From emerging technologies and market acceptance to insurance considerations and industry consolidation, the following trends and observations, provided as an addendum to the annual research report roll-up from ComplexDiscovery, may be helpful for cybersecurity, information governance, and legal discovery professionals reviewing their 2021 business and planning for business in 2022.

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As part of its coverage of eDiscovery, ComplexDiscovery regularly reports on key cyber, data, and legal discovery business spheres of interest ranging from market size and mergers to business confidence and vendor developments. Today's coverage highlights the 2021 eDiscovery business landscape and provides reference links to fourteen research reports that may be helpful for cybersecurity, information governance, and legal discovery professionals reviewing their 2021 business and planning for business in 2022.

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The anonymized aggregate results from seven semi-annual surveys highlight eDiscovery pricing on selected collection, processing, and review tasks as seen by 581 survey respondents since the inception of the survey in the winter of 2019. The aggregate results of the surveys as shared in comparative charts may be helpful for understanding pricing and its impact on purchasing behavior on selected services over time.

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Beginning in July 2020, increased interest in levels of M&A activity resulted in the Bureau of Competition’s Premerger Notification Office (PNO) publishing monthly figures for Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act transactions. The latest monthly update from the PNO is for November 2021 (FY 2022) and noted 607 reported transactions. This is the highest number of monthly reported transactions in the month of November between FY 2010 and FY 2022. It is also the highest number of reported transactions in any month beginning in October 2010 through today.

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According to Hal Brooks, CEO of HaystackID, "HaystackID Discovery Intelligence encapsulates everything we do. It manifests what we have developed all along – a holistic approach to solving discovery challenges with a combination of AI, data science, machine learning, and our next-generation review capabilities."

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In this expert presentation a panel of cybersecurity, information governance, and eDiscovery experts will present and describe a framework for deploying and enhancing organizational information governance programs. These programs, when adequately implemented, should ensure cyber-incident preparedness and help organizations demonstrate reasonable security measures for sensitive assets.

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According to the release, the acquisition will increase the overall scale of Epiq’s flexible legal talent offerings, following the successful launch of Epiq Counsel in the United States (U.S.) in January 2021. In addition to increasing Epiq’s offerings in Canada, Epiq intends to leverage the Simplex technology platform to expand its capabilities to include support for high-volume legal work in the U.S.

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Based on the complexity of data and legal discovery, it is a continual challenge to fully understand what is representative of industry-standard pricing for the delivery of eDiscovery products and services. With this challenge in mind, the semi-annual eDiscovery Pricing Survey is designed to provide insight into eDiscovery pricing through the lens of 12 specific pricing questions answered by legal, business, and information technology professionals operating in the eDiscovery ecosystem. The winter 2022 survey was open from November 17, 2021, until November 27, 2021, and had 63 respondents share their understanding of current pricing for selected eDiscovery services.

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From worldwide eDiscovery market sizing and discovery intelligence to cybersecurity playbooks and landscapes, the November 2021 edition of the Five Great Reads on Cyber, Data, and Legal Discovery newsletter provides a selection of recent research, reports, and articles to update and inform cybersecurity, information governance, and eDiscovery professionals on cyber, data, and legal discovery.

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On Tuesday, November 23, 2021, KLDiscovery took a strong step toward building on the strengths of its existing business and strategy through its filing for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the filing, the company is focused on continuing to enhance its proprietary solutions, expanding its ecosystem, and extending its reach to capitalize on its large and growing market opportunity.

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