Tom Palladino, NightOwl’s President, will be participating in a panel discussion at this event.

ALAMN Boot Camp – Are You Fit to Lead?

Jim Bertotti will be the opening keynote speaker. Jim is a leader – just like you! He served as a Soldier, Officer and Legal Administrator in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate’s General Corps (JAGC) for over 26 years. Jim has served in multiple, critical world-wide assignments; including deploying to Iraq, Haiti, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Jim has served as a Strategic Planner; Manpower and Budget Analyst; Human Resource Analyst and Capitol Investor; Strategic Information Technology Developer and Designer; Basic and Advanced Curriculum Developer/Instructor for Paralegals, Legal Administrators and Attorneys; Senior Legal Administrator, Office of Military Commissions and XVIII Airborne Corps.

Breakout sessions include:

Alternative Fee Options: An effective tool for client development and retention
presented by Michael Moore

Have you Checked Your Credibility Lately?
presented by Lisa Rosendahl

Violence in the Workplace
presented by Carol Frederikson

The Value of Project Management
presented by Kathy Schwalbe, Ph.D., PMP

Write-Brained Notions in a Left-Brained World
presented by Randi Mayes

E-Discovery
presented by Michael McGuire and Eric Mandel

Don’t miss the closing session featuring Comedy Sportz

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NightOwl will be exhibiting at this conference. We look forward to seeing you there!

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ABA TECHSHOW 2012 is a unique conference dedicated to helping legal professionals understand what technology is available and what will suit your needs.  Whether we’re reviewing new products that improve efficiency and make day-to-day activities easier or examining technology requirements for firms of all sizes, ABA TECHSHOW 2012 is the event that brings lawyers and technology together in a format that suits beginners through the techiest of techies. 

Don’t miss ABA TECHSHOW 2012, March 29-31, 2012, at the Hilton Chicago where we’ll cover what you not only need to know, but want to know in legal technology.

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ACEDS knows knowledge is not enough. That’s why our conference offers superb networking so attendees may expand their contacts and meet colleagues, experts and suppliers of top products and services.

The ACEDS conference also gives the suppliers a first-class Exhibition Hall to meet the attendees and demonstrate their services and products.

• Succeeding in catastrophic cases like BP Oil, Penn State and Siemens
• Preventing the new risk lawyers face, cutting malpractice insurance costs
• The ethics of e-discovery in the electronic information age: Safeguarding your career and your reputation

When compared to traditional document review, Relativity Assisted Review helps case teams achieve significant time and cost savings by applying text analytics technology to their existing review process. It gives them a means of prioritizing relevant documents, and a way to efficiently delegate or make swift decisions on large batches of non-responsive material.

“We believe that predictive coding is the new frontier in document review,” said Tom Palladino, President of NightOwl. “When we’ve compared Relativity Assisted Review to our traditional review methods, we’ve found that it has the potential to save clients 50-70% of review costs. The fact that Assisted Review is integrated into Relativity, a platform clients are already familiar with, is an added bonus that will help make using the technology seamless.”

“We’re excited that NightOwl has decided to offer Relativity Assisted Review,” said Andrew Sieja, President and CEO of kCura, developers of Relativity. “There’s a lot of momentum behind this technology, and we are thrilled to see a growing number of partners providing the advanced review workflow to their clients.”

NightOwl plans to offer Relativity Assisted Review as a fully managed service to clients using Relativity for hosted review and in conjunction with the company’s contract attorney review services.

How Assisted Review Works
Relativity Assisted Review combines technology and process, allowing users to train Relativity on relevant issues by coding statistically sampled subsets of documents. Relativity’s text analytics engine categorizes the remaining documents in the case, based on the small subset of examples. The technology works behind the scenes, so case teams can continue to review documents the same way they always have.

Administrators can validate the accuracy of Relativity’s document categorization by manually reviewing statistically relevant subsets of documents. They can also use reporting tools to gauge review progress and determine whether or not further rounds of review are necessary. Because batches of documents coded by Relativity are randomly sampled using statistical analysis, clients can be confident in their results.

About NightOwl

NightOwl is a leading national provider of technology-driven litigation support services. We bring the most advanced tools and highest level of customer service in the industry together to help our customers identify, collect, manage, review and produce electronically stored information (ESI). Our mission is to provide our customers with the right solution to fit both their legal and business needs. Our success formula has been to pair our staff’s extensive experience with world-class, industry-leading technology tools to deliver solutions at twice the speed, twice the service and at half the cost of our national competitors. For more information, please visit www.nightowldms.com.

About kCura
Recognized as a “Leader” in Gartner’s 2011 E-Discovery Magic Quadrant, kCura are the developers of the eDiscovery software Relativity, a web-based platform for the review, analysis, and production of electronic data. Relativity has more than 52,000 active users worldwide from organizations including the U.S. Department of Justice and 95 of the top 100 law firms in the United States. Relativity also powers Method, kCura’s workflow and notification system for managing legal hold and risk assessment processes. kCura helps corporations, law firms, and government agencies meet eDiscovery challenges by installing Relativity and Method on-premises and providing hosted, on-demand solutions through a global network of partners. kCura has been ranked the 42nd fastest-growing technology company in North America on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 and named one of Chicago’s Top Workplaces by the Chicago Tribune. Please contact kCura at info@kcura.com or visit www.kcura.com for more information.

Contact Information
Scott Sterkel
Director of Marketing
NightOwl Document Management Services
(612) 337-0448
ssterkel@nightowldms.com

By eliminating data redundancy, the Equivio solution enables NightOwl to meet the growing demand for tools that expedite and improve the electronic discovery review process.  NightOwl intends to offer clients the Equivio technology as a standard component of its eDiscovery services and within its market-leading Relativity review platform.

“We are very excited to have implemented Equivio’s outstanding technology,” said Tom Palladino, President of NightOwl.  “By using Equivio’s proven technology to cut through redundant data, we are able to enhance the quality, efficiency and accuracy of the document review process, allowing legal teams to quickly find the data they need to achieve better outcomes.”

The grouping of near-duplicates and email threads allows redundant data to be skipped, while focusing exclusively on the unique information in each document.  By enhancing the ease of data identification, Equivio reduces the risk of missing key information.  The Equivio groupings also ensure similar documents are treated consistently, increasing review productivity and assisting legal teams to meet tight deadlines.

“As one of the industry’s most reliable and innovative providers of eDiscovery services, NightOwl understands the need for technologies that reduce the cost and complexity of ESI processing and review,” said Amir Milo, CEO of Equivio. “The adoption of Equivio’s solution for near-duplicates and email threads helps NightOwl’s customers to save 30 to 50% in review costs.”

About NightOwl
NightOwl is a leading national provider of technology-driven litigation support services.  We bring the most advanced tools and highest level of customer service in the industry together to help our customers identify, collect, manage, review and produce electronically stored information (ESI).  Our mission is to provide our customers with the right solution to fit both their legal and business needs.  Our success formula has been to pair our staff’s extensive experience with world-class, industry-leading technology tools to deliver solutions at twice the speed, twice the service and at half the cost of our national competitors.  For more information, please visit www.nightowldms.com.

About Equivio
Equivio provides analytical solutions for e-discovery. Equivio’s solutions enable the Smart Discovery paradigm, reducing review volumes while finding more relevant documents. The Equivio suite includes predictive coding, near-duplicates, email threads, language detection and relevance mapping. Request a demo at info@equivio.com or visit us at www.equivio.com.

Contact Information
Scott Sterkel
Director of Marketing
NightOwl Document Management Services
(612) 337-0448
ssterkel@nightowldms.com

Clearwell was recognized for its ease of use, straightforward pricing model and solid functionality.  As such, Gartner describes Clearwell as having “one of the most referenceable brands in the market, with high name recognition and customers reporting outstanding satisfaction with its product.”

kCura was recognized for its Relativity document review platform which Gartner noted “is a product designed in, and for, the present age of ever-increasing volumes, velocity and variety of data.”  Further, Gartner reported that “Relativity is now considered “best in class” by many legal end users.”

“The Gartner report confirms what we have known for the last few years – that both Clearwell and Relativity are outstanding, world-class tools for eDiscovery,” said Tom Palladino, President of NightOwl.  “Within the Twin Cities, NightOwl is very proud to be the only authorized Clearwell services provider and the only Relativity premium hosting partner.”

According to the Gartner report, “The reason e-discovery is now a pressing issue for most companies is clear: ESI [electronically stored information] in all its many forms dominates in legal proceedings because modern business is mostly conducted using electronic communications and electronic records.  Regulators require this ESI to be archived for proof of compliance.”  The report also states that “[t]he trend for increased volume, velocity and variety [of ESI] shows no sign of abating.  Increasing use of social media for business purposes, cloud provision of IT and the rise of ‘big data’ applications will add to the mountains of material that might be relevant to any legal or regulatory action.  This will increase the challenge for enterprises as they seek to reduce the amount of data they produce to only relevant items.”

With the explosion of electronically stored data coupled with the rise in litigation, enterprises are increasingly viewing eDiscovery as a core business process.  To help streamline this emerging business process, the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform provides a single, end-to-end solution for legal hold, identification, collection, preservation, processing, analysis, review and production.  Clearwell enables enterprises, government agencies and law firms to dramatically reduce the cost and risk of eDiscovery while ensuring defensibility.  “We believe that being positioned by Gartner in the Leaders quadrant is a confirmation of Clearwell’s ongoing commitment to meet our customers’ eDiscovery needs through continuous product innovation and unparalleled customer service,” said Kamal Shah, Vice President of Products & Marketing at Clearwell Systems.

Gartner indicated that “The need to ingest, organize, search and produce electronic information quickly for legal purposes has focused the industry’s efforts on creating software that can cope with the volume, velocity and variety of data that lawyers must quickly sift and cull.”  To enable users to efficiently review these large volumes of data, Relativity focuses heavily on scalability, and offers features that range from visual data analysis to advanced text analytics, along with the ability to construct and automate sophisticated review workflows.

“It’s an honor to be recognized as a leader in e-discovery software,” said Andrew Sieja, President and CEO of kCura.  “The dedication of our clients and the hard work of the team at kCura allow us to continue to build out the capabilities of our platform and provide flexible, scalable, and easy-to-use applications for the legal space.”

¹Gartner “Magic Quadrant for E-Discovery Software” by Debra Logan, John Bace, May 13, 2011.

About NightOwl
NightOwl is a leading national provider of technology-driven litigation support services.  We bring the most advanced tools and highest level of customer service in the industry together to help our customers identify, collect, manage, review and produce electronically stored information (ESI).  Our mission is to provide our customers with the right solution to fit both their legal and business needs.  Our success formula has been to pair our staff’s extensive experience with world-class, industry-leading technology tools to deliver solutions at twice the speed, twice the service and at half the cost of our national competitors.  For more information, please visit www.nightowldms.com.

Contact Information
Scott Sterkel
Director of Marketing
NightOwl Document Management Services
(612) 337-0448
ssterkel@nightowldms.com

The combination of being a certified reseller and Relativity Premium Hosting Partner gives NightOwl the ability to leverage flexible pricing and deployment options to respond to any scenario clients may be considering for using Relativity.  Deployment options include on-demand hosting, insource purchase or a managed services program.  Clients choosing a managed services program benefit from having their license hosted in NightOwl’s datacenter and the associated technical infrastructure and storage managed by NightOwl while maintaining complete administrative control of their Relativity license.

“Becoming a Relativity Certified Reseller was an important strategic initiative for NightOwl,” said Tom Palladino, president of NightOwl.  “Not only are we better positioned to provide our clients with flexible hosting solutions, but this strengthens our managed services program which is rooted in the company’s deep experience in both the litigation support and facilities management market segments.”

As a certified reseller, NightOwl has the ability to combine the selling of end-user licenses with project management and litigation support services including end-user support, processing and consulting across the entire lifecycle of a case.

“We’re excited to have NightOwl as a Relativity Certified Reseller,” said Andrew Sieja, president and CEO of kCura.  “Offering flexible deployment options, both on demand and on premises, presents a real advantage to NightOwl’s clients.”

About NightOwl
NightOwl is a leading provider of technology-driven litigation support services that enable clients to capture, analyze, manage and produce electronically stored information (ESI).  NightOwl prides itself on offering twice the speed, twice the service at half the price of our national competitors.  The company’s services help clients increase efficiencies, reduce costs and improve the likelihood of success in litigation.

About kCura
kCura are the developers of the e-discovery software Relativity. Relativity is a web-based platform servicing the analysis, review, and production stages of the EDRM. In addition to document review, Relativity powers kCura’s legal hold management solution, Method, which is a workflow and notification system designed to manage legal hold and risk assessment processes. kCura helps corporations, law firms, and government agencies with e-discovery challenges by installing Relativity and Method on-premises, as well as providing hosted, on-demand solutions through a global network of partners in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. For more information about Relativity and Method, contact kCura at info@kcura.com or visit www.kcura.com.

Contact Information
Scott Sterkel
Director of Marketing
NightOwl Document Management Services
(612) 337-0448
ssterkel@nightowldms.com