Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, discover-e has been a thought-leader and innovator in the field of electronic discovery since its inception in 1997. Our proprietary technologies and best-of-breed solutions enable our clients to quickly and efficiently respond to discovery requests without compromising the forensic integrity or security of the data.
With 2012 marking our 15th anniversary, we are excited to announce the continued evolution and innovation taking place at discover-e, starting with a name change: discover-e Legal is now Novitas Data.
Novitas Data will continue to provide the same innovative technology and discovery services that have made us an industry leader, while also introducing an expanded suite of services and technologies to better enable our clients to properly manage their data and risk.
These new services include:
- Public Records Request Management
- Litigation Preparedness
- Information Management
- Crisis Response Planning
- Document/Data Disposition and Archiving Best Practices
- Data Mapping and Analytics
- Predictive Coding and Other Data Reduction Strategies
- Email and File Archiving
As noted by founder and CEO Jason Derting, “Our new services offer a more complete information management solution. Novitas is a single-source solution for discovery, compliance and data risk management.”
Joining Novitas as Chief Strategy Officer is Rob Miller, former Discovery Counsel for British Petroleum. While serving as BP's Discovery Counsel, he assisted with the development and oversight of many of BP's discovery and preservation strategies in the United States, and also provided governance for and oversight of discovery-related initiatives in the United Kingdom and a number of other international jurisdictions.
A frequent speaker on defensible discovery practices and the leveraging of technology, Rob is a Sedona Conference member and has served on the Civil Justice Reform Groups E-Discovery Subcommittee. Prior to his work at BP, Rob was a commercial litigator with a prestigious law firm in Houston, Texas and also served as in-house counsel for a top-tier e-discovery technology firm.