e-Discovery
Getting more predictable, repeatable results from e-discovery requires a combination of technology automation, process innovation, and multi-sourcing, as well as more comprehensive overall information management.
ESG arms corporate litigants to optimize their choices and investments in this strategic business process through our market intelligence, research, and user insight. ESG’s strategic advisory services aid e-discovery vendors and service providers in developing, validating, and establishing their technology and services in the crowded e-discovery and IT marketplaces.
Recently Published Reports
Research Reports
e-Discovery Market Trends: A View from the Legal Department 
In order to assess the state of enterprise e-discovery operations and priorities over 2011 and beyond, ESG recently surveyed 48 general counsel representing large midmarket (500 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations. All respondents were personally responsible for or familiar with their organizations’ 2010 legal services and e-discovery spending, as well as their 2011 budget and spending plans at either an organizational or a business unit/division/branch level.
Market Landscape Reports
The Future of Review
This report examines the changing market for software and services in attorney review, highlighting innovative technology and project approaches which ESG believes provide opportunities for more efficiency, accuracy—and even defensibility and predictability—in the process.
Initial Case Assessments with e-Discovery
Over the last several years, electronic discovery (e-discovery) in the enterprise has gone from an outsourced function to one steadily moving in-house, especially among serial litigants and highly-regulated companies. Legal and IT departments are often taking the law (or at least legal data) into their own hands as exploding data volumes, new admissibility of digital evidence in US and international courts, and the growing demands of a stricter regulatory environment make ongoing service and legal fees increasingly unpredictable, and even untenable.
Briefs
Fios Goes for Speed, Best of Breed with Assisted Review
Building on its core expertise in e-discovery processing, service provider Fios has expanded its ambitions in recent years to support and automate a broader scope of legal services. This effort has included significant innovation in attorney review (the most expensive stage of the e-discovery process) through best-of-breed technology and outsourcing partnerships.
Catalyst Insight Blazes e-Discovery Trail Through Amazon
Catalyst Repository Systems releases Catalyst Insight, the latest version of its cloud-based e-discovery review tool, featuring a user interface overhaul, new XML database back-end for enhanced search, and a move to the Amazon cloud.
CaseCentral Releases R5
CaseCentral has released R5, the latest iteration of its cloud-based, multi-matter e-discovery platform. R5 is aimed at providing multiple, integrated tools for greater efficiency from processing, analysis, and review through production.
Symantec Cements E-discovery Foothold with Clearwell
Symantec’s recent announcement of its acquisition of Clearwell Systems, a leading provider of electronic discovery process automation software, allows its over 14,000 existing Enterprise Vault customers to reduce their vendor toolsets while enabling a more integrated cross-functional e-discovery business process and facilitating better data governance and policy enforcement for proactive information management.
ESG Research Brief: 2011 Information Management Software Spending Trends
Data from ESG’s 2011 IT Spending Intentions Survey finds that four out of every five buyers is maintaining or increasing their 2011 information management software spending. The most desired solutions include enterprise content management and collaboration tools.
Katey Wood’s Blog: Information Asymmetry
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