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  • TBJ
    LitSmart News

    LitSmart Profiled by Triad Business Journal: How a Venture Launched by a Law Firm in Winston-Salem is Driving Growth, Innovation

    The LitSmart team has been profiled by the Triad Business Journal as a leader in growth and innovation. Led by Team Leader and Kilpatrick Townsend partner, Craig Cannon, LitSmart has grown from 10 members to 30 full-time team members and 100+ contractors in the past 5 years. The team is also an industry-thought leader in e-discovery innovation, developing its own applications to meet client needs. LitSmart expects to continue to grow over the next year as it expands both domestically and internally. Read the full article and learn more about LitSmart here.

  • Clara Skorstad
    LitSmart News

    LitSmart Senior Project Manager Clara Skorstad Represents Kilpatrick Townsend at Annual Hispanic League Spanish Nite Gala

    LitSmart Senior Project Manager Clara Skorstad represented Kilpatrick Townsend at the annual Hispanic League Spanish Nite Gala on April 6, 2019, as the firm was honored with the "Decade of Dedication Award." Clara, a member of the Board of Directors of the Hispanic Leage and Chair of the Education Committee, accepted the award on behalf of the firm for providing scholarships and support to the organization for the past decade.

  • Advanced Analytics
    Legal Updates

    Taking Advantage of Advanced Analytics: Beyond First Level Document Review

    Picture this: Your team has completed the first level and quality control reviews. Your documents have been produced, your privilege log is out the door and you have just received the incoming document production from the opposing party. Now you have a universe of documents with the potential to be used as deposition exhibits, in expert reports, and as trial exhibits. It would be nice if there was a way to take advantage of your previous work identifying hot documents during first level and quality control reviews by using them to identify documents with similar issues or themes in the opposing parties production. You and your team spent days, weeks, or even months reviewing documents for production. Leveraging this time (and costs) would be greatly appreciated by your client. But is that even possible? Yes it is! 

  • Katie King
    LitSmart News

    LitSmart E-Discovery Of Counsel Katie King Wins Triad Business Journal 2019 Outstanding Women in Business Award

    LitSmart E-Discovery Of Counsel Katie King has been honored as a recipient of the Triad Business Journal's 2019 Outstanding Women in Business Award for her extraordinary contributions to the Triad area. Katie joins 23 other Triad leaders who have left an indelible mark on their professions, industries, and communities. Katie will receive her award at a special ceremony on April 4.

  • Jarrad Smith
    LitSmart News

    NC Pro Bono Resource Center Highlights LitSmart Attorney and Volunteer Jarrad Smith

    The North Carolina Pro Bono Resource Center recently profiled LitSmart E-Discovery Attorney Jarrad Smith's pro bono and volunteer efforts. After Hurricane Florence, Jarrad volunteered with the NC Pro Bono Resource Center as a pro bono attorney in the New Bern FEMA Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) interviewing clients and conducting intakes. He returned to New Bern for a FEMA Appeal and Restoration Clinic where he assisted clients seeking appeals of their disaster assistance decisions. 

  • The Growing Circuit Court Split
    Legal Updates

    Third Party Discovery Subpoenas in Arbitration: The Growing Circuit Court Split

    In traditional litigation, third party discovery subpoenas are routine and the authority of the parties or the courts to issue them is well recognized. In arbitration proceedings, however, whether you can issue such third party discovery subpoenas varies depending on the controlling law in your dispute. This article addresses the growing split in the federal circuits with respect to whether third party discovery subpoenas are allowed in arbitration proceedings.

  • Gnarly World of Native Files
    Technology Advantage

    Part Three of ESI Basics: The Gnarly World of Native Files

    This is Part Three of a continuing series on ESI basics. In this series, we cover some of the terms used most often on the tech-side of e-discovery. In Part One, we provided an overview of PSTs. You can find that article here. In Part Two, we provided a primer on data processing. You can find that article here.  Whether this is an introduction to you or a refresher, and whether you are an attorney, member of an in-house team or data analyst, this information may come in handy in your practice.

  • Chicken
    Legal Updates

    A Game of Chicken? Setting Forth a Detailed TAR Review Protocol

    Last year, in In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois laid out a very detailed protocol for conducting TAR that can serve as a go-by for parties wishing to conduct TAR in their own litigation. If you are considering implementing TAR in your next review, you may want to take a look at this.