D4 Expands Operations in Michigan with the Acquisition of Litigation Support Services Leader, Detroit Legal Imaging Acquisition Gives Local Detroit Clients Two Strategic Elements: Strength, Resources and Technology of National Discovery Company and Personal Service from Local Experts ROCHESTER, NY and DETROIT, MI – March 15, 2012 – D4, LLC, a national leader in litigation [...]

BigLaw firms Offer Different Models for Delivering E-discovery Services Management of e-discovery is a challenge for large firms, whose clients present complex litigation with literally millions of electronically stored documents. In today’s competitive environment, firms have been exploring everything from e-discovery practice groups to vendor alliances, in order to attract clients. On Law Technology Now, [...]

D.C. Court of Appeals Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law Issues Opinion addressing “Discovery Services Companies” On January 12, 2012, the D.C. Court of Appeals Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law (“UPL Committee”) approved Opinion 21-12 addressing the applicability of D.C. Court of Appeals Rule 49 to “‘discovery services companies’—companies that state they [...]

Managed Services Meets E-Discovery E-discovery, or electronic discovery, is a tough job, but managed service providers (MSPs) in the legal vertical want to do it. Background: Managed Services Meets E-Discovery Source: original article Author: Categories: Electronic discovery, e-discovery, ediscovery This e-discovery news is syndicated from e-discovery websites and blogs that make their feed available via [...]

“Why Not eDiscovery?”: The Emerging Utility Model for Services The craze over “Cloud Services” has reached a fever pitch so we grow used to the moniker. The ease of getting access to applications and compute or storage resources within hours or days justifies the hype however. It used to exclusively mean “Cloud-based On-demand Computing” (with [...]

The Evolution Toward a Utility Model for Ediscovery Services In my last post, I wrote about ediscovery in its present state and illustrated how it seems almost “medieval” in some ways. The analogy was drawn between medieval age blacksmithing and “modern” legal discovery practices. If one has ever visited a legal discovery processing company they [...]

eDiscovery Services as an “App” In my last post, I wrote about eDiscovery in its present state and illustrated how it seems almost “medieval” in some ways. The analogy was drawn between medieval age blacksmithing and “modern” legal discovery practices. I explained that like the hot dirty business of blacksmithing; the present process of legal [...]

eDiscovery Services as an “App”; Part 2 The Next Step in the Evolution: Flexible Service Delivery Because of the expertise involved with eDiscovery it requires more than pure technology to implement a service of this type. There is also a “regional trust factor” between lawyers in certain regions of the country, the courts in which [...]

Purchasing software for electronic discovery is not easy. Here is a little advice about how to get started, factors to consider, and tips to save you time and money.