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Electronic discovery is expensive. Identifying, collecting, processing, analysing, and finally producing electronically stored information (ESI) to opposing counsel is time consuming and resource intensive. Besides the costs of producing data, expenses are multiplied by the current adversarial nature of litigation. “In some cases, discovery becomes a tool with which to bludgeon the other side into submission,” wrote Judge Joe Brown in a recent ruling. “Rather than monitoring and moderating the process,” parties are in many cases simply “throwing gasoline on the fire.”

Guest Blog by Michael Hamilton, J.D., Exterro, Inc. // Being an attorney is like being a juggler. Within the litigation process there are many balls (tasks) to juggle: reviewing a claim, researching legal precedence, interviewing witnesses, submitting interrogatories, prepping experts, reviewing documents and more.

Jennifer Hamilton, global e-discovery counsel at Deere & Co., talks to LTN‘s Editor in Chief Monica Bay about developing a checklist with a 430-point criteria to vet vendors for a legal hold tool, which led to its receipt of the LTN Most Innovative Technology in a Corporate Law Department award.

In e-discovery, collaboration between multiple teams for tracking, monitoring and ensuring a defensible and comprehensive e-discovery process is essential. Project managers play the vital role of coordinating and managing this process so that matters stay on track and important information does not fall through the cracks.

As e-discovery costs have increased, along with the available data that may be responsive to litigation or investigation, corporations and their legal departments have demanded more control of the e-discovery process from early case assessment to collection and production. To satisfy this need, Exterro extended its Fusion platform to offer corporate legal departments and their service providers a Zeta product, which gives the company credibility in claiming Fusion is an end-to-end e-discovery platform.

Siemens Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of Siemens AG, is tapping Exterro and Recommind to gear up the company’s in-house electronic discovery. The American division of the German multinational provider of electronics and electrical engineering to health care, energy, public and private industry, and cities announced its integration of Exterro’s Fusion platform…

“In Right-Thinking E-Discovery Project Management,” I asserted that lawyers are not project managers. In fact, lawyers would find project management alien to their legal education and experience, which begs the question: What does an e-discovery project look like from the practical, logistical point of view?

Managed services providers (MSPs) are adding new services at a rapid rate in an effort to increase revenues, broaden their portfolios and differentiate their companies in a competitive marketplace. Four types of new service opportunities stand out in the crowd as unique offerings to keep an eye on.

» Exterro unveils Fusion’s workflow and EU compliance tools. Booth 331.

LegalTech New York 2012′s technology tidal wave has arrived, and it’s flooding our ears, emails, and eyeballs with news of companies offering products or services in legal research, information management, e-discovery products, and more.

Under the direction of Global E-Discovery Counsel Jennifer Hamilton, John Deere & Co. established an automated legal hold system.Hamilton developed an extensive 430-point rating system to assess various vendor offerings, because the system needed to work in the company’s current technology environment, integrate with existing technology, and be highly configurable. John Deere was looking for a tool that could deliver a common, repeatable process for issuing and tracking legal holds across different departments and ultimately selected Exterro’s Fusion Legal Hold.