July 22nd, 2012 
posselist 22 July 2012 – Just when document reviewers thought it could not get worse …
The E-Discovery Sage of Jackson Lewis (aka Ralph Losey) has an interesting post on the law.com site about information scientist William Webber who did an experiment involving first-pass legal review with a team of reviewers consisting of young high school students. The results were incredible. Although Webber has a number of caveats, the bottom line is the high schoolers did better than…
March 18th, 2012 posselist 18 March 2012 - New systems of e-discovery are emerging that are designed for today’s digital world. Unlike most existing e-discovery systems, they are not mere adaptations of old paper discovery ways. The new methods use an entirely new collaborative approach and technologies, exemplified by predictive coding software. Although this paradigm shift in discovery is just starting, many of the contours of the new methods are already apparent.
In general terms, we are coming to realize…
November 15th, 2011 posselist 15 November 2011 – As we have written before (our most recent post is here) the most common complaints from the contract attorney world is that the work is mind-numbing and monotonous, affording none of the intellectual stimulation that a lawyer should expect. There is often little or no quality control. What supervision reviewers get usually has more to do with the schoolroom than with the law office, and generally focuses on production levels, tardiness, talking, number…
Posted in Document review: some basics, Electronic Discovery 101: Where to Start 
Tags: e-discovery, e-discovery team blog, electronic discovery, Lawrence C. Chapin, Malcolm Gladwell reminds us in his book Outliers: The Story of Success, McDermott Will & Emery, Project Management, Ralph Losey, Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), The Posse List 
No Comments » September 25th, 2011 posselist 25 September 2011 – Orange Legal Technologies, the sponsor of our “Top 20 … plus more” weekend newsletter and a leading electronic discovery provider, recently hosted its Third Annual Intermountain eDiscovery Conference at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center.
The conference is a one-day legal technology conference designed to provide electronic discovery practitioners with information on the latest tools, techniques, and practices of eDiscovery. With practical educational sessions delivered by eDiscovery experts, the Intermountain eDiscovery Conference can help legal professionals more…
July 29th, 2011 posselist 29 July 2011 — As we had reported in a previous post, the world’s first e-discovery malpractice lawsuit was filed in State Court in California against McDermott Will & Emery. The case has been rocketing around the internet, striking fear in the heart of the e-discovery community. The case involves a privilege filter through which all the collected documents were reviewed that reportedly was botched and resulted in McDermott delivering to the US government “documents
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Posted in Document review: some basics Tags: contract attorneys, e-discovery, electronic discovery, http://e-discoveryteam.com, http://e-discoveryteam.com/2011/06/12/going-gaga-over-big-deals-and-malpractice-in-e-discovery/, Hudson Legal, Inc., J-M Manufacturing Company, McDermott Will & Emery, Navigant Consulting, privilege review, Ralph Losey, Stratify, temporary attorneys No Comments »
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