In recent months, Epiq, a global company providing technology-enabled legal services, has announced new artificial intelligence and analytics features built using the AI capabilities of Amazon Web Services. These new features include a framework for building, training and deploying bespoke machine learning models as secure APIs for…
New Epiq Product for Corporate Legal Uses AI to Scan Communications in Real Time and Flag Regulatory Risks
Epiq, the global, technology-enabled legal services company, is today launching an antitrust and white-collar compliance product that uses artificial intelligence to help corporate legal departments identify, measure and act on risk within their organizations in real time.
The product, Regulatory Risk Insights, uses AI and substantive expertise to identify intelligence about communications that may…
On LawNext: Live from the CLOC Global Institute: Interviews with 22 of the Legal Tech Exhibitors
On this episode of LawNext, we take you to the conference floor of the CLOC Global Institute, the annual conference of the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium that was held May 15-18 in Las Vegas, for a series of brief interviews with…
Aderant Teams Up with Fireman & Company to Launch Pre-Designed Intranet Portal Based on Handshake
What do you get when you combine one of the leading intranet portals for larger law firms with the expertise of a consulting firm that has been building and implementing intranets for decades?
The answer, according to an announcement today, is a pre-designed, state-of-the-art intranet portal that can be deployed in just weeks, either as…
Blockchain Legal Industry Group Aims to Raise Awareness of Legal and Regulatory Issues
Aiming to raise awareness and understanding of the legal and regulatory issues related to blockchain, several legal professionals, legal service providers, academics, technologists and business executives have come together to form the Blockchain + Legal Industry Group, and today the group is releasing the first in a planned series of white papers produced to…
Epiq Acquires Legal Industry Management Consulting Firm Fireman & Company
Epiq, a global company that provides technology-enabled services to the legal industry and corporations, has acquired Fireman & Company, a leading legal industry management consulting firm, it announced today.
The acquisition enables Epiq to deliver broader knowledge management and data management expertise and provides Epiq with an expanded suite of strategic legal advisory…
New Epiq Offering Jumpstarts AI Use in Discovery and Investigations
In e-discovery and investigations, time is often of the essence. While artificial intelligence can reduce the overall time of a project, it can also present a speed bump at the start, in part because of the need to train the AI algorithm, and in part because the legal team may lack the AI-related knowledge or…
At Legalweek, A Flurry of E-Discovery News from Logikcull, Relativity, Hanzo, Epiq, HaystackID and Lighthouse
The annual Legalweek conference in New York is always the occasion for legal technology companies to roll out announcements of new products and features. This year’s conference, which kicked off yesterday in a virtual version redubbed Legalweek(year) and reformulated as a year-long series of events — is no different, although the announcements…
Legal Services Company Epiq Acquires Legal Consulting Company Hyperion Global Partners
In a move to expand the legal transformation services it offers law firms and legal departments, the global company Epiq has acquired Hyperion Global Partners, a major provider of business and technology services to the legal profession.
Epiq, formed in 2016 out of the combination of Epiq Systems and DTI, and rebranded…
In Interview, Epiq CEO Addresses Ransomware Attack, Layoffs, and Company’s Future
Following a ransomware attack that took down the company’s servers for nearly a month and then layoffs resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, the chief executive officer of Epiq Global said he is proud of how the company handled these incidents and that he expects the company to bounce back to where it was.
In…
‘No layoffs,’ Epiq Told Staff, Just Days Before Major Cuts
On Friday, March 27, David C. Dobson, the chief executive officer of Epiq Global, convened a company-wide all-hands meeting. There would be pay cuts across the board, he told staff. But by making the pay cuts, he explained, the company would avoid layoffs.
Then, three days later, on Monday, March 30, the layoffs began.…
Reports Say Epiq Has Laid Off Some 200 Employees In Wake Of Ransomware Attack
The international e-discovery and managed services company Epiq Global has laid off some 200 employees, with more layoffs yet to come, according to several sources familiar with the situation.
Epiq has not responded to emails seeking to confirm these reports.
If true, the layoffs follow news first reported on this blog of a…
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