Legal Inc ties knot with Digital Reef
Litigation support and technology consultancy Legal Inc has announced that it has signed a hosting and reseller agreement with information management specialist Digital Reef Inc (DRI).
The move is a key part of Legal Inc’s strategy to provide clients with an end-to-end case management solution, starting at the earliest possible stage: a client’s data estate.
The Digital Reef solution can be placed behind the corporate firewall or delivered on a fully managed, hosted basis. It enables clients to fully index, search and conduct a first pass review of all their data stores, with control remaining completely in-house rather than having to pass to an external law firm. Where the resultant data collection needs further analysis Legal Inc will offer a choice of processing and review tools, ensuring seamless management of the data life-cycle.
For corporates, the tie-up has the potential to unlock substantial time and cost savings while reducing risk. An in-house team’s ability to conduct its own intelligent search means that first pass legal review and case assessment are achievable without the need for expensive outside help; the use of a single tool for the search, cull and review phases simplifies and expedites the whole process as well as avoids the expense of large loading fees; while data for further analysis can be immediately processed by Legal Inc with due protection of the all-important chain of custody and data provenance.
Legal Inc’s co-founders and directors Lisa Burton and Dipak Patel are keen to stress the significance of the deal. They said: “With organizations seeing an increase not just in litigation but in regulatory investigations and enquiries, the emphasis is on proactively preparing for such an eventuality rather than reactively panicking when the knock at the door comes. With data estates sized in petabytes, and much of it unstructured, heads of legal need a proven means to get ‘order out of chaos’ and move to that desired state of ‘litigation readiness’. Digital Reef can drive that transformation in a timely, cost-effective and efficient manner and we’ve yet to see a comparable solution challenge it. We now need to get the message out there that this is very much ‘must have’ technology, rather than ‘nice to have’. The stakes are too high for nice.”
Legal Inc sees Reason in new hire
Litigation support and technology specialist Legal Inc has announced the appointment of Lee Reason as a Senior Project Manager. He joins from Mayer Brown International where he was Litigation Support Manager, having previously worked across corporate and commercial support departments at Linklaters.
Lee has extensive experience of review and disclosure systems, best practice methodologies and multi-jurisdictional projects as well as in-depth appreciation of the day-to-day challenges and issues facing lawyers and support staff.
Legal Inc co-founder and director Dipak Patel comments: “This appointment is very much in keeping with our tradition of taking on people who bring not just technical expertise to the role but operational know-how and empathy forged by lengthy service at the legal coal-face. That makes for a professional but pragmatic approach, and one where the importance of the ‘process, people, technology’ equation is truly understood. Lee comes with an impeccable track record and his arrival strengthens the team at a time of unprecedented growth for Legal Inc.”
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Reports from the coalface
Today’s manically paced edisclosure agenda seems persistently dominated by the launch of this or that latest software development or technological gizmo, with the occasional interruption from the courts with a spot of case law or influential judgment. But there is an infuriating lack of formal reports from the coalface, so to speak, charting what organisations actually do with the tools available to them and the potentially transformational effect they have on capacity, capability and ultimately compliance.
Legal inc is keen to redress that balance with the first of a series of case studies that focuses on the sharp end of edisclosure and how technology, process and people can be harnessed to deliver projects that would have been inconceivable even 18 months ago. Entitled ‘Legal Inc and Clearwell – Cutting complex projects down to size’, it provides graphic illustration of just what is achievable in terms of data processing and review, and provides implicit encouragement for all those seeking equality of arms in regulatory, investigatory and litigation battles.
The case study is available at http://www.legalinc.co.uk/index.php?q=206
