“The parties themselves agreed at oral argument that an individual who, in the course of reviewing discovery documents, undertakes tasks that could otherwise be performed entirely by a machine cannot be said to engage in the practice of law.” There is a potential of some very far-reaching implications from this ruling. If doc review can…
In the interest of following the advice given in these short presentations, let me also add that I will be attending a couple of conferences in the near future. I will be at ILTACon this year, so come by the Nuix booth and say hello! I will also be at our own Nuix User Exchange…
If the collection isn’t defensible, there’s no fixing it. Everything else that happens in eDiscovery is dependent on the prior step being correct, so when the first step isn’t, you’re pretty well toast no matter what technology you employ next. Put the Brakes on Self-Collection
Craig Ball does a great job describing how hash values are created, and used to deduplicate identical copies of documents, and also how that technology would fail to identify the same content existing in different types of files. That’s why having a near-duplicate tool is also a good thing. It can help you find the…
Also known as random stuff I found interesting recently. Whisperly let’s you anonymously tweet. Just send a DM to the Whisperly account, and it’ll get tweeted out anonymously. I suppose you could have fun with it, proclaim your secret admiration for someone, or you could just plain be mean. Like anything, it’s up to the…
“Given how fast things changed, he said, he finds himself visualizing the next 5-10 years; planning for the next 2-4 years; hiring for today’s problems; and managing everything with yesterday’s budget.” I think that pretty much sums up the eDiscovery landscape right now. All the more reason to make sure that folks who work in…