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It’s one for the record books! Today at Legaltech, cloud legaltech leader DISCO announced record-breaking 2018 results and plans for continued expansion in 2019.

Kennedys Selects DISCO as eDisclosure Partner

DISCO is a legal technology company that applies artificial intelligence and cloud computing to legal problems to help great lawyers and legal teams improve legal outcomes for their clients. Corporate legal departments, law firms, and government agencies around the world use DISCO as their edisclosure solution for compliance, disputes, and investigations. For more information, visit www.csdisco.com.

DISCO Raises $83 Million, Bringing Total Investment to $135 Million

AUSTIN — January 24, 2019 — Legal technology company DISCO today announced an $83 million investment led by Georgian Partners, a Toronto-based venture-capital firm with deep expertise in applied artificial intelligence. Existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, LiveOak Venture Partners, The Stephens Group, and venture-debt provider Comerica all participated in the round. Tyson Baber, a partner at Georgian Partners, joined DISCO’s board of directors.

DISCO Expands Executive Leadership Team with New Vice President of Human Resources

AUSTIN — January 10, 2019 — Cloud discovery leader DISCO announces that Aaron P. Trull joins the company as vice president of human resources.

Quarles & Brady Selects DISCO for Ediscovery Firmwide

November

AUSTIN — November 14, 2018 — Quarles & Brady LLP, a multidisciplinary AmLaw 200 legal services provider, announced their selection of cloud technology leader DISCO as a preferred, firmwide ediscovery partner.

From Discovery to Compliance, Direct Lending Investments Chooses DISCO

November

AUSTIN — November 7, 2018 — DISCO is far more than discovery. Direct Lending Investments (DLI), a private credit manager primarily focused on specialty finance, selected DISCO not only as its discovery partner for its litigation matters and internal reviews, but also as its solution of choice for regulatory compliance matters.

The Austin American-Statesman Names DISCO a Winner of the Austin 2018 Top Workplaces Award

November

AUSTIN — Nov. 5, 2018 — Cloud discovery leader DISCO announces the company was awarded a 2018 Top Workplaces honor by The Austin American-Statesman.

DISCO Expands Global Presence with European Data Centre and UK Office

October

LONDON — 31 October 2018 — Cloud disclosure leader DISCO today announced its global expansion. With a new office in London to serve law firms and corporate legal departments across the United Kingdom and Europe, DISCO’s cloud-based edisclosure solution will free legal teams from the burden of managing inefficient, slow, and expensive on-premise platforms and deliver the fastest and easiest to use cloud-based disclosure solution available today.

Kahn Swick & Foti Selects DISCO as its Discovery Partner

September

AUSTIN — September 19, 2018 — Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC (KSF), one of the nation’s premier boutique securities litigation law firms dedicated solely to the practice of class action and individual investor securities litigation, today announced its selection of DISCO as its ediscovery partner.

DISCO Relocates Corporate Headquarters to Austin

AUSTIN — August 28, 2018 — Legal technology leader DISCO today announced that its corporate headquarters will relocate from Houston to Austin.

DISCO for Enterprise Arrives; The Era of On-Premise Discovery Platforms is Over

HOUSTON — August 16, 2018 — Cloud discovery leader DISCO today launched DISCO for Enterprise, effectively eliminating the need for on-premise legacy discovery platforms and solutions.

Jim Offerdahl Joins DISCO Board of Directors

HOUSTON — August 14, 2018 — Cloud discovery leader DISCO appointed Jim Offerdahl to its Board of Directors and named him chair of the Board’s Audit Committee.

DISCO Selected for Hernia Mesh Product Liability Litigation

HOUSTON — Aug. 7, 2018 — Cloud discovery leader DISCO is working with Motley Rice LLC, one of the nation’s largest plaintiffs’ litigation firms, and Blasingame, Burch, Garrard & Ashley, P.C., for three large areas of product liability litigation focused on hernia mesh products.

Larson O’Brien Selects DISCO for Discovery

July

HOUSTON — July 31, 2018 — Larson O’Brien LLP today announced its selection of cloud discovery leader DISCO to address its discovery challenges.

DISCO Expands Executive Leadership Team

July

HOUSTON — July 24, 2018 — Cloud discovery leader DISCO today announced a new vice president of customer success.

Sanders Bajwa Selects DISCO for Ediscovery Firmwide

June

HOUSTON — June 20, 2018 — Cloud discovery leader DISCO and Austin-based Sanders Bajwa, LLP today announced the law firm’s selection of DISCO as its ediscovery partner. When partners Yusuf Bajwa and Joe Sanders left their big law firms to form Sanders Bajwa, they looked to embrace a modern and technologically savvy approach to client service. In exploring discovery solutions for their commercial litigation practice, DISCO was the obvious choice due to its speed, ease of use and intuitive user interface.

Rutan & Tucker Selects DISCO for Ediscovery Firmwide

May

HOUSTON — May 23, 2018 — Cloud discovery leader DISCO and leading law firm Rutan & Tucker, LLP today announced that Rutan adopted DISCO as its firmwide partner for ediscovery.

DISCO Continues its Winning Streak in 2018

May

HOUSTON—May 17, 2018—Cloud discovery leader DISCO is on top. Following the most successful first quarter in the company’s history with a 150 percent growth over Q1 2017, 2018 is on track to be the company’s most successful year to date. Fueled by new customer acquisitions, customer growth, technological innovations and an unrivaled team of industry professionals, the momentum for DISCO continues to accelerate.

DISCO Launches Rapid Ingest File Transfer Improving Data Transfer and Ingestion by 14x

Houston, Texas — CS Disco Inc. today announced a major update to its ediscovery software, DISCO, with new features including DISCO’s Rapid Ingest File Transfer (RIFT), an enhanced document viewer for Excel, and a self-educating content analytics engine for both native and produced email image files. Optimized for enterprise ediscovery, DISCO is now the fastest end–to–end ediscovery software for collections, transfer, processing, early case assessment, review, and production. “In 2017 we saw our engineering team grow by 48%. This growth and our unwavering commitment to innovation have allowed us to outpace our competition and once again create first-to-market advancements in our technology that solves very difficult, real-world problems for our clients,” said CEO and founder Kiwi Camara. “We will see this trend only accelerate in 2018.”

DISCO Raises $20M Growth Financing

Houston, TX – CS Disco Inc., the legal technology company that makes the market-leading cloud ediscovery solution DISCO, today announced a $20M equity financing. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round, with participation from LiveOak Venture Partners and The Stephens Group. All three were existing DISCO investors. This brings the total investment in DISCO to more than $50M.

DISCO Appoints New CRO and CFO and Promotes Etheridge to CMO

Houston, TX – CS Disco Inc., the legal technology company that makes the market-leading SaaS ediscovery solution DISCO, today announced Andrew Shimek as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), Michael Lafair as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and promoted Neil Etheridge to Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

DISCO’s Technology, Culture, and Vision Attracts Top Ediscovery Talent

Houston, TX — Legal technology company CS Disco Inc. has built a reputation of unmatched technology, culture, and vision and is making a widespread impact on the legal market. Announced today, DISCO has increased its workforce in 2017 by 78%, attracting top talent from Thomson Reuters, Veritas Technologies, Xerox Consulting, Recommind by OpenText, and other big businesses in ediscovery. “DISCO combines world-class engineering with a deep love and respect for the law to deliver the best legal technology possible. It is no mystery to us why the best and brightest talent in the industry are seeking us out,” said Kiwi Camara, founder and CEO of DISCO.

DISCO grows AmLaw 200 revenue by 200%

Houston, TX — CS Disco Inc. today announced a 200% year-over-year growth in business from AmLaw 200 firms, while growing its overall business 134%. This sends a clear message to the market that outdated discovery technologies no longer meet the needs of sophisticated users, such as AmLaw 200 firms. Today’s legal professionals expect ediscovery software that works intuitively — no matter the size or complexity of the case data. “We see DISCO as an emerging leader in the ediscovery market and look forward to how they can continue to meet our growing demands,” said Jim Rosenthal, Director of Litigation Services for AmLaw 200 firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP.

DISCO switches 10 TB of active case data from kCura Relativity

Houston, TX — DISCO is excited to announce the results from its Relativity Switch Marketing Campaign — a three-month initiative kicked-off during LegalWeek 2017 amid much fanfare — resulting in 10 TB of active case data migrated into DISCO. “The results of this campaign speak for themselves — instead of choosing to continue with Relativity on their active cases, firms jumped at the chance to take advantage of our switch program to immediately start benefiting from DISCO. It’s clear our ease of use, speed, and value are what continue to differentiate DISCO in the marketplace,” said Neil Etheridge, VP of Marketing at DISCO.

DISCO Launches Artificial Intelligence Platform for Legal Technology

June

Houston, TX — After more than 2 years of development and a successful limited availability program, legal technology company CS Disco Inc. today announced the general availability of DISCO AI. A next generation, deep learning platform, DISCO AI applies the latest advancements in both machine learning and cloud computing to solve the complex data analysis challenges presented in the practice of law.

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP Selects DISCO as Firmwide ediscovery Solution

February

Houston, TX — Legal technology company CS Disco Inc. today announced that Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, an AmLaw 200 firm that represents a sophisticated client base in a range of industries, has partnered with DISCO as their firmwide ediscovery solution.

DISCO Announces Relativity Switch Campaign