July 22, 2011 – kCura’s Founder and CEO, Andrew Sieja, spoke last Saturday on the bootstrapper panel at this year’s TechWeek Conference and Expo in Chicago. His panel brought together several bootstrapped entrepreneurs who shared stories of how they built their businesses without venture capital.

For a recap of TechWeek’s bootstrapper panel, click here. For more information on kCura’s growth, check out this recent article from SmallBusinessExecutive.

July 15, 2011 – kCura is excited to be the most recent sponsor of Chris Dale’s e-Disclosure Information Project. In an introductory blog post, Chris discusses his past interactions with kCura’s CEO, Andrew Sieja, and their parallel goals within the e-discovery industry.

To read the post, click here. For more information on the e-Disclosure Information Project, click here.

Relativity and Method Workflow Advice Available On Demand

Press Release – Chicago, IL – July 14, 2011 – kCura, developers of the e-discovery software Relativity, today announced the launch of the advice@kCura team. This group of Relativity and Method experts provides on-demand workflow advice to Relativity users via phone and email at no charge.

By combining their product knowledge, litigation support expertise, and custom development capabilities, the advice@kCura team helps Relativity users create custom workflows to get the most out of their Relativity and Method installations.

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National Association for Business Resources award recognizes kCura for hiring, training, and retaining top talent

Press Release – Chicago, IL – July 5, 2011 – kCura, the developers of Relativity—web-based software for the review, analysis, and production of electronic documents during litigation—was recently named one of Chicago’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For by the National Association for Business Resources (NABR).

“One of our themes this year is work toward making kCura the best place to work, and we are honored to be recognized among so many other great workplaces,” said Andrew Sieja, president and CEO of kCura. “We have an energetic and hard-working team that makes it easy to come into work every morning.”

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June 22, 2011 – kCura’s president and CEO, Andrew Sieja, was recently profiled in About.com’s Entrepreneurs Guide. In the profile, Andrew discusses kCura’s transition from consulting firm to software development company, the motivation for changing kCura’s business model, and his future plans for the company. He also offers a few tips to fellow entrepreneurs.

To read the full profile, click here. For more about kCura, check out this video.

June 20, 2011 – Interested in learning more about best practices for planning defensible legal holds? Please join kCura on Wednesday, June 22 at 1:00 p.m. CDT for a complimentary, educational webcast sponsored by Method.
 
This 60-minute webcast will feature insight from a panel of industry experts on steps to consider before sending a legal hold notice. The session can help corporate counsel and e-discovery attorneys to develop best practices for recognizing legal hold obligations, understanding the scope of legal holds, and building a defensible plan for managing holds. Highlights include:

• Identifying the litigation hold trigger
• Determining key custodians
• Interviewing system administrators who may deal with relevant data
• Figuring out how information is being stored
• Setting up an economically viable preservation plan
• Presenting the preservation plan to opposing counsel

Panelists:

• Aaron Crews, e-Discovery Counsel, Littler Mendelson P.C.
• Ken List, Product Manager - Method

Enroll today at West LegalEdcenter. CLE credits are available for attending the webcast.

June 7, 2011 – kCura’s CFO, Steve Robertson, was recently featured in a PCWorld article.  In the article, titled “10 Questions for kCura CFO Steve Robertson,” Steve discusses the current challenges of being a CFO, kCura’s unique workplace culture, best practices for hiring talented employees, and the creation of successful processes for sustaining kCura’s growth.

To read the full article, click here.  For more about kCura, check out this video.

May 27, 2011 – Method 1.10, the latest version of kCura’s web-based legal hold management application, is available today. The release features new and enhanced functionality for hold administrators.
 

Hold administrators can now display multi-choice questionnaire answers in charts. For example, they can create a pie chart that displays where legal hold data is stored, broken down by ESI source.
 

Additionally, Method 1.10 gives hold managers the ability to suppress hold notices for purposes such as internal investigations.

Check out our release video below for commentary by the kCura team on Method 1.10. To view the full release notes, visit the Relativity Customer Portal.

Method 1.10 is compatible with Relativity 7 and Microsoft .Net 4.0. 

Press Release – Chicago, IL – May 23, 2011 – kCura, developers of the e-discovery platform Relativity, today announced they are positioned in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant of the Gartner 2011 “Magic Quadrant for E-Discovery Software” report.
 

Gartner’s inaugural report represents an analysis of 24 e-discovery software providers. Leaders were evaluated based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute, which includes customer experience.

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May 3, 2011 – Ernst & Young today announced the Midwest finalists for 2011 Entrepreneur of the Year, and kCura is honored that our president and CEO, Andrew Sieja, has been selected as part of this group. The Entrepreneur of the Year award is celebrating its 25th anniversary, recognizing business leaders in more than 140 cities worldwide. Click here to read the full press release.