Your Custodians Aren’t the Same — Your Questions Shouldn’t Be Either

December 8, 2025 Blog

In today’s litigation landscape, legal teams face mounting pressure to make faster, leaner, and more defensible decisions earlier in the case lifecycle. Yet traditional discovery workflows — often fragmented, reactive, and cumbersome — can slow progress, increase costs, and hinder…

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The Complexity of Litigation & eDiscovery: A Two-Part Blog
(Part II)

July 23, 2025 Blog

Part II: A Smarter Approach to eDiscovery — Controlling Complexity Before It Controls You The first part of this series outlined the storm, this part is about building the shelter. Corporate legal departments can no longer afford to approach discovery…

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The Complexity of Litigation & eDiscovery: A Two-Part Blog
(Part I)

July 9, 2025 Blog

Part I: Why Litigation Complexity Necessitates a Smarter Approach to eDiscovery Litigation has always been a challenge for corporations. But in today’s climate, it’s become more complex (and more costly) than ever. A combination of shifting regulations, procedural dynamics, and…

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Surviving the Departed Employee: eDiscovery Edition

July 30, 2024 Blog

Although Gloria Gaynor’s famous lyrics from I Will Survive pertain to lost love, they can also be rewritten for the departed employee dilemma.        At first, I was afraid, I was petrified.       Thinkin’ all the…

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Cutting Discovery Costs Through Innovation: Revamping the Partnership between In-House Legal and Outside Counsel

May 29, 2024 Blog

By Janice P. Yates, CEDS Karl Albrecht, the billionaire founder of the discount supermarket chain, Aldi, proclaimed, “You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.” (If you’ve ever visited an Aldi, you’ve…

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Litigation Holds Causing Corporate Heartburn? Ease the Pain with this eDiscovery Antacid.

June 14, 2023 Blog

Remember when we discussed how the amount of data created in the world was 0.1 zettabytes in 2005 with a trajectory to rise to 163 zettabytes by 2025 (for non-math nerds, that’s a 162,900% increase)? With this kind of exponential…

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A Tectonic Shift is Occurring in eDiscovery

February 23, 2023 Blog

Are you tired of hearing about high eDiscovery costs? Legal professionals spend countless hours talking about it, yet year after year the only thing that changes is that costs continue to rise. Will 2023 be any different? We’re seeing a…

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How to Resolve the ECA vs. EDA Confusion Once and For All

October 11, 2022 Blog

By Scott Carvo and Mandi Ross What’s in a name? In the case of eDiscovery, it’s all about what you’re trying to accomplish. Legal and eDiscovery professionals can’t seem to agree on the appropriate term to describe the process of…

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The Iceberg is Ahead! Can You Avoid it in Time?

May 5, 2022 Blog

In the classic movie Titanic, the crewman on watch spotted the iceberg looming ahead and yelled, “Iceberg, right ahead!” to the rest of the crew. Despite this advance warning, they were unable to turn the ship in time to avoid…

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Exploring a Changing eDiscovery Mindset – Tom O’Connor and Rachi Messing’s Podcast with Mandi Ross

April 21, 2022 Blog

Industry leaders Tom O’Connor and Rachi Messing bring a great mix of humor and seriousness to their interview with CEO Mandi Ross. This podcast includes a quick trip down memory lane, moving through the early days of eDiscovery to present…

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The Discovery Proportionality Model: A New Framework

February 2, 2022 Blog

After two years of hard work by a team of 56 practitioners, discovery experts, and judges, the “New Framework” for eDiscovery is here.   In 2019, led by John Rabiej of the George Washington University Law School’s James F. Humphreys Complex…

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This Case Involved More Than One Disaster

December 6, 2021 Blog

As we all know, the devil is in the details. Managing eDiscovery proves this adage almost daily.  If you don’t pay careful attention, that devil will most certainly come back to haunt you. This was most recently evidenced in a…

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