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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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Global EDD Group Introduces iReview Global Discovery Platform™ Version 3.2

November 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

E-Discovery Review Platform Enhanced With Search Result Visualization, Dual Screen Review, Custodian Tracking & Additional User Reporting

Cleveland, Ohio, USA – (28 November 2011) – Global Electronic Discovery & Disclosure Group (“Global EDD Group”), a boutique consulting firm that provides innovative legal technology solutions across the globe, announces the Version 3.2 release of the iReview Global Discovery Platform.  This new version provides users and adminstrators with increased functionality that improves the speed and efficiency of electronic discovery document review.

The new features of the iReview Global Discovery Platform include the following:

Graphing – This feature creates a visual representation of a document set by one of the following criteria: Custodian, Domains, Emails, Categories, Tags or Review Levels.  The graphing function will allow the user to not only cull through documents quickly but also provides a snapshot of the status of the review.

Dual Screen Review – This feature gives the user the ability to view and code documents using multiple windows. The user is able to click through a list of document in one window while review and coding them in another.

Bulk Printing Application – This downloadable application found on VeReview allows the printing of documents to a local printer. The user can select one or more documents and print all with a single click. This feature eliminates one at a time document printing.

Custodian Tracking – This feature will display all custodians that have a relationship to a document and that has de-duped out during the loading process.  This identification will display on the Metadata tab within the document and will allow the user to assign any of the custodians associated to the document.

Improved User Reports – The improved functionality includes a summary report that displays total login time, total number of documents coded, total number of documents viewed and the total number of reviews completed.

Law Firms and Corporations interested in learning more about the iReview Global DIscovery Platform should call +1.888.690.DATA (3282) or email  info@globaledd.com 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 .

iReview Global Discovery Platform Search Result Chart - Custodian Grouping (click for larger view)

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Global EDD Group Portable Processing | Litigation Support | Law Technology News

May 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Portable Processing

Ohio’s Global Electronic Discovery & Disclosure Group (www.globaledd.com), a boutique legal technology consulting firm, has added Portable Processing to its Intelligent EDD line of services.

Developed for use at locations with dependable power and internet connectivity, the services combine software and hardware systems that can be transported worldwide within 48 hours, says the company. Offerings include data analytics and dynamic reporting; file culling, deduplication, and data extraction; file exports; first-pass document review; language identification; and more.

via Litigation Support.

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Wilmer Opening Business Center in Ohio for Back-Office Functions | National Law Journal

April 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr will move back-office functions to Dayton, Ohio, in September. The center is expected to house as many as 190 workers in technical support, billing support, conflict checks, data entry, finance and other business and administrative functions.

No lawyers will be located at the new business center at first, but the firm plans to add some basic document-review attorneys down the road, said co-managing partner William J. Perlstein. The new setup will add efficiency and cost less than housing business services in pricey offices in major cities, he said.

At present the firm divides back-office functions between its Washington, New York and Boston offices.

“As we addressed the question of trying to consolidate, that freed us up to look outside the metro areas, where space is less expensive and we can get a business campus setting,” Perlstein said. “It’s a combination of cost savings and the efficiency of having everyone in one location.”

The firm is still securing space for the new business center, and its not yet clear how much money it will save with the move, Perlstein said.

Wilmer is not the first firm to establish an off-site business center in a lower-cost area. Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe established its global operations center in Wheeling, W.Va., in 2000. The facility now houses about 200 workers.

via Law.com – Wilmer Opening Business Center in Ohio for Back-Office Functions.

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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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Attorneys Argue Over Venue for Toyota Litigation | Law.com

March 26, 2010 By

More than 100 lawyers packed a downtown San Diego federal courtroom on Thursday to hear arguments about which court is best prepared to hear the increasing number of lawsuits filed against Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. over sudden unintended acceleration in millions of its vehicles.

In all, 24 lawyers made brief statements before a panel, arguing for courts and judges in California, Louisiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Minnesota, Florida, South Carolina, West Virginia and New Jersey.

Cari Dawson, a partner at Alston and Bird who is lead counsel for Toyota, argued for the Central District of California, where one-third of the cases have been filed and where her client is located.

The panel of five judges who regularly hear jurisdictional issues for multidistrict litigation raised few questions about the locations but asked lawyers to address whether the class actions should be separated from the personal injury suits. Most of the lawyers appeared to favor keeping the cases together.

The panel is expected to rule within a few weeks.

Since last fall, more than 10 million Toyota vehicles have been recalled in order to repair problems with accelerator pedals, floor mats and brakes, all of which have been identified as causing sudden and unintended acceleration. Toyota's problems have multiplied, with new reports coming out each week indicating that the Japanese automaker might have known about the acceleration issue years ago.

The vast majority of the lawsuits — nearly 90 — have been filed on behalf of a class of consumers who are seeking economic damages because their recalled Toyota vehicles have lost value. A smaller group of personal injury suits have been filed on behalf of individuals who claim to have died or been injured in an accident because their Toyota vehicles suddenly accelerated.

via Law.com – Attorneys Argue Over Venue for Toyota Litigation.

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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.

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

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Little-Known Case Offers Lesson for In-House Counsel on Risk of Fraudulent Schemes | Law.com

February 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment

An article in the most recent issue of the Food and Drug Law Institute’s FDLI Update talks about the important benefits — and risks — when a corporate defendant tells the prosecutor that “my lawyer said it was OK.”

The article (pdf) was written by John Fleder, a principal in the Washington, D.C., office of Hyman, Phelps & McNamara. Fleder writes that the government has become more aggressive in prosecuting corporate lawyers who become part of a fraudulent scheme.

He cites the little-known case of general counsel Paul Kellogg, who was sentenced to a year in prison and three years probation in 2008 for allegedly obstructing proceedings before the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission.

According to government records, Kellogg was in-house counsel at Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals in West Chester, Ohio. Among other things, the company sold dietary supplements and other pills that it claimed in TV ads would increase the size of a man’s penis by four inches.

A jury in federal district court in Cincinnati found that the company and the individuals illegally made millions of dollars after sending customers supplements they did not order, charging customers' credit cards without authorization, misrepresenting their business activities, and laundering money through bank and investment accounts. Along with other executives, Kellogg was convicted on six counts of conspiracy and money laundering.

According to an earlier article on the law firm’s Web site, Kellogg’s case is one of only a handful of criminal charges against in-house lawyers arising under FDA violations. And it contains important lessons for in-house counsel.

Kellogg did more than offer legal advice, the article states; he actually took part in the scheme. When FDA inspectors tried to check labels on bottles of supplements, Kellogg allegedly directed employees to ship them to another site and then bring them back when the inspectors left.

A second count involved a trust set up to hide and launder illegal money. Although an outside lawyer created the trust, Kellogg allegedly had knowledge of its purpose and agreed to be the trustee.

One lesson for in-house lawyers, the article states, is that playing any role beyond legal advice could land the counsel in hot water. Also, the article suggests that simply claiming that the company or the general counsel relied on advice of outside counsel is not enough “where that advice suggests a clearly unlawful path.”

via Law.com – Little-Known Case Offers Lesson for In-House Counsel on Risk of Fraudulent Schemes.

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