In effort to bolster competition in a changing e-discovery industry, Nashville-based legal services group Counsel on Call announced on September 6 that it has acquired e-discovery group DSicovery (DSi). The acquisition is Counsel on Call's first acquisition and its first move in updating its competitive approach in the rapidly consolidating e-discovery industry. The terms of the acquisition were not made public.

For the time being, each company will retain its respective name under the acquisition, as well as their current outside partnerships, client bases and operations. Counsel on Call, which offers managed review, process design and consulting services around e-discovery technology and workflows, will now offer DSi technology and services as an optional add on.

Barry Dark, CEO at Counsel on Call, told Legaltech News that DSi will basically run as a “line of business” within Counsel on Call, which will “kind of sit side-by-side with what we call our managed review services,” which works closely with DSi already. The acquisition “gives us an opportunity to work together as one company when clients want this [service].”