Posts Tagged ‘ESI’
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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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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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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Errors
A recent eDiscovery Errors Survey reveals that technology has not solved the challenges posed by electronically stored information (ESI). In fact, technology is at the base of most of the mistakes that are made. Lawyers and litigation support professionals were the subject of the survey to identify areas where their organizations experienced the most pain in terms of […]
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