Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Technology-Assisted Review
Technology-Assisted Review (TAR) is a concept-based method of document coding that leverages machine-learning techniques with the input of human reviewers to automate the review process.
Bill Dimm on the TAR vs. Keyword Search Challenge
During my [Bill Dimm] presentation at the NorCal eDiscovery & IG Retreat, I challenged the audience to create keyword searches that would work better than technology-assisted review (predictive coding) for two topics. Half of the room was tasked with finding articles about biology (science-oriented articles, excluding medical treatment) and the other half searched for articles about current law (excluding proposed laws or politics). TAR beat keyword search across the board for both tasks.
Australian Law Firm Launches eDiscovery Startup Telesto
A new name in e-discovery has been launched by Corrs Chambers Westgarth [Australia]. Telesto will operate as a separate business from the law firm but was created by its Legal Technology Solutions Group and will benefit from Corrs’ innovations and expertise in the sector.
Ralph Losey Highlights a Timely Lesson in Legal Search Stupidity
An interesting, albeit dumb, case out of California provides some good cautionary instruction for anybody doing discovery. Youngevity Int’l Corp. v. Smith, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 210386 (S.D. Cal. Dec. 21, 2017).
TAR Course Expands Again: Standardized Best Practice for Technology Assisted Review
Ralph Losey’s TAR Course has a new class, the Seventeenth Class: Another “Player’s View” of the Workflow. Several other parts of the course have also been updated and edited. The TAR course now has eighteen classes.
2017 Year-End E-Discovery Update (Gibson Dunn)
The consolidation among medium-sized and large e-discovery service providers, usually financed by private equity funding, that has been going on for several years now only seemed to accelerate more in 2017. It is not apparent whether this consolidation is fundamentally altering the market for e-discovery services, other than to possibly result in greater stability in the space once all of the M&A dust settles.
TAR for Smart Chickens
Special Master Maura Grossman recently issued an Order crafting a new validation protocol In Re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation, (Jan. 3, 2018), which is currently pending in the Northern District of Illinois.
Analysis of Important New Case on Predictive Coding by a Rising New Judicial Star: “Winfield v. City of New York”
Judge Parker’s Order in Winfield v. City of New York (15-CV-05236) resolved a discovery dispute, which, among other things, challenged the Defendant City’s predictive coding process, in other words, it’s machine learning search.
Counsel On Call Acquires DSicovery, LLC
Counsel On Call, a leading alternative legal solutions provider of technology-enabled managed legal and secondment services, has acquired DSicovery, LLC (“DSi”), a renowned eDiscovery, digital forensics and data management company.
This PIG – Predictive Information Governance – Is Starting to Fly
As the name implies, unsupervised machine learning – computers teaching themselves – removes the human factor. And once the error rates are low enough, truly automated predictive information governance is realized. The system can now automatically collect, categorize, store, protect, safeguard access, and apply retention/disposal rules.
Five Great Reads on Information Governance and eDiscovery: From Dachau to Data Privacy
This edition of the newsletter highlights five key posts on information governance and electronic discovery that are presented to inform and update legal and information technology professionals.
Five Great Reads on Information Governance and eDiscovery: Importance of Vacations Edition
This edition of the newsletter highlights five key posts on information governance and electronic discovery that are presented to inform and update legal and information technology professionals.
Predictive Coding and the Stop Decision
The stop decision is the most difficult decision in predictive coding. The decision must be made in all types of predictive coding methods, not just our Predictive Coding 4.0.
Confirming Recall Adequacy With Unbiased Multi-Stage Acceptance Testing
This paper by Bill Dimm of Hot Neuron proposes a multi-stage acceptance testing procedure that avoids bias and actually works in practice. The amount of document review required with the new method depends on the level of recall actually achieved.
The Negative Consequences of ‘Da SIlva Moore’
Predictive coding methods have come a long way since Judge Peck first approved predictive coding in our Da Silva Moore case. This failure to move on past the Predictive Coding 1.0 methods of Da Silva Moore, is, I suspect, one of the major reasons that predictive coding has never really caught on. In fact, the most successful document review software developers since 2012 have ignored predictive coding altogether.
Calling an End to Culling: Predictive Coding and the New Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Published in the Richmond Journal of Law & Technology, the paper Calling an End to Culling: Predictive Coding and the New Federal Rules of Civil Procedure by Stephanie Serhan provides cogent considerations and conclusions as to the of use predictive coding and the timing of that use in relation to keyword culling.
Five Great Reads on Information Governance and eDiscovery for June 2017
This edition of the newsletter highlights five key posts on information governance and electronic discovery that are presented to inform and update legal and information technology professionals.
Ask Catalyst: A User’s Guide to TAR (For Smart People)
Ask Catalyst: A User’s Guide to TAR provides a cogent overview of the effective use of TAR 2.0 in litigation and investigations. It is loaded with practical advice for practitioners at all levels about how this great technology can save time, money and effort.
Five Great Reads on Information Governance and eDiscovery: Ethics, Fights, and Business Edition
This edition of the newsletter highlights five key posts on information governance and electronic discovery that are presented to inform and update legal and information technology professionals.
Five Great Reads on Information Governance and eDiscovery for May 2017
This edition of the newsletter highlights five key posts on information governance and electronic discovery that are presented to inform and update legal and information technology professionals.
Five Great Reads on Information Governance and eDiscovery: From Privacy to Peril
This edition of the newsletter highlights five key posts on information governance and electronic discovery that are presented to inform and update legal and information technology professionals.
Five Great Reads on Information Governance and eDiscovery for April 2017
This edition of the newsletter highlights five key posts on information governance and electronic discovery that are presented to inform and update legal and information technology professionals.
From Free to Fee: A Short List of eDiscovery Educational Resources
Provided to help data and legal discovery professionals as they learn, understand and grow in their knowledge of eDiscovery, the following short listing of comprehensive, program-based educational resources is shared for your consideration.
An Educational Update: e-Discovery Team Legal Training Program from Ralph Losey
The e-Discovery Team’s Legal Training Program is a comprehensive electronic discovery educational program that has been designed by lawyers for lawyers, paralegals, and law students. It is now available for free as a service to anyone interested in electronic discovery.
