By
Rebecca Rudell

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.

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.

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.

"Before RSMF, it was a complete nightmare,” said Scott Huter, Avalon Legal’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...

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.

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...

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.

Larry Kotterman, Avalon’s new vice president of Managed Office Services (MOS), brings more than 25 years of MOS experience to Avalon, having worked at IKON (now RICOH) for 13 years and founding ProFile Discovery Columbus (his litigation support firm) in 2005.

Saving money is great. Cutting corners is not. And that’s exactly what self-collection is: cutting corners. It’s a bad practice with potentially devastating consequences for your client.

Avalon, a national provider of eDiscovery, digital forensics, cybersecurity, managed services, and traditional litigation support services to law firms and corporations, announced today that it has opened three new offices. These additional locations strengthen Avalon’s national presence and its increasing commitment to helping the legal and business communities.