eDiscovery - eDiscovery Insight

New Summation Hardware & Architecture

For those of you who don’t know me, I should probably start with a quick introduction. My name is Scott Lefton and I’m Sales Engineer with AccessData. For almost 10 years I’ve been in Litigation Support, some folks call me a “Summation… 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

Ready or Not, It’s Time for Corporate America to Address Social Media

This past month I attended an e-discovery conference and sat in on one of the sessions that covered social media in Corporate America. It made sense that I attend this session because at some point over the past five years I had been anointed a,… Read more

5 Things You Should Know About Predictive Coding

1. What It Is Predictive Coding is another tool in your e-discovery arsenal. More specifically, it is a software or service that takes a large set of documents and with relatively minimal human input, codes or ranks them for you. Commonly a… 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

In eDiscovery, Forensics Is NOT a 4 letter Word

It is not clear when it happened but the marketing cycle surrounding the word forensics has clearly come full circle. Ten years ago, forensics was really a bad word in the eDiscovery market. It implied a level of black magic that few people were… Read more

Aaref Hilaly: Thanks for the Insight!

On August 11th Aaref Hilaly posted his critique of AccessData’s acquisition of Summation. As CEO of AccessData I must admit I was amazed that the CEO of Clearwell would be as aggressive as he was in that article. To be honest I was amazed he wrote… Read more