LSI Announces ‘Forensic Vault’

Well, this sure sounds like a smart service: "LSI , as one of the few companies with Licensed Private Investigators and Certified Forensic Computer Examiners on staff, is fully compliant with the Texas laws for computer evidence collection and provides expert witness services for forensic matters. The new 'Forensic Vault' service, starting at $500, will enable companies, law firms, and...

Growth in EDD’s Future

Not surprised by the results of this survey! "Results are in for the fourth annual Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey, and here are highlights of the report. In general, spending continues to grow, although with changing processes and tightening prices some providers are beginning to feel the pinch. "Consolidation continues as well, with larger electronic-data-discovery...

Cost Savings through Outsourced Litigation Doc Review

News from a litigation support vendor based in Austin: "Tusker Group, LP, a global service organization providing business and knowledge process outsourcing today announced the availability of first level document review services via an outsourced model."Tusker Group now offers first level document review to law firms and corporate counsel world-wide, utilizing a hybrid method that...

“Special Masters Can Do the Heavy Lifting for E-Discovery”

Good! Paralegals & lawyers need help with the hard work of e-discovery: "The impact of electronic data on modern litigation can hardly be overstated. More than 90 percent of information now is created and stored electronically. "With most day-to-day business records created in electronic form, courts and litigants alike struggle to define e-discovery production requirements. Parties...

“Proceed With Caution When Deleting Data”

Good advice for paralegals, lawyers, & techies! "As dependence on electronic communication has grown, lawyers and their clients have faced new and significant issues relating to preservation of electronic information. "Electronically stored information is often recycled pursuant to a company's ordinary course of business, for example, through a computer system that automatically...

E-Discovery Attorneys (& Paralegals) Needed

Yes, both attorneys & paralegals are needed for e-discovery: Commentary (by Seth Davis of LawFirmInc.): A recruiter weighs in on the current upsurge in demand for e-discovery attorneys "There's a new tech boom of sorts. In the last few months I've received numerous inquiries from organizations seeking e-discovery managers , e-discovery consultants, e-discovery engineers, e-discovery...

“alternative to ‘employing an army of paralegals’”

Well, this software could be both good & bad "KPMG Forensic, the UK unit responsible for fraud investigation, has agreed to purchase e-disclosure and investigations software solutions from Aungate, a specialists real-time enterprise governance developer. "The software is widely used by law enforcement and other agencies around the world and will enable KPMG forensic to investigate...

Paralegals Help with “Do-It-Yourself E-Discovery”?

It's all about making EDD accessible to small firms & solo practitioners where paralegal tech skills can come in handy: "Recently, a Texas firm received a dozen Microsoft Outlook .pst files from a client. Like the dog that caught the car, they weren't sure what to do next. Even out on the prairie, they'd heard of online hosting and e-mail analytics, but worried about the cost. They...

Use of contract attorneys & paralegals on the rise

And it's all about discovery documents: "The costs of document discovery are expected to rise by almost $3 billion by 2007, according to a recent article in The National Law Journal. "An increasing number of law firms are turning to contract attorneys and paralegals to review, code, index and summarize discovery documents. Many of the nation's 250 largest firms reported hiring...

“Law In Business: Language barriers”

Litigation paralegals who speak languages other than English may find themselves in demand: "As the boundaries of technology continue to widen, the need for multilingual e-discovery systems has become ever greater. Matthew Blake examines the important considerations for law firms in a rapidly globalising market."As discovery continues its transformation into the electronic age, cases...