In Notable E-Discovery News, ALSP Elevate Acquires Consulting Company Redgrave Data

In
notable
news
for
the
e-discovery
industry,
the
legal
software
and
services
provider

Elevate
has
acquired

Redgrave
Data,
a
consulting
firm
that
provides
services
and
software
for
e-discovery
and
data
analytics.

Redgrave’s
founders
Mollie
Nichols,
Scott
Culbertson,
Dave
Lewis,
Mark
Noel,
and
Lindsey
Worth
will
all
join
Elevate’s
management
team.

Redgrave
Data
was
formed
in
2022
as
a
spin-off
from
the
law firm Redgrave
LLP,
which
specializes
in
e-discovery
and
information
law,
with
the
goal
of
providing “innovative
services
and
solutions
centered
at
the
intersection
of
the
law,
technology,
and
science.”

Nichols,
who
had
been
Redgrave
Data’s
CEO,
is
a
former
Redgrave
partner
and
e-discovery
expert
who,
prior
to
founding
Redgrave
Data,
was
head
of
advanced
client
data
solutions
at
Hogan
Lovells.

Other
founding
members
of
the
leadership
team
included Scott
Culbertson,
who
previously
served
in
senior
management
roles
at
several
data
analytics
and
discovery
solutions
companies; Dave
Lewis,
who
was
previously
executive
VP
for
AI
research,
development,
and
ethics
at
Reveal-Brainspace; Mark
Noel,
previously director
of
advanced
client
data
solutions
at
Hogan
Lovells,
leader
of
Stroz
Friedberg’s
advanced
technology
consulting
practice,
and
managing
director
at
Catalyst,
where
he
helped
develop
machine
learning
tools
and
workflows; and Lindsey
Worth,
a
former
litigator
who
was
most
recently
senior
manager,
Americas, for
advanced
client
data
solutions at
Hogan
Lovells.

Redgrave
Data’s
primary
focus
is
on
providing
innovative
and
defensible
technology
strategies,
insights,
services,
and
solutions
to
customers
who
face
challenges
with
electronically
stored
information
in
a
legal
context.

In
a
2022
interview
with
LawSites,
Nichols
told
me
that
she
believed
Redgrave
Data’s
“special
sauce”
was
its
team
of
lawyer-technologists
who
are
able
to
look
at
a
problem
and
come
up
with
a
solution
—
often
building
the
solutions
themselves
if
no
commercial
product
fits
the
bill.

It
has
particularly
expertise
in
technology-assisted
review,
artificial
intelligence,
generative
AI,
analytics,
robotic
process
automation,
and
data
visualization.

In
fact,
I
recently
interviewed
three
Redgrave
Data
scientists,
including
cofounder
Lewis,
for
my
LawNext
podcast
on
the
question
of

whether
generative
AI
is
the
new
paradigm
for
TAR
in
e-discovery.

“We
founded
Elevate
to
integrate
expertise
and
technology
to
innovate
and
transform
work
with
a
legal
and
business
dimension
that
needs
to
be
done
every
day,
often
at
scale,
and
sometimes
urgently,”
Liam
Brown,
Elevate’s
chairman
and
CEO,
said
in
a
statement
announcing
the
acquisition.
“We
recognized
how
Redgrave
Data
‘run
a
different
race’
to
tackle
the
world’s
thorniest
legal
data
and
technology
issues
strategically,
efficiently,
and
effectively.”

Nichols,
in
the
same
announcement,
said,
“Joining
our
strengths
to
those
of
another
Chambers
Band
1
NewLaw
company
is
going
to
expand
our
ability
to
provide
outstanding
services
to
our
clients.
Teaming
up
with
Elevate
will
provide
a
global
platform
to
support
our
international
clients
more
effectively.
Elevate’s
resources
will
also
allow
us
to
accelerate
the
development
of
our
innovation
projects
more
efficiently
and
at
scale.”