Legal Technology

LegalTech Trek: i365

By Sean Doherty
The Legal Technology Blog

You might wonder how I missed some things at LegalTech New York. But if you attended, you would know. There is so much going on over the course of three days that it would take a platoon of technology editors to cover it all. And I hardly qualify as a platoon.

i365, a Seagate company, issued a new release of its e-discovery product, MetaLINCS E-Discovery Suite 5. MetaLINCS can take you from processing and review to production. With the upgrade, it claims new capabilities in search and review as well as redaction and early case assessment with improved analytics. Another thing to check out, looking forward to when an automated search will satisfy a due diligence privilege review, is i365’s defensible “Pinpoint Search.”

Despite the rumors of layoffs at i365, it was out in full force at LegalTech with updates that focus on needs identified in 2008: early case assessment and improved search capabilities.

Is your fax machine winking?

By Sean Doherty
The Legal Technology Blog

Is your fax machine winking at you with a blinking orange or green light. You probably don’t need that kind of attention. So if you’re constantly “maintaining” your fax technology, look into some alternatives, at a glance.  These Internet fax services can be very reliable in both sending and receiving faxes. Also, no scanner needed – upload files to the provider to send them via fax – and you don’t need a dedicated land line for fax.

If your worried about  sending and receiving your fax via e-mail (aka the Internet), make sure the provider can send you an e-mail message to notify you of an incoming fax. On receipt, you can log on to the provider’s Web site to view or retrieve the fax. Just make sure the provider uses SSL encryption to connect to the server (aka HTTPS://)

Why would you be worried about receiving an image (TIF or PDF) of an incoming fax over the Internet? For the same reason you would feel uncomfortable talking with your client about his or her corporate secrets at Starbucks.

Recommind's MindServer

By Sean Doherty
The Legal Technology Blog

No doubt there were a lot of things that I missed on the exhibit floor at the last LegalTech New York. So I am going to step back and bring forth some of the best news that slipped past me. At the very least, this will help me sort things out. Because I refuse to revolve around e-discovery and much prefer to focus on technology. For example, Recommind made some improvements to Decisiv Email with version 2.3 that enhanced the process of automatically tagging, filing, and storing e-mail messages.

One way to look at that would be from an e-discovery perspective. Ultimately, automatically tagging e-mail messages (and their attachments) will facilitate applying policies (e.g., retention policy) to those tags that will reduce EDD costs. Messages that relate to a business purpose or messages that are potentially responsive to pending or future litigation will be tagged, saved, and available for search and retrieval in response to litigation. This will reduce the risk that responsive e-mail will be missed during the collection stage of e-discover, thus avoiding costly sanctions and facilitating collection and privilege review.

Take a look at Recommind's base technology that enables the above: the MindServer platform. MindServer automatically identifies concepts within and across information resources like e-mail message stores as well as Interwoven WorkSite. Hence, it is able to automatically understand what words have multiple meanings and what concepts have multiple expressions and use that information to search and tag content, automatically. This has the potential to take the archiving or retention decisions out of the hands of users and ensure what needs to be retained for business and legal purposes, is retained.

So, when you look at the Recommind's technology, it will help an organization retain important content for regulatory and compliance reasons. All this before litigation ensues and all quite "left" of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model. In fact, Recommind's technology can be used wide left of the EDRM, which is where you want your long-term technology investments to lie.

Court reporting and e-discovery

By Ari Kaplan, Esq.
Special to The Legal Technology Blog

At the end of day 3 at LegalTech NY, I ran into John Correggio, the founder of New Wave Legal, which announced its formation to coincide with LegalTech.  The company describes itself as "a single-source supplier of legal technology, discovery support and court reporting services" through partnerships with various organizations.  Listen to my interview on the floor of the show with Correggio and Matt Spievak of Sarnoff Court Reporters and Legal Technologies, part of the New Wave Legal consortium.

*[Disclosure: At the request of New Wave Legal, I attended the company's inaugural meeting in late January as an unpaid informal observer and it provided nominal travel expenses.  This interview was unscheduled and unscripted.]

Ari L. Kaplan, Esq.
www.arikaplanadvisors.com
(646) 641-0600

Author of "The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development" (Thomson-West, 2008). Learn more at  TheOpportunityMaker.com.

LegalTech New Year

By Sean Doherty
The Legal Technology Blog

The new year has come and gone on the Gregorian calendar. But the new year for legal technology is still in progress at LegalTech New York, where vendors are unveiling their new products and services and attendees are helping them celebrate. Read more.

What can you do for me?

By Sean Doherty
The Legal Technology Blog

Whether you are at LegalTech New York or elsewhere, ask vendors and service providers “What can you do for me?” Whether you are looking for improved technical support, trying to satisfy a business need, aiming to cut costs, or looking for innovative answers to remain competitive, vendors and service providers are at LegalTech looking for business. So don’t hesitate to tell them your needs. They listen and innovate. Read more.

Legal Tech NY -- Day 1

It was a good day at Legal Tech NY.  I had the opportunity to speak with a number of vendors and recorded these thoughts from the floor of the show:

Paul Brabant, Epiq Systems
Michael Dalewitz, Peak Discovery
Rob Feigenbaum & Jaime Florence, Microforensics

Ari L. Kaplan, Esq.
www.arikaplanadvisors.com
(646) 641-0600

Author of "The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development" (Thomson-West, 2008). Learn more at  TheOpportunityMaker.com.