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Introducing Litigation Edge Pte Ltd, your one-stop litigation support and e-discovery services provider in Asia

April 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Singapore’s Litigation Edge is a collaboration between 3 individuals with more than 30 years experience in varying aspects of litigation and law practice technology in Singapore and the USA, including engagements as e-discovery consultants, law practice workflow consultants, litigation support service providers and digitization specialists.

What sets Litigation Edge apart is:

  1. The range of litigation technology solutions and services that we provide
  2. Our partnership with international experts from jurisdictions with a mature e-discovery culture
  3. Our commitment to education, training and self-empowerment
  4. Our understanding and insight into law firm practices

We provide the whole spectrum of services under the Electronic Discovery Reference Model, including data collection, data processing (denisting and de-duplication), data conversion, and the provision of review tools for electronically stored documents.  We also specialize in providing litigation support services for paper-based documents, including bulk copying, scanning, delimiting and objective coding of documents. Our review tools and litigation support services enable law practices to take on document intensive litigation without the need to put more lawyers on the job.

Litigation Edge‘s one-stop litigation support and e-discovery services enables law practices to undertake trial preparation more cost effectively, with less stress and more successful outcomes.

Litigation Edge Pte Ltd
8 Robinson Road #10-00 Singapore
+65 6236 2846 Phone
info@litiedge.com Email
http://litiedge.com/ Web

 

Litigation Edge is a strategic partner of Global EDD Group and provides operations support to the company throughout the Asia Pacific region.

 

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Bringing eDiscovery In-house: What Corporate Counsel Want

January 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

That’s riiiiiiiiiiiight, in-house lawyers, get ready for another huge work pile to fall in your lap!

It seems that 2011 is the year for “bringing more work in-house” — which inevitably means more work dumped on in-house counsel.

The modern corporate counsel had better be ready.

EDD Blog Online writes in an interesting recent post that a large portion of eDiscovery technology and services will likely move in-house in 2011.

Corporate counsel have historically worked with outside counsel, litigation technology consulting groups, litigation service providers and computer forensic companies to get this work done.

EDD Blog speculates that the reasoning behind the old-school “outsourcing” method was a byproduct of the days when litigation required thousands and thousands of documents to be reviewed, scanned and digitized. In “the old days,” this was always been done by third parties.

Well, not anymore, in-house lawyers — and it’s time to get ready to take on this mess!

The post goes on to discuss many other problems and changes including:

  • Practicing Law, Not Technology
  • Cost
  • Technology
  • Cooperation and Collaboration

via Bringing eDiscovery In-house: What Corporate Counsel Want.

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E-Discovery Technology Professionals in High Demand for 2011 :: aplcs.com

January 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment

More than 200 eDiscovery and litigation technology professionals will be hired by AmLaw200 firms over the next six months, according to The Cowen Group’s 2010 Salary Study.

“New litigation and resumed work on previously stalled litigation is driving the next wave of litigation support and eDiscovery hiring,” said David Cowen, president and founder of New York City-based The Cowen Group. “The demand for talent is surging and law firms, corporations and legal technology vendors need to prepare for this increase in demand.”

A dearth of qualified candidates means competition for experienced professionals is going to heat up. Increased competition typically leads to higher salaries as firms look to recruit new staff and retain their professionals, Cowen said. In 2011, a surge in the number of new positions at firms, corporations, and vendors coupled with a shortage of qualified professionals will drive salaries upward.

Experienced professionals will command higher salaries as lateral moves become less frequent and more strategic. Vendors will continue to be the venue in which talent is developed, and many hiring managers will turn to their ranks first when seeking experienced candidates. As always, marquee firms will have the gravitas, career paths, and budgets to attract the best talent in the industry. Those seeking to move to a top-tier firm should plan on building experience at a mid-level firm, top vendor, or possibly a major corporation—without that pedigree, candidates for those positions are simply not as competitive.

Mid-sized and smaller law firms may find it challenging to recruit qualified candidates if they cannot match the salaries offered by top-tier law firms. This will likely lead to the development or strengthening of strategic partnerships with litigation support and technology companies, Cowen said.

“The 205 new jobs we identified in the salary survey might be very conservative as the survey was taken by AmLaw 200 firms and does not include the hiring plans of corporate legal teams or legal technology companies,” Cowen said. “Human resource professionals and hiring managers will need to know what the average base salaries are at various levels in order to attract and retain the brightest technology professionals.”

via E-Discovery Technology Professionals in High Demand for 2011 :: aplcs.com.

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Job market reflects importance of eDiscovery preparedness

January 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Recognizing the importance and the increasing challenges of eDiscovery, companies will focus on hiring professionals that specialize in such litigation technology, according to a recent report from the Cowen Group, 2010 Salary Study.

The report predicts that more than 200 eDiscovery and other litigation technology professionals will be hired during the first six months of 2011. The group also expects this hiring boom to accelerate the competitiveness of landing an eDiscovery support position.

The boom is fueled by the increase in eDiscovery cases and growing complexity of responding to litigation.

“New litigation and resumed work on previously stalled litigation is driving the next wave of litigation support and eDiscovery hiring,” said David Cowen, president and founder of the Cowen Group.

via Job market reflects importance of eDiscovery preparedness.

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Litigation Technology, eDiscovery Hiring Boom Salary Study Shows : Sophisticated Litigation Support Blog

December 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

More than 200 eDiscovery and litigation technology professionals will be hired by AmLaw200 firms over the next six months, according to The Cowen Group’s 2010 Salary Study.

“New litigation and resumed work on previously stalled litigation is driving the next wave of litigation support and eDiscovery hiring,” said David Cowen, president and founder of New York City-based The Cowen Group. “The demand for talent is surging and law firms, corporations and legal technology vendors need to prepare for this increase in demand.”

A dearth of qualified candidates means competition for experienced professionals is going to heat up. Increased competition typically leads to higher salaries as firms look to recruit new staff and retain their professionals, Cowen said. In 2011, a surge in the number of new positions at firms, corporations, and vendors coupled with a shortage of qualified professionals will drive salaries upward.

Experienced professionals will command higher salaries as lateral moves become less frequent and more strategic. Vendors will continue to be the venue in which talent is developed, and many hiring managers will turn to their ranks first when seeking experienced candidates. As always, marquee firms will have the gravitas, career paths, and budgets to attract the best talent in the industry. Those seeking to move to a top-tier firm should plan on building experience at a mid-level firm, top vendor, or possibly a major corporation—without that pedigree, candidates for those positions are simply not as competitive.

via Litigation Technology, eDiscovery Hiring Boom Salary Study Shows : Sophisticated Litigation Support Blog.

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Litigation Technology, eDiscovery Hiring Boom Salary Study Shows : Sophisticated Litigation Support Blog

December 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

More than 200 eDiscovery and litigation technology professionals will be hired by AmLaw200 firms over the next six months, according to The Cowen Group’s 2010 Salary Study.

“New litigation and resumed work on previously stalled litigation is driving the next wave of litigation support and eDiscovery hiring,” said David Cowen, president and founder of New York City-based The Cowen Group. “The demand for talent is surging and law firms, corporations and legal technology vendors need to prepare for this increase in demand.”

A dearth of qualified candidates means competition for experienced professionals is going to heat up. Increased competition typically leads to higher salaries as firms look to recruit new staff and retain their professionals, Cowen said. In 2011, a surge in the number of new positions at firms, corporations, and vendors coupled with a shortage of qualified professionals will drive salaries upward.

Experienced professionals will command higher salaries as lateral moves become less frequent and more strategic. Vendors will continue to be the venue in which talent is developed, and many hiring managers will turn to their ranks first when seeking experienced candidates. As always, marquee firms will have the gravitas, career paths, and budgets to attract the best talent in the industry. Those seeking to move to a top-tier firm should plan on building experience at a mid-level firm, top vendor, or possibly a major corporation—without that pedigree, candidates for those positions are simply not as competitive.

via Litigation Technology, eDiscovery Hiring Boom Salary Study Shows : Sophisticated Litigation Support Blog.

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eClaris Purchases Syndex™ Auto Coding Software from Syngence Corporation

September 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment

eClaris LLC, a premier eDiscovery litigation technology consulting firm, has announced that it has recently purchased Syndex™ Auto Coding Software from Syngence Corporation. As a result eClaris will now be able to provide its customers with thorough and precise abstract document summaries. Every summary will include specified key terms as well as the document’s author, recipient, copied recipients, first and last document numbers, cited names, subject, attachment ranges, document type and date. These document coding summaries represent yet another cutting edge eDiscovery solution that eClaris is committed to providing its customers.

Both the legal and business communities stand to benefit the most from this new software as eClaris will be able to further minimize the time and costs associated with document coding. Specifically, eClaris will now be to create automated bibliographic summaries of extracted text or OCR records from all electronic stored information. This automation will save eClaris’ customers valuable dollars by bypassing the more costly alternative of manual coding.

In addition, it should be noted, that the Syndex™ Auto Coding Software has improved eClaris’ eDiscovery abilities. eClaris will now be able to mine data from millions of documents on a daily basis. This increase capacity will make feasible even the most gargantuan document coding projects while allowing eClaris to swiftly and accurately analyze the crucial data involved. eClaris will also be able to create abstracts containing 15 separate data fields and recognize 16 distinct document types.

via eClaris Purchases Syndex™ Auto Coding Software from Syngence Corporation.

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The Apple Tablet: A Game Changer for Litigation Technology? | The Rung

March 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Document review

While it’s somewhat challenging to port Concordance or Summation directly to a build of OS X, if a firm employs Citrix or another remote desktop solution, the ability to perform document review from a tablet could be a few taps away. Depending on whether or not the user is afforded a “full desktop” mode (i.e. as many netbooks do), a document review could potentially be conducted wirelessly via a remote desktop session on a tablet running a full desktop mode. This creates the potential for reviewers to page through documents anywhere they can receive Internet access, all on a device that could be less than an inch thick. Hopefully the battery life will support at least a few hours at full screen brightness, as this could really change the historically limited concept of reviewing documents (i.e. using a bulky laptop or forced to sit at a desktop). While I obviously don’t believe this will help DBA’s (no indexing or running CPL’s – I couldn’t even imagine trying to load data), they will need to take into consideration how the device will fit within their user’s workflow.

Client communication

The smartphone, Blackberry and iPhone opened up the instant ability to converse with clients in writing, review information on the go and exist more productively outside the office. A tablet interface could potentially bring this to a new level. How? In the future, I envision many (note: not all) law firms creating their own application within the iTunes App Store. As dedicated web portals, intranet access and SharePoint become pillars of service clients expect and rely on, “Apps” fundamentally take the bricks out of the briefcase. Imagine asking a client to download your firm’s application from the App Store, logging in via secure credentials and gaining access to their data immediately, without a fuss, lousy user interface or the normal challenges? From one interface they could review the docket, recent applicable case law, an upcoming calendar of events or critical documents with just a few taps of their finger.

via The Apple Tablet: A Game Changer for Litigation Technology? | The Rung.

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