‘Have you Taken Leave of Your Senses?': Top 10 Takeaways from 2015 LegalTech Judges Panel

By Tamara Emory

At this year’s Legal Tech, I once again had the honor of moderating the Judges Panel, on which Judge John Facciola (D.D.C., retired), Judge Andrew Peck (S.D.N.Y), Judge Frank Maas (S.D.N.Y), and Judge Elizabeth Laporte (N.D.Cal.) presented.  This time, we had a provocative topic (or, perhaps –as Judge Peck put it–, a depressing one): “What’s Wrong with Discovery?”  The judges had plenty of insight into why discovery has become risky and expensive, what causes attorney misconduct in discovery, and implications for access to justice.  Below are ten highlights of that discussion.

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2015 Big Data and Analytics Survey

By IDG Enterprise

The 2015 Big Data and Analytics study highlights data-driven initiatives and strategies driving data investments within IT organizations. In order to gain a deeper understanding of organizations’ big data goals and tactics, the research shows data deployment trends, future investment growth and opportunities for vendors.

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Elephants, Review, and Marilyn Monroe Wallpaper: Why eDiscovery Review is so Inconsistent

By Herbert L. Roitblat

One advantage of using computer assisted review, for example, predictive coding, is that the computer does, in fact, examine all of the available evidence in a document. Unlike human reviewers, the computer sees all parts of the elephant and, as a result, consistently judges documents based on the full complement of information in them. Each of reviewer judgment used to train the system may be based on a sample of features, but the computer system aggregates all of these partial judgments and chooses the category that is most consistent with this aggregation of cues, rather than with any individual sample. As a result, the computer can be more consistent than the human reviewer who trains trains it. Under appropriate circumstances, this consistency further enhances the accuracy and reliability of computer assisted review.

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A Short List of eDiscovery Investors

Provided below is a link to short list of 30+ investment organizations that have funded eDiscovery-related companies between 2009 and today.  The list is non-comprehensive and is based on industry mergers, acquisitions and investment tracking by ComplexDiscovery.

A Short List of eDiscovery Investors

The eDisclosure Systems Buyers Guide – 2015 Edition

The eDisclosure Systems – Buyers Guide – 2015 Edition

• Authored by Andrew Haslam, Allvision Computing.
• Prepared in Conjunction with LegalIT Insider.

Authored by litigation support expert Andrew Haslam of U.K. based Allvision Computing, the The eDisclosure Systems Buyers Guide – 2015 Edition, provides an overview of key technology considerations, industry approaches and vendor capabilities regarding the discipline of eDisclosure (eDiscovery).  Covering topics from the EDRM Model to vendor service and software analysis, the guide provides a complete and credible resource for legal and IT professionals seeking to understand and apply eDisclosure (eDiscovery) concepts, processes, techniques and tools.

The guide can be direct downloaded at:

• http://cloudbox.legaltechnology.com/eDisclosureSystemsBuyersGuide2015v3_0.pdf

Additional considerations, comments and commendations can he shared with the author at

• Andrew Haslam – andrew.haslam@allvision.co.uk

©Allvision Computing Ltd  2015

The Cost of Email: Metrics and Mentions (Cartoon and Clip)

The Cartoon and Clip of the Week for March 11, 2015

Daily we read, see and hear more and more about the challenge and cost of managing email. This week our cartoon and clip features a metric highlighting one cost of email (cartoon) and four quick reference links to recent mentions of the potential impact of organizational email practices (clip).

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Managing Email? Four Mentions of Interest

Provided below are links (via Twitter) to four recent mentions related to the management of email.

1. CNN: Baron: Use of Personal Email Server 'Highly Unusual' with Jason R. Baron (Click Here)

2. Your Work Emails are Now Worth Millions of Dollars -- to Lawyers by Jennifer Booton (Click Here)

3. What Should Law Enforcement Agents Do If A Suspect’s E-Mails Are Stored Abroad? by Gary Discovery (Click Here)

4. 10 Tips for Crafting a Document Retention Policy by Michael Murphy (Click Here)

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Predictive Coding – what happened to the next big thing?

In 2010, “predictive coding” or “computer-assisted review” was considered the next big thing in ediscovery, destined to replace linear review and keyword searching as the predominant methodology during document review. Fast forward 5 years and where are we? Has the “next big thing” arrived? Predictive coding, which uses computer algorithms to determine which documents are most likely to be relevant based on a sample set of documents reviewed by a subject matter expert (i.e. lawyers), can result in substantial cost savings. It can be used to cull the volume of documents to be reviewed or prioritise […]

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