The Big One-Five: A Look Back on Level Legal’s 15 Years in eDiscovery
On January 20, 2024, Level Legal turned 15. To commemorate the milestone, CEO Joey Seeber highlighted the things that have changed – and stayed the...
On Thin Ice: Artificial Intelligence in Antitrust Law
By Kevin Brzozowski In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the intersection of technology and antitrust law is becoming a...
Career Kickstart: Seven Steps to Get Into Managed Review
By Sandy Ryan It’s a great time to be in eDiscovery. Over the last decade, litigation and related discovery work has skyrocketed, in part due to...
Emojis in eDiscovery: the LOLs, OMGs, and 😱 Moments of Decoding Digital Communications
By Vinny Liu More than ever before, people communicate not just through written words but through pictures. The rise of picture-based apps like...
Digital Forensics Level Set: How to Protect Yourself From IP and Identity Theft
By Level Legal Level Legal Vice President of Digital Forensics David Greetham recently shared the history of his field and the rise of intellectual...
The History of Forensics and Detecting Intellectual Property Theft
By Level Legal Recently, we sat down with David Greetham, Level Legal's vice president of digital forensics, to talk about the complexities of data...
A Deep Dive Into This Year’s Relativity Fest
By Level Legal Did you manage to attend Relativity Fest this year? If not, don't fret. We've got a recap for you based on insights from our three...
Ground Rules: Mastering Data With an ESI Protocol
By Vinny Liu Picture yourself at the beginning of a high-stakes litigation case. Your team then drops the bomb: You’ve got to dig through colossal...
Meet Level Legal Forensics Expert David Greetham
David Greetham, a leading Digital Forensics Expert, recently joined Level Legal as vice president of digital forensics. The native Englishman holds...
Dirty Money: How AI and Cryptocurrency Regulation Are Taking on Money Laundering
By Greg Moreman The amount of money laundered each year is estimated to be between two percent and five percent of the global gross domestic...
High-Volume Staffing Is Here to Stay: Four Ways to Retain the Pros and Minimize the Cons
By Sandy Ryan COVID nationalized the labor markets in many industries, including legal services. The evidence suggests the change is permanent. Many...
Six Reasons Quality Counts in eDiscovery
By Vinny Liu In an era of digital communication and data-driven processes, the need for efficient and comprehensive eDiscovery will only grow in...
Artificial Selection: a Brief History of Evolution in eDiscovery Analytics
By Jeff Guttman At times eDiscovery technology seems like a sequel to 1980s prehistoric movie A Quest for Fire. Much like our neanderthal relatives,...
Clear as Mud: a Call for Transparency in Litigation Funding
By Kevin Brzozowski We’ve all heard stories of small plaintiffs unable to fight large corporations in court due to legal costs. Now we can quantify...
Boosting Wellness: The Critical Role of Workplace Culture
By Tamara Buie, Monika Luczak, Sandrene (Sandy) Ryan, and Andrea Teltser In the past, a company may have been able to tout a strong focus on...
Best Foot Forward: How Document Reviewers Can Create Successful Resumes
By Sandy Ryan Pop quiz: How many resumes does Level Legal receive for every document review job posting? a) Two. b) 20. c) 200. Sharp test takers...
The Ultimate eDiscovery Glossary
There are two kinds of glossaries in the world. The first lists every related term and acronym in existence, implying users have the leisure to sort...
Who’s Yo Data? Identifying Sources Is Only the Beginning of Litigation Preparedness
Imagine that the hustle of New Year activities has gone, and you’re settling into your desk with excitement for the promise that 2023 will most...
Private Eyes (Clap Clap) Are Watching You: Preparing for the Rise of Internal Investigations
By Greg Moreman Maybe you receive a whistleblower complaint. Perhaps you’re conducting a routine data audit when you discover evidence of a...
December 7 Webinar: Why Culture Matters for Women in eDiscovery
If you’re a woman looking for a job in eDiscovery or already in an eDiscovery job – pretty comprehensive, right? – Level Legal has a new webinar for...
Cut Four Hidden Costs With an eDiscovery ‘Dream Team’
eDiscovery is the most expensive part of litigation. The American Bar Association estimates that document review alone accounts for more than 80...
Who’s Afraid of ESG?
By Greg Moreman If Halloween left you unfazed, law firms and legal departments should consider a few spooky statistics about Environmental, Social,...
Should Doc Reviewers Consider a Career in Cybersecurity? Short Answer: Yes
By Sandy Ryan “So,” a recent job applicant I’ve known for some time asked, “should I consider a career in cybersecurity?” My palms begin to sweat....
The True Cost of Managed Review: It’s Not What You Think
Bargain-basement document review rates have fallen to surprising levels. But the true cost is higher. Much higher. In our industry, there seems to...
Twelve Timely eDiscovery Tips From the Alex Jones Case
By Daniel Bonner Infowars talk show host Alex Jones is well-known. But the reasons behind his attorney’s recent discovery misstep might not be. A...
The Story of One Person’s Wayfinding in the Competitive, Driven World of Legal
Alex Su did everything right. He went to the right law school. Northwestern. He worked hard and became an editor of the law review. He made sure he...
Bigger is Not Always Better
In businesses like ours, specialization matters. Competency matters. But the details are what really matter. So, when outside money comes in from...
Navigating Second Requests in Cross-Border Antitrust Merger Reviews
Level Legal’s Daniel Bonner offers key questions to answer during cross-border second request reviews to ensure that workflows prevent critical...
Seven Ways to Ease the Pain of Second Request Responses
According to a recent survey by PWC, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are expected to lead the post-pandemic economic recovery. As M&A...
eDiscovery: The Intersection of Transactional and Relational
eDiscovery providers became big targets in the M&A space. At the same time, legal technology played an important role in making legal human, or...
Linking Data Privacy to Antitrust Regulations Will Drive Increased Workloads for Legal Practitioners in 2022
By Joey Seeber Original Publication: CPO Magazine Even before our most recent national election, candidate Joe Biden signaled a tougher regulatory...
The Pitfalls of Commingling Personal Devices, Corporate Data, and Private Lives
Commingling business and personal data is a growing trend–and ticking time bomb–for U.S. corporations, law departments, and employees. Before the...
Nine Tips for a Successful Review Project Training
By Level Legal Project training should never be seen as optional. Mistakes made in a rush at this early stage often take more time and money to...
Adding Value to the Bottom and Top Line: Legal Buyers Have an Important Role to Play in Compliance
A couple of weeks ago, I talked with Kevin Kiley, Chief Revenue Officer of OneTrust, on a session Level Legal sponsored with Buying Legal called...
Six Changes The Legal Industry Should Prepare For
CEO Joey Seeber writes, “Even before the COVID-19 crisis struck, clients were demanding improved efficiency, predictability, and cost-effectiveness...
eDiscovery Day: Has the Per-Gigabyte Pricing Model for eDiscovery Lost Its Usefulness?
Level Legal’s Leigh Vickery writes, “The compliance and eDiscovery tools that we work with are better across the board, but many in the...
Before You Fleet That Tweet: The Newest eDiscovery and Privacy Risk Direct From the Twitterverse
Level Legal’s Leigh Vickery blogs about Twitter’s new feature “Fleet,” and some of the privacy and harassment risks hidden...
Proactive Strategies Will Determine the Post-Pandemic Winners in eDiscovery Battles
Even before the global pandemic, data collection, processing, review, and production faced significant challenges from both volume and complexity....
How ALSPs Stack up Against the Big Four
Daniel Bonner, Director of Client Solutions, offers his insight at the end of 2020, and the end of many practices we all thought were...
Time for Change: Using After-Action Reviews to Evolve and Grow
What factors contribute to organizations making a monumental shift, while others just seem to rearrange deck chairs? At Level Legal, the biggest way...
COVID-19 Spurs Growth for ALSPs
Level Legal Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer Leigh Vickery offers insight into how COVID-19 accelerated growth for alternative legal service...
What Drives You to Meet a Challenge?
How do you get something right – like working efficiently with no disruption to our clients in the middle of a global pandemic – when there is no...
Data or Fear: What Drives Your Decisions?
Technology changes. Data changes. And certainly, the delivery of legal solutions changes. But one thing does not: The value of strong relationships....
