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Say hello to Mike Giroux, our new VP of Sales. Mike comes to us from Autonomy, one of the world’s largest eDiscovery companies, where he was a Sales Director. How Mike came to Autonomy is quite an interesting story of acquisitions. First, in July of 2008 Interwoven acquired Discovery Mining for $36 million. Mike was one of the earliest employees at Discovery Mining and helped build revenue from a few million to over fifteen million during his time.
Second, not long after Mike was getting situated at Interwoven, Autonomy came along in January of 2009 and scooped up Interwoven for a cool $775 million. So, in the span of less than one year Mike worked for three different eDiscovery companies. All of them through acquisition...Read more
Thinking of becoming what The American Lawyer[1] calls the Lone Wolf? Recession and all, the trend shows that many lawyers think this is the perfect time to go solo—or to go boutique. It comes down to two attractive perks: value for clients and autonomy for lawyers.
In terms of value, there’s nothing to match the experienced lawyer who decides to go small. These days even big clients are looking to capture economies in new places, and solo attorneys and start-up firms are reaping the benefits. Anchored by attorneys with field experience in larger blue-chip firms, these smaller players are becoming known for delivering conventional big-law quality coupled with unconventional flexibility in terms of billing.Read more
Recent blog posts have been popping up talking, with some alarm, about the rise of eDiscovery in ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution). The idea seems to be that a once-friendly method for tabling business disputes is potentially being hamstrung by the encroachment of eDiscovery into the process. Granted, arbitration as an institution has developed or “matured” to such an extent that the old arguments for a faster, cheaper dispute resolution process often don’t ring true. But should the legal and business communities be alarmed?
With increasing frequency it’s becoming the reality that if you want to consider evidence at all, you’ll be considering electronic data. The argument goes that eDiscovery is today simply discovery… with an “e” appended to the front. This is easy to see when you look at the growing numbers of businesses of all sizes storing their records and communications primarily or exclusively as ESI (Electronically Stored Information). Think E-mail and spreadsheets. Enough said...Read more
Stressful, crazy day? Our beer makes it all ok! Introducing "ASAP Ale," the world's first eDiscovery beer. With the success of Redaction, which was our entre into the world of hand-crafted libations, we figured making beer was the next logikal step for an eDiscovery vendor...naturally. A nice, cold one after an especially grueling day in eDiscovery can definitely put a person at ease--which is why a nicely stocked fridge at all times is a must.Read more
Building from the same basic structure as the file system
metadata gatherer (http://logik.com/whats_new/entry/capturing_file_system_metadata/),
we can incorporate functionality to pull information from within the file.
Once documents have been reviewed and produced, it is very common for them to
be converted from their native or ‘dynamic’ form into a more static
page-oriented form such as a TIF image. When the number of pages in a
production approaches the millions, it becomes impossible to check every file
for small details like compression, page orientation and resolution. Using the
‘for’ loop from the previous example and incorporating a third-party will make
it possible to quickly generate a useful summary of all TIF images in a folder.Read more
This script will be a little shorter than some of the
previous examples. However, it represents a fairly common use case within the
field of eDiscovery. As data moves from party to party in the
collection/preservation stage of a matter, related files are often lumped into
folders according to organizational need. Summaries of the information in
these folders are often crucial to everything from formulating a review
strategy to determining timelines. In this post, we’ll look at a technique for
capturing file system metadata and collecting it for reporting purposes.Read more
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