And the finalists and winners are.....

Exciting news! The finalists for the 2007 Law Technology News Vendor Awards, and the winners of the 2007 LTN Law Firm and Law Dept. Awards have been announced!

The lucite will be presented at our gala fifth annual LTN Awards Dinner, held Tuesday, Feb. 5 during LegalTech NY, at the NY Hilton. For ticket or sponsorhip information, please e-mail Kevin Iredell or call him at 800 888 8300.

The e-discovery crowd will be especially thrilled to hear that one of our e-discovery leaders was selected by our independent jury as IT Champion of the Year: George Rudoy, director, global practice technology and information services, at Shearman & Sterling. Among his many contributions to our community, he is an author of this blog.

The vendor awards, voted on by LTN's readers, include several categories for EDD and litigation support products, including:

Electronic Data Discovery Systems Hardware/Software
Attenex Patterns E-Discovery Software - Attenex Corp.
CT Summation CaseVault 5.0 - CT Summation
Law 50 Pre Discovery - LexisNexis

Electronic Data Discovery Systems Service
Applied Discovery - LexisNexis
CT Summation CaseVault 5.0 - CT Summation
FindLaw Electronic Discovery Rule Wizard - Thomson FindLaw
Ontrack Discovery Customer Portal - Kroll Ontrack

Litigation Support Consultant
Case Analysis and Consulting Group - LexisNexis
FTI Consulting Inc. - FTI
Rosen Tech - Rosen Technology Resources Inc

Litigation Support Software
Concordance 2007 - LexisNexis
CT Summation iBlaze 2.8 - CT Summation
iCONECTnXT - iCONECT Development

Trial Presentation Software
Sanction - Verdict Systems
TrialDirector 5.1 - inData Corp.
Visionary 7.2 - Visionary Legal Technologies

Full list of finalists and winners is here.