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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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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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You Get What You Deserve
I have discovered that at the center of every successful project is some form of trust. According to Stephen M. Covey, author of the book Speed of Trust ”[m]ost people don’t know how to think about the organizational and societal consequences of low trust because they don’t know how to quantify or measure the costs of such a […]
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