Common E-Discovery Error #3: Failure to Clean out the Junk
This is the third in a series of posts on common e-discovery errors and how to avoid them. For background on the series, see the introduction. The fewer the documents you have to review, the less time...
View ArticleCommon E-Discovery Error #4: Overly Broad Searches
This is the fourth in a series of posts on common e-discovery errors and how to avoid them. For background on the series, see the introduction. An earlier post talked about the problem of constructing...
View ArticleCommon E-Discovery Error #5: Blind Dates
This is the fifth in a series of posts on common e-discovery errors and how to avoid them. For background on the series, see the introduction. Often, you want to limit a search to a specified date...
View ArticleCommon E-Discovery Error #6: No Comprende
This is the sixth in a series of posts on common e-discovery errors and how to avoid them. For background on the series, see the introduction. Businesses operate in a global economy that spans borders,...
View ArticleCommon E-Discovery Error #7: Searching for Non-Indexed Documents
This is the seventh in a series of posts on common e-discovery errors and how to avoid them. For background on the series, see the introduction. No matter how diligently you search, you can’t find...
View ArticleIn E-Discovery, Even Google Needs Help with Search: Oracle Case is Lesson in...
Lest anyone underestimate the complexity of privilege searching in e-discovery, consider the recent case in which none other than search giant Google got tripped up. Although the company’s privilege...
View ArticleBest Practices in Predictive Coding: When are Pre-Culling and Keyword...
Predictive coding is an effective e-discovery tool for ranking large sets of documents. However, it is commonly performed in a manner that may be severely under-inclusive–and therefore raise concerns...
View ArticleAfter Plaintiff Takes Sledgehammer to Computer, Case Dismissed for Spoliation
Could you hear me laughing from down the hall? The plaintiff in an employment case, when ordered to turn over his computers for inspection, destroyed all evidence. He protested that the evidence was...
View ArticleHooked on Facets: How Facets Can Help You Gain Insights and Speed Up...
Many lawyers, paralegals and e-discovery managers have some familiarity with the concept of faceted search. In my experience, however, few understand how powerful faceted search can be in helping you...
View ArticleFinding Handwritten Documents from among Thousands of Scans
Recently, we had an interesting problem to solve for a client of ours: In a case with some 922,000 documents produced by the opposing party, there were roughly 720,000 documents that had been scanned...
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