Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from the Reinventing Professionals podcast, hosted by legal technology speaker and consultant Ari Kaplan, provided to Legaltech News. In this episode, Kaplan spoke with Brian McManus, the CEO of Lighthouse eDiscovery, a provider of technology-enabled e-discovery and consulting services, which recently merged with Discovia, a company that provides similar technology and services. Although Lighthouse eDiscovery is not a client of Ari Kaplan Advisors LLC, it has been a subscriber to the consulting firm's E-Discovery Unfiltered market research series.

Ari Kaplan: Lighthouse recently merged with Discovia. How has that combination impacted what you offer your clients?

Brian McManus: Discovia is a very complementary business to ours, and that benefits our clients in that the organization now has more skill and a deeper set of talent able to help them solve their problems. Two of the things that we feel particularly excited about are that one, we have a much bigger consulting team to help our clients tackle the problems they are having with information governance, and data migration to the cloud and Office 365. And two, we have a much deeper set of engineering resources, which allow us to further automate the platforms that we utilize to create customized solutions for our clients, like our smart series portal.