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Keywords and Search Methods Should Be Disclosed, But Not Irrelevant Documents
A common question these days between most lawyers discussing e-discovery is: What Keywords Did You Use? This is often followed by I’ll show you mine if you show me yours. Often this latter statement is...
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Electronic Discovery Best Practices Update
I found time recently to make several updates to EDBP.com, the collection of electronic discovery best practices for legal services. There are several additions and revisions, but the primary ones were...
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Guest Blog: Quick Peek at the Math Behind the Black Box of Predictive Coding
Editor’s Introduction: This guest blog by Jason R. Baron and Jesse B. Freeman is a republication of the original paper they submitted for the DESI V workshop in Rome on June 14, 2013. Their paper is...
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A Modest Contribution to the Science of Search: Report and Analysis of...
This is my first report comparing two different searches of 699,062 Enron documents that I performed in 2012 and 2013. I understand this may be the first study of the outcomes of two searches of a...
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Comparative Efficacy of Two Predictive Coding Reviews of 699,082 Enron Documents
This is the conclusion of the report on the Enron document review experiment that I began in my last blog. A Modest Contribution to the Science of Search: Report and Analysis of Inconsistent...
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Guest Blog: Predictive Coding, Storytelling and God: Narrative Understanding...
Editor’s Introduction: This is a guest blog by Lawrence Chapin, Simon Attfield, and Efeosasere Okoro. Larry is one of my e-Discovery Team Training program graduates who is an attorney in New York City...
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Guest Blog: Predictive Coding, Pizza, and Presentations at the DESI V...
Guest Blog by Jason R. Baron Ralph has once again turned over his blog to me to report on what transpired at the DESI V Workshop with the latest iteration of this workshop series held in Rome on June...
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$3.1 Million e-Discovery Vendor Fee Was Reasonable in a $30 Million Case
Three Million, One Hundred Thousand Dollars was found to be a reasonable sum to pay an e-discovery vendor for processing and hosting 2.7 million documents for review in a professional malpractice case....
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Why a Receiving Party Would Want to Use Predictive Coding?
Predictive coding software is not just a game-changer for producing parties, it is invaluable for receiving parties as well, especially those faced with document dumps. Good predictive coding software...
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The Solution to Empty Suits in the Board Room: The “Hacker Way” of Management...
Facebook’s success shows that for organizations to prosper in today’s world they must: focus on impact, be fast, be bold, be open, and build social value. To attain these goals they must adopt...
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The Solution to Empty-Suits in the Board Room: The “Hacker Way” of Management...
This is the conclusion to The Solution to Empty-Suits in the Board Room: The “Hacker Way” of Management – Part One. This second part discusses possible applications in e-discovery of the Hacker Way...
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Relevancy Ranking is the Key Feature of Predictive Coding Software
Ranking is a key feature of AI enhanced document review, perhaps the key feature. Ranking orders all documents in a collection according to likely relevance as you define it. You have to train the...
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Personal Invitation to the Innovation “Tech-Law” Conference in Orlando on...
All readers of this blog know well that technology is outpacing the law. Smart robots with AI are everywhere, not just at the NSA, and the law and lawyers need to keep up. This humble blogger can only...
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Guest Blog: Innovate CLE in Orlando on October 17th and 18th
EDITORS NOTE: This is a guest blog by Samir Mathur, the Managing Director of IT-LEX, Inc., the non-profit charitable organization behind the Innovate Conference. The e-Discovery Team urges you to move...
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My Basic Plan for Document Reviews: The “Bottom Line Driven” Approach – Part Two
This is part two of the series by Ralph Losey explaining his document review strategy. Please read part one first. “Small” Document Review Example A few examples should help clarify how this works. If...
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My Basic Plan for Document Reviews: The “Bottom Line Driven” Approach – Part...
This is part three of the series by Ralph Losey explaining his document review strategy. Please read part one and part two first. Relative Speeds of Review Assuming your document review project is...
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My Basic Plan for Document Reviews: The “Bottom Line Driven” Approach – Part...
This is the final part four of the series by Ralph Losey explaining his document review strategy. Please read part one, two, and three first. A Big Data Example Let us change the scenario somewhat for...
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Legal Search Science
Legal Search Science is an interdisciplinary field of study and practice concerning the search, review, and classification of large collections of electronic documents to identify targeted information...
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Less Is More: When it comes to predictive coding training, the “fewer...
In predictive coding the computer classifies and ranks an entire dataset based on an extrapolation of training documents selected by reviewers. The intelligence of the computer arises from the...
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Less Is More: When it comes to predictive coding training, the “fewer...
This is part-two of a three-part blog, so please read Part One first. Scientific Experiments on Inconsistencies of Relevance Determinations in Large Scale Document Reviews The base work in this area...
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