E-Discovery Jobs Spike but Salaries Stagnate The Cowen Group’s 9th annual survey shows a 50% spike in corporate e-discovery jobs. Mark Gerlach, Law Technology News Despite vendor consolidation and out-sourcing at law firms, overall legal industry demand for e-discovery employees is strong heading into 2015, according to The Cowen Group‘s “Ninth Annual Salary Survey Report,” released Dec. 18. […]
Welcome to The Concordian - Expert Advise from Professional Guys
10 Predictions for 2015 E-Discovery
CONCORD e-Discovery Consultants (800) 246-7881 1. Predictive coding case law will remain inconsistent. The judiciary has moved beyond the issue of whether predictive coding is an acceptable electronic data discovery review methodology. The question now is whether courts can provide consistent direction on issues such as disclosure, seed set development, validation methods and the like. […]
BYOD_Bring Your Own Discovery
Key steps for establishing bring-your-own-device protocols. It’s here. You can get in front of it, or you can chase it, but your firm’s lawyers and staff are bringing their own devices to the office— and one way or another they will use them at work. Of course, you can avoid the entire bring-your-own-device issue by […]
Disco Closes $10 Million Series B Financing
Disco Closes $10 Million Series B Financing Bessemer Venture Partners Leads Round with Participation from LiveOak Venture Partners November 20, 2014 07:00 AM Eastern Standard Time HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Legal technology company CS Disco Inc., today announced a $10 million Series B financing. With 20 percent month-over-month revenue growth in 2014 for its Disco software-as-a-service (SaaS) ediscovery […]
How algorithms solve all our problems … and create more.
Does Your Computer Need a Law Degree Review of “The Formula: How algorithms solve all our problems … and create more.” Illustration via The Random House Group “The Formula” is a new book by the author of “The Apple Revolution,” Luke Dormehl, which tackles the rise of algorithms and artificial intelligence in art, politics, […]
Judges Offer Candid Advice on E-Discovery at Leadership Summit
Ask CONCORD DT on how we can save your client money. (800) 246-7881 Judges Offer Candid Advice on E-Discovery at Leadership Summit Monica Bay, Law Technology News The fourth annual Electronic Discovery Institute Leadership Summit kicked off this morning with the third annual Judges’ Forum—aka the “Derek Jeter Tour” for Magistrate Judge John Facciola, […]
In-House Counsel’s Big Worry: BYOD E-Discovery
CONCORD DT today 800-246-7881 A new survey of in-house counsel shows that managing mobile and social networking data is the No. 1 e-discovery issue they will face in the near future. “This wasn’t a surprise to us,” Stephanie Giammarco told CorpCounsel.com. Giammarco is a partner in the New York office of BDO Consulting, where she […]
How to pick eDiscovery Software
How to pick eDiscovery Software by Kiwi Camara Concord DT (800) 246-7881 Here, from most important to least, are the factors you should consider in picking ediscovery software: Speed The most important feature of ediscovery software is speed. Search, rendering documents, and navigating through results and documents should all be as fast as […]
Advantages of Legal Outsourcing
Advantages of Legal Outsourcing Call CONCORD today to learn how to save your firm $$$ (800) 246-7881 by Shell Kane In recent years, the legal industry has experienced a global paradigm shift in the delivery model for legal services. This new model, known as legal process outsourcing (LPO), involves the transfer of the work of […]
How Apple Successfully Recovered eDiscovery Production Costs
How Apple Successfully Recovered eDiscovery Production Costs Call Concord DT today (800) 246-7881 Taxation of cost cases involving eDiscovery often end with the prevailing party not recovering any costs. However, in the true spirit of “think different,” Apple was able to recover $238,102.66 in costs for “the amounts associated with electronic preparation and duplication, not the […]
