Posts Tagged ‘document review’

Disclosure of Document Review Methodology – Should You or Shouldn’t You?

27 April 2012 – In a recent article in the New York Law Journal, Robert W. Trenchard and Steven Berrent examine an important question facing litigants in discovery:  If the litigant decides to rely on “novel” methods of document review involving advanced analytics or predictive coding technologies, must they disclose those methods to the opposing party?  The authors present several compelling arguments in favor of candid, transparent disclosures around document review methodology, including: 

  • Savings of time and expense

Is Linear Review Dead?

27 March 2012 – Greg Buckles writes:  “Last week I was a panelist at the 2012 Masters Series event in Houston and enjoyed the lively and frank discussions about purchasing trends, privacy issues and more that continued into the social gathering afterward. As you might expect, predictive coding and the latest Da Silva filing were a hot topic, especially amongst providers of managed review. One remark by Jim Wagner, CEO of DiscoverReady, resonated with me and I

I Want an eDiscovery Lawyer for My eDiscovery Project

13 February 2012 -  This week Dennis Kiker of LeClairRyan’s Discovery Solutions Practice (DSP) writes:

It occurred to me recently what unusual specimens some of my partners are.  Oh, they look ordinary enough – some tall, some not, some female, some not.  What is unusual is that they are an entirely new breed of attorney.  Unlike most of us that have made our living through litigation, some of these lawyers have never drafted an interrogatory response, never argued

Have You Hugged a Contract Attorney Lately?

6 December 2011 — This scenario unfolds every day: your company receives a request for production of documents.  There are millions of files that are potentially relevant.  You work with IT and your eDiscovery counsel to identify, collect and defensibly filter the data set down to exclude irrelevant documents.  You use technology assisted review tools, e.g. clustering or predictive coding, to find the documents that are most likely to be relevant.  Now you have your data set…

Predictive Coding Could Doom Document Review by Humans

4 December 2011 - As if lawyers need any more reasons to fear for their livelihoods in a tight job market, here’s another: Predictive coding is becoming more popular, and could make human document review somewhat obsolete.  Yes, the rise of robots is reaching into the realm of entry-level and contract legal work, the website Lawyerist reports. What used to take a roomful of document reviewers days, weeks, or even months to complete, can now largely be done by computer…

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