DISCO Expands Conversation Threading and Inclusive Capabilities for Email Images
Until recently, working with email images has been inefficient in ediscovery due to the inability to extract metadata, create conversation threads, and identify inclusive emails. DISCO’s advanced processing engine detects email communications by reviewing every image file uploaded and identifies, extracts, and indexes email metadata, creates conversation threads, and Identifies inclusive emails. DISCO intelligently finds, extracts, and populates email metadata fields (such as to, from, cc, bcc, subject, and sent time) significantly improving conversation threading results.
DISCO Challenge During Legaltech Highlights Ease of Use – Winner Takes $2100 Grand Prize
If you have ever walked around a legal conference, I am sure you have been inundated with the phrase ‘it’s easy to use’ followed by a wink and the words ‘trust me.’ So what makes an ediscovery software easy to use?
What Do Employees Want Most In a Job?
What do employees want most in a job and in a company? According to Gallup’s 2017 State of the American Workplace report, employees want a job that allows them to do what they do best, have greater work-life balance, as well as the opportunity to work for a company with a great brand reputation.
Lean, Innovative Ediscovery with Marissa Downs
I had the opportunity to chat with Marissa Downs, Principal at corporate law firm Much Shelist in Chicago, IL. As an experienced litigator and active board member of the Coalition of Women’s Initiatives in Law, Marissa shares how her firm differentiates their litigation practice with innovative, tech-conversant attorneys who understand how to marshal big data.
Professor Reflects on Lessons Learned Over 3 Decades in Legal Education
I had the honor of sitting down with Jim Fine, Professor at Roosevelt University, to chat about his experience in legal education, and learn his advice for legal professionals looking to differentiate themselves in today’s increasingly competitive market.
Advice to Young Lawyers: Stay Ahead of the Technology Curve
As a part of our series of DISCO client interviews, I had the pleasure of interviewing Greg Leighton, Partner at Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP, about his career and the various changes his career has undergone, influenced by new technology and today’s shifting legal landscape.
Plaintiff's Perspective: Brian Clark of Lockridge Grindal Nauen
Jonathan Wiley, Sr. Solutions Consultant, recently sat down with Brian Clark of Lockridge Grindal Nauen, P.L.L.P. to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing plaintiffs in discovery and the importance of storytelling for trial lawyers.
Festivus for the Rest of Us
If you were born before 1985, it’s likely that you immediately get the reference to Festivus, the anti-commercial holiday “for the rest of us”, that was invented by George Costanza’s father and celebrated on Seinfeld. Of course, Festivus wouldn’t be complete without an unadorned aluminum Festivus pole, a dinner where the guests engage in the "Airing of Grievances" and recognition of "Feats of Strength" as well as proclaiming easily explainable events as "Festivus miracles".
The Legal Revolution (and $18.575M to Make It Happen)
The legal industry is facing the kind of pressure and undergoing the kind of consolidation that other services industries, like accounting and consulting, went through decades ago. Clients are not satisfied with the results they get when law firms do everything manually, solving problems by hurling bodies at them. Clients deserve, and now are demanding, high-quality legal services, delivered in a predictable and repeatable way and at a cost that reflects both the value delivered and all efficiencies available.
Post-Judgment Recovery in Federal Court for eDiscovery Costs, aka “Pennies on the Dollar
At the end of litigation, unless the parties have settled and agreed that each party will bear its own costs, the prevailing party may want to seek recovery for its expenses (apart from attorney fees, which is a much broader topic and not within the scope of this piece), such as court reporter fees, document duplication, ediscovery processing and database fees, etc. Typically, ediscovery costs for collection, processing, review, and production of electronically stored information (ESI) are the largest cost component of litigation expense, so it is natural that the prevailing party desires to recover as much of this as it can from the losing party. This piece focuses on recovery of ediscovery expenses under the applicable federal statute and corresponding case law, but your results may vary depending on the laws of the jurisdiction you find yourself in.
