Legal Technology Insights

Contact Discovery Services Deepens Cloud Commitment with Full Embrace of RelativityOne - Grow with Contact Discovery

bbuck91ae2febae — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Contact Discovery Services is proud to announce a strategic enhancement to its legal technology capabilities through an expanded deployment of RelativityOne, Relativity’s AI-powered cloud platform. As an early adopter of RelativityOne, Contact has spent years integrating AI into its workflows. Today’s announcement marks a deeper alignment with technology we believe will best position our clients for success in an era defined by data complexity and global regulatory scrutiny.

Deploying iOS 18 in the Workplace: Potential Data Security Implications - Grow with Contact Discovery

ContactWeb — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:10:04 GMT

With the scheduled release of iOS 18 this fall that is anticipated to feature an Artificial Intelligence powered by ChatGPT, organizations find themselves at a critical juncture. The promise of enhanced productivity and efficiency through advanced AI capabilities is appealing, yet may introduce potential security risks and compliance challenges.

What to Consider When Buying Legal Tech - Grow with Contact Discovery

ContactWeb — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 12:59:09 GMT

The world of legal technology can be a confusing, intimidating place. The solutions available can look similar on the surface, but provide dramatically different outcomes. This begs the question, how do you figure out what solutions are best for your organization?

How to Pick the Best Digital Forensics Tool For Your Matter - Grow with Contact Discovery

rashtruesdale — Thu, 02 May 2024 11:59:33 GMT

These days, digital forensics is the tip of the spear for any legal investigation. The decisions you make at this stage determine how costly, time-consuming, and effective downstream processes could be, so it’s important to get it right. One of the most crucial decisions you’ll make at this stage is what technology to use for a forensic collection. How do you make sure you have all the data you need in the most cost-effective way? That’s what we’re here to discuss.

Is Your eDiscovery Team Up to a "2-Minute Drill?" - Grow with Contact Discovery

ContactWeb — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 08:55:38 GMT

The 2-minute drill. It’s a do-or-die scenario where teams can step up and show what they’re truly made of, and all the best teams are known for how well they can execute in this pressure cooker scenario. Likewise, the best eDiscovery teams are at their best when asked to face near-impossible challenges with somehow-even-more-impossibly-tight deadlines. So, with that in mind, what can we learn from the best football teams, and how do we apply it to eDiscovery teams? How can legal teams figure out if their vendors are set up for a successful 2-minute drill before they actually need one?

Digital Forensic Preservation vs. Collection: A Practical Guide - Grow with Contact Discovery

ContactWeb — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 09:24:26 GMT

Forensic preservation and collection are crucial steps in any investigation or litigation. The choices legal teams make in these early stages not only determine what kind of a legal strategy they could put together, but also how burdensome it is to put that strategy together, and what kinds of audibles they can call downstream if that’s necessary.

Managed Review vs. Document Review: Which one is best?

ContactWeb — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 11:37:11 GMT

Complex litigation cannot happen without some form of document review, whether that’s managed review or not. Document review cannot happen without reviewers. This raises a lot of questions that most lawyers never learned about in law school: Which reviewers do you hire? What parts of review can be trusted to technology, and what parts absolutely have to be done by humans? What work requires actual attorneys, and what work is better left to other litigation support professionals?

4 Rookie Mistakes of eDiscovery Processing - Grow with Contact Discovery

Anthony Cusimano — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:28:46 GMT

Within eDiscovery, Processing comes after collection but before review. This step is all about taking the data and extracting metadata such as who created that document, when they created it, the file format and size, etc. Such metadata helps legal teams organize a seemingly endless sea of data into the right buckets so they can make informed decisions about what to do next.

Cloud Forensics Is Here To Stay... But It Has A Dark Side

ContactWeb — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 15:51:45 GMT

Data collection has always been an important first step of any legal investigation. Before the digital age, this could mean dusting a crime scene for fingerprints, or finding bits of the perpetrator’s DNA from some stray hairs.

The Festivus Airing of Grievances: eDiscovery ALSP edition - Grow with Contact Discovery

ContactWeb — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 09:09:26 GMT

“I’ve got a lot of problems with you people and now, you’re gonna hear about it!”