Archive for the ‘Electronic Discovery’ Category
The Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) Legal Track, also known as the TREC Legal Track, is a government sponsored project designed to assess the ability of information retrieval techniques to meet the needs of the legal profession. On July 13, 2012, TREC released its 2011 study results. The results have been referred to as “a virtual vote […]
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Tags: ESI, information retrieval techniques, it-security, Standards, TAR
Total Recall and Precision
Recall is the proportion of responsive documents retrieved by information retrieval methods such as keyword searches. Precision is the proportion of the retrieved documents that are responsive. The goal of a document review is high precision. That means a smaller number of non-relevant documents will have been gathered in the data set that require review. Lawyers […]
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Tags: e-discovery, ESI, Federal Rules Change, project management, trends
On January 5, 2012, Magistrate Judge Bernard Zimmerman signed an Amended Order ordering defendants to pay plaintiff $317,113.00, including costs and post judgment interest. That Order followed a September 19, 2011 jury verdict against 15 defendants, who were a group of mass tort attorneys, that were sued by the technology vendor Cataphora for breach of a document review contract. […]
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Tags: document review, lawsuit, legal technology, trends
In Last Atlantis Capital LLC v. AGS Specialist Partners, Plaintiffs’ proposal that Defendants pay one-half of all costs incurred by Plaintiffs in pursuing third-party discovery was denied. The Court had made the suggestion that “the Defendants aiding in half the costs of obtaining the audit trail data would be reasonable.” Relying on the Court’s suggestion, […]
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Tags: case law
E-Discovery Lessons for 2011
Legal teams and judges faced a complex and ever-changing E-discovery landscape in 2011. Here are some of the trends I noted throughout the year: (1) In the midst of the trend of outsourcing e-discovery, a consistent and robust QC workflow is crucial. Performing the QC ensures attorneys are accurately reviewing outsourced work and protects clients from future […]
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Tags: electronic discovery, legal technology, trends
