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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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In 2011, according to a Digital University Study, a staggering 1.8 zettabytes of information was created and duplicated. It is estimated that by 2020, we will generate 50 times that amount of information. The impact of this growth has posed a peculiar burden upon the legal industry. This is mainly due to the fact that […]
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Quality Checking the Review
The Quality Check (QC) process should begin after a first pass review of the documents has been completed. The QC team should consist of reviewers and project managers that have demonstrated a high level of understanding about the case and documents. Although the QC process will be different for each case, there are some general steps that […]
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All document review projects employ document review topic codes. Contract attorneys must apply topic codes to the documents to identify helpful, harmful or privileged documents. My experience has shown that you will be better off keeping the coding form very simple. There are several reasons for this: To many topic choices can slow down the […]
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An emerging issue in the business of eD is the use contract review teams by law firms for large projects, and the need for lawyers to supervise those teams to prevent the inadvertent disclosure of privileged information. Quite frankly, the standards for that supervision has been imprecise. This issue has increased in notoriety due to […]
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