eDiscovery Data Points from ComplexDiscovery

Since January 2016, 2,939 individual responses to twenty-nine quarterly eDiscovery Business Confidence surveys have been received from cybersecurity, information governance, and legal discovery professionals across the eDiscovery ecosystem. These nonscientific quarterly surveys are designed to provide insight into the business confidence level of individuals working in the field of eDiscovery supporting cyber, data, and legal discovery tasks.

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“At Epiq, we are committed to delivering innovative and strategic services and solutions to help legal departments achieve the outcomes they seek,” said Roger Pilc, Epiq’s Legal Solutions President and General Manager. "These updates to Epiq Discovery are a testament to our ongoing pledge to provide legal teams with solutions that democratize the use of eDiscovery tools. By eliminating the need for a database expert to manage these projects, we are enabling legal departments of all sizes to work on more substantive projects.”  “Epiq has been continuously expanding the advanced analytics capabilities within Epiq Discovery to support litigation, investigation, and regulatory matters,” shared Eric Crawley, Epiq’s Senior Vice President of Product Management & Advanced Solutions. “These capabilities include new structured and conceptional analytics that help users gain earlier access to insights that enable them to tackle their legal and compliance challenges head-on with an easy-to-use platform that supports the entire lifecycle of a matter.”

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“Timelines is a critical feature set within DISCO's product portfolio, and its release underscores how we're thinking about the future in terms of developing an end-to-end platform for lawyers and a fully closed ecosystem for sensitive data,” said Kevin Smith, DISCO’s Chief Product Officer.  “Equipping case teams with a searchable repository for organized evidence is critical so that teams are able to collaborate, strategize, and prepare the best possible case faster. This is an exciting step towards expanding DISCO's coverage and support of all other aspects of litigation and investigations.” 

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EU Agency for Cybersecurity Executive Director, Juhan Lepassaar, stated that “Transport is a key sector of our economy that we depend on in both our personal and professional lives. Understanding the distribution of cyber threats, motivations, trends and patterns as well as their potential impact, is crucial if we want to improve the cybersecurity of the critical infrastructures involved."

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"The EDRM Model, first released in 2005 by George Socha and Tom Gelbmann, has served as the industry-accepted standard depiction of the e-discovery process since its release, with only minor revisions since then," noted David Cohen, leader of Reed Smith's Records & E-Discovery Practice Group and Chair of the EDRM Board of Project Trustees. "This new initiative to refresh the model, with supporting guidelines, leverages the great contributions of multiple EDRM teams, and will help to ensure that the EDRM Model remains the accepted standard for many years into the future."

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“Almost 70% of the features in this module are responses to requests from corporate and government customers,” said Vishal Rajpara, Casepoint’s Chief Technology Officer. “The upgraded version of Casepoint Legal Hold gives users an easy, stress-free tool that allows them to swiftly and securely preserve critical data in record time. We’ve expanded what preservation and collection can do. This upgrade requires fewer clicks, and it’s lightning fast.”

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According to an Institute for the Study of War (ISW) update, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Commissioner on Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova on March 17 for alleged war crimes involving the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. The Russian information space continues to respond to the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s issuance of arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Commissioner on Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova with ire and anxiety.

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"This merger unites some of the industry's most prestigious thought and service leaders, creating a powerhouse team that can provide unparalleled, end-to-end eDiscovery solutions," said Dave Deppe, CEO of Repario. "Our mission is to deliver what everyone wants but few truly have: a happy team and satisfied clients." Emphasizing the importance of this, TJ Collins, President & COO, shared that, "The team spent a year developing a bespoke, repeatable, global workflow focused on client satisfaction, quality, and work-life balance that allows our experts to focus their talents on consulting and core client needs. Our mission, a happy team and satisfied clients, was the driving force behind each of these strategies."

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“The acquisition of LIGL highlights Reveal’s commitment to an ongoing approach to growth that emphasizes customer needs over everything else. The LIGL team and the technology they bring to Reveal will augment Reveal 11’s seamless investigative and eDiscovery functionality,” said Wendell Jisa, founder & CEO of Reveal. “With an aligned mission to remove complexity and barriers from the eDiscovery process, the integration of LIGL onto the Reveal 11 platform is a win-win for our collective teams and the clients that will benefit from our technology stack.”

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“We’ve been monitoring both iCONECT’s technology and the growth in the digital and AI space for several years,” said Josh Albertsen, iCONECT board member and partner at Newfield. “With emerging opportunities in multiple industries, a broad, adaptable code base and a strong and experienced management team, we’re confident that the impact on partners and end users will be very positive, resulting in significant growth for iCONECT.”

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