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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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France: A New Haven For Anti-suit Injunctions? | Kluwer Arbitration Blog

May 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment

In the aftermath of the turmoil West Tankers has created in the arbitration community, the Cour de cassation has confirmed France’s reputation as being an arbitration-friendly jurisdiction by holding that anti-suit injunctions are not contrary to international public policy.

A French company (In Zone Brands Europe) had entered into an exclusive distribution agreement of beverages with an American company (In Zone Brand International). The contract granted jurisdiction to the courts of Georgia (USA). After the termination of the agreement by the American company, the French distributor and Mr X., President of In Zone Brands Europe sued it for damages before the Tribunal de commerce of Nanterre (France), whose jurisdiction was challenged by the American party. In parallel, In Zone Brand International seized the Superior Court of Cobb County, Georgia (USA). In a judgment dated 3 March 2006, the American judge issued an anti-suit injunction ordering the French party to discontinue the proceedings before the French courts and held that the French company owed monies to the American one. In Zone Brand International then sought recognition and enforcement (“exequatur”) of the American judgment (i.e. the anti-suit injunction) in France. On 17 April 2007, the Cour d’appel of Versailles upheld the decision of the first instance judges and recognised the anti-suit injunction granted by the Superior Court of Cobb County. On 14 October 2009, the Cour de cassation confirmed this ruling. (1)

The French Supreme Court approved the anti-suit injunction on the ground that “n’est pas contraire à l’ordre public international l’”anti suit injunction” dont, hors champ d’application de conventions ou du droit communautaire, l’objet consiste seulement, comme en l’espèce, à sanctionner la violation d’une obligation contractualle préexistante.” (2)

The judges’ reasoning consisted in verifying whether the three conditions required for enforcement of foreign decisions (as set forth by the last French Supreme Court case rendered in that respect) were fulfilled: (3) (i) the absence of fraudulent avoidance of the normally applicable law, (ii) the evidence of a sufficient link between the dispute and the foreign court having rendered the judgment subject to recognition and enforcement proceedings, and (iii) the enforcement of the judgement is not contrary to international public policy. Concerning the first condition, the Court has pointed out that “no fraud could arise out from seizing a court which has been expressly agreed to have jurisdiction“.

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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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‘Legal armada’ sets sail against Toyota

February 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Legal attacks against Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. escalated this week following fresh reports of product-safety defects afflicting some of the most popular vehicles in the automaker’s fleet.

And more suits are coming.

“We’re not done yet. We’re just building,” said Tim Howard, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston who as a plaintiffs’ attorney specializes in consumer and products liability litigation. “But it’s going to be a formidable legal armada that Toyota is going to have to deal with.”

Toyota announced on Jan. 26 that it would stop selling eight models because of accelerator pedals that can stick in the depressed position, causing the cars to speed up out of control. The company has recalled 2.3 million vehicles with that problem. Earlier, Toyota recalled another 4.2 million vehicles, blaming a problem with floor mats.

Toyota announced a plan on Monday to fix the accelerators. Since then, Congress has announced plans for hearings into the problems and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) has begun considering fines against Toyota for delaying the recalls.

As of Wednesday, there was no word whether litigation lay in store over Toyota’s latest headache: reports of brake problems in its Prius hybrid vehicle.

Most of the suits filed in recent days have been class actions on behalf of consumers whose Toyota vehicles have lost economic value because of the recalls. In most cases, the lead plaintiffs have experienced some type of unintended acceleration with their cars but no actual injuries.

Brian Lyons, a spokesman for Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc., declined to comment on the litigation.

One suit, filed on Friday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, seeks $1 billion in damages on behalf of a nationwide class of consumers. Some 15 law firms have been working as a team in that case and they plan to file another three dozen suits within the next week or two in at least 25 states, said Howard, one of the lawyers on the case. Eventually, he said, the suits will be coordinated as multidistrict litigation.

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Achtung! Google Analytics is illegal, say German government officials

November 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Several federal and regional government officials in Germany are trying to put a ban on Google Analytics, the search giant’s free software product that allows website owners and publishers to get detailed statistics about the number, whereabouts and search behavior of their visitors (and much more).

According to an article in today’s Zeit Online (poor Google translation here), multiple federal and state government officials charged with guarding over national data protection are convinced that Google Analytics is against the law in Germany and are mulling imposing fines on companies who use the service to gather detailed stats based on their website visitors’ usage patterns without the explicit consent of those visitors.

Still according to the Zeit Online article, an approximate 13% of German website publishers (meaning those with sites that have .de as their TLD) currently use Google Analytics, including several websites of leading media organizations, political parties and pharmaceutical companies. The government officials are particularly wary about the information Google is able to collect on websites of health insurance companies and the like, saying Google could conceivably create profiles of people that would include information about their interests, lifestyles, consumption patterns, political and sexual preferences.

This isn’t the first time German privacy protection officials have voiced their concerns about the Google Analytics service, as it had earlier criticized the search giant over keeping everyone ‘in the dark’ about which information they’re collecting exactly and how much identifiable data is sent to and stored on servers located on U.S. soil. German laws prohibit such data to leave the country, they claim.

Google Germany’s Per Meyerdierks, however, says the company is well within its rights to process user data in the United States because it respects the Safe Harbour treaty between the EU and the USA. He argues that an opt-out would be entirely unnecessary, and that users always have the option to refuse cookies anyway.

One German lawyer that gets cited in the article says the penalties could amount up to €50,000 (about $75,000) per website that uses Google Analytics to keep track of its visitors’ usage patterns.

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