Elevate Acquires LexPredict, Expanding Capabilities in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
The move combines the comprehensive legal services offering of Elevate with the data science team and AI engine of LexPredict, creating more sophisticated technology-enabled solutions for law departments and law…
The Highest Level of Confidence in Three Years: 18 Observations on eDiscovery Business Confidence in the Fall of 2018
96.5% of eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey responders in the fall of 2018 feel that the business conditions are positive (good or normal). This confidence level is the highest reported for…
Counsel On Call Announces Name Change to Legility
The name change from Counsel on Call to Legility reflects the New Law company’s commitment to finding innovative and agile ways to improve efficiencies and outcomes for corporate legal departments…
On the Road to Reconciling GDPR and Blockchain
Because user data on the blockchain is pseudonymized, it is subject to the GDPR. GDPR compliance is not about the technology, but rather how the technology is used to process…
eDiscovery in Asia: Rajah & Tann Technologies Acquires LegalComet
The acquisition positions Rajah & Tann Singapore among the first in Asia to launch a full-service e-discovery practice at a time when technology is rapidly disrupting large swathes of industries…
New EU Regulation to Strengthen the Free Movement of Data
In June 2018, the EU legislative institutions announced that they had reached agreement on a framework for the free flow of non-personal data in the European Union (the “Draft Regulation”).…
eDiscovery and the Global Legal Blockchain Consortium
The Global Legal Blockchain Consortium (GLBC) appears to provide an excellent and collaborative forum for legal industry professionals, to include those in the eDiscovery ecosystem, seeking to learn, develop, and…
TAR vs. Keyword Search Challenge, Round 4 (Bill Dimm)
Even the best queries had lower recall with review of 6,000 documents than TAR 3.0 CAL achieved with review of only 3,000 documents, but a few of the queries did…
The Issue That Currently Concerns eDiscovery Professionals The Most: Increasing Types of Data (Fall 2018)
In the Fall 2018 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey, 20.1% of respondents viewed increasing data types as potentially having the greatest impact on their business in the next six months. This…
Five Great Reads on Data Discovery and Legal Discovery for October 2018
A selection of five articles shared regularly to inform and update legal and information technology professionals on the art and science of data discovery and legal discovery.