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Markowitz Herbold uses Summation® to tackle 7 terabytes of data and save its clients millions in processing and review costs.

Grant Thornton selected Summation for its integration with FTK, improving internal workflows and service quality through its rapid remote collection.

After comparing several other legal review platforms, Crowe & Dunlevy recently implemented Summation to help simplify their e-discovery workflow, limit data handoffs between solutions and reduce costs for their clients. Charlotte Blacklee, Litigation Support Manager at Crowe & Dunlevy, shares her reasons for selecting Summation and how it compares to other discovery review platforms. With Summation, the firm has been able to simplify its e-discovery process, reduce cost and risk associated with moving data between tools for processing and review

"Summation’s advanced processing capabilities have saved us the cost of hiring outside vendors, which in turns allows us to pass on considerable savings to our clients."

Today’s tech trends are having a tremendous impact on legal business operations. Nowhere is that more prominent than in protection and discovery, where mobility, social media and an increased volume of all types of data promise huge headaches for those responsible for data security and compliance.

Predictive coding rang from the headlines of European legal publications early this year, as British and Irish courts approved use of technology assisted review (TAR).

A number of trends and developments during the last few years have made efficiency and technology table stakes for practicing law. Nowhere is this more apparent than in litigation, where 2015 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), evolving ethical duties and exploding new social and collaboration apps, impel lawyers to understand client information systems and technology available for making e-discovery more efficient.

American lawyers have found a useful strategy that is gaining increasing acceptance in Germany: the use of electronic discovery (or “e-discovery”) software in order to deal with huge amounts of data and to extract relevant information.

Jonathan Mitchell, manager of practice support and litigation technology services at Andrews Kurth LLP, shares his best practices to help other law firms that are seeking out a new enterprise e-Discovery solution for their firm.

San Diego based firm Solomon Ward needed to collect, process, cull & analyze without exporting & reimporting data at each step in their workflow. Because AccessData tools all utilize the same database, they chose Summation, FTK, and MPE+ to maintain forensic data integrity, while accelerating the delivery of data to attorneys and saving clients hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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