Law Technology News - E-Discovery & Compliance Reviews

Review: LexisNexis Concordance Evolution

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT

It's been a little more than a year since LexisNexis parted ways with Applied Discovery, a high-end document review platform they acquired in 2003. Concordance Evolution capably fills the void, says consultant Brett Burney.

Review: NightOwl's nVelope Self-Collection Tool

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:27:14 EST

Minneapolis, Minn.-based NightOwl Discovery, an e-discovery managed service provider, released nVelope Collection Kit 1.0 at LegalTech New York. Sean Doherty, LTN's technology editor takes the portable self-collection kit for a test drive.

Product Review: Encase Forensic 7

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:57:16 EST

Guidance Software, a computer forensics, security, and e-discovery software maker, upgraded EnCase Forensic to make it easier to collect, analyze, and report on data in civil litigation, criminal trials, and investigations. LTN's Sean Doherty takes the forensic software for a test drive.

Product Review: Catalyst Insight

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:04:24 EST

Catalyst Repository Systems boasts that its Insight hosted discovery technology "delivers lightning-fast search and stunning visual analytics." Consultant Brett Burney takes a close look and finds the discovery software is not far from its claims.

DATAssimilate to Unveil PowerSearch Version 5 at ILTA

sdoherty@alm.com (Sean Doherty) — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:00 EDT

DATAssimilate Systems, a provider of optical character resolution, imaging, and document processing software for legal professionals, will unveil a major upgrade to the company's PowerSearch application at the International Legal Technology Association's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., from August 26 to 30.

Product Review: Wiebetech Drive eRazer Ultra

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:00:00 EDT

Deleting data from a hard drive is not a matter for the delete key. You need to destroy or degauss the disk or overwrite the data with a tool like Wiebetech's Drive eRazer.

Product Review: Digital WarRoom

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 EDT

Gallivan, Gallivan & O'Melia's Digital WarRoom is used by legal professionals to plan and execute a comprehensive attack on the processing, review, and production of ESI, says consultant Brett Burney.

Skadden Arps Chooses to Build on kCura Relativity

Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom selected the kCura Relativity review platform for development and firmwide use among nearly 2,000 attorneys, worldwide.

Océ Brings Home EDD Processing With dataDeliver

Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT

Océ Business Services, a managed service provider for business processes and e-discovery, on Monday announced dataDelivery, a new on-site service to process ESI.

Thomson Reuters Builds on Westlaw Case Notebook

sdoherty@alm.com (Sean Doherty) — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT

Thomson Reuters last week revised Westlaw Case Notebook, a litigator's case analysis tool, with enhanced integration into the company's legal research and e-discovery tools.

COPY AND SHARE TEST -- ABA TechShow: Chicago Is Home to Technology Makers and Super Heroes

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT

LTN's technology editor, Sean Doherty, takes in the final day of exhibits at the ABA TechShow in Chicago, finding interesting local technology manufacturers and some super heroes.

ABA TechShow: Chicago Is Home to Technology Makers and Super Heroes

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT

LTN's technology editor, Sean Doherty, takes in the final day of exhibits at the ABA TechShow in Chicago, finding interesting local technology manufacturers and some super heroes.

New RPost, Caelo Add-Ins Have Bright Outlook

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EDT

Third-party add-ins from RPost and Caelo for Microsoft Outlook can help you manage messages and send secure compliant mail, but make sure you need them, says LTN Technology Editor Sean Doherty.

Index Engines Revs Up With Octane

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EDT

Technology Editor Sean Doherty revisits Index Engines Octane, which now indexes, searches, and extracts content from LAN-based storage as well as tape archives, and comes with a compliance archive.

Exterro E-Discovery From A to Zeta

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

As e-discovery costs have increased, organizations have demanded more control in the litigation process. Writer Jason Krause looks at Exterro's claim to satisfy corporate counsels' increasing EDD needs from A-Z with Zeta tools.

Anatomy of an E-Discovery Project

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

In a previous article, consultant Brett Burney asserted that lawyers are not project managers. In fact, Burney continues, lawyers would find the anatomy of a project alien to their education and experience.

X1 Social Discovery Collects Data in Social Networks

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

X1 Social Discovery, says writer John K. Waters, aims to throw life preservers to investigators and e-discovery pros searching for potential evidence generated by social networks.

New E-Discovery Collectors Get Cloud Cover and Other Updates From LTNY

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

In the LegalTech New York exhibit hall, Guidance Software and ZyLab announce new collectors for cloud-based messaging systems, Nuance eCopy gets e-discovery functionality, and Aderant shows off Expert 8.

LawLoop Debuts at LegalTech, dtSearch and Gwabbit Under Cover

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

The exhibit hall at LegalTech New York will debut new products like LawLoop and show off existing products and services from Access Data to ZyLab, but you won't see some vendors like dtSearch and Gwabbit unless you look closely.

Right-Thinking E-Discovery Project Management

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

Consultant Brett Burney explains how the formal discipline of project management is adopted and modified when applied in the legal as well as the electronic discovery context.

OmniPage 18: It's Not Just the Paper, Counselor

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EDT

As most documents begin life as digital records, the world may no longer need software to scan and convert paper to digital formats. But Nuance, maker of the new OmniPage 18, believes otherwise. Writer Jason Krause looks at the latest release of OmniPage, which includes a number of new features designed to manage legal documents and e-discovery.

Top Encryption Techniques for Lawyers

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EDT

A growing number of lawyers are using encryption to safeguard data, John Edwards observes. While access controls such as strong passwords remain a first line of defense, only encryption protects documents from intruders who gain entry to a computer. While no encryption scheme is unbreakable, today's algorithms come close to being impenetrable -- and are easy to use.

E-Discovery Review Goes Mobile With New iPad App

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EDT

A new iPad App developed by Discovery Document Technologies, called idocument Review, works as a first-pass review tool on the Apple iPad. Consultant Ted Brooks steps through the use of the tool as a value-added offering from DDT and finds some benefits and burdens of using the application on a tablet.

ZL Technologies Delivers E-Discovery and Records Management SaaS

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EDT

ZL Technologies, a provider of e-discovery, records management, and archiving software for law firms and corporations, has taken the company's on-premise Unified Archive software and, together with Sunguard Availability Services, made it available from the cloud in a software-as-a-service model.

Clearwell Platform to Search Third-Party Indexes With Keyword Filter

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EDT

Clearwell Systems, the manufacturer of the E-Discovery Platform, announced enhancements to its Identification and Collection module, which include the ability to search multiple IT resources using keywords. This new federated search aims to query existing third-party indexes to content stored on premise or in a hosted, aka cloud, environment.

kCura Rolls New Relativity 7 'Back to the Reviewer'

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EDT

kCura, maker of the Relativity review platform and the Method legal hold application, released the latest version of Relativity 7 today. Since most of the 40,000 people using kCura in a month are engaged in document review, says kCura President and CEOAndrew Sieja, the new review platform aims to go "back to the reviewer" with new improvements in document viewing and coding, as well as new tools for case managers to build custom applications and workspaces.

Nextpoint Preserves Websites and Social Media for the Record

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EDT

Many organizations have learned to preserve forms of electronic data like e-mail for litigation, but websites and social media content can be an archival problem when it comes to e-discovery and compliance. Enter Nextpoint, a trial support software and services provider, whose Cloud Preservation product creates an archive of content from cloud-based resources like websites, blogs, and Facebook.

Exterro Adds Zeta Data Management Tool to Fusion Platform

Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 EDT

Exterro added Zeta, a data management tool, to its Fusion platform, which already includes a workflow engine, collaboration framework, and an ESI vault, as well as software modules for data mapping, legal hold, and workflow management. Zeta adds the ability to analyze data relevant to litigation or an investigation, more commonly known as early case assessment, and then cull and collect the information and place it in a storage container.