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What can law firms achieve in the Outsourcing Business?
Outsourcing is a rising trend in the modern business world. It involves transfers of tasks, functions, and processes to an external service provider. Law firms have also begun to explore outsourcing options and opportunities. Law firms have a range of options when it...

How Real Estate can Benefit from Contract Management
Contract management for real estate Effective contract management is crucial in the real estate industry, as it encompasses a wide range of tasks that ensure the smooth execution of a contract from start to finish. This includes everything from the initial negotiation...

Data Breach 101: What It Is, Why You Should Care, And How To Respond
WHAT IS A DATA BREACH? In today's digital world, data breaches are becoming increasingly common, posing a risk to the confidentiality of sensitive information such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, personal health information, and other confidential...

Improving Law Firm Profitability with Legal Process Outsourcing
Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) is a valuable tool for law firms and legal departments looking to improve their bottom line. By outsourcing certain legal tasks, companies can reduce overhead costs, increase efficiency, and improve their margins. ...

Alternative Legal Service Providers: How to Select The Right One.
Are you looking for authentic ways to reduce the cost of legal services? Many legal service providers are now offering services online, providing faster and more cost-effective results than traditional law firms. However, identifying your best fit is critical. ...

AI in the Age of Digital Fraud and Investigation Support
Digital fraud is on the rise and has become a major concern for businesses and individuals alike. With the emergence of the digital age, criminals have found new ways to take advantage of unsuspecting victims through scams, malware, and other malicious activities....

Bridge the Gaps with Expert Litigation Support Services
Litigation support services are an essential component of a successful law firm. These services help overcome the gaps in your firm by providing a variety of resources and support for your team. From document preparation and review to electronic discovery and database...

The Risk of Overlooking Contract Management Efficiency
The rising demand for outsourced contract management as a service is fast pushing legal service providers to offer and deliver the service at a rapid speed. However, in that jostle to make the most out of the demand and supply, many of them may end up overlooking the...

Driving Efficiency and Profitability with Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO): Here’s How
The profitability of a law firm is not solely based on the presence of high-paying clients and workflow optimization is essential for achieving success within a corporate legal department. Even the most effective work distribution may prevent legal practitioners from...

How to Leverage Legal Process Outsourcing the Right Way
Legal firms, independent attorneys, and large businesses are fast turning to Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) for maximizing their resources and overall growth. And like outsourcing engagements in other industries, in the legal industry, this process demands a high...

5 Legal Document Review Challenges and How to Overcome them
Legal Document Review continues to be the main building block for legal cases. However, reviews are much more challenging, as data expands from multiple sources, with a wide variety of information in the form of text, images, call recordings, audio, videos, emails,...

7 Trends to Shake Up eDiscovery in 2023
eDiscovery experts are clearly swamped by unthinkably massive amounts of data pouring from a huge range of sources in varied formats and types, as well as the pressure of shorter deadlines and tighter budgets. Amid the digital data explosion that continues into the...

Why Outsource Document Review to a Service Provider?
Vivek Sharma brings over 20 years’ experience in international finance roles LDM Global today announced Vivek Sharma as its new Chief Financial Officer. LDM Global is a global consultancy focusing on eDiscovery, digital forensics, document review and cybersecurity,...

How to Select a Document Review Provider
Law firms of all sizes have been experiencing an increase in eDiscovery as digital documents have become the majority of the documents gathered in any court case. Larger law firms may set aside legal teams dedicated to just digital document review. These teams have a...

A Matter of Time – Responding Rapidly to a Cyber Incident
Data breach - these are two words that cause corporations to cringe and CEOs to panic. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, the average cost of a corporate data breach is about US$8.5 million, with some events soaring past the $10 million mark, while the...

How To Respond To A Data Subject Access Request (DSAR)
The Data Production Act of 2018 allows any individual to contact a business and request how their personal information is being used. Businesses of all sizes, from small privately-owned shops to multi-national firms, must record how personal information is used and...

Legal Technology – The Future is now
Thirty years ago, attorneys thought that the use of email in the legal industry would never amount to more than inner office memos. The thought of communicating with clients in a legal capacity over digital means seemed unthinkable. Now, email is the leading way that attorneys communicate with clients, experts, and other people that are connected with a case.

Accelerated eDiscovery Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)
In any legal action, the right to gather and review evidence is referred to as the Discovery Process. In the past, this process usually referred to interviewing people involved in the case and witness testimony, gathering paper records for review from various sources, and obtaining physical evidence for review.

New Communication & Collaboration Tools – the implication for Law Firms and Litigation Support
In any legal action, the right to gather and review evidence is referred to as the Discovery Process. In the past, this process usually referred to interviewing people involved in the case and witness testimony, gathering paper records for review from various sources, and obtaining physical evidence for review.

Effectiveness and Ethics – the Case for Deploying Advanced Legal Technology
In any legal action, the right to gather and review evidence is referred to as the Discovery Process. In the past, this process usually referred to interviewing people involved in the case and witness testimony, gathering paper records for review from various sources, and obtaining physical evidence for review.

Digital Transformation in Corporate Legal Operations
In any legal action, the right to gather and review evidence is referred to as the Discovery Process. In the past, this process usually referred to interviewing people involved in the case and witness testimony, gathering paper records for review from various sources, and obtaining physical evidence for review.

What is eDiscovery
In any legal action, the right to gather and review evidence is referred to as the Discovery Process. In the past, this process usually referred to interviewing people involved in the case and witness testimony, gathering paper records for review from various sources, and obtaining physical evidence for review.

What Should Lawyers Look for in an E-Discovery Vendor?
In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in e-discovery vendors. While having more vendor options to choose from may seem like a good thing, the surge in vendors can make it difficult to differentiate among them, and to compare the relative strengths and weaknesses of each.

What Is a Litigation Support Professional?
A litigation support professional assists attorneys with complex lawsuits. They may build and maintain databases, review documents, retrieve records, and develop trial presentation materials.

How to respond to a Consumer Access Requested under the CCPA?
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, consumers have the “right to access” their personal information. What does this mean and what do businesses need to do to ensure they comply with this new law? LDM Global can help to make the process as efficient as possible.

DiSARm a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) in 4 Steps
Since the introduction of the GDPR on May 25th, 2018, LDM Global has seen a considerable spike in the number of Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) faced by our clients on a monthly basis.

AI and How It Can Help Get you to the Key Information Faster
Artificial Intelligence is the hot buzzword in legal circles but it seems to mean different things to different people, often including Computer Assisted Learning, Technology Assisted Review and more. LDM Global’s team recently had a...

White Paper: Consultancy Offers Value, Creative Solutions to Clients
White Paper details 4 digital forensics and eDiscovery case studies. For consultation to be effective, adding value while reducing the potential risk for clients, the consultation timing at the beginning of a matter is key. Understanding clients’ objectives early on..

White Paper: How to Contain Costs and Maximize Value in eDiscovery
With discovery costs easily dwarfing other costs during a litigation, practitioners should look at strategies to help contain those costs while also maximizing the value of eDiscovery. An experienced eDiscovery partner such as LDM Global will include these strategies...

LDM Global Announces Partnership to Offer and Support Nuix Discover
Technology-neutral eDiscovery company chooses Nuix Discover to further support clients LDM Global has partnered with Nuix (www.nuix.com) to offer and support Nuix Discover (formerly called Ringtail) software for its clients. Continuing its commitment to streamline the...

eDiscovery Analytics Tools 101: Relationship Analysis and Conceptual Analysis
Analytics in eDiscovery can help you gain efficiency in your review and locate key documents more quickly so you are able to make informed case strategy decisions earlier in the case. Note: This is the third part of a series about analytics in eDiscovery. Click here...

LDM Global employees earn multiple LAW certifications
Continuing its commitment to streamline the discovery process and offer multiple eDiscovery tools for its clients, LDM Global pursued certified administrator training with CloudNine LAW for members of its litigation support team. LAW is a robust software used to...

Document Review: 5 Common Pitfalls to Avoid
With demanding timelines and increasing nuances of document review, a certain number of mistaken review calls should be expected. However, many of these mistakes can be avoided with smarter planning, defensible review processes, sound technology and management...

The basics of Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) and how to respond
You have received a Data Subject Access Request. What should you do next? Don’t panic or put your head in the sand hoping the request will go away. LDM Global can help to make the process as efficient as possible. Read on to learn the basics...

LDM Global Launches Data Subject Access Request Solution
Solution ensures law firms and corporations respond to DSARs quickly and efficiently. DSAR Solutions by LDM Global offers law firms and corporations the ability to respond to Data Subject Access Requests in a cost-effective, streamlined manner. A Data Subject Access...

Legal Process Outsourcing 101
Could you better allocate your budget? We are witnessing times of globalization, evolving organization structures and mounting regulations. The domino effect of this is increased legal spend. However, through outsourcing, you can get some of that legal spend back,...

Cyberattacks and the Legal Industry
Why are law firms a prime target for cyberattacks? How safe is your firm from new cyberattacks? Law firms are prime targets because that’s where the money is. Bank robbers rob banks and cybercriminals rob any companies holding sensitive data and money. Sensitive data...

How to Ensure Value When Outsourcing Your Document Review project
Document discovery is the largest component of legal spend in a litigation. The enormous volume of data created by companies can make the collection, processing, review and production of discovery documents an overwhelmingly expensive exercise. To address these...

LDM Global Launches Managed Document Review Service
Lawyer with more than 20 years’ experience leads high-efficiency, secure service LDM Global, a global consultancy providing Digital Forensics, eDiscovery and Cybersecurity services, announced today its new Managed Document Review Service. LDM Global’s Document Review...

LDM Global supports Ogier’s Guernsey office with messy disclosure
LDM Global was happy to assist Ogier's Guernsey office with a recent case that has now settled. Ogier, a leading offshore law firm, received a disclosure in seven batches, including numerous duplicate documents spread over various folders and subfolders. The case...

LDM Global Director Alex Clarke to speak at ARMOUR EXPO in Grand Cayman
eDiscovery and computer forensics expert to join panel focused on cybersecurity LDM Global is excited to announce its sponsorship of the ARMOUR EXPO in Grand Cayman on Sept. 12. In addition, Director Alex Clarke will speak on a cybersecurity panel during the...

Uses for near-duplicate identification (aka. Near-Deduplication)
Analytics in eDiscovery can help you gain efficiency in your review and locate key documents more quickly so you are able to make informed case strategy decisions earlier in the case. Today's section focuses on near-duplicate identification: If you’ve ever reviewed...

Email threading saves time in document review
Analytics in eDiscovery can help you gain efficiency in your review and locate key documents more quickly so you are able to make informed case strategy decisions earlier in the case. Our first section focuses on email threading: Email threading is one of the most...