Corporate Announcements

What: Debora Motyka Jones, regional director at Lighthouse, Mateen Khadir, vice president of strategy at kCura, and Rachi Messing, senior program manager at Microsoft, will present at Relativity Fest. As companies continue to adopt Office365 due to cost, security and accessibility benefits, concerns and questions around compliance in the cloud have grown. In this panel discussion, Jones, Khadir and Messing will teach attendees how to address these challenges through the use of a seamless integration between Office365 and RelativityOne. In addition, the speakers will touch on the capabilities, benefits and ROI for clients.

Lighthouse, a leader in technology-enabled eDiscovery services and consulting, today announced that Brandon Jessup has been promoted to director of Technical Project Management at Lighthouse. Jessup brings over a decade of eDiscovery experience to this role and will lead Lighthouse's Project Management team by ensuring that the company is offering compelling services that are both efficient and take advantage of Lighthouse's innovative suite of products.

Mo Ramsey, General Manager of Lighthouse's Consulting Services, and Katie Fitzgerald, Strategic Consultant at Lighthouse, will discuss how and why legal should be part of the conversation around a company's move to Office 365. The two will share what functionalities of the Office 365 suite are most important to legal and what features you may want to consider as part of the transition.

Alex Shusterman, consultant at Lighthouse will discuss how customers are using Microsoft Office 365 advanced eDiscovery features within their organizations in this short and compelling presentation. Shusterman will cover an overview of predictive coding, industry acceptance of predictive coding, and suggestions on how to overcome objections internally. In addition, he will dive into best practices for working data through the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM).

What: Martin Carey, Managing Director at Lighthouse Europe, and Laura Kippin, eDiscovery Project Manager at Lighthouse Europe, will kick off the Data Reduction Webinar Series by discussing how to properly identify data in response to regulatory investigations and litigation disputes. In this free, interactive presentation, they will walk through important definitions, as well as explain how businesses should handle data by drawing connections to real-life use cases. Moderated by Katie Fitzgerald, Strategic Consultant at Lighthouse Europe, this webinar will pose important questions and deliver practical advice on how to meet the growing challenge of handling data-based investigations in a timely and cost effective manner. The webinar will end with a Q&A session and provide the audience the opportunity to further engage and ask any remaining questions.

What: Data migrations are more than just moving data between legacy platforms and modern technology. Rather, these efforts offer opportunities for legal and IT teams to collaborate to remediate and reduce data and risk. Alex Shusterman, consultant at Lighthouse, and Mike Dejopopompak, strategic accounts technical manager at Nuix, will present use cases and recommendations for using Nuix to apply best practices to intelligent migration efforts. In this session, they will uncover what intelligent migrations are and why clients need to preform them, why folks need Nuix for intelligent migrations, as well as methods of migration utilizing Nuix.

Lighthouse eDiscovery was featured on the Ronald McDonald House Charities's blog for its Holiday in July Food Drive.

Katie Fitzgerald, Strategic Consultant at Lighthouse, will share practical eDiscovery lessons learned from Hillary Clinton's email debacle. While diving into the recent controversy, Fitzgerald will draw on connections to data mapping, early case assessment and review accelerators. She will lead the audience through top industry topics in a short and engaging presentation, and leave attendees with helpful tips to take back to their teams.

Chris Dahl, vice president of product development and consulting at Lighthouse eDiscovery shared a contributed article that was featured on Corporate Counsel's website.

Lighthouse, a leader in technology-enabled eDiscovery and consulting services, today announced that Rob Iuliano has been promoted to director of eDiscovery Technical Services. In this new role, Iuliano will use his extensive technology background and significant eDiscovery experience to drive the long-term success of technical services for Service Delivery to the company's enterprise client.

CIT Communications & Technology Finance provided a $23 million senior secured credit facility to Lighthouse, a provider of technology-enabled eDiscovery services. Lighthouse is a portfolio company of New York-based private equity firm Spire Capital. The financing will support a recapitalization of the company and the growth of Lighthouse's UK operations. Financing was provided by CIT Bank, N.A., the principal bank subsidiary of CIT. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Lighthouse, a leader in technology-enabled eDiscovery services and consulting, recently completed the Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type 2 examination. By passing this stringent audit program, Lighthouse continues to demonstrate its commitment to instilling confidence and building trust with its clients when it comes to their eDiscovery and consulting services.

What: When it comes to predictive coding, do you find yourself lost in translation and mystified by unfamiliar terms? Katie Fitzgerald, Strategic Consultant at Lighthouse Europe, and Meribeth Banaschik, International Litigation at Noerr LLP in Germany, will host a live webinar where they will take viewers on a journey through terms to know when it comes to predictive coding and highlights them in real use cases.

Mark King, chief information officer at Lighthouse eDiscovery shared a contributed article with CIOReview this spring. The article was featured on the publication's website and was recently showcased in CIO Review's June magazine, the Legal Technology Special.

What: Debora Motyka Jones, regional director at Lighthouse, will moderate a panel around the recent European Union (EU) Privacy Shield, where panelists from Sanofi, UBS, Deutsche Bank and the Federal Trade Commission will explore the latest developments around the subject of data transfers. She will drive the discussion to give attendees an inside look into how the new Privacy Shield is working and how transatlantic decisions and litigation are being conducted. Jones and panelists will wrap up the discussion with a glimpse into the future of EU and US litigation and investigations under the EU-US Privacy Shield and eventually the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).