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Following Departure of its Founder, E-Discovery Company DISCO Names New CEO

Above the Law - Technology

The e-discovery company CS Disco today announced that its board of directors has named Eric Friedrichsen as president and chief executive officer, filling the slot vacated when the company’s cofounder Kiwi Camara stepped down as CEO last September in the wake of allegations that he had groped a female employee.

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Major E-Discovery News, As Exterro, Eyeing IPO, Acquires Zapproved for Undisclosed Amount

LawSites

Among the things the two e-discovery companies Exterro and Zapproved have in common is that they were both founded in the same year, 2008, and in the same city, Portland, Ore. As part of that deal, Leeds Equity Partners , which invested more than $100 million in Exterro in 2018, made a new equity commitment to the company.

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Promising ‘Cruelty-Free’ E-Discovery, Beagle Raises $3M Seed Funding Round

LawSites

Beagle , a company that says it is harnessing the power of native AI to make e-discovery “cruelty free,” has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. and, before that, founder of a company called Teleport Future Technologies, which used machine learning for visual editing, and which Snap acquired in 2018.

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In E-Discovery Deal, HaystackID Acquires Business Intelligence Associates

LawSites

HaystackID , a company that provides e-discovery services for law firms and corporate legal departments, said today it has acquired Business Intelligence Associates (BIA), an end-to-end e-discovery service provider, as part of a deal facilitated by majority investor and leading middle-market private equity firm, Quad-C Management, Inc.

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Top 15 LawNext Podcast Episodes of 2023 and of All Time

Above the Law - Technology

The first episode of LawNext was posted on July 16, 2018.) The State of the E-Discovery Industry, with Doug Austin. The first lists the top 15 episodes published during 2023. After that, I list the top 15 episodes of all time, regardless of when they were published. In each case, the rankings are based on unique downloads.

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Promising ‘Cruelty-Free’ E-Discovery, Beagle Raises $3M Seed Funding Round

Legal Tech Monitor

Beagle , a company that says it is harnessing the power of native AI to make e-discovery “cruelty free,” has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. and, before that, founder of a company called Teleport Future Technologies, which used machine learning for visual editing, and which Snap acquired in 2018.

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E-discovery, the Cloud and Blockchain – How New Practices May Require a ‘Back to School’ Approach

Discovery Advocate

The practice of e-discovery has always incorporated considerations of new and emerging technologies as well as related attorney competence. Industry standard-bearer Gartner’s 2018 CIO Survey indicated that just 1 percent of CIOs reported blockchain adoption and only 8 percent were in planning or experimentation phases.