February 4, 2025
In the fast-paced world of eDiscovery, vast amounts of data must be reviewed and processed quickly, yet accurately. Traditional methods of privilege review, where legal professionals manually sift through documents to identify privileged information, are labor-intensive, prone to human error, and inefficient. That’s why artificial intelligence (AI) has been a game changer, automating privilege...
January 29, 2025
Nearly every aspect of our lives – personal, professional, and financial – leaves behind a digital footprint. From smartphones and laptops to cloud systems and even Internet of Things (IoT) devices, data is constantly being created, stored, and transmitted.
January 20, 2025
In the ever-evolving landscape of legal technology, the discoverability of ChatGPT prompts in litigation is a pressing concern for attorneys and clients alike. Understanding the nuances of relevance, privilege, and emerging case law is paramount.
January 14, 2025
In an era where data breaches make headlines, understanding data privacy regulations in eDiscovery is not just a legal necessity but a strategic imperative.
January 7, 2025
For legal document review teams, the need to sort through tens – even hundreds – of thousands of electronic documents is hardly unusual. Fortunately, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with human expertise has revolutionized this process. Combining AI’s speed and accuracy with human judgment and understanding improves the efficiency and accuracy of how documents are reviewed and...
August 28, 2023
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.
June 6, 2022
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.
May 23, 2022
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...
April 26, 2022
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...
June 11, 2020
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...
July 31, 2019
Cybersecurity is looking more and more like a Wile E. Coyote/Road Runner cartoon every day. And sorry to say it, security pros, but we’re the Coyote in this situation.
July 18, 2019
Our cybersecurity team has received more than a dozen notifications from local law firms that have had their email accounts compromised in the last two weeks. We feel it is our duty to notify our business community of the recent wave of attacks.
July 17, 2019
257.3 million. That’s how many smart phone users there were in the US in 2018. Worldwide, that number has exceeded 3 billion. Those are staggering statistics that underscore a single point: Everyone has a mobile phone these days, from grade school kids to grandparents and all ages in between. Let’s face it. Smart phones are pretty amazing. You can check your email, text your spouse, post a status...
July 15, 2019
It’s easy to figuratively “grease the wheels” of your operation when those wheels are squealing in your ear every day. But there are likely several processes in your business that are silently shrieking for a little WD‑40. Most of our clients are experts in their fields and not in document services operations, so they might not even be aware of inefficiencies at their offices. Here are four ways...
June 26, 2019
If you are new to eDiscovery, we have you covered. eDiscovery is short for electronic discovery. This refers to the process in which electronic data is sought, located, secured, and searched with the intent of using it as evidence in a civil or criminal legal case.
May 21, 2019
Does this "before" image look familiar? If you are experiencing inefficiencies in your office, Managed Office Services may be the solution you've been waiting for.
March 6, 2019
In 2004, Avalon was primarily a high-end copy/print service company. We decided that year to “put ourselves out of business” by investing in the equipment, software, people, and training to help our clients go paperless. It turns out, though, scanning didn’t put our document services out of business—not even close, actually. We’ve since built a very strong document imaging service line and helped...