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3 Ways Courts Have Addressed E-Discovery's Emerging Challenges in 2021

From lawyers figuring out emojis to balancing ephemeral apps' corporate benefits and legal risks, Legaltech News presents a roundup of some of 2021's key e-discovery opinions and sanctions.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

The Top 5 E-Discovery Job Market 2021 Game Changers

Following a year when courts and staffing shut down for six months in ESI, 2021 proved to be an unmatched period of hiring and job-hopping, the likes of which has not been seen in more than a decade. Here are the top five events that impacted the e-discovery job market in 2021.
7 minute read

Legaltech News

Inside Consilio's Legility Acquisition and What It Means for the Company's Future

Consilio capped a busy 2021 with a major acquisition, bringing on legal services provider Legility. And CEO Andy Macdonald tells LTN that it's part of a wider strategy to expand more broadly into legal services.
5 minute read

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Hidden Data? Custom Emojis Pose Blind Spot for E-Discovery

E-discovery technology has time to figure out how to account for custom emojis that don't adhere to Unicode standards. But their growing prominence is a part of the larger problem of how digital communication is fundamentally becoming more unwieldy.
5 minute read

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4 Ways E-Discovery Translation Can Miss the Mark

Poorly translated terms go wrong in two opposite directions: by under-identifying the number of intended documents and by promoting large numbers of unrelated documents into the review pool with all the attendant review costs.
5 minute read

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Consilio Acquires Fellow Legal Services Provider Legility, Continuing 2021 M&A Run

Legility, previously known as Counsel on Call, specializes in e-discovery, flexible talent, investigation and litigation support, and more. The acquisition gives Consilio a stronger foothold in Europe as it continues its acquisition-heavy growth strategy.
3 minute read

Legaltech News

Becoming C-Sweet: John Reikes, New CEO at High Impact

This new series goes behind the scenes with newly minted C-level executives who are stepping into the C-suite for the first time. Today, TRU Staffing Partners' Jared Coseglia talks with John Reikes, the new CEO of litigation support company High Impact.
5 minute read

Legaltech News

Assessing E-Discovery Skills Is a Low Firmwide Priority—And That May Not Change

Firmwide formal assessments of e-discovery skills is fairly rare, according to a recent survey and e-discovery professionals. And as market trends evolve, some say that frequency may further decline.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Court Applies Proportionality in Determining Privilege Log Burden

Decisions like 'Triaxx', discussed by Christopher Boehning and Daniel J. Toal in this edition of their Federal E-Discovery column, demonstrate the versatility of proportionality principles and their potentially wide-ranging applicability in the discovery context.
9 minute read

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5 Issues Rattling the E-Discovery Industry and Practitioners

The e-discovery industry is facing new opportunities and challenges, from ditching privilege logs to permanently embracing remote review. Two Reed Smith partners debated the merits and downsides of those and other pressing matters.
5 minute read

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