“Exterro Gets E-Discovery Down to Business”

Quite readable article about new litigation software — "centralized management of litigation lifecycles" — with helpful "show & tell" screenshots:

"Exterro isn’t the first software vendor to apply a business-process-management approach to the legal discovery process, but with the launch of its flagship product Fusion, it is breaking new ground with a solution that combines BPM with collaboration capabilities and centralized management in an integrated environment.

"Aimed at law firms and corporate legal departments, Exterro’s newly unveiled Fusion is essentially a portal for controlling the discovery process. However, Exterro’s chairman and CEO, Bobby Balachandran, prefers to call it a litigation-support-management platform, from which his customers can monitor progress, track costs, set and manage schedules, and evaluate vendor performance.

"’During complex litigation, negotiations or time-intensive governmental investigations, the process of managing legal teams needs some automation, otherwise it all just gets away from them,’ Balachandran says. ‘We’re trying to bring reliable management control and predictability to a process that is typically loaded with surprises and unexpected costs.’"

BTW, there’s currently an open position for Litigation Support Consultant (scroll down; position is in Chicago or Portland with flexible work hours!).