EDD Update

2008 Socha-Gelbmann EDD Survey Sneak Preview

The anxiously awaited 2008 Socha-Gelbmann EDD Survey executive summary will be published in the August issue of Law Technology News, but here is a sneak preview to whet your appetite.

This year we gathered information from or about 107 EDD services and software providers, and from 29 law firms and 19 corporations.  Using more than 350 qualitative and quantitative factors, we ranked those providers - top overall EDD services providers, top overall EDD software providers, and top EDD providers in various categories.  Although one can, and perhaps should, take issue with the specific rankings, we feel that the providers listed below represent the best of the best, an elite cadre singled out from a field of well over 600 organizations that offer some form of EDD services or software.

Nip EDD Costs in the Bud

The FRCP 26(f) requirement that parties discuss ESI at an initial discovery planning conference can avoid later difficulties. But companies should be rightfully concerned about the burdens associated with the "meet and greet" according to Weil, Gotshal partner David Lender. Parties need to prepare by obtaining an understanding of the client's computer systems, which means additional costs and labor from over-taxed IT personnel. Once done, Lender explains how to limit the breadth and associated costs of EDD.

Hot Neuron Releases Clustify 1.0

Hot Neuron has announced version 1.0 of its Clustify document clustering software, aimed at helping corporations and law firms explore, organize, and tag large document sets.  Is there a press release?  Yes, there is.

Peladon Software Partners with Content Analyst

Peladon Software, a developer of automated capture and document processing software, has announced a partnership with Content Analyst Company.  Content Analyst's search capabilities will be integrated with DocXP™’s Intelligent Auto-Redaction software module.  Go here for more info.

Webinar on Early Case Assessment

Clearwell Systems Inc. is sponsoring a free webinar, “E-Discovery Best Practices for Early Case Assessment,” at 1pm EST on March 5th.  George Socha will be providing his expertise.  Go here for details.

Daticon Rolls Out Early Case Assessment Service

Daticon has announced the introduction of its Early Case Assessment (ECA) Service, which helps clients find and prioritize potentially relevant content.  Go here for more info.

Is Data Protection Being Overlooked?

Attorney and consultant Ari Kaplan recently walked through the halls of LegalTech New York and was struck by the predominance of data discovery, management and review tools and events, with little attention paid to backup and disaster recovery. He observed that there is so much confidence in the power of forensic technology and CSI-like retrieval of every byte that there is a risk that data protection is being overlooked. Kaplan provides some tips and tools to avoid major and minor data loss.

AXS-One Partners With Quest

AXS-One has announced an agreement with technology provider Quest Technology Management. Quest will resell the AXS-One Compliance Platform, offering it as a component of its hosting and managed services messaging offering. More info here.

Trilantic Provides EU Data Protection Rules

Trilantic has posted the data protection rules for each country in the European Union on the company’s website, www.trilantic.co.uk, for easy reference by U.S.-based law firms and corporations engaged in international litigation or regulatory cases.  Go here for more info.

The company also recently launched Trilantic Translation Services, a mass foreign language document translation service specific to the needs of the legal market. Details.

Oracle Upgrades Oracle Identity Manager

Oracle Corp. has released a new edition Oracle Identity Manager, which addresses concerns organizations have regarding compliance and the time it takes to complete an audit. Details here.

CT Summation Releases Software Upgrades

 CT Summation has released Discovery Cracker 5.1, Enterprise 2.5.4 and iBlaze 2.9. These upgrades are designed to enhance workflows within the electronic data discovery process, provide more data control, and improve collaboration capabilities.  Press release here.

IE Discovery Adds Event History to InfoDox

IE Discovery has added an Event History feature to its InfoDox discovery management tool. With Event
History, counsel can instantly identify all documents (including redacted versions) that have been collected, reviewed or produced in connection with a particular matter or production request. Go here for details.   

Autonomy Zantaz Can Discover in VMWare

Autonomy Zantaz is now able to discover electronically stored information in virtual environments powered by VMWare. Details here.

Autonomy Zantaz also announced that its Introspect e-discovery product is compliant with EDRM’s Extensible Markup Language (XML) standard, EDRM XML 1.0. Go here for details.

FTI Consulting Inc. Acquisitions

FTI Consulting Inc. has acquired Thompson Market Services, a full range intellectual property and brand protection service firm. More info is available here. FTI Consulting Inc. has also acquired Rubino & McGeehin Consulting Group Inc. (Go here).   

Kazeon Launches Early Case and Risk Assessment

Kazeon Systems Inc. has launched  Early Case and Risk Assessment Services, which helps legal and IT departments reduce the time it takes to retrieve information, and gives enterprises a look at potential risk areas.  More info is here.

Casdex Inc. Launches Storage and Archiving

Casdex Inc. now offers remote data storage and digital archiving. More details available here. 

Rapid Redact High Volume Server

The Rapid Redact High Volume Server helps firms redact large volumes of documents. It can process a variety of formats, translating all documents into a uniformly formatted working copy for redaction and subsequent review.

Kroll Updates

Minnesota-based Kroll Ontrack Inc. (www.krollontrack.com) has upgraded two electronic data discovery products: 
• Ontrack Inview 5.4 is an online repository that helps users with real-time document production and delivery requests.
• Ontrack Firstview 2.0 now supports Microsoft Corp.’s Microsoft
Exchange Server and IBM Corp.’s IBM Lotus Notes.

New York Weighs In on ESI

New York appellate and trial courts have recently issued a series of significant decisions concerning electronically stored information that serve as both a primer and a warning as to how best to deal with the transmission and use of such information in a litigation.

Ghostly Footprints of Metadata

State bar ethics committees are examining the ghostly footprints of metadata -- electronically stored information that often isn't visible on a computer screen or a printed document. Embedded in the software, metadata informs users about the creation or modification of the document, which can be significant and even privileged. Legal ethics scholars and lawyers specializing in legal technology still encounter lawyers who ask: "What in the world is metadata and why should we be worried?"

Nexidia Launches AudioFinder

Nexidia has launched AudioFinder, a desktop software application for audio and video discovery. AudioFinder helps legal professionals search, review, categorize, and tag large volumes of audio and video. More info is here.

DS3 Datavaulting Partners With WorkProducts

DS3 DataVaulting, a provider of data backup and restore services, has partnered with WorkProducts to deliver MatterSpace, an Evidence Lifecycle Management (ELM) platform. Go here for details. 

New Consulting Service, Prevail Upgrade from Fios

Fios Inc. has introduced the consulting service Information Governance for e-Discovery, which addresses how electronically stored information is captured, stored, retained, and disposed of. (Click here for the press release).  The company has also upgraded review program Prevail, with new search features and on-site project management support (go here). 

Hang in There, Yahoo--Microsoft Apparently Quitting OS Biz

Setting up a new forensic analysis platform running Microsoft's Vista operating system, I found that two e-mail analysis tools from a lovely little company that shall remain nameless wouldn't run.  So, after trying the usual approaches to resolve such things (e.g., setting for XP compatibility mode), I turned to product support.

This isn't going to be one of those xenophobic product support rants about Stepford reps maddeningly hewing to scripts in the lilting, unfailingly polite patois of Mumbai.  No, this support group was stateside and responded promptly and decisively.  Kudos.

But the response blew my mind:

Hello,

As you've have discovered, our software will not run on Windows Vista.  There are no plans to make any of our software Windows Vista compatible at this time.

There it is.  Apparently, this company knows something remarkable.  I'd foolishly assumed that Microsoft was going to remain in and continue to dominate the operating system marketplace.  I'd rashly thought that the majority of consumer PCs sold for the next several years would come equipped with Windows Vista and that inevitably, grudgingly business users would gravitate to Vista.  Now, I see that there is apparently no reason to even make plans to play nice with Vista.

I should add that their software doesn't run on MAC or Linux (or DOS)--just XP...now...and apparently forever.

So, either Yahoo has nothing to worry about, or I should respond to this vendor:

Hello,

As I have discovered, the software you sold to me will not run on Windows Vista.  There are no plans to expect you to remain in the software business at this time.

Dear Readers, Do you seriously believe the efforts to keep XP alive has legs?  Is it just plain Cuckoo-for-Cocoa Puffs CRAZY for a Windows application provider to not even be making plans to support Vista?

Chicago Law Firm Chooses Clearwell

Clearwell Systems Inc. has announced that Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg, a Chicago-based law firm, has deployed the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform.  Go here for more info. 

Catalyst's CR 7.0

Catalyst Repository Systems' CR 7.0 is the lastest version of its e-discovery software. Details here.

Peak Performance Metrics

New York's Peak-Offsite has debuted Peak Performance Metrics to measure accuracy, productivity and expenses in document review. Details here.

Clearwell E-Discovery Platform XML Compliant

Clearwell Systems' Clearwell E-Discovery Platform v3.0 is compliant with EDRM’s XML Standard. Details here.

Strategic Discovery & FTI Consulting

Strategic Discovery Inc. will be combining with FTI Consulting Inc., where it will operate within FTI's Technology segment. For more info, go here. 

EED Inc. Launches Discovery Process eXcellence

Electronic Evidence Discovery Inc. has announced Discovery Process eXcellence (DPX), a web portal that provides client service and helps manage eDiscovery projects. Go here for the press release.

Wave & Vivisimo

Wave Software has partnered with Pennsylvania's Vivisimo to bundle Velocity 6.0 and Trident Pro. Detaills here.

Lexbe.com Adds Concept Search

Lexbe.com has added conceptual searching as a tool in its web-based case analysis and evidence management application.  Go here for the press release.

FTI Consulting offers XI Technologies Tools

FTI Consulting Inc. is using search tools from X1 Technologies Inc. 411 here.

LEX On Demand Licenses Metalinc Suite

LEX On Demand has licenses Metalinc's Enterprise E-Discovery Suite. Details here.

Index Engines & Onsite3

Index Engines Inc. will now power Onsite3's Advanced Tape Discovery service. Details here.

Recommind & iConect Partner

Recommind and iConect Development have combined Recommind's AxcelerateeDiscovery  with iConect's nXT and eXT review platforms. Details here.

De Novo Legal offers kCura Relativity

Illinois-baesd kCura has partnered with New York's De Novo Legal to offer kCura's web-based Relativity's EDD processing and hosting. 411 here.

Anacomp integrates Equivio & Ipro

Anacomp Inc., which manufactures CaseLogistix software, has allied:

* With Ipro Tech Inc., to incorporate Inrp eCapture into CaseLogistix. Details here.

* With  Equivio, to integrate that company's near-duplication tools into CaseLogistix. Details here.

Mandiant Launches Intelligent Response 1.0

Mandiant has released Mandiant Intelligent Response 1.0, which accelerates the collection of electronic evidence in support of incident response, electronic evidence discovery, and corporate investigations. For more information, go here.

Cataphora Launches Collection Engine

Cataphora Inc. has launched the Cataphora Collection Engine, for the technically sound and legally defensible collection of electronic data. For further information, go here.

EED Inc. Launches eDiscovery Process Manager

Electronic Evidence Discovery Inc. has introduced the eDiscovery Process Manager, which automates processes for custodian legal hold notification.  For the press release, go here.

            

LTNY 2008: Podcasts & Video

Catchin' up post-LTNY:

• Robert Ambrogi & J. Craig Williams had LTNY covered on their LegalTalkNetwork podcast, Lawyer2Lawyer. From New York, Ambrogi trolled the showfloors, talking to vendors and even Henry Dicker, LTNY's chief. Take a listen to what about a dozen folks had to say, ranging from Thomson Corp.'s John Shaughnessy to Robert Childress, president of Wave Software, to Joseph Scott of Compulaw.

From the West Coast, Craig was kind enough to interview me about key trends at the show. Check it out here. (Scroll down).

• If you missed it, Thomson West also did a podcast, featuring Ambrogi, The Wall Street Journal's Ashby Jones, et moi, here. They also did a You Tube videos, here, with Ambrogi and me, here. 

Is the E-Discovery Process Stagnated?

Gunderson Dettmer CIO Eric Rosenberg evaluates whether efforts to streamline the analysis of ESI are effectively applied. Although methods of communication (BlackBerrys, instant messaging, etc.) have become more sophisticated, Rosenberg says the e-discovery process has stagnated.

Ralph Losey to Publish Blog-based EDD Book

Ralph Losey is set to publish a book, "E-Discovery: Current Trends and Cases," based on his weekly blog, "e-discovery Team."  More information on the book is available here, or go here to pre-order.

ABA Approves ULC Uniform Rules Relating to Discovery of ESI

The ABA approved the Uniform Law Commission's Uniform Rules Relating to Discovery of Electronically Stored Information. The uniform rules on e-discovery should bring state rules and statutes up-to-date concerning discovery of electronic documents in civil cases. The new act mirrors the recently adopted amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure dealing with electronically stored information.

PowerLegal Outsources Review to Israel

PowerLegal, which provides e-discovery and document review services, has just launched.  Its services are provided by teams of Israel-based attorneys. For more information, go here.

EOS International Products Available Online

EOS International is rolling out an online shopping program, where clients can purchase EOS training products. For more information, click here.

LTNY 08 Photos by Russ Curtis

Russ Curtis' photos from LegalTech New York are available on the LTN site here and on The Common Scold here. Craig Ball, right.

Tredennick: 5 Lessons from Qualcomm

John Tredennick, of Catalyst Repository Systems, writes about five lessons lawyers should learn from the Qualcomm case here.

Electronic Evidence Discovery Supports IBM

Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc. now supports IBM’s Compliance Warehouse for Legal Control service, which helps corporations achieve regulatory and legal compliance.  Go here to read more. 

Index Engines Releases Automated Tape Extraction

Index Engines has released the Automated Tape Extraction Module, which enables users to retrieve content from tape without requiring the software originally used to back the data up. For details, go here.

Syngence Partners With kCura, Wave Software

The Syngence Corp. is to partner with kCura Corp.  Syngence will integrate its e-discovery and content analytics software Synthetix Processing Suite with kCura's web-based discovery review platform Relativity. For more information, go here. Syngence will also ally with Wave Software, to integrate SPS with Wave Software's e-mail culling and de-duplication Trident Pro software. Go here for details.

Onsite3 Upgrades to XML

Onsite3 has announced that its Electronic Evidence Enterprise eDiscovery platform and its eView document review platform are now XML compliant (go here).  It also announced a partnership with Index Engines (go here).

Mimosa Systems' NearPoint

Mimosa Systems has released its   Mimosa NearPoint Content Monitoring Option, which provides email content monitoring and risk management (here).  Mimosa also announced a partnership with Index Engines (here), and a new Custodian Collector file archiving option (here).

SPi Debuts “SPi Managed Review”

SPi has debuted a new document review offering, “SPi Managed Review.” With it, SPi offers discovery and document review services for a per-document price. Click here for the press release.

SyngenceND Launches

Syngence Corp. has launched SynthetixND, the company’s near-duplicate detection and management software. For details, click here.

Lumen Legal white paper

A new white paper from Lumen Legal titled “Document Review Cost Containment: Outsourcing Options Evolve to ‘Best Shore’” is available online. The paper explores how non-traditional sources for discovery tasks during large-scale litigation can reduce costs.

Kroll upgrades two programs

Kroll Ontrack has announced enhancements to its online review tool, Ontrack Inview, and to its e-mail investigation and analytics software, Ontrack Firstview. To read about upgrades, including enhanced document delivery, security, and language capabilities, to Ontrack Inview 5.4, click here. To find out more about Ontrack Firstview 2.0's new search and reporting capabilities, click here.

Fios enhancements

Fios Inc. has introduced new services and technology upgrades, including and improved user interface and additional search features to the Prevail review program.The company has also introduced on-site project management support and custodian tracking services. Find out more here.

Ringtail QuickCull

FTI Consulting Inc. has enhanced its Ringtail document review technology. The most significant improvement is the addition of the Ringtail QuickCull module for early case assessment and pre-processing.
With QuickCull, users can index, search, and cull large volumes of data. For information on other new tools, visit the site.

StoredIQ 4.5

StoredIQ has released version 4.5 of its EDD software, which identifies, collects, preserves and processes electronically stored information. Find out about the additional features here.

EED and IBM partner

Electronic Evidence Discovery Inc.now serves as a legal EDD business partner to IBM, offering consulting and corporate litigation readiness services to IBM customers, as well as EDD services for outsourced litigation. Read more here.

Attenex Snapshot Review

Attenex Corp. has launched Snapshot Review, a bundled package of Attenex Patterns E-Discovery Software, professional consulting services, and hardware. The suite is intended to give corporations early insight into their electronic data. For more information, click here.

LTNY 2008: And the Winners Are...

Law Technology News held its fifth annual awards program Tuesday night, and the vendor winners -- in 14 technology categories -- are announced here. The awards are based on votes by LTN subscribers, and some familiar names dominate the list: LexisNexis took five awards and CT Summation took three.

The Law Firm and Legal Department award winners include John Sroka of Duane Morris, IT Director of the Year, and Goodwin Procter's iStaff system, for Most Innovative Use of Technology by a Law Firm.

George Rudoy, of Shearman & Sterling -- and a member of LTN's Editorial Board and an author of this EDD Update blog, was named IT Champion of the Year. (Photo by Russ Curtis).

--John Bringardner & Monica Bay

LTNY 08: Authenticating Digital Evidence

E-discovery—so much of what we cover seems to detail how to avoid being found liable in a big e-document debacle.  But there is, after all, another side to e-discovery:  how to use digital data as evidence, and how to defend against it when your opponents are doing so.

Hence, a seminar on Total Evidence Management:  “Authenticating Digital Evidence,” presented by Neil Aresty and Jason Velasco, both of Merrill Legal Solutions; Michael Arkfeld, of Arkfeld and Associates; Paul W. Grimm, Chief Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court in Maryland; George Paul, a partner at Lewis & Roca in Phoenix and chair of the firm's E-Discovery and Data Management Group; and Leslie Wharton of Arnold & Porter.

 

RenewData Partners with AXS-One, Mimosa Systems

RenewData has announced partnerships with both AXS-One (go here) and Mimosa Systems (go here). 

New Fios Services & Upgrades

Fios has released new e-discovery services and technology upgrades (download file); it's also launched new information governance for e-discovery consulting service (download file). 

LTNY 08: Tom Allman's Keynote

Sean Doherty, tech editor of Law.com, writes this terrific overview of the LegalTech NY opening day keynote address, Feb. 5,by Tom Allman (left), plus other events at Day One!

Monica Bay & Craig Ball (LTN's "Ball in Your Court" columnist), discuss Allman's keynote, e-discovery trends, on a special "Live from LTNY" edition of the new Law Technology Now podcast. They are then joined by Henry Dicker, head of LegalTech NY, for a discussion on how attendees can make the most of their LTNY experience. (Hint: wear comfortable shoes.)

Photo by Russ Curtis -- click to enlarge.

LTNY 08: Ball in Your Candy Store

Craig Ball, author of LTN's "Ball in Your Court"column on e-discovery, -- and an author of the EDD Update blog -- and Clifford Chance's Tony DeCerce, (left) were like the proverbial kids in a candy store Monday night, at Apple's Louvre-clone store on 5th Avenue.

What was the magnet? Apple's new MacBook Air, which literally can fit in a inter-office Manila envelope.

And no, while I came really, really close, I still am paralyzed with indecision and haven't decided which iPod to buy.

Photo by Russ Curtis. Click to enlarge.

LTNY 08: Cuomo Speaks at Fios Fete

Former N.Y. governor Mario Cuomo was the speaker at a jam-packed reception Monday night at New York City's Rainbow Room, sponsored by Fios Inc.  His address primarily focused on the current politics of the presidential election, but he did raise several points that were very relevant to our legal tech community, no matter what side of the aisle you prefer.

Cuomo says there must be a partnership between the private and public sectors if we are going to remain competitive in the international arena -- esp. re: technology. He used an example of how the government and NY universities worked together to develop advancements in mammography. Creativity and flexibility - to create partnerships, especially in educational ventures, is crucial, he argued.

Earlier in the day, Fios also sponsored a Technology Council Summit.

Photos by Russ Curtis. Click to enlarge

Microsystems' Breen to European Post

Microsystems has announced:

* That Matt Breen has been named as European Business Mgr.

* That Vinson & Elkin is among new clients. Press release here. And here.

It also is announcing at LegalTech NY that it has added enhancements to its Pre-Hire Skills Assessment Module 2. That release is not yet on its website, but you can download it here: Download 080204_microsystems_prehire_skills_assessment_us_v.pdf

Fios Inc. & EDRM

Fios has announced compliance with EDRM standards.

LTNY 08: Let's Get it Started!

Be sure to check out Legal Blog Watch this week, as we turn over the reins to the reporters/bloggers who are covering LegalTech New York, which launches this morning at 9 a.m. at the New York Hilton (at 53rd & 6th).

We're offering a BlogFest river at LBW, where you can find reports from ALM reporters and bloggers, as well as almost-live blogging from bloggers from throughout our legal community -- journalists, analysts, consultants and vendors -- check out the action!

If you are at LTNY, stop by the ALM booth and say hi to our team -- and if you are blogger, don't forget to join us Wednesday at 9 am in the Pettite Trianon room for our 2nd not-quite-annual Bloggers' Get Together. (It's free, and we promise lousy coffee and mediocre Danish).

The activity -- and posts -- start today with an opening keynote by Tom Allmann. Let the wifi begin!

Rapid Redact

The new Rapid Redact High Volume Server, released today, gives law firms and corporate counsel a more cost effective option to redact large volumes of documents in-house. 

CourtroomLive Launches Today

ALM and Courtroom View Network,  a legal video news organization, today announced the launch  of CourtroomLive, a new service bringing exclusive live and on-demand video coverage of newsworthy and precedent-setting legal proceedings direct to professionals' desktops. Designed to serve the needs of litigators, law firms, in-house counsel, law schools, financial analysts and others in the financial and securities industry, the site provides access to live, streaming trial video; on-demand video clips of trial highlights; and customized video services.

Detailed information and a free demo of services are available here.

LTNY 08: Brief Me!

Law Technology News held vendor briefing sessions Monday, as LegalTech New York preparations went into high gear. Here's a mini "Facebook" so you can say hi to our team!

Katie Montgomery, our new associate editor!