Enhancing Legal Discovery with Linguistic Processing

By Daniel G. Bobrow, Tracy H. King, and Lawrence C. Lee, Palo Alto Research Center Inc.

There are a number of benefits from using linguistic processing in e-discovery applications. Linguistic processing can provide fast and flexible characterization of large information collections in pre-trial preparation, as well as enable high precision search […]

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By Robert Gellman
Personal health records – or PHRs – are a relatively new phenomenon in health care today. As discussed here, a PHR is a health record about a consumer that includes data gathered from different sources (e.g., health care providers, insurers, the consumer, and third parties such as gyms and others) and is made […]

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A Simplistic Approach to Evaluating eDiscovery Vendors

By Rob Robinson

In an effort to quickly yet effectively evaluate and predict both the immediate and long term success of electronic discovery vendors, the following considerations shared in a formulaic manner are provided for your review.   These thoughts/considerations represent a desire to balance subjective and objective methodologies in evaluating […]

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By Jack G. Conrad, Research & Development, Thomson Legal & Regulatory

It is a very positive development that NIST’s Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) has added a track focusing on the legal (discovery) domain. Its organizers should be acknowledged for their commitment and hard work to establish preliminary tasks and arranging initial assessments. In order to ensure […]

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Considering ESI? Definitions, Questions, and Notes.

By Rob Robinson

With the introduction of the December 2006 update to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), legal professionals were definitely made aware of the “arrival” of the digital age in Federal Court. The amendments to FRCP Rule 26 in this December 2006 update highlight this “arrival” as they […]

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By Ihssan Alkadi
Taken From Business Information Systems – Second Quarter 2007 Volume 11, Number 2
A grid can be simply defined as a combination of different components which function collectively as a part of one large electrical or electronic circuit. The term “Grid Computing” can similarly be applied to a large number of computers which connect […]

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1992 Horizontal Merger Guidelines

[With April 8, 1997, Revisons To Section 4 On Efficiencies]

These Guidelines outline the present enforcement policy of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (the “Agency”) concerning horizontal acquisitions and mergers (”mergers”) subject to section 7 of the Clayton Act,(1) to section 1 of the Sherman Act,(2) or to section […]

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Quick Looks, Second Requests, and the Hart Scott Rodino Act (HSR)

By Rob Robinson

What Is A Second Request?  A Quick Overview of HSR

Adopted in 1976 as a way to provide the federal government a formal process in which to help ensure anti-competitive outcomes during the course of mergers, acquisitions, or consolidations, the Hart Scott Rodino Act […]

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By Rob Robinson

What is “Review”?

In the realm of electronic discovery, “Review” can be defined as the culling process that produces a dataset of potentially responsive documents that are then examined and evaluated for a final selection of relevant and/or responsive documents and assertion of privilege, confidentiality, etc., as appropriate.
Additionally, “On-line Review” enables the culled dataset […]

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An Overview of Electronic Discovery Processing

By Rob Robinson

What is “Processing”?

In the realm of electronic discovery, “Processing” is any operation or set of operations which is performed upon data, whether or not by automatic means, such as collection, recording, organization, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, […]

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