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

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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. Learn more about Exterro products on the LawNext Legal Tech Directory: Exterro E-Discovery Data Management , Exterro Legal Hold , Exterro Review.

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On LawNext: Legal Tech’s Latest Unicorn: A Conversation with Everlaw Founder AJ Shankar

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Earlier this month, e-discovery company Everlaw became one of the few legal technology companies to join the elite ranks of unicorn status — companies valued at over $1 billion — with the announcement of a $202 million Series D funding at a valuation of over $2 billion. Thank You To Our Sponsors.

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In E-Discovery Deal, HaystackID Acquires Business Intelligence Associates

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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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Ep 268: How Gen AI Can Be A Game-Changer for Discovery and Litigation, with Everlaw CEO AJ Shankar

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Recently, the Everlaw Summit , the annual customer conference of the e-discovery company Everlaw , convened in San Francisco. With a doctorate in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, Shankar founded Everlaw in 2011 as one of the earliest cloud-based e-discovery platforms.

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Top 15 LawNext Podcast Episodes of 2023 and of All Time

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You can also check out the most popular LawNext episodes of 2022 , of 2021 , of 2020 and of 2019. The State of the E-Discovery Industry, with Doug Austin. Catch all the episodes of LawNext by subscribing at Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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E-Discovery Company Lighthouse Names Former Microsoft Executive As CEO Starting Oct. 1

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Lighthouse , the Seattle-based company that provides technology and services for e-discovery, compliance and information governance, said today that former Microsoft vice president and CIO Ron Markezich will become its chief executive officer effective Oct. 1, succeeding Brian McManus , who has been in that role since 2011.

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Section 230 Immunizes Bing’s Search Results–White v. Microsoft

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A batshit crazy concurrence questions “section 230(c)(1)’s constitutionality as applied to state defamation law” because the Constitution’s Commerce Clause power may not convey “the power to nationalize state common law defamation actions… The internet, and related e-commerce, can certainly be interstate in nature.