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When you think of digital forensics, what comes to mind? For many, the phrase conjures images of hacking into laptops or retrieving deleted files from a phone. While these activities are certainly part of the process, digital forensics is much more than that. In today's digital age, its role has expanded beyond traditional uses, often playing a pivotal role in corporate litigation,...

The phrase “managed review” came from the need to oversee a room full of attorneys poring over documents one by one, taking the knowledge gained from this large volume of electronically stored information (ESI) or scanned hard copies, and filtering it back to the litigation team who would determine how to use this information for trial.

Surge PE announced that it has added leading managed review and legal staffing provider, Tower Legal Solutions, to the Avalon platform. Avalon offers technology-based services like digital forensics, cybersecurity and eDiscovery, as well as business-critical document services.

Analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and technology adoption overall is huge right now in the legal tech space. Everyone has a new AI platform or workflow they want to discuss or highlight – and with good reason.

The human, “eyes on documents,” part of discovery is by far the costliest. But you can save your attorneys time – and your clients money – by using Avalon’s contract attorneys, from project planning to completion. Since our reviewers’ billing rate is a fraction of the cost of a typical in-house case team, your firm can save thousands – or even hundreds of thousands – of dollars per project.

One month into the new year, and there’s already a lot going on in the world of legal technology.

2022 was a great year, as we seemed to finally have the worst of COVID in the rearview mirror and a return to a sense of normalcy. Business travel resumed, in-person conferences came back, and the eDiscovery market looked as good as ever. There were also a lot of exciting developments in the market, such as the consolidation of companies, pricing shifts, and more conversations about artificial...

Avalon is proud to announce that we were voted “Best eDiscovery Provider” by readers of the Rochester Business Journal again in 2022! The Rochester Business Journal Reader Rankings celebrate and recognize the best the community has to offer, and our team is proud to be recognized for this award.

Proper preservation of electronic information is often not as simple as it seems. In the world of computer forensics and electronic discovery, a simple ‘copy and paste’ of the relevant items may lead to issues further down the road. It is imperative to ensure that the data has been preserved in a defensible manner to avoid any issues of spoliation.

Avalon is proud to announce that we have been designated as a RelativityOne Silver Partner for providing an exceptional service experience to our RelativityOne end users.

The reach of electronic discovery expands exponentially year after year. This should come as no surprise, considering the staggering amount of electronic information being generated daily by organizations and individuals. Given the prevalence and magnitude of electronically stored information (ESI) in today’s litigation, law firms and corporations are faced with the question of whether to...

Anyone who has been involved with an eDiscovery review project knows that the most expensive aspect is the review process. But a great way to keep costs down is to leverage technology and review less data. That’s why the team at Avalon suggests early case assessment (ECA). ECA can be described in numerous ways, but the simplest is: It’s a process used to get insight into data stores prior to full...

If your firm – or one of your firm's clients – experiences a breach, it’s critical that you quickly find and fill the gaps in the network and identify what data may have been compromised. The Avalon Cyber team has extensive experience in digital forensics and technology crime fighting and provides prompt and comprehensive response to cyberattacks.

Legal teams are often frustrated with the investments and expenses associated with their eDiscovery needs, whether their support is internal or outsourced. The continued investments in the latest technology, training of staff, and expensive infrastructure are at odds with the desire for dedicated services at a predictable cost.

Getting good grades back in grammar school was pretty exciting, right? You get a high score on your math test and you’re super psyched for the rest of the day. Well, that’s the same feeling the team at Avalon gets when we think about our overall Net Promoter Score (NPS), which is… 92!

Avalon is proud to announce the launch of our new Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) division. Avalon’s BPO services will transform the way you do business, as the management of a variety of business processes – including secure print and mail, day-forward document scanning, and other managed office services – is shifted from you to us. By utilizing Avalon’s highly trained employees,...

Avalon, a national provider of digital forensics, eDiscovery, cybersecurity, business process outsourcing services, and traditional litigation support services to law firms and corporations, has opened a new office in Phoenix, Arizona. This additional location strengthens Avalon’s national presence and its commitment to assisting the legal and business communities.

Avalon is proud to announce that we have successfully completed the SOC 2 Type 1 information security audit as of July 2021. The scope of the audit included our cybersecurity, eDiscovery, and secure print and mail services.

Avalon is proud to welcome Darren Bregande back to the team as Managing Partner of Avalon’s Syracuse and Utica offices. After working as a Customer Service Representative for Avalon in Syracuse in the early 2000s, Darren jumped back into his former career in financial services, most recently as a Vice President/Branch Manager for Key Bank. (He came back again in 2016, serving as a Legal Account...

Jason Schroeder recently joined Avalon as Regional Vice President and will be responsible for assisting, guiding, managing, and leading sales efforts at our Tampa, FL; Omaha, NE; Phoenix, AZ; Rochester, NY; and Syracuse/Utica, NY, locations.

I imagine the title of this article might be a little confusing to some readers. You may be tempted to ask: “What could writing ESI protocols possibly have in common with moviemaking?” Well, let me start by stating the obvious. As important as they are, creating ESI protocols can be a frustrating, and frankly, boring process.

"Before RSMF, it was a complete nightmare,” said Scott Huter, Avalon’s Regional Director of Enterprise Sales, about exporting data from mobile devices, Slack, and other non-traditional platforms prior to Relativity’s revolutionary solution. “Clients were looking at spreadsheets, trying to hyperlink to pictures and attachments, and trying to produce all or some of it. This type of data just didn’t...

Our own National Director of Discovery Engineering, Drew Goletz, was a guest on Robert Rounsavall’s SynAckFinAck Podcast, which features tech and security professionals from a variety of industries.

UPDATE: The move-in date for Avalon Buffalo has changed. Until further notice, it’ll be business as usual at 741 Main St,. Buffalo, NY 14203. Stay tuned for more details! In the meantime, if you have any questions, feel free to call us at 716.995.7777.

The world of eDiscovery definitely has a language all its own. Here’s a list of terms to help you get more familiar with the industry, learn a new phrase or two, and maybe even find a few gems for your next Scrabble game.

The abrupt transition to remote working caused by COVID-19 uncovered gaps in many law firms’ back office services SOPs. How will mail be processed? How can I get things printed? Who can facilitate deliveries? And these are just a handful of common issues firms have been working through in 2020.

In the first few months of 2020, Zoom usage has skyrocketed. Daily downloads in January were 56,000. In March, that number rose to 2.13 million. Families and friends use it to catch up and check in on each other. Businesses utilize it for remote meetings and to instill a sense of culture and camaraderie. Even law firms have found Zoom to be a useful tool for consulting with clients, as well as...

Today, Avalon, a litigation support services provider specializing in eDiscovery, digital forensics and cybersecurity, announced that they are now a RelativityOne Certified Partner and will begin offering the RelativityOne platform to their legal clients. With RelativityOne, Avalon can better protect client data by storing it in a single, secure SaaS platform that spans the full breadth of...

As the country and the world begins to find a semblance of normalcy in the abnormal, Avalon would like to share some information regarding the various Appellate Divisions throughout the State of New York.

Legal professionals are working harder than ever in our new “business as unusual” environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s more stress, heightened inconvenience, and fewer funds to do more jobs.