Tuesday, February 2, 2016

DISCO sets record year over year growth and adds key new capabilities to its discovery platform

DISCO SETS RECORD YEAR OVER YEAR GROWTH AND ADDS KEY NEW CAPABILITIES TO ITS DISCOVERY PLATFORM

172% growth plus new Workflow and Quality Control features ensures DISCO accelerates its momentum as the fastest-growing company in ediscovery

Legal-technology company DISCO today announced that 2015 was a record growth year for both revenue and new client acquisition. Revenue increased 172% in 2015 and 92 new organizations were added as new clients. This growth is confirmation that the market is actively demanding an easier and faster way to perform discovery.

"2015 was a year of maturation for DISCO as more and more of the AmLaw 200 and the country's best litigation boutiques adopt DISCO. Keeping our focus on performance and ease of use ensured that the capabilities we added throughout the year exceeded our clients’ expectations." said Neil Etheridge, DISCO VP of Marketing.

DISCO has added key new features to the platform to ensure that clients can leverage its next-generation discovery platform regardless of case size or complexity. With the addition of these new features DISCO is poised to become the new standard for discovery.

“Normally when companies add more complex features into their products, the products themselves become more complex,” says Michael Simon, partner at Seventh Samurai Consulting. “DISCO has managed to avoid this and remains true to its vision of simplicity and ease of use”.

DISCO Workflow was designed from the ground up to meet the needs of any review. From multi-terabyte cases with hundreds of reviewers to small cases with a handful of reviewers, the goal was the same: make setup, management, and organization of document review easy without sacrificing capability and control required by different processes or strategies.

In addition to creating a new restricted reviewer interface for contract reviewers, DISCO Workflow was designed to simplify 3 main things:

Creation and management of even the most complex reviews
Organization and prioritization of documents for review
Metrics to gain insights from people, pace, and decisions being made during the review

DISCO QC allows review managers and lawyers to quickly sample, check, and analyze documents for the purpose of quality control. Previous solutions to this problem would require the use of complex product features, calculations in Excel, and an advanced understanding of statistics. DISCO QC changes all this by automating many steps in the process and dramatically simplifying the rest.

This new feature in DISCO is designed to make the process of quality control quick and easy --- so it can be used in every case. The key capabilities of this new feature allow clients to:

Create random samples from any subset of reviewed documents
Perform a focused review of documents for errors / overturns
Visually analyze the results and discover patterns in coding errors / overturns
Automatically deliver estimations on error rates for the entire document population

“Seeing the new QC features in DISCO was the first time the use of document sampling for QC made sense to me” said Danny Yadidsion, Associate with an AM Law 200 firm. “With a few clicks and the review of a small set of documents I get immediate insight into any problems with my review, and how to fix them.”

DISCO Founder Kent Radford summarized 2015: "We built a world-class engineering team in Houston and Austin and a seasoned sales and services team in major cities across the United States. With the best product and the best people, we look forward to setting another record in 2016.”

About DISCO

CS DISCO Inc. makes the best legal technology in the world. Since the introduction of its ediscovery solution in 2013, DISCO has become the first choice for innovative legal technology at more than 400 law firms, enterprises, and government units, including over 50 of the AmLaw 200. DISCO’s ediscovery solution lets lawyers find evidence up to 10x faster, even at a multi-terabyte scale.

Visit our website at www.csdisco.com and take a self-guided tour.

By Guest Blogger: CS Disco

Zapproved Redefines E-Discovery Processing Speed Exceeding 1TB/hour

Zapproved Inc. today demonstrated a major technological advancement in electronic discovery by processing data at a rate exceeding one terabyte per hour using Digital Discovery Pro™. Digital Discovery Pro is a software application that taps the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud computing for corporate legal teams so they can process and review discovery data instantly for immediate insights to a case or internal investigation.

“Breaking the terabyte-per-hour processing barrier marks a new era for electronic discovery. Digital Discovery Pro was designed as modern software and with future customer needs in mind. We developed it to take full advantage of the AWS Cloud and have optimized it for scalability and affordability. Our software applies the amount of computing power required to accomplish any task quickly,” said Monica Enand, CEO and Founder of Zapproved. “The technology we’re providing gives in-house legal teams unprecedented control, access, and affordability over discovery.”

Corporate legal departments benefit from access to this technology in four important ways: instant access to information, complete control over their discovery processes, predictable affordability, and total readiness for litigation response now and in the future—giving corporate legal teams the power to “know now” and not be in the dark on status or insights that will help them manage their case strategy. Please visit Zapproved at LegalTech New York at Booth 1400 from February 2-4, 2016.

By Guest Blogger: Zapproved, Inc

Mitratech’s Latest TeamConnect Release Delivers Significantly Improved User Experience

TeamConnect 4.1 includes re-designed global search, competitive bidding, and workflow enhancements.

AUSTIN, Texas, February 1, 2016 – Mitratech, the leading provider of enterprise legal management solutions, released the latest version of TeamConnect today. TeamConnect 4.1 includes a redesign and expansion of search capabilities, additional spend management features for outside counsel negotiations, and workflow enhancements – all designed to increase the usability of the system for legal department staff.

Specific enhancements in this latest TeamConnect release include:

Redesigned Global Search – Global search has been redesigned to provide clients a more powerful – yet easier to use – experience, ultimately saving time and increasing user efficiency. The user experience now includes scalable, lightning-fast searches across all TeamConnect data.
Competitive Bidding for Outside Vendors – With the new enhancements, legal departments can now request multiple bids from any outside vendors, evaluate the submissions, and approve or reject them directly within TeamConnect. Once selected, the accounts from the approved vendor are applied to the budget for the matter.
Increased Workflow Flexibility –The new workflow enhancements improve user experience and decrease administrative effort by increasing workflow configuration flexibility - allowing teams to do reassignments both permanently and temporarily and preventing approval of a workflow until a certain condition is met.

With TeamConnect 4.1, Mitratech clients are also able to take advantage of Mitratech’s Upgrades Included Program, a free set of upgrade services first introduced to clients with the release of TeamConnect 4.0 last summer. This program significantly lowers the total cost of ownership for TeamConnect clients. As the highest rated ELM platform in the industry, TeamConnect uniquely delivers powerful functionality and flexibility desired by complex legal departments while still being straightforward to implement, maintain, and upgrade.

“The release of TeamConnect 4.1 enhances our clients’ overall user experience and creates tangible value for the legal department,” said Mitratech CEO Jason Parkman. “These new features, combined with our Upgrades Included Program, further delivers on our mission to make the legal department the best-run function in the organization by providing superior technology to manage the increasingly complex responsibilities of our clients.”

Mitratech will be at LegalTech®, the industry’s largest educational conference, February 2-4, 2016. Visit booth #334 or booth #1995 to meet the team and see a demo of TeamConnect 4.1 or any of our other leading legal software products.

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ABOUT MITRATECH

Mitratech is the market-leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions for more than 750 global legal departments of all sizes, representing 7 of the Fortune 10, almost 40% percent of the Fortune 500, and over 100,000 users in over 150 countries. Mitratech’s products are also used by over 11,000 of its clients’ external partners, including 99 of the Global 100 and 100 percent of the Am Law 200 law firms. Mitratech’s portfolio of ELM software solutions offer end-to-end matter management, spend management, e-Billing, legal hold, contracts management, GRC, and reporting solutions. Clients are able to prove demonstrable value creation for their organization by automating legal workflows, improving business outcomes through actionable data and insight, increasing collaboration with external partners, and reducing overall legal spend. To learn more, visit www.mitratech.com.

By Guest Blogger: Mitratech

UBIC-Grand Opening of NYC Managed Review Center

UBIC Announces Grand Opening of Its Managed Review Center at Bryant Park in New York City.

New Review Center Expands UBIC’s Capacity for Review Services, Managed Review and Centralizes NY Office Space.

UBIC, a leading provider of international litigation support and big-data analysis services, announced today that it has opened a new flagship Managed Review center in New York. The official name of the center is “UBIC Managed Review Center at Bryant Park in New York City” and a grand opening event is taking place on-site on February 1^st from 5:00 – 7:00 pm EST.

UBIC Review Center at Bryant Park in New York City details:

Location: Grace Building, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10110
Capacity: 180 seats, Modular Review Rooms for over a dozen small or 5 large secure workspaces (over 19,000 square feet)
Grand Opening Date: February 1, 2016
Function: Review Services, Managed Review, Project Management, Sales, Support Services

Clients and the media are welcome to the event on February 1^st at 5:00 – 7:00pm EST and should contact events@ubicna.com to RSVP.

By Guest Blogger: UBIC

Stop the headache of expensive system-hopping

Some law practices use islands of automation to run their business. Hopping between these systems can cause inconsistencies. Having to re-enter the same data over and over – what a headache. These islands cost you overhead over and over again.
BaseNet Director Ruud Pepping explains that you can save on system administration, document management, financial administration, website (tools), email servers, SAAS applications, integration costs and more with the integrated cloud-based solutions from BaseNet.

You can do almost all your work in one integrated system, saving you the time of hopping between applications. Also it will cut down the work for fee-burners.
Pepping says that a recent survey among clients of BaseNet proved that the integrated solution saves serious time. The average time saved on a weekly basis is about 9 hours per laywer.

By Guest Blogger: BaseNet

Introducing: Proven Law practice software by BaseNet tailor-made for the US

Introducing: Proven Law practice software by BaseNet tailor-made for the US
BaseNet will attend Legaltech for the first time and showcase its cloud-based solution for law firms.
The state-of-the-art, innovative law practice software by BaseNet supports lawyers so they can do their daily work and communication with clients and prospects more efficiently and effectively. The integrated functionalities of the BaseNet software will give lawyers the ability to document more billable hours and a higher qualitative and quantitative result for their clients.
Already thousands of lawyers are working with BaseNet.

About BaseNet
BaseNet is a Dutch IT company based in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) specialized in cloud-based legal practice software, active in several countries in Europe and, since February 2016, in the U.S.

By Guest Blogger: BaseNet

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Take the Know Now E-Discovery Challenge

“How fast can you take a case from zero to understanding, and what does that mean to your bottom line? These are the questions that we want corporate counsel to ponder when they reflect on their current processes and the control they have over them,” said Brad Harris, VP of Products, Zapproved. “Corporations are looking at fivefold data growth between now and 2020, and they need a better way to stem the skyrocketing legal costs and to gain control over their processes for better overall discovery management.”

The “Know Now” microsite gives corporate legal professionals a hands-on demonstration of the power of cloud computing and its crucial role in helping organizations derive more value from technology investments. The lightning-fast processing power demonstrated on the “Know Now” microsite is achieved through true-SaaS (true cloud) software, and offers the following four benefits: instant access to discovery data, complete control over the process, future-proofing discovery software and predictable affordability.

Visit http://knownow.zapproved.com/