Sponsors
AlphaLit
For over two decades, leading law firms across the country have trusted AlphaLit to meet their litigation support needs. We have set the standard in discovery document management by converting over 3.5 billion electronic and paper documents into accurate, manageable and usable information. With state-of-the-art facilities, unsurpassed technological expertise and the highest level of quality and service, AlphaLit has become the preeminent provider of Litigation Services nationwide
Aphelion Legal Solutions
Aphelion is a boutique provider of outsourced and offshored e-discovery consulting; litigation, regulatory, and contract review services; and temporary and permanent legal staffing. We work with clients to improve process quality while simultaneously increasing efficiency and reducing costs. Aphelion provides expertise driven solutions by coupling former Am Law 100 attorneys with experienced domestic and offshore staff. Aphelion was one of the first U.S. companies to offshore legal support services to India, unbundling low and high cost services, and leveraging global legal talent TM to the advantage of our clients. Our offices are located in Washington, Houston, and Chennai.
Applied Discovery
http://www.AppliedDiscovery.com
Applied Discovery® is a worldwide electronic discovery leader offering multinational collection, early case assessment (ECA), data analysis, processing, review, and production services for law firms, corporations, and government agencies. Founded in 1998 and acquired by LexisNexis® in 2003, Applied Discovery® combines an extensive portfolio of discovery management technology and project management expertise to empower clients to confidently and affordably respond to every type of complex litigation and document intensive matter.
Applied Discovery® is based in Bellevue, Washington, with East Coast headquarters in New York City and regional offices in Washington D.C., Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Toronto. Applied Discovery is an active participant in key industry leadership groups including the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), the E-Disclosure Information Project, The Sedona Conference, and the Text Retrieval Conference. Applied Discovery is also both US-EU and US-Swiss Safe Harbor Certified (U.S. Department of Commerce).
Autonomy
Founded in 1996 and utilizing a unique combination of technologies borne out of research at Cambridge University, Autonomy has experienced a meteoric rise. The company currently has a market cap of $7 billion, is the second largest pure software company in Europe and has offices worldwide. Autonomy is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise that helps organizations to derive meaning and value from their information, as well as mitigate the risks associated with those same assets. Autonomy's position as the market leader is widely recognized by leading industry analysts including Gartner, Forrester Research, IDC and Ovum.
BNA
BNA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bloomberg L.P., is a leading source of legal, regulatory, and business information for professionals. Our network of more than 2,500 reporters, correspondents, and leading practitioners delivers expert analysis, news, practice tools, and guidance — the information that matters most to professionals. BNA’s authoritative coverage spans the full range of legal practice areas, including tax & accounting, labor & employment, intellectual property,banking & securities, employee benefits, health care, privacy & security, human resources, and environment, health & safety.
Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of strategy and technology consulting for nearly a century. Today, the firm provides professional services primarily to the US government in defense, intelligence, and civil markets, and to major corporations, institutions, and not-for-profit organizations. Booz Allen offers clients deep functional knowledge spanning strategy and organization, engineering and operations, technology, and analytics—which it combines with specialized expertise in clients’ mission and domain areas to help solve their toughest problems.
Booz Allen is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, employs more than 25,000 people, and had revenue of $5.59 billion for the 12 months ended March 31, 2011. To learn more, visit www.boozallen.com. (NYSE: BAH)
Clearwell
http://www.clearwellsystems.com
Clearwell Systems, now a part of Symantec, is transforming the way enterprises, government agencies, and law firms perform electronic discovery in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Clearwell eDiscovery Platform streamlines end-to-end eDiscovery, providing a single product for identification, collection, preservation, processing, analysis, review, and production. Leading global organizations such as AEGON, Bombardier Learjet, Clear Channel Communications, Constellation Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, GameFly, Microsoft, NBC Universal, OfficeMax, Saint Barnabas Health Care System, Time Warner, Toyota and Volvo are using Clearwell to streamline legal hold notifications, automate collections,accelerate early case assessments, intelligently cull-down data,increase reviewer productivity, and ensure the defensibility of their eDiscovery process. Consistently ranked as a leader in independent eDiscovery industry surveys and reports, Clearwell is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project, The Sedona Conference, and the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). For more information, visit www.symantec.com/clearwell, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/clearwell, or subscribe to our blogat http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e-discovery-blog/.
Datacert
Datacert provides legal software solutions to the world’s leading companies. Passport, Datacert’s robust technology platform, and industry-leading spend management and matter management applications, enable corporate legal departments to manage legal costs, improve efficiency, and operate more strategically.
Dell
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services that give them the power to do more. For more information, visit www.dell.com.]
Discovery Services, LLC
http://discoveryservicesllc.com
Launched in June, 2008, Discovery Services LLC ("DSL") is the brainchild of its founder and CEO, Ashish Prasad. As one of the leading lights in electronic discovery and document review today, he has conceived DSL as an innovative and practical solution to the real-world challenges that law firms and their corporate clients encounter with electronic discovery and document review.
With his extensive expertise in all aspects of electronic discovery – in theory, as policy and in practice – it made sense for Prasad to build upon his role as outside counsel advising on and leading electronic discovery matters. Through DSL, Prasad has been able to expand the scope of his electronic discovery counseling and services to meet the growing needs that he saw from both corporate clients and law firms.
Indeed, DSL's very structure and services are designed to best serve those needs: a minority-certified company that provides high quality document review in a cost-efficient and controlled manner – with expert validation when needed – all the while supporting the diversity needs of the legal profession.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Clients have relied on Dorsey since 1912 as a valued business partner. Our very first client is still a client today. With 19 locations in the United States, Canada, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, Dorsey provides an integrated, proactive approach to our clients' legal and business needs. The Firm’s global footprint enables us to provide timely, knowledgeable and relevant legal counsel as our clients’ businesses grow, expand, acquire and prosper. We represent many of the world's most successful businesses from a wide range of industries, including leaders in banking and financial services, health care, life sciences, technology, agribusiness and energy, as well as major non-profit and government entities. In numerous independent surveys, Dorsey lawyers have consistently been ranked among the best for the quality of client service across a wide range of practice areas and offices.
Epiq Systems, Inc.
Epiq Systems, a leading provider of managed technology for the global legal profession, provides law firms and corporate legal departments with more than 500 eDiscovery experts worldwide, 65 eDiscovery project managers, 6 data centers on 3 continents, 5 review platforms and 195 supported languages. Epiq delivers successful discovery outcomes with high–value eDiscovery, hosting technology and services that cut review time and help you reduce expenses. We offer a wide range of innovative technology-enabled solutions that help law firms, corporate legal departments, bankruptcy trustees, government agencies, mortgage processors, financial institutions, and other professional advisors overcome challenges to reach successful legal outcomes. Our clients include 48 of the top Global 50 law firms that rely on Epiq’s exceptional service, proactive project management and deep subject matter expertise.
Equivio
Equivio provides analytical solutions for e-discovery. Equivio’s solutions enable the Smart Discovery paradigm, reducing review volumes while finding more relevant documents. The Equivio suite includes predictive coding, near-duplicates, email threads, language detection and relevance mapping. Request a demo at info@equivio.com or visit us at www.equivio.com. Be smart. Read less. Think more.
Exterro
Exterro is the fastest-growing independent legal project management software company in the world. We combine everything corporations and legal firms need for managing legal holds, e-discovery project management, information governance, and mitigating risks into an integrated suite. Our mission is to deliver value for businesses by providing innovative, user-friendly legal software solutions.
Exterro was founded with the vision that legal processes could be improved using tools that have been successfully applied in other business disciplines. By filling the capability gaps and investing in research and development, Exterro has built the industry’s foremost end-to-end platform for corporations and their outside counsel to holistically manage legal governance, risk and compliance processes. Ongoing discussions with legal and software industry experts and clients drive us to innovate to meet evolving legal process requirements. Today, Exterro is essential in ensuring faster, smarter, litigation response to e-discovery and regulatory compliance requests.
Falcon Discovery
http://www.falcondiscovery.com/
Falcon Discovery is a niche legal service practice specializing in managing e-discovery in-house. E-discovery is perhaps the single largest cost in litigation today and our groundbreaking InsideOut™ managed service gives forward-thinking companies an in-house e-discovery capability that delivers astonishing cost savings while significantly enhancing defensibility and the accuracy of results, with no additional headcount or capital expenditure.
FTI Consulting
FTI Consulting, Inc. is a global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations protect and enhance enterprise value in an increasingly complex legal, regulatory and economic environment. With more than 3,400 professionals located in most major business centers in the world, we work closely with clients every day to anticipate, illuminate, and overcome complex business challenges in areas such as investigations, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory issues, reputation management and restructuring.
Guidance Software, Inc.
http://www.guidancesoftware.com/
EnCase eDiscovery is the market-leading e-discovery software that enables more efficient business process and significantly reduces legal risk and cost with a judicially accepted solution that is defensible and repeatable. More than 25% of the Fortune 100 market chose EnCase to make better case strategy decisions – faster.
EnCase eDiscovery enables customers to take control of their e-discovery in a single unified solution that manages everything from legal hold through first-pass review, preserves metadata, only collects relevant files, and is scalable across large global networks with unique pre-collection analytics as well as analysis and first-pass review at any point in the process – all backed by our expert services that provide industry standard best practices, training, and certifications (EnCE and EnCEP).
Huron Legal
http://www.huronconsultinggroup.com/
Huron Legal provides advisory and business services to assist law departments and law firms to enhance organizational effectiveness and reduce legal spend. Huron Legal advises on and implements strategy, organizational design and development, outside counsel management, operational efficiency, and discovery solutions, and provides services relating to the management of matters, contracts, documents, records, digital evidence and e-discovery.
Learn more about: Huron’s IMPACT™ solution, which delivers sustainable cost reductions ranging from 15 to 40 percent; R3con™ solution, a cost-effective forensic investigation solution to protect enterprise data; Sp3ctrum™ solution, a managed services discovery solution; and V3locity® solution, offering a streamlined e-discovery process that results in predictable discovery costs.
IBM Information Lifecycle Governance
http://www.ibm.com/software/data/content-management/products/governance.html
Only IBM provides Information Lifecycle Governance (ILG) solutions for Defensible Disposal, including holistically integrated solutions for efficient, rigorous eDiscovery, value-based retention and archiving, and governance and disposal enablement. These solutions enable legal, IT, records, and business users to reduce legal risk, data management and discovery costs. IBM ILG customers manage enterprise information by its business value; comply more efficiently with litigation and regulatory duties, and dispose of information that has no value or duty.
Kroll Ontrack
Kroll Ontrack's roots were planted in 1985 with the development of Disk Manager®, a software program that makes the process of installing a computer hard disk much easier. Disk Manager remains a top-selling software product, and, to date, more than 150-million copies of Disk Manager have sold worldwide.
The success of Disk Manager led the company into the business of recovering data from damaged hard disk drives, resulting in the formation of ONTRACK Data Recovery in 1987. ONTRACK Data Recovery pioneered the tools and techniques for the data recovery industry.
As the demand for data recovery services grew, the company evolved in size, product and service offerings and expertise.
Legal Hold Pro
Legal Hold Pro is a product developed by Zapproved. Our mission is to deliver online tools that manage accountability in business communications. Our intuitive apps streamline process and can be adopted instantly because no training or IT support are required.
Founded in February 2008, Zapproved is a Portland, Oregon-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company. We have developed a platform that targets specific pain points in businesses around compliance workflows and team collaboration.
Mitratech
Mitratech provides market leading Collaborative Accountability Applications (CAA) for businesses and their trusted partners. With specific domain applications today in corporate legal automation and governance, risk, and compliance, Mitratech's TeamConnect Collaborative Accountability Applications improve transparency of corporate reporting, reduce exposure to risk, and sharpen operating discipline, information security and efficiency of corporate legal processes.
Navigant Consulting
http://www.navigantconsulting.com/
Navigant enables clients to respond to major impacts on their business – whether they come in the form of regulation, reform, evolving customer demands, increased scrutiny and government oversight, investigations, disputes or simply a need to optimize performance to create business value. Through a unique combination of technical expertise and deep industry knowledge, Navigant professionals provide clients with unique market insights, independent perspective and a practical path forward to address the impacts on their business.
Nextpoint
Nextpoint leads the industry with progressive technology acutely focused on the needs of litigators. Our highly secure data clouds integrate applications, processing, storage and support from complaint through resolution. Nextpoint is dedicated to a simple but essential mission: To deliver world-class technology with an uncompromising commitment to engineering, design, and customer service. Nextpoint has re-imagined what good litigation technology should be, and our platform is a powerfully compelling alternative to traditional EDD and litigation support software.
Nuix
Nuix is a worldwide provider of information management technologies, including eDiscovery, electronic investigation and information governance software. Nuix solutions scale to meet the needs of the smallest or largest organizations, making it faster and easier to undertake investigations and data management activities, no matter the size or complexity of the data sets. Nuix customers include the world's leading advisory firms, litigation support providers, enterprises, government departments, law enforcement agencies, as well as all of the world's major corporate regulatory bodies.
Pangea3
Pangea3, a Thomson Reuters business, is the most experienced provider of high quality outsourced legal solutions to the world's most respected companies and law firms. Combining legal DNA, award winning services and process expertise with Thomson Reuters' intelligent information, tools and platforms, Pangea3 delivers intelligent legal outsourcing solutions that improve clients' efficiency, extend their capacity and provide cost and timeline certainty. Pangea3 offers a multi-shore approach to the most comprehensive suite of legal solutions, including corporate, litigation, compliance and IP related solutions to hundreds of clients across the globe. With dedicated delivery teams of global legal talent based in India and the United States, Pangea3 attorneys have sophisticated understand of clients’ strategic priorities, resource allocation, process improvement initiatives, technologies and legal costs. Pangea3 makes the legal system work better, every day, worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.pangea3.com.
Pfizer
Pfizer provided the starting seed money for EDI. Their initial gift allowed us to build a website and hire a trial graphics firm for our testimony before the Rules Committee. Pfizer has been a significant sponsor of EDI and we have continued our relationship through 2011.
About Pfizer's From Its Website: At Pfizer, we apply science and our global resources to improve health and well-being at every stage of life. We strive to set the standard for quality, safety and value in the discovery, development and manufacturing of medicines for people and animals. Our diversified global health care portfolio includes human and animal biologic and small molecule medicines and vaccines, as well as nutritional products and many of the world's best-known consumer products. Every day, Pfizer colleagues work across developed and emerging markets to advance wellness, prevention, treatments and cures that challenge the most feared diseases of our time.
Planet Data
Since its inception in 2001, Planet Data’s mission has been to become a leading global Discovery Management firm. The entrepreneurial vision of its founders was to develop a services company that placed a premium on industry expertise, technology and client satisfaction. The primary focus of the company is to provide superior expert management, technology and operating teams that share the core values of excellence with our clients on a continuing basis.
Prosearch Strategies
http://www.prosearchstrategies.com/
ProSearch Strategies helps solve corporate eDiscovery challenges. Our wide range of technology and breadth of services is designed to help companies achieve their goals in an efficient, timely, cost-effective and proactive fashion. ProSearch operates as an extension of the corporate legal team and welcomes alternative fee arrangements to provide clients greater control and predictability over costs while improving the customer experience.
QuisLex, Inc.
QuisLex is a premier litigation and corporate support services provider to Global 500 corporations and AM Law 10, AM Law 25, Global 100 and Magic Circle law firms. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in New York, QuisLex provides its services to its worldwide client base from its state-of-the-art, 24/7 secure execution centers in India, and its onshore review facility. QuisLex has grown organically over the past seven+ years from 3 employees to over 400, entirely due to repeat work and references from clients. QuisLex is led by seasoned U.S. attorneys with decades of cumulative experience with leading international law firms and Fortune 500 companies. QuisLex is certified ISO 9001:2008 compliant for its proprietary quality management system and ISO/IEC 27001:2005 compliant for its information security management system. QuisLex is a SAS 70 Type II entity, HIPAA compliant and is also EU Safe Harbor self-certified. For more information on QuisLex, please visit www.QuisLex.com.
Recommind
Recommind provides automated end-to-end eDiscovery, enterprise search and automatic categorization software available. Based on user input, the software understands the meaning behind what users need, automatically and intelligently predicts the best information available and instantly provides the most relevant results.
Renew Data
RenewData consistently operates day-to-day according to its core values of Innovation, Respect, and Integrity.
RenewData was formed in 2001 by combining the assets and expertise of two companies, DSTX Limited and Progressive Data Recovery. This combination brought together a group of highly accomplished legal and technology experts who recognized a growing legal need for fast retrieval of large volumes of electronic data to be used as evidence.
Robert Half Legal eDiscovery Services
http://www.roberthalflegal.com/
Robert Half Legal eDiscovery Services provides clients a fully managed review or a tailored approach, based on the size and complexity of your litigation, geographical location, or internal capabilities. Robert Half Legal’s Day2Review™ uses proven industry technology tools to highlight relevant documents for processing and review, providing improved results every time your organization is faced with a request for discovery, regardless of its size, location, requirements and complexity. As a result, our eDiscovery Services provides a predictable cost structure, an accelerated project timeline and improved results. For additional information, please call (800) 870-8367 or visit the Robert Half Legal website at www.roberthalflegal.com.
Shook Hardy and Bacon LLP
Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. is an international law firm with a legacy spanning more than a century. Established in Kansas City in 1889, today the firm has grown to approximately 1,500 employees worldwide, with more than 500 attorneys and 226 research analysts and paraprofessionals. The firm has nine offices strategically located in Geneva, Houston, Kansas City, London, Miami, Orange County, San Francisco, Tampa, Florida, and Washington, D.C.
SHB is committed to being the best in the world at providing creative and practical solutions at unsurpassed value. We are deeply passionate about achieving the best results for our clients from the boardroom to the courtroom and sustaining a diverse environment where everyone is respected, feels appreciated, and experiences fulfillment and enjoyment through meaningful personal contributions.
TCDI
Client Driven Technology: Over the course of TCDI's 20+ year history, clients have played an active role in the development of our proprietary software systems. This cooperative approach has resulted in sophisticated levels of automation as well as flexible and highly customizable applications. While some vendors are forced to work through layers of red-tape in order to make product enhancements, and others find themselves married to various technologies that prove limiting over time, we empower clients by enabling them to influence product direction. We believe clients should be the ones driving technology, not the other way around.
TechLaw Solutions, Inc
http://www.techLawsolutions.com
For twenty-five years, TechLaw Solutions, Inc. has continuously responded to the emerging needs of corporations, law firms, and government agencies. TechLaw Solutions consultants commit their considerable expertise in applying the latest technological advances in electronic and traditional discovery to litigation, regulatory matters, and non-legal archival projects.
Valora Technologies
Valora Technologies, Inc. (“Valora”) is a leading provider of automated solutions for document processing, analysis & review. We focus on providing robust, technical solutions for the litigation and records management markets and are known for our strong capabilities in automated indexing, coding, redaction and first pass review. Valora has developed a strong expertise in the processing, management and analysis of both large and small cases with short deadlines. Our specialty is providing efficiency, organization and cost control. We offer primarily outsourced services for paper and electronic populations to law firms, government agencies, corporate legal departments and litigation support organizations around the world. Valora is a certified woman-owned, small business that has been in operation since 2000. We are profitable and privately held. Valora’s facility and staff hold US DOJ security clearances. We invite you to learn more about us at www.valoratech.com.
Verizon
The concept of EDI started with the MCI acquisition Document Review Study.
Verizon Communications Inc., headquartered in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to mass market, business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates America’s most reliable wireless network, serving more than 93 million customers nationwide. Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America’s most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers innovative, seamless business solutions to customers around the world. A Dow 30 company, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of more than 195,000 and last year generated consolidated revenues of more than $107 billion.
WestlawNext
Launched in 2010 by Thomson Reuters, WestlawNext is the world’s most advanced legal research system that has been adopted by more than 30,000 law firms, law departments and government organizations and is a key strategy in controlling legal costs in today’s economy. The powerful search algorithm in WestlawNext, WestSearch, leverages over 100 years of West’s proprietary editorial assets, the Key Number System, KeyCite and thousands of secondary sources. WestlawNext also enables sharing of research within or outside an organization through Folder Sharing and also provides valuable workflow tools such as mobile apps to help you be more efficient and productive. WestlawNext research can be synchronized across the website, mobile and iPad, so research begun in one place can easily be accessed and continued at anytime and anywhere.
WestlawNext has been awarded 2011 “New Product of the Year” by the American Association of Law Libraries, “Best Online Legal Research Provider“ by the New York Law Journal Reader Rankings Survey, “Best Legal Research App” by the National Law Journal Best of Legal Times Survey, and the preferred research platform according to the ABA Tech Survey.
Winston and Strawn LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm with nearly 1,000 attorneys among 15 offices in Beijing, Charlotte, Chicago, Geneva, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, New York, Newark, Paris, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Washington, D.C. Our exceptional resources enable us to manage virtually every type of business-related legal issue. We understand that clients expect value beyond just legal expertise. We work hard to understand the level of involvement our clients want from us and take time to learn about their business objectives. We remain committed to the firm’s traditions of client service, professional development, and community involvement, while embracing the innovations driving the profession in the 21st century.
