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Global EDD Group Celebrates The Year Of The Dragon With Expanded Asia Pacific Services

January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Regional Resources Expanded To Include Singapore-based Early Case Assessment Tools, Document Review Platforms and CJK First Pass Review Services

Singapore, SG and Cleveland, Ohio, USA – (24 January 2011) – Global Electronic Discovery & Disclosure Group (“Global EDD Group”), a boutique consulting firm that provides innovative electronic discovery solutions across the globe, today announced the expansion of electronic discovery services offered by Global EDD Group (APAC) to law firms, corporations and vendors supporting litigation, mergers and investigations originating from the United States.

With the recent expansion, Global EDD Group (APAC) now is able to offer the following services within the Asia Pacific region:

◊  Data Collection, Preservation & Analysis
◊  Imaging & Coding
◊  Unicode OCR
◊  Automated Language Translation
◊  ESI Processing
◊  Early Case Assessment Tools (Singapore-based Hosting)
◊  Document Review Platform (SIngapore-based Hosting)
◊  Chinese, Japanese & Korean (CJK) First Pass Review
◊  Onsite Processing & Review Systems

Law Firms , Corporations and Vendors interested in learning more about the services offered by Global EDD Group should call +1.888.690.DATA (3282), email info@globaledd.asia, or visit http://www.e-discovery.asia for additional information.

About Global EDD Group (APAC)

Global EDD Group (APAC) provides or manages a wide range of electronic discovery services throughout the Asia-Pacific region from a central technology hub in Singapore, SG. Global EDD Group (APAC) shares resources with sister company Litigation Edge Pte Ltd (www.litiedge.com), a Singapore e-discovery consultancy where Global EDD Group President Brad Mixner serves as a Director.

About Global EDD Group

Global Electronic Discovery & Disclosure Group (“Global EDD Group”) was founded with the vision of bridging the wide gap between domestic organizations and their growing national and international legal technology needs. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Global EDD Group provides legal technology services for matters with a national or international scope, specializing in remote and onsite services ranging from data identification to document review. Additional information is available by visiting http://www.GlobalEDDGroup.com .

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Global EDD Group Introduces iReview Analytics™ for Electronic Discovery

January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

 

 

 

Early Case Assessment Tool Features Text Analytics, Latent Semantic Indexing & Seamless Integration With Full Review Platform

Cleveland, Ohio, USA – (20 January 2011) – Global Electronic Discovery & Disclosure Group (“Global EDD Group”), a boutique consulting firm that provides innovative electronic discovery solutions across the globe, announces the release of iReview Analytics™, an early case/data assessment tool for electronic discovery matters.  iReview Analytics leverages advanced text analytics based on latent semantic indexing to provide users with unique insight within large volumes of electronically stored information (ESI) associated with litigation and investigations.

The sheer volume of potentially relevant electronically stored information (ESI) in companies and government organizations challenges any organization to understand the costs of e-discovery and prepare for each step of litigation. Even with data already in litigation hold and through a first pass filter there can be a tremendous volume to sift through, leaving many uncertainties.  iReview Analytics provides users with a data analysis that identifies key concepts, categorizes those concepts and then provides the ability to sample the documents based on the most relevant categories. This early data assessment provide the information required to understand potential review costs and prepare for Rule 26 meet and confer, both at a fraction of the cost typically associated with similar tools or full review platforms.

A brief summary of iReview Analytics™ capabilities includes:

Concept Search – Using advanced mathematic formulas to allow users to find similar, related, and relevant documents based purely on the concepts those documents are discussing – without using keywords, and without retrieving “matching, yet irrelevant” content.

Categorization – Allows users to define categories by means of examples. Based on the exemplars, iReview Analytics and CAAT technology automatically categorizes incoming documents.

Instant Context (Contextual Explanation) – Helps users understand unfamiliar terminology. The user clicks on an unfamiliar term and iReview Analytics with CAAT highlights similar terms found in related text.

Language Analytics – Within any single language, iReview Analytics with CAAT can be applied to any topic, vocabulary or language that can be represented in the Unicode encoding system. In a cross-lingual mode, users can submit queries in English while searching documents in other languages.

Summarization – Automatically identifies sentences in a document that best represent key concepts, and uses those sentences to give users a quick summary of the entire document.

Dynamic Clustering – Allows a user to point iReview Analytics with CAAT to a set of documents and then allow iReview Analytics with CAAT to dynamically group conceptually-similar documents together in a tree-type hierarchy and finally, to apply a descriptive title to each cluster of documents.

Near Duplicate Document Detection – Uses iReview Analytics with CAAT Dynamic Clustering to identify and group documents that are duplicates and/or near-duplicate documents, as well as identifying the extent of duplication.

Integration With Full Review Platform - iReview Analytics integrates seamlessly with the iReview Global Discovery Platform, a robust document review platform offered by Global EDD Group.  This integration increases efficiency and reduces both processing time and cost.

Law Firms and Corporations interested in learning more about Automated Discovery Services should call +1.888.690.DATA (3282), emailinfo@globaledd.com, or visit http://www.globaleddgroup.com/Document-Review/iReview-Analytics.html for additional information. Global EDD Group also provides these services under subcontract to other industry vendors and service providers.

About Global EDD Group

Global Electronic Discovery & Disclosure Group (“Global EDD Group”) was founded with the vision of bridging the wide gap between domestic organizations and their growing national and international legal technology needs. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA with a regional office in Singapore, SG, Global EDD Group provides legal technology services for matters with a national or international scope, specializing in remote and onsite services ranging from data identification to document review. Additional information is available by visiting http://www.GlobalEDDGroup.com .

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Introducing Automated Knowledge Discovery from Global EDD Group

December 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment

New Service Applies Advanced Data Mining & Transformaton Technology To Electronic Discovery

Cleveland, Ohio, USA – (02 December 2011) –Global Electronic Discovery & Disclosure Group (“Global EDD Group”), a boutique consulting firm that provides innovative legal technology solutions across the globe, announces the implementation of Automated Knowledge Discovery, a new suite of services that leverages advanced data mining tools to derive critical knowledge from text and structured data, including XML files, databases, spreadsheets, web sites, documents, and emails.

Modern organizations have access to abundant sources of data that contain jewels of useful knowledge.  Emails, web pages, memos, call center transcripts, survey responses, claims notes, legal cases, patent descriptions, research articles, and incident reports – all hold valuable pieces of knowledge that are hard to discover because they are hidden within large volumes of raw data or structured datasets not typically indexed for key term searching.  Overwhelmed by the glut and variety of data, law firms and corporations are seeking new methods to analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured data to not only discover key knowledge, but to create case or review strategy as well.

Automated Knowledge Discovery (“AKD”) enables legal teams to gain valuable insight into large diverse data sets by leveraging intelligent data mining and analysis tools to undertake a range of knowledge discovery tasks, including:

  • Data Source Integration
  • Distinct Text Identification
  • Key Term Linking
  • Text Clustering
  • Entity Extraction
  • Keyword Extraction
  • Phrase Extraction
  • Link Analysis
  • Complex Searching

Automated Knowledge Discovery Services provide valuable insight to any collection of discovery data, far beyond key term browsing typically associated with litigation support systems, many of which simply do not have the ability to process structured data such as SQL databases or “as found” versions of email stores. Additional benefits of AKD Services include:

  • Mobile platform deployable worldwide
  • Fee structure based on time, not volume
  • No long term commitments, user fees or storage fees
  • Compliments, not replaces, current review workflows and systems
  • Ideal platform for data sampling

Law Firms and Corporations interested in learning more about Automated Discovery Services should call +1.888.690.DATA (3282), email info@globaledd.com, or visit http://www.globaleddgroup.com/Data-Analytics/Automated-Knowledge-Discovery.html for additional information. Global EDD Group also provides these services under subcontract to other industry vendors and service providers.

About Global EDD Group

Global Electronic Discovery & Disclosure Group (“Global EDD Group”) was founded with the vision of bridging the wide gap between domestic organizations and their growing national and international legal technology needs. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA with a regional office in Singapore, SG, Global EDD Group provides legal technology services for matters with a national or international scope, specializing in remote and onsite services ranging from data identification to document review. Additional information is available by visitinghttp://www.GlobalEDDGroup.com .

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Podcast: E-Discovery Lawyers Training Other Lawyers || ESIBytes

May 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Listen to Karl Schieneman, Director of Legal Analytics and Review discuss with three different E-Discovery lawyers from three different types of law firms how to interact and “coach” other lawyers in their firm on the nuances of E-Discovery. The three lawyers are: Chris Fisher, a partner at Ulmer Berne and based in Cleveland; OH; Therese Miller, Of Counsel with Shook Hardy & Bacon and based in San Francisco, CA; and Rick Lettieri, the creator of a virtual law firm that partners with other lawyers who need E-Discovery expertise they don’t have in-house and based in Pittsburgh, PA.

This should be an interesting discussion on a topic I don’t think anyone else has ever covered before. Especially since many lawyers, and especially litigators, are comfortable they know how to litigate without hand holding. So how is this sensitive topic broached and handled in the world of E-Discovery? We will see how these attorneys handle that issue.

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Global EDD Group Implements Portable E-Discovery Solution

March 29, 2010 By

GLOBAL EDD GROUP IMPLEMENTS PORTABLE E-DISCOVERY SOLUTION
Expands Intelligent EDD℠ Services With Addition Of Portable Processing

Cleveland, Ohio (29 March 2010) – Global Electronic Discovery & Disclosure Group (“Global EDD Group”), a boutique consulting firm that provides innovative legal technology solutions across the globe, today announced the addition of Portable Processing to its Intelligent EDD℠ line of legal technology services. Developed to be utilized at virtually any location with dependable power and connectivity, Portable Processing enables Global EDD to provide a full suite of early case assessment and electronic discovery services at onsite and near site locations across the globe without the cost, time and headaches typically associated with the shipping of servers, workstations and monitors.

“We have worked closely with our technology partners to develop an innovative early case assessment and electronic discovery processing solution that is portable, scalable and cost effective,” stated Brad Mixner, Founder and Managing Principal of Global EDD Group. “This enhancement to our Intelligent EDD Services provides a significant advantage to our clients and alliance partners managing cases with tight deadlines, data privacy, intellectual property or related security concerns. Our mobile teams can be onsite and operational with short notice, with the ability to preserve, analyze, process and review data on the same day.”

The Intelligent EDD Portable Processing service combines industry standard software and purpose-built hardware within a modular system that can be easily transported with the mobile teams to virtually any location in the world within 48 hours. Key highlights of the service include:

  • Data Analytics and Dynamic Reporting
  • File Culling and Deduplication
  • Text, Metadata and Attachment Extraction
  • XML, TIFF, TXT and Native File Exports
  • First Pass Document Review
  • Language Identification

“In essence, it’s a mobile office. ESI processing, review and analysis all within the secure confines of the client’s office. Now, when a client asks if we process data in Asia, Europe, South America or Timbuktu, the answer is ‘Yes.’” noted Joseph Turner, Principal, Global EDD Group.

About Global EDD Group

Global Electronic Discovery & Disclosure Group (“Global EDD Group”) was founded by Mixner with the vision of bridging the wide gap between domestic organizations and their growing national and international legal technology needs. Global EDD Group provides legal technology services for matters with a national or international scope, specializing in remote and onsite services ranging from data identification to document review. Global EDD Group is based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA with regional offices in San Francisco and New York City. Additional information is available by visiting www.GlobalEDD.com.

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“Sexting” Town Hall Meting held in Cleveland « USDOJ: Justice Blog

March 19, 2010 By

Recent studies have shown that approximately one in five teens have sent or received a sexually suggestive photo via text messaging, a practice known as “sexting.” What teens do not understand are the significant and long-term negative implications such risky behavior can have on them, legally, socially and psychologically. Such implications can be as simple as embarrassment or as serious as criminal liability. Most don’t realize that sending or receiving a sexually explicit picture could result in charges of production, receipt, distribution or possession of child pornography.

“Once one of these kids hits the ‘send’ button, they expose themselves and their families to a web full of hurt,” said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. “All control over the image is lost – it can be forwarded repeatedly all over the school, town, state, country and world. Sadly, such behavior has led to at least two teens taking their own lives after suffering harassment by classmates who received their nude pictures, which had been repeatedly forwarded by other classmates.”

According to Dettelbach, “The best service law enforcement offers is preventing crime.” With that in mind, on March 12, 2010, he sponsored a Town Hall Meeting to discuss the impact of this risky teen behavior. The U.S. Attorney’s Office will partner with WVIZ/PBS Ideastream to make this important program available to students around the state of Ohio.

The panel featured Juvenile Court Judge Thomas O’Malley, Berea Police Department Detective Charles Gute, and Assistant United States Attorney Michael A. Sullivan. Additionally, Robin Palmer, who heads the Mokita Center, where teens charged with “sexting” are sent for assessment and treatment, and Cristina Fernandez, from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, in Alexandria, Virginia also participated.

Phizzle, a San Francisco-based company, which provides Web-based mobile platforms, donated its services for the program, which allowed students viewing the program to ask questions of the panel via text messaging and to participate in survey questions, asked throughout the show, designed to assess the scope of the problem.

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February 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

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DOJ: Kindle in Classroom Hurts Blind Students – PC World

January 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Three U.S. universities will stop promoting the use of Amazon.com’s Kindle DX e-book reader in classrooms after complaints that the device doesn’t give blind students equal access to information.

Settlements with Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Pace University in New York City and Reed College in Portland, Oregon, were announced Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice. The National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind had complained that use of the Kindle devices discriminates against students with vision problems.

The complaints about the Kindle were based on the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability.

The three universities were among six schools participating in an Amazon.com pilot program testing the use of the Kindle DX in classrooms. On Monday, a fourth participating school, Arizona State University, also reached a settlement with the DOJ and the two organizations representing the blind.

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The George Kokinis Chronicles: A Disgruntled Look at Sports and the Law

December 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment

The Cleveland Browns have been a disaster both on and off the field this season, and while the team sought to usher in a new era by hiring Mike Holmgren as its new general manager this week, an arbitration claim by his predecessor, George Kokinis, will weigh over the star-crossed franchise in the months ahead.

After signing a four-year contract before the season, Kokinis was fired on November 2, with the Browns floundering on several fronts. But after the team refused to honor his contract, Kokinis got litigious, hiring Dewey & LeBoeuf global litigation cochair Jeffrey Kessler for an arbitration claim filed this week before NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. A provision in Kokinis contract calls for disputes between him and his employer to go to arbitration.

Kessler, no stranger to sports litigation battles, especially in football, says that Kokinis turned to him after consulting with a few NFL colleagues. Kessler expects the arbitration proceeding to occur sometime in the next few months at the NFLs corporate legal department in New York. Current NFL general counsel Jeffrey Pash, a former Covington & Burling partner, or former league GC Jay Moyer will likely hear the case, Kessler says.

Kokinis is seeking more than $4 million in compensation and damages from the team. Kessler says his legal adversary in the arbitration is still a bit up in the air. The Browns have long turned to Frederick Nance, the managing partner of Squire, Sanders & Dempseys Cleveland office, for outside counsel. Nance was advising the Browns early in the process, Kessler says, but earlier this month he was named the teams general counsel.

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Law.com – Baker Hostetler Hangs Out Its Shingle in Chicago

November 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Baker Hostetler, which was founded in Cleveland almost a century ago, landed in Chicago this week. The firm’s new office opens with four lawyers, including three that it nabbed from Lovells and McDermott Will & Emery.

Baker Hostetler is leasing a floor of office space from Drinker Biddle & Reath that can accommodate 24 lawyers, with an option to expand the space to add 10 more lawyers later. Ultimately, the firm expects to have 100 attorneys in the city, said Steven Kestner, Baker’s national executive partner.

“We’re not going to be in a rush to do this,” Kestner said. “It might happen quickly. It might be a number of years.”

The firm, which now has about 600 lawyers nationwide in 11 offices, already has major clients in the city, including Hyatt Corp. and Boeing Co. While the two new partners hired for the office have expertise in corporate finance and commercial litigation, Kestner expects that the firm will bring its other strengths in tax and intellectual property to Chicago as well.

The office will be led by Ronald Okada, a Baker Hostetler partner who moved from Cleveland. Okada, who is the firm’s hiring partner and manages its diversity initiatives, said he will focus on building up the Chicago presence.

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