I spoke with Chris Dahl, the executive vice president of product development and advisory services at Lighthouse, a provider of e-discovery and information governance technology and services. We discussed Lighthouse Prism, the company’s new artificial intelligence and big data analytics platform, the biggest e-discovery review challenge clients are facing now, how the legal community is generally using AI tools, and where the use of AI in legal is headed in 2021.
I spoke with Nate Latessa, the president of Heureka, an index in place, search, and analysis software platform for corporate legal, compliance, and cybersecurity departments. We discussed the genesis of Heureka, the benefits of improving an organization’s data hygiene, how data classification impacts e-discovery, and where e-discovery is headed.
I spoke with Jeff Pfeifer, the vice president of product management at LexisNexis, where he is responsible for product development strategy for the company’s electronic solutions portfolio.We discussed how the exponential growth in data is presenting new challenges in legal research, what is necessary to empower the data driven lawyer of the future, ways that machine learning and artificial intelligence are impacting the legal field, and how the evolution of analytics is influencing the predictability of trial outcomes, among other topics.
I spoke with David Ahrens, the chief marketing officer of FRONTEO USA, Inc., a publicly-traded global technology and services company that specializes in big data, artificial intelligence, information governance, managed review and litigation consulting for the e-discovery market.We discussed the company’s acquisition of managed review provider Essential Discovery, Inc., how the addition of EDI supports the company’s continued reinvention, why M&A so active in the legal technology community, and where the industry is headed in 2017.
I spoke with Eric Hunter, the Director of Knowledge, Innovation & Technology Strategies at Bradford & Barthel, a California law firm. He is also the Executive Director of Spherical Models, a consultancy that focuses on spherical business models through innovations in big data, strategic pricing, predictive analytics, and social media. The Ark Group recently released his new book: “The Sherlock Syndrome, Strategic Success through Big Data and the Darwinian Disruption.”We discussed his inspiration for writing the book, its target audience, and the convergence of creativity and business models.
I spoke with Sarah Clark Kavanagh, the founder of Quatrove, a SaaS solution that helps manage team workflow and intelligence for a variety of organizations, including law firms worldwide.
We discussed her interest in helping organizations make data driven decisions, how the tool has been received in the marketplace, and how a product like Quatrove reflects the dynamic changes occurring in the legal community, among other topics.
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I spoke with Barclay Blair, the president and founder of ViaLumina, a consulting firm that advises Fortune 500 companies, software and hardware vendors, and government institutions, on information governance, who is also the Executive Director and co-founder of the Information Governance Initiative.
We discussed why information governance has become such a critical concern in the legal community, key tips for managing information more effectively, the conflict between big data and e-discovery, and the future of the industry.
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I spoke with Albert Buckwalter, the Director of Litigation Support for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division in Washington, DC, and the editor-in-chief of Litigation Support Today, a magazine for litigation support professionals that has been published since 2007.We discussed the genesis of Litigation Support Today and Paralegal Today magazines, as well as the types of article ideas in which the editors are most interested. Buckwalter also shared his perspective on the evolution of the litigation support sector, legal technology trends, and the 2014 International Litigation Support Leaders conference, among other topics.
I spoke with Peter Mercer, the founder and managing director of Vound, an Australia-based software development company focusing on forensics and e-discovery, which is the maker or Intella, the company’s signature tool for processing, searching, and analyzing electronically stored information.We discussed the growth in user-created data, the trend of law enforcement technologies being adapted to e-discovery, and the increased focus on productivity, which Mercer noted is driving the adoption of this technology. He predicts that the rise in cloud adoption and the interest in reviewing data more simply will help to transform the forensic and e-discovery industry in 2013.