More on the Gold Standard of Review in EDD
With this post, I introduce a new blog category, “Vendors Speak.” Some explanation and then interesting commentary on dealing with audio in e-discovery. Vendors sometimes send me thought-provoking messages. I have been too cautious in sharing these. Vendors often have deep insight into the issues...
The Gold Standard for E-Discovery Document Review
Two recent e-discovery webinars suggest that the legal profession has yet to settle on the best approach to e-discovery document review. E-Discovery: Search Engines & The Lawyer’s Role in Review (law.com, 2/28/07) addressed using key words versus concept searching to speed document review. Implicit...
AI Beats Lawyers in NDA Review Accuracy – LawGeex Study
LawGeex, a developer of AI software to review contracts, today released a study that found that AI beats lawyers in the accuracy of reviewing NDAs (non-disclosure agreements). The LawGeex infographic is at https://www.lawgeex.com/AIvsLawyer/ and you can also download the 37-page PDF study from that page. It’s worth...
Meet Your New Lawyer, IBM Watson
Will IBM Watson be your new lawyer? Perhaps someday. For now, I tackle an easier question: what role can Watson play in Big Law? I speculate here so welcome comments and corrections. Last week at the International Legal Technology Association annual conference an IBM Watson senior manager presented to an invitation-only meeting of Global...
Computerized Document Review Defensible at Last?
On Friday, Judge Andrew J. Peck issued an important ruling in Monique Da Silva Moore v. Publicis Groupe & MSL Group, a widely followed discovery dispute about computer assisted document review in discovery. Judge Peck held that “computer-assisted review is an acceptable way to search...
Twitter Roundup – Dec 2011
Since not everyone reads Twitter, I reproduce here a selection of my recent Tweets. I am now organizing Tweets by broad topics Mainstream Media Reports on the Legal Market NYTimes: What They Don’t Teach Law Students: Lawyering http://nyti.ms/uhQK6Q || Is there any hope for US...
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 statistical analysis to determine the the most reliable and accurate approach to reviewing documents. In...