Software v Humans in Doc Review – A Statistical Study by Equivio
A new e-discovery study by Equivio statistically compares human versus software performance in designating responsive documents. The results are worth reading. I’ve argued that litigators and judges should rely on…
E-Discovery Goal: Win or Avoid Disaster?
Have lawyers forgotten the goal of e-discovery? EDD articles and professionals seem exclusively focused on avoiding disaster. The real EDD goal is winning the case. In 1997, I characterized the…
Understanding the TREC Study and Making it More Useful
Raise your hand if you’ve read the TREC 2008 Legal Track study released in March. TREC is a great project to help legal professionals understand the accuracy and process of…
Gartner Finds Slowing E-Discovery Growth and Vendor Consolidation
The e-discovery market is consolidating and its growth slowing according to a recent Gartner report. Gartner, in a December 2008 report, Gartner MarketScope for E-Discovery Software Product Vendors, reports several…
Law Firm Lay Offs – Are E-Discovery Specialists Being Hit?
Law firm lay offs have cut wide and deep. At a legal knowledge management lunch today, we were wondering how law firm EDD staff have fared. Hours later, I had…
Legal Tech New York 2009: Is EDD the New DOS?
I’ve attended Legal Tech since 1990. Legal Tech 2009 reminds me of Legal Tech 1990. Back then, vendors had a plethora of new software versions, almost all based on DOS…
When Will Lawyers Apply Statistics to E-Discovery (EDD) and Document Review?
Money pours into e-discovery. Courts rule on it. Lawyers debate it. Seemingly missing though are statistics. Is e-discovery and document review today all that different from litigation support 20 years…
Back to the Future in E-discovery: “We’re All in the Keyword Business”
Keyword searching is the e-discovery buzz. It may surprise many legal market professionals that search and keywords is really an old issue. Ari Kaplan, in We’re All in the Keyword…
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