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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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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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In Dartnell Enterprises, Inc. v Hewlett-Packard Co., the Defendant Hewlett-Packard (HP) was ordered to produce responsive documents in their native electronic format despite its production of hard copies of those documents. The underlying action involved a business relationship between Dartnell and HP. Plaintiff Dartnell alleged that HP had engaged in bad faith and tortuously interfered with […]
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Clawback – Trick or Treat
Many litigators do not employ the clawback trick. You just have to take a look at the circumstances surrounding J-M Manufacturing Company, Inc v. McDermott Will & Emery to bolster this point. Now, this may be the case because the clawback provisions appear in the Federal Rules of Evidence, rather than the Federal Rules of […]
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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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