May 19, 2012

Rebirth of Summation

Twenty-five years is a long time.  It sounds even longer when you say “a quarter century.”  A quarter century brings words, like longevity, stability, permanence and dependability (checking my thesaurus… yep, that’s it). Did you know… Read more

Is $1.3M Worth Having Your Ethics Questioned?

“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.“ -Justice Potter Stewart   You know what I like most about standards, the fact that there are so many to choose from.  You have IEEE… Read more

E-Discovery Times Are a Changin’…Or Are They?

I just had time to sit down and digest the annual Fulbright and Jaworski Litigation Trends Report for 2011 and it gave me much food for thought. For example, only 6% of the respondents correctly predicted a decrease in litigation in the 2010 survey,… Read more

Is Per Gig Pricing Dead? Let’s Hope So….

Ben Kerschberg, from Consero Group LLC, recently authored an article for Forbes.com on one of my favorite topics…the per gig pricing model.  AccessData’s sentiments on this antiquated per pound archetype is well known.  Mr. Kerschberg covers… Read more

Recommind’s “Predictive Coding” Patent: More PR Than IP

Since Recommind officially announced the decision by the US Patent and Trademark Office to award the company a patent for what its press release termed a “Workflow and Technology for Computer-Assisted Document Analysis and Review”, the… Read more

LEGALTECH 2011 – WHAT’S A LIT SUPPORT MANAGER TO DO?

As others have recently commented, the sheer volume and associated “noise” in the e-discovery space makes technology-related decisions very challenging. There were 65 vendors listed in the 2011 LegalTech program guide purporting to have some… Read more

Is per-gig pricing dead?

Costs can add up. Several years ago, a leading car company purchased an eDiscovery analytics appliance. For a relatively small amount of money up front and what seemed like a reasonable per-gig charge, they got quality processing and analytics… Read more