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Over the past 10 years, many law firms developed and grew an eDiscovery service group within their litigation practice with the intent to provide a more full-service offering to their corporate clients. The perception was that the firm would have better supervision over the work-product, lower risk, and a greater share of the profit that…

Contributed by Ari Mandel, Gulfstream Legal Group’s VP of Discovery Services There can be no doubt that eDiscovery entered a new age in 2022. So many things changed in 2020, when teams were forced to adopt a remote style working environment. When cloud technology became less of a luxury and more of a necessity, something…

Clients today are increasingly more sophisticated: they have exacting standards, practical understanding of the legal services they need, and unprecedented in-house skills. They do not want mysterious magical support; they want collaboration and collective understanding. This development is good for all of us in the industry. It encourages collaboration and creativity, actively raising the bar…

There have been many different eDiscovery workflows used over the years as tools and technology have evolved, with some that worked well to improve productivity, and others that failed. Over the years, you’ve likely tried tools that have had the appearance of real promise, only to fail in areas like error handling, support and workflows.…

Just a decade ago, short-message format data in eDiscovery was predominantly cell phone data that was –  as it still is today to an extent — a challenge to collect. The challenge has become easier with both in-person and remote collection options, but now we have new forms of short-message data showing up in eDiscovery…

eDiscovery project management structures vary greatly in the legal industry, from automated ticketing systems that go to a pool of support people located across the world, to on-site support embedded in your organization for the rarest of large cases, to an assigned dedicated point of contact in charge of directing requests to the necessary support…

Old habits die hard, and that includes sticking with a records retrieval vendor that may no longer be providing you with quality work-product in a satisfactory time and at a reasonable cost. This includes “preferred” partnerships with records retrieval vendors that your firm’s insurance carriers have asked you to use. Unfortunately for your law firm,…

Litigation and therefore eDiscovery have gone global alongside the shift businesses have taken, which means more documents involved in eDiscovery do not originate in the English language. Legal professionals have long been stumped with the challenge of translating foreign language documents when they come up as part of eDiscovery. Fortunately, newer tools available that apply…

Audio, video and other types of media files are starting to appear in eDiscovery more every day. Legal professionals are feeling overwhelmed with the possible burden these files might raise, because they believe they may have to listen to or watch hundreds of hours of tape – or more – to locate and review the…