Howie Joins Syngence as Chief Legal Tech Strategist

Consultant Joseph Howie has joined Syngence Software as its chief legal technology strategist. Howie, based in Bartlesville, Okla., will focus on product development and communications for the e-discovery company, which is headquartered in Laguna Niguel, Calif. The company’s flagship product is SynthetixND, a near-duplicate clustering technology, says Howie. It also produces “S3,” aka Syngence Software Suite, that includes document management, workflow, search, and naviagtion tools that integrate with third-party litigation review programs. The company currently partners with LexisNexis (Concordance/Concordance FYI), kCura (Relativity), and iConect Development, according to its website.

Howie previously was the principal of Howie Consulting. A non-practicing attorney, Howie was a frequent contributor to Law Technology News and a member of its Editorial Advisory Board. He is a co-author with attorney Anne Kershaw, of the “Judges Guide to Cost-Effective E-Discovery,” produced by the E-Discovery Institute, where he served asdirector of metrics development and communications. He was a founder of the Association of Litigation Support Professionals, but is no longer active with that group.