At Discovery Mining, we pride ourselves on our platform and our customer service. In the 6th annual Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey Report, Discovery Mining has been ranked as a top provider, as well as a top 5 provider in the two areas most important to us, Review and Law Firm Rankings.
Top 5 Provider of Review
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In this weeks’ Newsfactor, three companies were interviewed about ‘e-discovery’. The article focuses on compliance and archiving, but it also covers FRCP and how broad and deep your e-discovery plans should be. It highlights a few important factors, which could provide a better guideline to clients as to what questions to ask of prospective vendors. [...]

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Come on down!
At Discovery Mining we receive a lot of feedback about pricing from customers and potential customers. Even in our London office, they require parity with US pricing, but we are always competitive. There has recently been talk about the cost of filtering data and paying for “data you don’t need”. I did a [...]

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I just read Craig Ball’s post about using keywords to search for privilege, then producing the resultant set. He lays out a nice argument for eDiscovery keyword search, which he calls the “blunt instrument”. Search is a great tool for many purposes, but I prefer to frame it in terms of Analytics versus Review.
I take [...]

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Discovery Mining has been operating in the EU for just about 2 years. This experience has given us a clear understanding of Directive 95/46 EC. This rule, adopted in October of 1995, lays out with great specificity the ways in which corporations handle the right to privacy for their employees. Many vendors in the E-Discovery [...]

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Maybe it’s the heat wave that is moving across the usually moderate San Francisco Bay Area that has got me in a certain mood today, but when I read the recent post on the Clearwell blog attacking Kazeon, it struck me as misplaced. The post refers to the boilerplate on a recent press release put [...]

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This week the world of Web 2.0 converged on the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Most of the hype surrounding the new web is about social technologies and the way we interact with each other using technology. This got me thinking about how it applies to E-Discovery. The outward appearance may look different, but the [...]

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Analytics and social links are becoming very popular in e-discovery. Certain tools claim to be able to provide you with the number of links between two people in a document collection. Does this help? Can you find what you’re looking for faster? Maybe, but I don’t believe it is the magic bullet that will make [...]

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In Sedona last week we were discussing QC and sampling mostly. However, a short sidebar happened surrounding the ability to get data from one system to another. As I mentioned in my previous post this is becoming more and more important to our clients, which means we need to be moving toward an accepted standard, [...]

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On a flight back from L.A. last week I was reading the Economist, which I try to do regularly. In the March 22nd issue there was mention of social networks. The substance of two articles, “Everywhere and Nowhere” and “Break Down These Walls”, covered the rise of the ‘walled gardens’ we once had with AOL, [...]

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