Five Great Reads on Data Discovery and Legal Discovery for June 2018

Five Great Reads on Data Discovery and Legal Discovery is a subscription newsletter regularly highlighting at least five articles to inform and update legal and information technology professionals on the art and science of data discovery¹ and legal discovery.²

Individuals and Organizations Highlighted in the June Edition include:

Melinda Levitt
Helen Gunnarsson
Devin Coldeway
Ralph Losey
Hunton Privacy & Information Security Blog
Mary Meeker
Gartner
Exterro
ComplexDiscovery

June Edition (PDF)
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¹Data Discovery is the exploration of patterns and trends within unstructured data with the objective of uncovering insight and driving action.
²Electronic Discovery (Legal Discovery) is the process of identifying, preserving, collecting, processing, searching, reviewing and producing electronically stored information that may be relevant to a civil, criminal, or regulatory matter.

An eDiscovery Market Size Mashup: 2018-2023 Worldwide Software and Services Overview

The annual eDiscovery Market Size Mashup estimates the combined worldwide eDiscovery software and services market spend in 2018 to be approximately $10.11B, growing at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of approximately 13.09% to $18.7B by 2023.

Understanding Electronically Stored Information

A working knowledge of electronically stored information (ESI) is foundational for effective, efficient, and comprehensive planning and execution of all electronic discovery tasks. This short, non-all inclusive overview highlights key definitions, descriptions, and attributes related to ESI and may be beneficial for legal and information technology professionals as they consider ESI in the conduct of data and legal discovery.

Outsourcing, Insourcing, and Right Sourcing in eDiscovery

Balancing the business drivers of cost, time, and complexity in the conduct of electronic discovery continues to be one of the greatest challenges faced by legal professionals today.

Blue-Sueded? Considerations for Decision Making

While an understanding of decisions from definitions and elements to cornerstones and classifications is important, ultimately, for any decision to be optimally implemented, it is important to give those who have decision making accountability and responsibility the authority and control to make decisions.

Shopping for eDiscovery? Winter 2019 eDiscovery Pricing Survey Results

The eDiscovery Pricing Survey is designed to provide insight into industry eDiscovery pricing through the lens of 15 specific pricing questions answered by eDiscovery ecosystem professionals.

The Highest Level of Confidence in Three Years: 18 Observations on eDiscovery Business Confidence in the Fall of 2018

96.5% of eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey responders in the fall of 2018 feel that the business conditions are positive (good or normal). This confidence level is the highest reported for current conditions since the inception of the survey in the fall of 2016.

The Issue That Currently Concerns eDiscovery Professionals The Most: Increasing Types of Data (Fall 2018)

In the Fall 2018 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey, 20.1% of respondents viewed increasing data types as potentially having the greatest impact on their business in the next six months. This percentage is the highest of all concerns represented in the survey. Increasing data volume was also viewed as a considerable issue, with 18.8% of survey respondents noting it as their greatest business concern.

The Glass is Half Full | eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey Results – Fall 2018

This is the twelfth quarterly eDiscovery business confidence survey conducted by ComplexDiscovery. More than 1,100 individual responses have been received from legal, business, and technology professionals across the eDiscovery ecosystem in the course of the last three years and 85 respondents shared their opinions as part of the fall 2018 survey.

A Dimm View of Misleading Metrics and Irrelevant Research (Accuracy and F1)

eDiscovery expert Dr. Bill Dimm explains why some performance metrics don’t give an accurate view of performance for eDiscovery purposes, and why that makes a lot of research utilizing such metrics irrelevant for eDiscovery.

TAR vs. Keyword Search Challenge, Round 5 (Bill Dimm)

In this fifth round of Bill Dimm’s TAR vs. Keyword Search Challenge, TAR beat the keyword searches by a huge margin.

TAR vs. Keyword Search Challenge, Round 4 (Bill Dimm)

Even the best queries had lower recall with review of 6,000 documents than TAR 3.0 CAL achieved with review of only 3,000 documents, but a few of the queries did achieve higher recall than TAR 3.0 SAL when twice as much document review was performed with the search query compared to TAR 3.0 SAL.

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