Legility Continues to Grow E-Discovery Services with iControlESI Acquisition
Legility continues the rebranding it began last fall by bringing a new predictive analytics tool and a hosting and review platform into the fold.
August 01, 2019 at 12:20 PM
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Legility announced a deal Thursday to acquire Dallas-based e-discovery provider iControlESI, adding the company’s ENVIZE AI predictive analytics tool and RECENSEO hosting and review platform to its repertoire of legal services.
Financial terms pertaining to the deal have not been disclosed, but iControlESI will be rechristened as Legility Data Solutions, with its products and platforms becoming part of the Legility brand. ENVIZE and RECENSEO will retain their existing names for the time being.
“The idea is really to combine [Legility and IControlESI] to get the value out of one combined team working together and to leverage not only the people but the technology,” said Barry Dark, CEO of Legility.
The move continues a push that Legility began in September 2017 to remain competitive in a consolidating e-discovery market by selecting DSicovery as the target of its very first acquisition.
Bringing iControlESI into the fold is another step in that direction, allowing Legality to also expand its footprint in Texas. The e-discovery provider got its start in 1999 and offers solutions in the realm of online data hosting, M&A second requests and ESI management, the latter of which has become increasingly relevant as organizations grapple with the omnipresence of Big Data.
For iControlESI, whose portfolio of services includes data solutions, deal support, regulatory and compliance and flexible legal talent, the realization that clients were looking for a broader range of services outside of e-discovery was a driver to make a deal with Legility,
“To be able to offer this breadth of services to our clients is exciting. … From a cultural perspective, there’s a really good fit between what we’ve been doing at iControl and what Legility has been doing very well,” said Jeff Johnson, president and chief technology officer of iControlESI.
WIth the acquisition, Legility is attempting to position itself as a broad supplier of legal solutions. The company already offers e-discovery related platforms such as Relativity, Catalyst and Everlaw, and just last fall underwent a rebranding that saw it ditch its original name—Counsel on Call—in favor of the more streamlined moniker Legility.
Dark said that while the company has the critical mass needed to be competitive in scale, it’s still looking to round out its portfolio of solutions in order to help clients who are looking to address problems that exist outside of litigation, such as mergers and acquisitions or contract-related workflows.
“How we really see us playing in the market is as a broad supplier of legal solutions to both corporations and law firms. … Obviously e-discovery is a big part of legal operations, and we’re quite focused on expanding our footprint in that space,” Dark said.
Legility isn’t the only legal tech company looking to increase its e-discovery ballast. The pace of acquisitions in that space continues to move at a steady clip, spurred in part by the interest of venture capitalists and a desire by companies operating in the market to bolster scale. Earlier this week, KLDiscovery absorbed e-discovery providers Compiled and Strategic Legal Solutions to help build out its tech base and global footprint. Xact Data Discovery also acquired fellow e-discovery provider QDiscovery in early July.
Dark expects to witness more consolidation across the industry and hasn’t ruled out future acquisitions by Legility. “As opportunities arise, we’ll for sure participate in those,” he said.
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