In notable information for the e-discovery business, the authorized software program and providers supplier Elevate has acquired Redgrave Knowledge, a consulting agency that gives providers and software program for e-discovery and information analytics.
Redgrave’s founders Mollie Nichols, Scott Culbertson, Dave Lewis, Mark Noel, and Lindsey Price will all be part of Elevate’s administration staff.
Redgrave Knowledge was shaped in 2022 as a spin-off from the legislation agency Redgrave LLP, which makes a speciality of e-discovery and knowledge legislation, with the purpose of offering “revolutionary providers and options centered on the intersection of the legislation, expertise, and science.”
Nichols, who had been Redgrave Knowledge’s CEO, is a former Redgrave accomplice and e-discovery skilled who, previous to founding Redgrave Knowledge, was head of superior shopper information options at Hogan Lovells.
Different founding members of the management staff included Scott Culbertson, who beforehand served in senior administration roles at a number of information analytics and discovery options corporations; Dave Lewis, who was beforehand govt VP for AI analysis, growth, and ethics at Reveal-Brainspace; Mark Noel, beforehand director of superior shopper information options at Hogan Lovells, chief of Stroz Friedberg’s superior expertise consulting observe, and managing director at Catalyst, the place he helped develop machine studying instruments and workflows; and Lindsey Price, a former litigator who was most lately senior supervisor, Americas, for superior shopper information options at Hogan Lovells.
Redgrave Knowledge’s founding management staff: Lindsey Price, Mark Noel, Mollie Nichols, Scott Culbertson and Dave Lewis.
Redgrave Knowledge’s main focus is on offering revolutionary and defensible expertise methods, insights, providers, and options to clients who face challenges with electronically saved data in a authorized context.
In a 2022 interview with LawSites, Nichols instructed me that she believed Redgrave Knowledge’s “particular sauce” was its staff of lawyer-technologists who’re in a position to have a look at an issue and provide you with an answer — typically constructing the options themselves if no business product matches the invoice.
It has notably experience in technology-assisted overview, synthetic intelligence, generative AI, analytics, robotic course of automation, and information visualization.
In actual fact, I lately interviewed three Redgrave Knowledge scientists, together with cofounder Lewis, for my LawNext podcast on the query of whether or not generative AI is the brand new paradigm for TAR in e-discovery.
“We based Elevate to combine experience and expertise to innovate and remodel work with a authorized and enterprise dimension that must be accomplished every single day, typically at scale, and generally urgently,” Liam Brown, Elevate’s chairman and CEO, mentioned in an announcement saying the acquisition. “We acknowledged how Redgrave Knowledge ‘run a distinct race’ to deal with the world’s thorniest authorized information and expertise points strategically, effectively, and successfully.”
Nichols, in the identical announcement, mentioned, “Becoming a member of our strengths to these of one other Chambers Band 1 NewLaw firm goes to increase our means to offer excellent providers to our shoppers. Teaming up with Elevate will present a world platform to assist our worldwide shoppers extra successfully. Elevate’s sources can even permit us to speed up the event of our innovation tasks extra effectively and at scale.”
