Ricci Dipshan, Legaltech News
Legal consulting and solutions
provider Morae Legal Corp. announced the launch of a cloud-based e-discovery
service bureau, with the aim to bring flexibility to e-discovery deployment and
pricing.
In a statement, Morae said the
service, which allows organizations to quickly launch and scale e-discovery
solutions within its internal systems, will enable "disruptive service
arrangements" that offer more inexpensive pricing models than traditional
e-discovery.
Jeff Seymour, president of
information and discovery management at Morae Legal, noted that "at the
most basic level, use of public utility clouds for e-discovery reduces the cost
of platform deployment and operation, as compared to the deployment models
widely in use today. This is one of the primary reasons we see tremendous
adoption of the cloud across the mainstream IT spectrum, broadly speaking—and
it's no different for e-discovery."
John Jelderks, director of IT
at Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg in Chicago, explained that
cloud services' power to reduce costs is based on its ability to effectively
outsource the maintenance of the IT infrastructure and software needed to
support e-discovery. "Moving to the cloud simplifies this, we don't have
hardware to maintain, [and] we don't have software [or] licensing."
In addition, by using
cloud-based services, law firms have flexibility in the scale and therefore
cost, of their e-discovery deployment. Seymour noted that with e-discovery in
the cloud, law firms "can scale up to meet increased demand in minutes or
hours, and the scaling up takes advantage of massive public utility cloud
computing, storage and related resources."
This is opposed to the
traditional model, where e-discovery's "infrastructure is sized to meet
expected peak demand, and the associated cost becomes fixed—it cannot be scaled
down, at least quickly or easily," he said.
The specific solutions Morae's
e-discovery cloud services bureau will offer are provided through the company's
partnership with three e-discovery and analytics firms—Relativity, Servient
Inc. and Brainspace Corp.—whom Seymour called "market leaders."
Given that the service uses
the public-cloud, Seymour said that the each e-discovery solution will be able
to adhere to the privacy and data location regulations of specific countries,
given that "the leading public utility cloud providers are increasing
their geographic footprint continually."
He added that "In
conjunction with the cloud providers' ability to guarantee geographic isolation
of a [platform] deployment, and the data in it, we can stand up a reference
build of a platform, in-country with comparatively minimal cost."
The launch of Morae's
e-discovery services comes months after the company announced the information
and discovery management framework INCOMPASS, which integrates e-discovery and
information governance functions. The framework operates by applying analytics
at data sources, so they are categorized as soon as they enter a workflow or
system, thereby allowing the organizations to understand earlier what
information fits discovery and retention criteria.
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