackay. “We recognize that some clients want to use TAR as a do-it-yourself tool, like Viewpoint, and others opt for a more outsourced approach such as CategoriX. As staunch supporters of the thoughtful application of this technology, we are pleased to be advancing the discussion on best practices - no matter the approach - for the use of TAR in litigation, investigations and information governance.”

In 2013, Xerox published dozens of articles on industry best practices and participated in industry-recognized standard-setting forums, including the ICAIL Workshop on Standards for Using Predictive Coding, Machine Learning, and Other Advanced Search and Review Methods in E-Discovery.

Xerox offers a portfolio of solutions to help corporate legal departments and law firms solve their most pressing e-discovery challenges. Clients can opt for fully outsourced managed services using its full-service cloud-based OmniX review platform, CategoriX technology-assisted review, on-premise e-discovery using the all-in-one Viewpoint e-discovery software, or a hybrid approach whereby customers conduct upstream activities - such as early case assessment - on-site using Viewpoint, and send data to the Xerox cloud for hosted review. Clients’ use of Xerox’s e-discovery technology can be supported by 24/7 professional services, consulting expertise and managed review.

At LegalTech, Xerox Litigation Services also will be holding a user group session for its OmniX users. Lateral Data, a Xerox company, will be leading Viewpoint user groups for its law firm and service provider customers, along with a Viewpoint certification refresher course. Since the launch of its certification program last year, hundreds of Viewpoint end users have been certified in sales, processing administration, review and advanced analytics, including Viewpoint Assisted Review, the platform’s integrated TAR module for prioritizing documents. Xerox Litigation Services will be exhibiting at booth #1414.

- See more at: http://www.xerox-xls.com/news/pressreleases/xerox-to-lead-technology-assisted-review-(tar)-track-at-legaltech-new-york-2014.html#sthash.GGs6hOzG.dpuf

By Guest Blogger: Xerox Litigation Services

Lateral Data, a Xerox company, announces release of version 5.6

Lateral Data to Showcase Viewpoint E-Discovery Platform Version 5.6 at LegalTech New York

Lateral Data to Showcase Viewpoint E-Discovery Platform Version 5.6 at LegalTech New York

Enhanced early case assessment capabilities will allow for faster and more thorough elimination of non-relevant data early on in case, reducing time and cost of downstream review; streamlined user interface will allow for better user experience

HOUSTON, TX, December 11, 2013 – Lateral Data, a Xerox company (NYSE: XRX), will be showcasing the upcoming version of its Viewpoint all-in-one e-discovery platform at LegalTech New York on February 4-6 in New York City. The latest enhancements of the software include significant user interface and functionality updates that further streamline the review process for its law firm and corporate end users.

Viewpoint 5.6 includes extensive early case assessment capabilities that allow case teams to gain critical insight into their data early on in the process, eliminating the time and cost of reviewing unnecessary information later on in the process. The software’s integrated Relationship Analyzer tool now includes dynamic visualization tools to help users analyze data faster over very large data sets, such as communications between domains and email addresses, spikes in communications between custodians and communication patterns of interest.

The upcoming release also features faster password decryption that can handle more than five million passwords rapidly, as well as enhanced search functionality that offers a new user interface, more efficient user experience and faster, more robust reporting.

“Viewpoint 5.6 will allow our clients to navigate the e-discovery process with even greater ease and efficiency than ever before, providing time and cost savings that are critically important to our clients,” said Matt Berry, founder and president of Lateral Data. “We look forward to demonstrating this release to our clients at LegalTech New York.”

Viewpoint integrates comprehensive functionality in a single product, including data collection, early case assessment, pre-processing and processing, analysis, review and production. By using one product instead of many to manage e-discovery projects, case teams can make the e-discovery process more efficient, reduce costs and eliminate the risks of moving sensitive data between tools.

Lateral Data also will be hosting a number of events at LegalTech New York, including Viewpoint user groups for its law firm and service provider customers as well as a Viewpoint certification refresher course. Since the launch of its certification program last year, hundreds of Viewpoint end users have been certified in sales, processing administration, review and advanced analytics, including Viewpoint Assisted Review, the platform’s integrated technology-assisted review (TAR) module for the automatic prioritization of documents.

Viewpoint can be deployed as on-premise software, accessed as a cloud-based service or delivered as a “backpack” service for on-site, defined projects using the Viewpoint appliance. Viewpoint 5.6 will be available in March 2014.

LegalTech New York 2014, produced by ALM Media, will take place at the Hilton New York Hotel in New York City. Lateral Data will be exhibiting at booth #1414. More information can be found at www.legaltechshow.com.

About Lateral Data, A Xerox Company

Lateral Data’s Viewpoint™ e-discovery software is an all-inclusive platform that integrates collection, early case assessment, pre-processing and processing, analysis, review, and production functionality into a single, powerful platform. Lateral Data’s client base consists of global e-discovery service providers, consulting firms, corporations and law firms that have chosen Viewpoint to manage e-discovery with one tool from end-to-end. Houston-based Lateral Data was founded in 2003 and acquired by Xerox Corporation in July of 2012. To learn more, visit www.lateraldata.com.

About Xerox
Since the invention of Xerography 75 years ago, the people of Xerox (NYSE: XRX) have helped businesses simplify the way work gets done. Today, we are the global leader in business process and document management, helping people be more efficient so they can focus on their real business. Headquartered in Norwalk, Conn., more than 140,000 Xerox employees serve clients in 160 countries, providing business services, printing equipment and software for commercial and government organizations. Learn more at www.xerox.com.

By Guest Blogger: Lateral Data, A Xerox Company

FTI Consulting Launches Ringtail Version 8.4

FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: FCN), the global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations protect and enhance their enterprise value, today announced that its FTI Technology business segment is launching Version 8.4 of its award-winning Ringtail® e-discovery software. Built in close collaboration with leading law firms and corporate attorneys, Ringtail is the only visual predictive coding software for legal review. Ringtail’s new features strengthen users’ ability to train the predictive coding model for optimum efficiency and cost savings. Ringtail 8.4 will be available to Ringtail on-demand, on-premise and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) users in March 2014.

By Guest Blogger: FTI Technology

Integreon New York Office Moves to Times Square

NEW YORK – January 30, 2014 – Integreon, a leading global provider of outsourced legal, document, research, and business support, has announced the completion of the company’s move from New York’s Midtown East into the heart of Times Square. The move addresses growth in client demand from the Greater New York area and from across the US for outsourced legal and business support services, especially for electronic discovery and managed document review.

Integreon’s new Manhattan office features an open concept design that will facilitate greater collaboration among Integreon Associates for enhanced productivity and client support – including for its many Am Law 100 and Fortune 500 clients who increasingly rely on Integreon to help improve spend management and quality control through the unique advantages afforded by legal services outsourcing.

“Since the opening of our office in New York in 2008, we have seen substantial business growth, especially among multi-nationals and other large organizations based in and around New York City. To keep pace with the scale and complexity of our clients’ needs, we have invested in an improved facility that we believe our clients will appreciate and one that our Associates will be proud of,” said Bob Gogel, CEO, Integreon. “The investment in this facility demonstrates our continuing commitment to providing best-in-class service and support for our law firm and corporate clients.”

Features of the office include a newly upgraded data processing and hosting infrastructure, state-of-the-art forensics lab, secure document review center, and other advanced legal and business support capabilities. The office also represents a key element of Integreon’s global network of award-winning service centers which specialize in providing high quality support for compliance, electronic discovery and document review, contract management, due diligence, legal research, and other services for demanding legal and business professionals.

Integreon’s New York office is conveniently located in proximity to historic Bryant Park at:
1450 Broadway, Suite 1100, New York, NY 10018.

Sponsoring ALM’s LegalTech New York Conference

Integreon is sponsoring the LegalTech New York conference taking place February 4-6, 2014 at the Hilton New York. Visit booth 1601 in the hotel’s East Grand Ballroom to learn more about Integreon’s extensive range of legal and business services. In addition, Integreon’s Mark Ross, Vice President of Legal Process Outsourcing, will be speaking during the conference on Thursday, Feb. 6 from 12:15 to 1:30PM EST as part of the panel session on Integrating In-house Legal and Contract Management Functions – Proactive and Strategic Approaches.

For general information about Integreon’s outsourcing services for legal, document, research, and business support, please visit www.integreon.com.

Award Winning Services

Integreon has received more than 30 awards over the past five years for exceptional service and support in the legal field, including recently being named Outstanding Service Provider by the International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM), LPO of the Year by India Business Law Journal (IBLJ), among the world’s Best 5 Legal Services Providers by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (IAOP), and a Top Ranked Legal Services Provider in the prestigious Chambers Global 2013 guide.

About Integreon

Integreon is a trusted provider of integrated legal, document, research and business support solutions to discerning professionals, including law firms and corporate law departments, leading corporations, financial services organizations and professional services firms. Integreon’s 2,000+ associates work globally to support its clients in areas such as market and competitive intelligence, discovery, legal process outsourcing (LPO), operating model transformation and back office redesign. Integreon also excels in business support services such as IT, document processing, finance and HR. With unrivalled outsourcing experience and its industry-leading onshore and offshore capabilities, clients increasingly rely on Integreon to meet their needs in a demanding business environment. Integreon provides its services to its global client base with delivery capabilities from the US, UK, India, Philippines, South Africa and China. For more information about Integreon’s extensive range of services, please visit www.integreon.com.

For additional information, please contact:
Ariella Steinreich
Burson-Marsteller
212-614-4262
Ariella.Steinreich@bm.com

By Guest Blogger: Integreon

eDepoze, Booth 2120, is having a daily contest

Be the first person to Booth 2120 with a social media update about eDepoze and win a gift certificate on the spot! Follow us at @edepoze!

By Guest Blogger: eDepoze

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Caltrans Awards Multi Year Contract to HoudiniEsq

California Department of Transportation Awards Contract to HoudiniEsq

Thomson Reuters Elite® and HoudiniEsq Battle for Multi Year Caltrans Contract - HoudiniEsq comes out on top.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., July 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovator and leader in Legal Practice Management Software-as-a-Service for enterprise, LogicBit Software Corp. announced today that it has been awarded a contract with the California Department of Transportation to license its legal practice management software HoudiniEsq to the agency.

HoudiniEsq will be used by Caltrans in house counsel and 300 staff to manage all legal matters, improve efficiencies and reduce cost.

For over 100 years Caltrans has managed and improved transportation in California.

This is the second California State Agency to award a contract to HoudiniEsq. In similar fashion, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing awarded a multi-year 7-figure contract to HoudiniEsq in 2011. The director recently summed up the experience.

"HoudiniEsq is faster, more efficient, and transparent. We will save over $780,000 over a five-year period. HoudiniEsq has really been a great innovation for the department." - Phyllis Cheng Esq., - Director, Department of Fair Employment and Housing.

"This contract further extends the company's lead as the Cloud product of choice for organizations and agencies wishing to cut cost and improve overall efficiency," says CEO Frank Rivera.

HoudiniEsq is a 100% turn-key scalable web-based product that can be installed on-

premise in a private-cloud configuration or accessed entirely via the Cloud. Both options offer secure remote access via a web browser to the organization’s data and workflow on just about any operating system and device.

HoudiniEsq on-premise/private-cloud is available free of charge for solo practitioners.

About LogicBit Software Corp:
LogicBit Software Corp. is located in Research Triangle Park North Carolina, and its primary focus is the development of scalable web-based practice management software.

CEO and Founder: Frank A. Rivera Web: http://HoudiniEsq.com
Phone: 888-366.2280 or 919-238-7024 SOURCE LogicBit Software Corp. RELATED LINKS

http://HoudiniEsq.com

By Guest Blogger: HoudiniEsq

Transforming boards and leadership communications. Used by half of the Fortune 500.

BoardVantage, Inc. provides secure portals for boards of directors and leadership teams. Used by half of the Fortune 500, Fortune 100 and Fortune 10, BoardVantage is making the paperless boardroom a reality.

By Guest Blogger: BoardVantage

Transforming boards and leadership communications. Used by half of the Fortune 500.

By Guest Blogger: BoardVantage

Transforming boards and leadership communications. Used by half of the Fortune 500.

By Guest Blogger: BoardVantage

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Planet Data and Exigent Announce Strategic eDiscovery and Managed Review Partnership

MEDIA CONTACT

Kate Talbot

kate@klickcommunications.com

(323) 642 6811

PLANET DATA AND EXIGENT ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC EDISCOVERY AND MANAGED REVIEW PARTNERSHIP

COMBINATION OF EXCLUSIVE TECHNOLOGY AND EXPERTISE FROM CONSULTING TO DOCUMENT REVIEW WILL DELIVER SUPERIOR EDISCOVERY EXPERIENCE TO CLIENTS

January 23, 2014 - Elmsford, NY – Planet Data, a global innovator in the creation and development of eDiscovery technologies, services and solutions, proudly announces a strategic partnership with Exigent, a leading global document review and ediscovery project management firm.

This alliance brings the utmost in service, technology, project management, and review solutions to clients by joining experienced teams of industry professionals. Together, both companies and accomplished staffs have successfully served the document management industry for decades. This partnership model provides clients with the capability to implement solutions from the initial stages of data collection to the last phase of production and presentation in the EDRM model, in the US, Canada, EU and Australia.

Leading the way will be Planet Data’s exclusive Processing, Early Case Assessment and Review platform, Exego. Exego is Planet Data’s proprietary processing workhorse with built-in Early Case Assessment and Review modules.

Planet Data COO David S. Cochran states “We are thrilled to join forces with Exigent. Their reputation for quality results combined with our recognition for the accuracy and experience will create an opportunity for Planet Data to offer their managed review services along with our processing, ECA and hosted review in the US, Canada, EU and Australia. This partnership will benefit our clients with one source for all of their eDiscovery management needs.”

“The addition of Planet Data’s extensive experience in eDiscovery platform development will enhance our eDiscovery services. We recognize the importance of an end-to-end Litigation Support solution to our clients and this strategic partnership enables us to deliver on this need. This unique capability wraps up quality, efficiency, consistency and the comfort that their projects are in the expert hands of two leading eDiscovery providers”, adds David Holme, Exigent CEO.

About Exigent: Exigent Group Limited is a global legal services outsourcing organization, providing advice on and delivery of a range of legal services and business analytics to reduce risk, increase compliance and to drive process and cost efficiencies for its clients in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and South Africa. With recent acquisition of the India based legal technology specialist mLegal, Exigent has become a 400+ member strong global workforce comprising consultants, business analysts, attorneys, software developers and multi-skilled business professionals. Exigent currently has 8 offices globally and 3 operating centres in Bangalore, Cape Town and Perth. Know more at: www.exigentlpo.com

About Planet Data: Planet Data offers best-in-class eDiscovery technology and services from Collection, Processing and Early Case Assessment to Technology Assisted Review. Recognized as a global leader in Early Case Assessment and Discovery Management Services, Planet Data is SSAE 16 Type II and US Safe Harbor certified, and operates state-of-the-art data processing and hosting centers across the U.S. Planet Data delivers flexible, high-quality, cost-effective eDiscovery services, high-level consulting, technical support and project management. Exego is the single-platform eDiscovery destination for processing, indexing, searching, culling and reviewing data. Smart and simple, Exego completely processes data then combines the best of ECA and Review in one place, to deliver the stress-free experience clients want. Read more at:http://www.planetdata.com/

Planet Data Business Contact:

Laura Marques

Vice President, Marketing and Communications

LMarques@PlanetDS.com

914-593-6227

By Guest Blogger: Planet Data

Monday, January 27, 2014

#cloud technology case study @CumulusDataInc

Attending LegalTech New York? Join Cumulus Data at booth#1618 and be among the first to hear about new developments based on feedback we heard directly from our valued clients!

Cumulus Data now offers:

New! The only tool that collects from the Amazon Cloud with no infrastructure requirements for more comprehensive, affordable on-demand collection.
Cumulus Data now offers the only tool that can collect both to the cloud and to media, giving our clients unique flexibility and speed to data without the worry of connectivity challenges.
New! Leverage enhanced filtering tools, including keyword searching, to cull through data faster and arrive at a smaller set of responsive documents for processing, saving time and cost.

To celebrate our exciting new features, we are giving away Amazon gift cards worth $5 - $50!

Simply swing by the Cumulus booth, pick up a promo item and tweet a selfie WITH the promo to #CumulusLTNY. Your selfie is a guaranteed winner (one per person). Snap a shot at the show or around town. Let us see where you are taking Cumulus Data!

Mention this email when you are at our booth and receive a special pricing offer.

By Guest Blogger: Cumulus Data, Inc.

Senior managers are the worst information security risk offenders

Employees Believe Company and Information is at Risk

American businesses need to fortify their protections against information security threats. In a recent flash survey of American office workers, Stroz Friedberg explored the state of information security in U.S. businesses. The reality is rather bleak.

More than half of respondents gave corporate America’s response to cyber threats a grade C or lower. Nearly three-quarters of respondents expressed concerned that a hacker could break into their employers’ computer networks and steal their personal information.

Worst Offenders in High Risk Electronic Behavior are Senior Managers

But many respondents also admitted to engaging in high-risk behaviors, such as uploading work files to their personal email and cloud accounts, and accidentally sending sensitive information to the wrong person. Senior management—those who often have high levels of access to valuable company information—admitted to partaking in risky behaviors most readily. Personal technology preferences contributed to many of the transgressions.

One bright spot is the efficacy of company policy. Workers who said they did not participate in high-risk behaviors cited strict company policy as the reason why.

When company information gets into the wrong hands—whether it’s due to a careless insider, a malicious insider, or a hacker—a business can lose the trust of its customers, partners, and investors, as well as its competitive advantages. Knowledge about real-life risks in the workplace and how companies are successfully managing high-risk behaviors can help business leaders better understand how to protect their firms.

By Guest Blogger: Stroz Friedberg

Protected Trust offers a reliable and secure computer processing infrastructure for legal firms

Secure Data Center Infrastructure and Cloud Server Operations Exclusively for Legal Service Providers and Law Firms

You benefit from the highest quality technology available, at a fraction of the cost, offered in the right-sized packages to address your specific litigation support computing needs. Each of your cloud servers is actually a virtual server dedicated to you and your tasks, running on an enterprise-class hardware platform from within the Protected Trust SSAE-16 SOC II, HIPAA compliant data center. Your private cloud is a dedicated server environment configured with your own firewall and scalable bandwidth.

Protected Trust Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Litigation Support offering

- Consumption based on-demand cloud computing
- Multiple Internet provider failover
- A/B power failover
- SAN-based and SSD storage providing multiple tiers of disk performance
- Multipoint failover
- Client portal–VM visibility
- Local smart hands when needed
- Pay only for what you need, when you need it
- Fiber channel and iSCSI hardware components

High-touch Server Management

This service level lets you dedicate one hundred percent of your time to your customers while Protected Trust manages and configures everything else to you exact specifications.

- Network optimization
- Operating system and database upgrades and patching
- Firewall management
- Anti-virus management and updates
- File level backup, testing and recovery
- Manage server backups
- Load balancers
- Router management
- Troubleshooting
- Performance Monitoring
- Scaling high traffic events
- Intrusion detection
- Penetration testing
- Geo redundancy

We are on your team

We understand the importance and critical nature of your business. Our job is to insure that the computing infrastructure and availability to your business applications are secure, reliable and in peak performance. Our privacy protection framework is designed with controls in place to keep your data infrastructure secure from unauthorized intrusion, theft and misuse.

About Protected Trust

Protected Trust brings to the market the synergy between several products and services focused on just onething – risk management for a company’s digital assets. Protected Trust combines operational experience, a physically secure infrastructure, cloud based managed services, and an expert culture of security and privacy.

By Guest Blogger: Protected Trust

Marshall Dennehey Takes the Lead in Protecting Client Data with Biscom Secure File Transfer

Biscom, a leader in secure document delivery, today announced that law firm Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin has deployed Biscom Secure File Transfer (SFT) software achieving enhanced security, control, ease-of-use and accountability with its clients and business partners, consistent with its commitment and duty to protect clients’ confidential documents and work product.

While the emergence of electronic-based communications has, in many ways, made file-sharing much more efficient, the process of sharing legal documents has become increasingly complicated. As a leading civil defense litigation law firm, Marshall Dennehey’s Technology and Privacy Practice Groups routinely counsel clients about how to manage the risks associated with data breaches and data security, and they take the responsibility of protecting clients’ data very seriously. Upon careful evaluation of existing document exchange processes, Marshall Dennehey’s management identified a need for secure file transfer technology that would meet and/or exceed security and regulatory requirements; provide an intuitive, self-service solution for its attorneys and clients; and integrate and interoperate with existing applications.

Liz Brown, Director of Information Technology at Marshall Dennehey, explained, “We sought a document exchange software product that would allow attorneys to securely and efficiently transfer large documents and confidential content from within Outlook, eliminating the tedious steps required with FTP, cloud-based file sharing services and physical media. We wanted to integrate with important existing applications; provide a secure exchange process with comprehensive transfer audit trails; automatically delete documents and expire recipient access; and facilitate IT control of user activation and usage.”

The firm examined numerous document exchange software products based on functionality, integration capabilities, and costs. After researching several on-premises and cloud file-transfer options, Marshall Dennehey selected Biscom Secure File Transfer for its intuitive interface, security, and interoperability with the firm’s metadata management and DMS (document management system) applications.

A key benefit from Biscom SFT for Marshall Dennehey is the ability to use it either through the web or via a transparent Outlook add-in. The Outlook add-in allows on-demand, secure delivery of the email body and attachments as well as delivery of emails that exceed the firm’s Microsoft Exchange size policy. When significant volumes of data are involved, the web interface is better suited for intake and production delivery, and allows users to upload files and folders of unlimited size. The web interface also includes an iManage integration (the firm’s DMS application) for direct access and upload of Worksite documents.

“Because Biscom SFT maintains detailed transaction logs of all file transfer activity in a permanent repository, we have an audit trail that proves delivery, receipt, and access,” said Brown. “These logs are particularly helpful to our Health Care Practice Department in complying with HIPAA-related mandates for the tracking and auditing of protected health information.”

She added that transitioning to the new software was surprisingly easy. “After a successful pilot program in our Health Care Practice Department, Biscom was deployed to the Securities Practice Department and the firm’s litigation and e-discovery support teams. Users continue to be added on an as-needed basis, determined by practice area and document exchange needs. Ad hoc requests are processed by the IT Department. Based on the success of our initial programs, we are currently evaluating the addition of mobile access via Biscom’s mobile app. We also plan to explore the Biscom SFT collaborative workspace to provide a secure alternative to cloud-based file sharing services for exchanging project and matter-related documents with clients and outside counsel.”

Bill Ho, president of Biscom, said his firm is accustomed to addressing challenges in the rapidly evolving technological environment. “While the complexities of document delivery have multiplied exponentially since the days when paper ruled communications, it is gratifying that we can address the challenges of practicing law in the current technologically-evolving environment and enable clients like Marshall Dennehey to establish enhanced levels of document exchange, security, regulatory compliance and convenience,” he said.

About Biscom

Every day millions of users and thousands of enterprises rely on Biscom for secure and reliable document delivery solutions. Founded in 1986, Biscom pioneered the fax server marketplace with FAXCOM® and its award-winning fax management solutions. Since then, Biscom has developed expertise and solutions around secure file transfer, synchronization, file translation, cloud solutions, and mobile devices for the world’s largest organizations. Learn more at www.biscom.com.

By Guest Blogger: Biscom

Biscom Announces Integration with MobileIron AppConnect

Company’s Integration Brings Secure File Transfer to MobileIron App Ecosystem

Biscom, a leader in secure document delivery, today announced that it is now an integral part of the MobileIron AppConnect ecosystem. The Biscom integration with MobileIron AppConnect ensures employees can securely exchange files from their mobile devices while IT has the policy controls it needs to secure and manage corporate data.

MobileIron, the leader in security and management for mobile apps, documents and devices, provides its AppConnect technology to third-party mobile app developers. With MobileIron AppConnect apps, companies can give their employees the best third-party application experiences with apps that have been enabled with auto-configuration, data containerization and secure tunneling to protect corporate data.

Biscom Secure File Transfer (SFT) provides an intuitive, self-service environment to create and securely deliver confidential files and messages. Unlike the mobile apps of collaborative file sharing services that do not easily support transfer to non-participants, the Biscom mobile app facilitates on-demand transfer to any external party with same ease as composing and sending an e-mail. With a single click, an individual can initiate a Biscom secure transfer from the mobile device’s email, PDF annotation app or other iPad app. Authorized recipient access is tracked and the sender receives verification of receipt. Users can also access received Biscom deliveries from their mobile app. Biscom’s mobile app supports IOS and Android mobile devices.

Biscom’s integration with MobileIron’s AppConnect mobile device management environment further enhances Biscom’s strong security by locking down access to files stored in the Biscom app. MobileIron allows administrators to control the Biscom app’s file access policy including app login, file movement to other apps, copy/paste permissions and file printing.

“The combination of Biscom and MobileIron offers a new level of security and control to the process of mobile device file exchange,” said Bill Ho, President of Biscom. “Organizations trust Biscom’s iPad and Android apps for its on-demand transfer of sensitive files that encrypts delivery and ensures only the intended recipients receive the files. The integration with MobileIron will enhance the control and protection of files stored in the Biscom app.”

“Data security is paramount in today’s business world. Files must be protected from data breach and cyber-attack without compromising the mobile experience of users,” says Ojas Rege, VP Strategy, MobileIron. “Biscom’s integration with MobileIron AppConnect gives organizations around the world new tools to secure the exchange and storage of sensitive files on mobile devices.”

About MobileIron

The leader in security and management for mobile apps, documents, and devices, MobileIron’s mission is to enable organizations around the world to embrace mobility as their primary IT platform in order to transform their businesses and increase their competitiveness. Global companies, including 8 of the top 10 automotive manufacturers, 7 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies, 5 of the top 10 banks, 5 of the top 10 law firms, and 4 of the top 10 retailers, rely on MobileIron’s scalable architecture, rapid innovation, and best practices as the foundation for their Mobile First initiatives. For more information, please visit www.mobileiron.com.

About Biscom

By Guest Blogger: Charlie Magliato

Why customers prefer Philips voice technology

The all-new Philips Pocket Memo and SpeechMike Premium voice recorders are reshaping the world of professional dictation. The new dictation devices have already received excellent reviews from the media worldwide and have been awarded the maximum star rating by the speech recognition specialist Nuance. End-users from around the world are now mirroring this praise and voicing their opinions.

By Guest Blogger: Philips voice technology

How to make a difference with Philips voice technology

Numerous technologies are available to help law firms achieve optimal workflow processes. Latest digital dictation workflows, however, are an often under-utilized and under-discussed technology that can help law firms save both time and money.

A more rapid response to clients, faster documentation turnaround, eliminating hours of transcription, and more time to spend securing new clients are the other major advantages of adopting digital dictation for firms of all sizes.

Visit our booth to get a live demo of today's state-of-the-art voice technologies from recorders to smartphone apps and dictation management software.

By Guest Blogger: Philips voice technology

inData Corporation Releases TrialDirector 6.5

January 21, 2013 (Gilbert, AZ) - inData Corporation, a developer of software for legal professionals, announced the release of TrialDirector 6.5, the most recent update to its flagship trial presentation software. In addition to several customer requested features, the update is fully integrated with inData’s new, collaborative, web-based application TDNotebook®. "Using TrialDirector 6.5 alongside the just-released TDNotebook will change the way legal professionals prepare for trial," Derek Miller, CEO, inData Corporation.