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    eDiscovery Market Player Research:  A 5x5 Snapshot

    eDiscovery Market Player Research: A 5×5 Snapshot

    Industry research firms and analysts play a major part in the education, understanding and positioning of “players” providing offerings to specific markets. The electronic discovery arena is no different in this regard. While relatively new as an area of focus for major technology research organizations, the area of electronic discovery is now being tracked and covered on an increasingly more frequent, more systematic and more detailed basis by leading technology research firms than at any previous time.

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    Strategically Considering Vendors?

    Strategically Considering Vendors?

    In an effort to quickly yet effectively evaluate and predict both the immediate and long term success of electronic discovery vendors, the following considerations shared in a formulaic manner may help legal professionals as they compare, contrast, and evaluate electronic discovery vendors.

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    Social Media:  Growth, Risk, and Tactics

    Social Media: Growth, Risk, and Tactics

    While the benefits of social media use in the workplace can be great, the risks associated with social media usage by organizational employees can also be great. These risks, many times grouped according to their origin as a data risk, a behavior risk, and/or a technology risk, can have a significant impact on key organizational areas.

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    Too Many eDiscovery Features?

    Too Many eDiscovery Features?

    As one considers the growing number of electronic discovery products and services and the corresponding features available in each of these offerings, it is increasingly important for product developers/manufacturers and service providers to understand the balance between providing clients the right amount of functionality choice and providing clients too much functionality choice.

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    What Might eDiscovery Cost?

    What Might eDiscovery Cost?

    Designed to help legal professionals in “rule of thumb” electronic discovery data reduction and pricing planning, the Electronic Discovery Pricing Estimator uses a combination of generally accepted industry assumptions and user determined pricing entries to provide users with a quick reference planning tool.

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    How many MBs in that Box?

    How many MBs in that Box?

    Designed to help legal professionals in “rule of thumb” data volume planning for electronic discovery, the Electronically Stored Information (ESI) Planning Calculator uses a combination of generally accepted industry assumptions to provide users with a quick reference planning tool that can help in the estimation of print-to-digital and digital-to-print data volume.

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