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What does this mean for the future of ALSPs? They are likely to continue to expand as the complexity and specialization of legal services grows. How will they grow and what’s driving the growth? Let’s take a look.
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In U.S. ex rel. Proctor v. Safeway, Inc., Illinois Magistrate Judge Tom Schanzle-Haskins allowed the Relator’s motion to compel in part, ordering the defendant to conduct and complete a TAR process on 575,000 issue files previously produced based on key number search alone and also ordering the defendant to produce PDX pharmacy transaction data (PDX Data) – all by March 16. However, Judge Schanzle-Haskins declined to order the defendant to produce the issue files as Image Files since it had previously produced them in native form and instructions only directed the defendant to produce image files if it created a litigation database.
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Today’s thought leader is Mary Mack of ACEDS. Mary is the Executive Director of the Association of Certified eDiscovery Specialists (ACEDS). E-discovery luminary and recipient of the Masters Conference Educator of the Year 2016, Mary provides ACEDS and its membership more than a decade of strong credibility and sound leadership within the e-discovery community. Mary is the author of A Process of Illumination: The Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery, considered by many to be the first popular book on e-discovery. She is the co-editor of the Thomson Reuters West treatise, eDiscovery for Corporate Counsel.
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Who is actually using an ALSP? What is the specific breakdown of these services? And, why are organizations using them? Let’s take a look and answer those questions here.
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Criminal cases have long been thought of as an arena devoid of electronic discovery issues. But attorneys who regularly handle criminal cases know that’s not the case. So, are there any guidelines and best practices for handling eDiscovery in criminal cases? There are, and we’re going to discuss them in a webcast next week.
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The first consideration in understanding new generation ALSPs is to understand how ALSP is defined. In general, ALSPs are niche companies that specialize in providing a number of high-demand legal services. Let’s take a look at those.
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One of the biggest topics of discussion at the recent Legaltech® conference in New York was Alternative Legal Service Providers or ALSPs. I was interested in the topic really because I was confused as to what the term ALSP meant. Like several other people I spoke with at the show, I originally considered an ALSP to be just a newer name that marketers had given to legal process outsourcing or LPO. However, there’s a lot more to ALSPs than a matter of rebranding. Let’s take a look.
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Next month, I have the privilege of moderating a panel on the current state of the acceptance of technology assisted review (TAR) with three terrific panelists, courtesy of the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS). If you’re in Houston on April 3rd, you might want to check it out!
read moreA snapshot demonstration of the process and syntax required to perform stemming and synonym searches within CloudNine to locate grammatical variations and synonyms of terms to catch additional potentially responsive hits for words that also may be responsive to your subject matter searches.
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Last week, the Information Governance Initiative (IGI) released Volume III of their State of Information Governance Report – the third (annual) edition of the Report, which is based on “extensive” surveying of Information Governance (IG) practitioners and providers. So, is Information Governance gaining traction in organizations? (Well, duh, I gave the answer away in the title of this post, didn’t I?)
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