Category: eDiscovery and Litigation Support

Will Uppington of Clearwell has a good post called Concept Search Versus Keyword Search in Electronic Discovery .  It offers a helpful explanation and comparison of concept search versus categorization. He concludes that for concept searching “use to become widespread, it will need to become...

One measure of market size is the advertising for it. In a possible first, the Wall Street Journal today has a full-page ad for an e-discovery product.  Turn to B5 to see (at least in the editions delivered to DC and NYC areas) a full-page...

How should lawyers deal with the ever growing volume of digital data in e-discovery? The answer likely involves far more extensive use of statistics.  Do Your Searches Pass Judicial Scrutiny? by Wayne C. Matus and John E. Davis of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman (New York...

I am at the Masters Conference, a leading e-discovery conference. This a real-time report on the session Challenges Faced by Inhouse Counsel in the Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Industry.  Panelists: – Bernard Ford, Navigant [moderator] – Peter S. Spivack, Hogan & Hartson – David Z. Seide,...

I am at the Masters Conference, a leading e-discovery conference. This a real-time report on the session Helpful Insights & Observations from the Corporate & Government Perspectives.  Panelists: – David Shonka, FTC – Paul J. Bohr, SEC – Fred Block, SEC – James Maroulis, Oracle...

I am at the Masters Conference, a leading e-discovery conference. This a real-time report on the session The Positive Impacts of Records and Information Management on E-Discovery.  Panelists: – Courtney Ingraffia Barton, Crowell & Moring – Laura A. Zubulake, Consultant and Author – Donna Vitalie,...

A few items about e-discovery caught my eye recently: corporate insourcing, a high profile move, a tech item on MD5 hashes, and comments on the cost of privilege review.  Insourcing EDD Keeping EDD In-House Could Contain Costs (Law Technology News, October 8, 2008) by Patrick...

There’s an old adage “the great thing about standards are there are so many to choose from.” Similarly, it seems there are more than a few questions you should ask when selecting an e-discovery vendor.  Finding the Right Five Questions for EDD Vendors (Law Technology...