Advanced Discovery, an e-discovery service provider, acquired Legal Placements Inc., a Washington DC-based document review and legal staffing services company. LPI will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Advanced Discovery.

The transaction closed Dec. 23; terms were not disclosed.

The Legal Placements brand will remain and its executives will stay with the firm.

Founded in 1996, LPI provides temporary and permanent employment opportunities for attorneys, paralegals, legal secretaries and technical and accounting professionals. LPI operates a document review center in Washington and has offices in Northern Virginia, Ohio and a presence in New York.

LPI’s document review facility adds to Advanced Discovery’s presence in the Washington area, which includes a data center, review center, paper services and operations facilities.

“Lori and the experienced team at LPI are seasoned professionals with longstanding relationships in the DC legal community,” said Advanced Discovery CEO David Vandygriff. “Adding LPI’s review center and rapid lawyer staffing capabilities to our existing DC review centers gives clients unparalleled access to the fast, efficient review they need to meet urgent e-discovery deadlines. Under the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, things must happen even faster now in the early stages of e-discovery.”