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Bits, Bytes, and Legal Rights in Global Litigation
“Justice delayed is justice denied.” In the digital age, this age-old maxim takes on new meaning. In a world where the Internet blurs borders and where “every cloud has a digital lining,” navigating global litigation has never been more intricate or fascinating. ...

Kicking Off a New Chapter in Law with Artificial Intelligence (AI)
We stand at the threshold of a new dawn in legal affairs. Imagine if, instead of spending hours reading large books and data-heavy documents, a smart digital assistant could help lawyers find what they need quickly. That is what AI, or Artificial Intelligence, is...

Is Your Remote Workforce Truly Safe from Cyber Threats?
With the rise of remote working in recent years, organizations are increasingly challenged to maintain rigorous cybersecurity standards in decentralized environments. Data released in 2022 reveals that the USA ranks second in cybercrime incidents. Such alarming...

Is Technology the Future of Attorney Services?
In an ever-evolving digital world, every sector is becoming increasingly interconnected with technology. Unsurprisingly, legal services aren’t immune to this transformation. As the legal industry continues to adapt to these innovative changes, a new era of attorney...

Exploring the Confluence and Divergence: Incident Response vs. Incident Management
As cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier famously stated, 'Security is not a product, but a process.' One might question how does this process translate when dealing with security incidents? This article will explore the nuances of Incident Response and Incident...

The Role of Incident Response in Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Organization
Organizations face an expanding variety of cyber risks which can jeopardize the security and integrity of their data and systems. These threats can take many forms, including malware infections, data breaches, insider threats, and denial-of-service attacks....

Decoding Incident Response for Internal Threats in Legal Practice
Within the fast-paced, high-stakes world of a legal practice, we continually assess risks and threats that could impact our clients. Yet, how often do we scrutinize the potential threats lurking in the quiet corridors of our own firms? Cloaked behind a familiar...

Effective Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Top Legal Staff Talent
A law firm's performance is primarily governed by its capacity to recruit and maintain better legal staff. Recruiting and retaining highly skilled lawyers and legal experts can improve a firm's reputation, levels of client satisfaction, and contribute to their overall...

Navigating the Changing Landscape of Legal Staffing in the Digital Age
Technological improvements, changing client expectations, and the rise of automation have all contributed to a shift in the dynamics of law firms and legal departments. As legal personnel strive to adapt and succeed in this modern era, understanding the major...

Legal Staffing Ascends: Embracing the Digital Age with Remote Work and Virtual Support
In the face of changing professional landscapes and advancements in technology, the concept of remote work has permeated various industries, including the legal sector. Amid these dynamic shifts, legal staffing' has taken on a new, innovative connotation. The...

The Ripple Effect of Diversity, Inclusion, and Legal Staffing: Reshaping the Legal Landscape
Have you ever wondered how the success of a law firm is measured? Is it just about winning cases or generating high revenues? What if we told you that a new dimension – diversity and inclusion in legal staffing is increasingly becoming a cornerstone of a law firm's...

Emerging Trends and Technologies in Legal Outsourcing Services: What to Expect in the Future
Legal outsourcing has emerged as a dynamic and rapidly expanding field fuelled by technological advancements and the globalized economy. Organizations can now outsource legal services to domestic and foreign suppliers, reaping significant benefits. This innovative...

Maximizing the Value of Contract Attorneys: Best Practices for Law Firms
Contract attorneys are rapidly becoming essential in the modern legal landscape, integral to legal practice, providing vital services to busy and successful law firms. Contract attorneys are typically bar-admitted licensed attorneys hired on a temporary, as-needed...

Mitigating Risks in Legal Outsourcing: Best Practices and Strategies
The practice of hiring a third-party legal services provider to handle specific portions of a legal problem is known as legal outsourcing. This practice is gaining popularity among businesses and legal firms since it offers advantages such as cost-effectiveness and...

The Top 5 Skills to Look for in a Contract Attorney
Why are Contract Attorneys Essential for Law Firms? Law firms must leverage top talent in the competitive legal landscape to maintain their edge. However, hiring and retaining full-time employees can be costly and risky. Contract attorneys offer a solution by...

The Future of Paralegal Support: Emerging Trends and Technologies
The Importance of Paralegals in Modern Law Practice In today's rapidly evolving digital age, the role of paralegals is gaining significant importance as law firms recognize the need to adapt to modernize their operations and harness technology for enhanced...

The Role of Paralegals in Legal Support: Key Responsibilities and Duties
What is a Paralegal? Paralegals are an essential element of the legal profession. A paralegal, also recognized as a legal assistant, is a professional who performs a variety of legal tasks under the supervision of an attorney. They support and assist lawyers in...

Best Practices for Managing Outsourced Paralegals to Optimize Your Law Firm’s Efficiency and Productivity
The legal industry is becoming increasingly competitive, and one way firms are staying ahead of the curve is by outsourcing paralegal services. When it comes to staffing a law firm, diverse options are available. While hiring long-term staff is the preferred option...

Maximizing Efficiency and Accuracy: A Comprehensive Guide to Building an Effective Document Review Process
In today's digital landscape, reliance on digital documents has become paramount for businesses' day-to-day operations. To maintain accuracy and relevance, it is imperative to establish an effective document review process. Such a process is the backbone of...

Empowering Legal Practices: The Vital Role of Litigation Support Specialists for Attorneys
As a lawyer, you must offer your clients the best possible legal remedy. Additionally, you must work to ensure that the processes progress without a hitch. Legal disputes can be time-consuming and expensive, and you must handle them correctly to avoid disappointing...

Optimized Efficiency: Enhancing Your Personal Injury Law Practice with Litigation Support Services
Personal injury law, an intricate and multifaceted domain, demands considerable investment in time and resources. As a dedicated personal injury lawyer, optimizing your time while delivering exceptional service to clients is paramount. One highly effective approach to...

Exploring the Power of Offshore Legal Process Outsourcing for Law Firms
Every business owner aspires to deliver maximum value for their customers. The best way to stand out in the market is to provide clients with exceptional services at a considerably affordable and reasonable price, and hence become a dependable vendor. However,...

Document Review Made More Efficient, More Effective
The days of laboriously wading through folders of Word documents, trawling mountains of paper or evaluating endless emails are over. Document review processes are now much more efficient, streamlined, and relevant. The new document review process is based on the idea...

How Law Firms Can Benefit From Outsourcing
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...

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...