Avalon Legal blog

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

The use of digital forensics in any type of litigation or investigation can uncover tremendously valuable electronic evidence from laptop and desktop computers, tablets, smart phones, and other mobile devices, as well as email and network servers.

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...

Over the last 10+ years, I have been contacted by five to ten clients per year asking if we can help get them out of the never‑ending death spiral of a contract that they have with their current document storage company. It might not be easy to hear, but the answer is not necessarily “yes,” but “maybe.” By all accounts, the big ones are very successful, multi‑billion dollar international...