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e-Discovery Unfiltered

By Ari Kaplan
February 28, 2015

Between Jan. 6-22, 2015, Ari Kaplan Advisors interviewed 29 professionals responsible for e-discovery decision-making. We asked them for their perspectives on key vendor management trends, and for their candid impressions of the following 15 companies:

  1. AccessData'
  2. Clearwell
  3. Deloitte
  4. DiscoverReady
  5. DTI
  6. Epiq
  7. Exterro
  8. FTI
  9. Guidance
  10. Huron
  11. kCura
  12. Nuix
  13. Recommind
  14. RVM
  15. UnitedLex

Eleven of the respondents are in-house lawyers. Nine are in-house legal personnel, and nine are law firm partners. 100% of the survey respondents implement e-discovery tools and develop e-discovery processes. All but one of the participants select e-discovery tools and vendors. Those at corporations are in financial services, life sciences, technology, manufacturing, energy and telecommunications. 95% work for companies with revenues that exceed $10 billion and have over 10,000 employees. All law firm partners work for AmLaw 200 organizations and serve as primary e-discovery counsel.

Vendor Perspectives

The e-discovery leaders in corporations and at law firms have an incredible depth of knowledge on the vendor landscape. Many spend significant amounts of time listening to demos, evaluating peer perceptions, and studying key trends prior to formulating an impression of a particular software or service provider. And, once they do form that opinion, they are open to changes based on new developments, upgrades, and shifts in corporate direction.

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