Civil Litigation Firm Gains Efficiencies, Competitive Advantage using Cloud, Live EDA, and Services
Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney Ltd. moved to the cloud several years before the pandemic to make it easier for its traveling attorneys, clients, and other third parties to access eDiscovery data. The innovative decision, however, also enabled them to dive deeper into IPRO’s capabilities and offerings, resulting in increased productivity, reduced costs, and positive litigation outcomes.
The 122-attorney firm, which has 9 locations in 8 states, was using IPRO eCapture for processing, but chose to migrate their legacy eDiscovery system to a cloud environment with IPRO because of the server capacity and expertise the company provided. As case sizes began to increase, Segal McCambridge took advantage of the power and speed of IPRO’s cloud eDiscovery solution, – and Live EDA and services from IPRO—to scale the solution for their specific needs.
Easy to Use Cloud Solution
The firm unveiled the new cloud platform first to its paralegals who picked it up right away with no additional training. The simple UI and approach to the solution enabled the firm to easily extend access to clients or other third parties – including those who aren’t technology savvy – who needed to run searches or access data.
“Our partnership with IPRO bolsters our firm’s commitment to provide our clients forward thinking technology that can accommodate a full range of eDiscovery needs. We are thrilled to be able to leverage IPRO’s suite of services to provide cost effective, efficient litigation solutions.”
HENRY LOPEZ, LITIGATION SUPPORT PROJECT MANAGER IN THE FIRM’S CHICAGO OFFICE
But the power of discovery ][ Enterprise also helped Segal McCambridge better manage large amounts of data in-house, enabling them to search and process 500-600 GB of information for one case so quickly that their attorneys were able to file several spoliation motions prior to opposing council processing and reviewing our discovery responses. The speed of our processing directly resulted in the withdrawal of a seven figure demand, said Henry Lopez, a Litigation Support Project Manager in the firm’s Chicago office.
“The cloud has been the right decision for us even before the pandemic, and doing so led to seamless exponential growth during it.” he said. “Because of IPRO’s cloud infrastructure, we’ve been able to expand our firm’s eDiscovery capabilities and provide our clients streamlined, cost-effective, cutting edge legal solutions.”
Finding Use Cases for Live EDA
When IPRO released Live EDA for its cloud eDiscovery solution, Segal McCambridge was eager to find ways to use this new capability to help reduce the amount of ROT (redundant, obsolete and trivial) data that was being transmitted between clients, which was often labor-intensive and costly. After trying Live EDA for one case, they were able to reduce the number of responsive documents from 850,000 to 10,000, allowing the firm to reduce attorney document review time, reduce client’s legal spend and expand our legal defense efficiency.
As many cases last a year or more, data hosting and transmission fee reductions from Live EDA are going to be a game changer for the firm and their clients, Lopez said. “Live EDA is really the way to do this; it’s a proven technology and it works,” he said. “Being proactive really does set us apart from other mid-size firms.”
Hybrid In-House and Outsourced Services
Though Segal McCambridge has expanded their cloud storage capacity to 35 terabytes, the firm occasionally relies on IPRO Services—which also uses the IPRO cloud eDiscovery platform–to process data for its larger cases. The firm relies on the hybrid approach when they must process a large amount of data in a short period of time, along with other external reviewers, Lopez said.
But they also utilize IPRO Services when their internal reviewers are backed up with other cases and the large dataset requires a specialized skill set to ingest and process, he adds. “One of the things that working with managed services allowed us to do was accommodate that kind of workflow because our environment wasn’t originally set up to handle that kind of data simultaneously,” Lopez said. “We rely on services to help alleviate that. They’ve been indispensable for us.”
Mid-Sized Firm Uses New Tech, Services to Stay Competitive
- New Business Model Segal McCambridge is using IPRO cloud eDiscovery, Services, and Live EDA as part of a new business model that uses cutting edge technologies to help clients with all aspects of their legal defense.
- Reduced Costs The firm has been able to reduce their own legal bills and those of their clients by using the IPRO platform instead of relying on external services and expensive data transfers.
- Additional Benefits While the firm initially had intended to just move its eDiscovery to the IPRO cloud, it got a lot more from the platform. It now uses IPRO for archival data, eDiscovery, processing, and Live EDA so it can turn around large case files in short order.
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Performing Early Data Assessment for Legal Hold
This episode of the IPRO Morning Show was streamed on LinkedIn Live and Twitter on January 12, 2022 at 10:30 am ET.
While some corporate legal departments have a limited technology budget, enterprise search with Live EDA can have an immediate impact on Legal Hold, offering an easy way to bring this process in house. Learn how corporate legal departments can get started with Live EDA for Legal Hold and what technologies they should look to next to assist with their litigations.
Speakers: Nick Inglis, IPRO Director of Information Governance, and Jeffrey Wolff, Director of eDiscovery Solutions.
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RFPIO Acquires InHub to Fortify its Position as the Request Management Technology of Choice for Financial Services, Investment and Consulting Teams
BEAVERTON, Ore., February 15, 2022 — RFPIO announced today that the organization completed its acquisition of InHub, a leading RFx management solution for the investment community.
InHub is joining RFP360, the global business division of RFPIO dedicated to serving the emerging request management software market. Request management technology empowers teams to more efficiently collect, organize and evaluate information from vendors and suppliers using RFPs, RFIs, RFQs and other digital RFx tools. The move furthers RFPIO’s core mission of streamlining the purchasing lifecycle.
“Acquiring InHub is a big step forward and we’re thrilled to leverage their extensive experience as we transform how organizations request information, respond to requests, and connect,” said Ganesh Shankar, CEO of RFPIO. “We look forward to working with InHub to bring even more buyers and sellers together in one platform — saving time, reducing costs, simplifying collaboration and improving business outcomes for everyone involved.”
According to RFPIO’s CPO/CTO, AJ Sunder, InHub aligns perfectly with RFP360’s current product development, go-to-market and customer success strategy. InHub has built an impeccable reputation — trusted by more than 2,500 organizations — helping leading investment firms and institutional investors including corporations, nonprofits and municipalities with their RFx process. North Pier Search Consulting, OneDigital, NFL Players Association, California Wellness Foundation and the University of Central Florida Foundation are a few recent success stories.
InHub’s founder and CEO, Ariana Amplo, will join the RFPIO leadership team reporting to RFPIO’s COO, Sankar Lagudu, and play a key role in shaping the business division’s short- and long-term strategy while expanding its customer success offerings.
“Our focus at InHub has always been to help our customers make better investment and procurement decisions using our RFx technology and expertise,” said Amplo. “This new chapter is exciting for everyone involved, because we can continue that successful work at an accelerated pace and global scale — increasing our presence in emerging RFx markets alongside RFP360 while capitalizing on RFPIO’s best-in-class approach.”
About RFPIO
RFPIO is the market leader in response management software, trusted by some of the world’s smartest companies to support RFP and security questionnaire response, create and manage sales proposals, and resolve inefficiencies rooted in decentralized and inaccessible content and knowledge. The software’s robust and bi-directional integrations, along with an open API, allow teams to digitally transform response management processes and to harness the power of the knowledge and content across their teams. RFPIO supports response management for growing organizations of all sizes including Google, Adobe, Atlassian, Microsoft, Tenable, Zoom Video and others.
For more information, visit rfpio.com or follow @rfpioinc on Twitter.
About RFP360
RFP360, the request management business division of RFPIO, empowers sourcing and procurement teams to centralize their RFx process — collecting insights, evaluating proposals and working with colleagues and vendors in a single, digital workspace. In addition to making smarter buying choices, customers improve efficiency, mitigate risk and increase engagement when issuing RFPs, RFIs, RFQs, security questionnaires, vendor risk assessments and more.
For more information, visit rfp360.com or follow @rfp360 on Twitter.
About InHub
Founded in 2014, InHub offers an easier way for institutional investors, investment consultants and research teams to issue, manage, organize and evaluate RFPs and all other RFx projects. InHub combines the expertise from in-house industry professionals with intuitive software features to empower customers to make better investment decisions. Since their inception, more than $250 billion in RFP mandates have been entrusted through InHub’s RFP platform by corporations, including 11 Fortune 100 and 40 Fortune 500 companies, municipalities, universities, hospitals, consultants and more.
For more information, visit theinhub.com.
IPRO Announces Strong Growth in Financial Services Customers, Leading to Early Company Success in 2022
Ease of use and quick time to value for company’s Legal Hold and eDiscovery Solutions draws industry sector, other new customers to IPRO.
TEMPE, Ariz., February 17, 2022 — IPRO, the market leader in predictive eDiscovery and Information Governance software solutions for corporations, government agencies, and legal partners, today announced strong customer growth in the financial services sector, as well as other industries, in the first month of 2022, setting the company up for record success.
This growth has largely been driven by increased litigation in the financial services market that has necessitated a push toward automating Legal Hold to reduce the risk involved with managing this process manually. Some of IPRO’s newest customers include legal departments across all sectors of the financial services industry, including a global investment firm, a personal lending service, a private equity firm, and a regional bank.
Comprehensive cloud-based Legal Hold solutions from IPRO enable all organizations to automate this traditionally highly labor-intensive business process that’s often prone to manual errors that expose risk if not managed properly. The technology provides these organizations with a single, easy-to-use, platform to place data on legal hold across multiple different systems, as well as manage notifications, reminders, and keep tabs on custodians under hold that provides a quick time to value.
One of the new financial services Legal Hold customers remarked, “Our current Legal Hold process is entirely manual right now, so using IPRO will save us a lot of time and effort, while at the same time reducing legal risk for us, because our Legal Hold administration will be more accurate.”
Other new IPRO customers include legal departments across other industries that have chosen the company’s cloud-based eDiscovery solutions, as they seek to bring more processes in house to the reduce costs and risks associated with manual processes for eDiscovery.
“General counsel in legal departments are getting more pressure from their CEOs to reduce costs without increasing risk,” said Dean Brown, CEO, IPRO. “By tapping into IPRO eDiscovery and Legal Hold, they can equip their attorneys and paralegals with a solution they can easily use without having to be an eDiscovery specialist but provides the industrial strength they need to assess large amounts of data in house without increasing risk or costs.”
IPRO will showcase the benefits of all its eDiscovery, Legal Hold, and Information Governance solutions at Legalweek 2022 in New York, March 8-11, at booth 2126.
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IPRO is reinventing the way organizations interact with their data. By transforming the EDRM and thinking “upstream”, we bring insight far earlier in the eDiscovery process, enabling teams inside and outside your organization to collaborate transparently at any stage, before data is even collected. By thinking about and interacting with your data differently, you’ll eliminate waste and reduce risk. We combine best-in-class governance and eDiscovery software with predictive analytics to give corporations, government agencies, law firms, and legal partners the most open and effective solution to data challenges. We bring you this power with an obsession on time-to-value and your success.
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