Posts Tagged ‘search’
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- February 3rd
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Recommind Study Says Legal and IT Now Pals
Recommind asserts that lawyers and IT can come coexist in a positive manner. Don’t believe it. Well, read the Recommind report and learn how. The Wall Street Journal reports, “Social Media Bringing IT and LEGAL Together, Recommind Study Reveals.” The report found that both IT and legal departments prioritize eDiscovery. Each has its issues with [...]
posted at 12:06am on Feb 3rd
- January 21st
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Herb Roitblat on Ralph Losey on Search
Articles on search by OrcaTec’s Herb Roitblat are rare, but worth waiting for. I would much rather point you to his article, and to the articles by Ralph Losey to which they refer, than try and write them myself. I have just been invited to contr…
posted at 7:40am on Jan 21st
- January 15th
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Bottom Line Driven Proportional Review
I have been working on the problem of out-of-control e-discovery costs since 2006. At that time I phased out my general trial practice, went full-time e-discovery, and started this blog. (By the way, did you notice the new ® in the blog title? It mean…
posted at 6:28pm on Jan 15th
- January 12th
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eDiscovery Search May Not Be Worth It
According to the eDiscovery Daily blog piece “eDiscovery Case Law: Plaintiff Not Required to Review Millions of Pages of Unallocated Space” eDiscovery search is in big trouble. The case I-Med Pharma, Inc. vs. Biomatrix Inc. shed light on eDiscovery search and how troublesome it can be. This case highlights the dangers of carelessness and inattention [...]
posted at 12:03am on Jan 12th
- January 10th
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The Urgency of the Cloud for Enterprise
It seems that moving IT infrastructure to the cloud is no longer an innovative alternative, but is rather becoming the standard, the norm. IT teams need to embrace the change and shift their thinking away from the football team sized IT staffs of the future. This is not just a general trend, but one that [...]
posted at 12:14am on Jan 10th
- January 4th
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Everlasting Metadata?
Professional photographers are working to protect their rights in the digital world, as CNET reveals in “Should Metadata Be Permanent?” The groups supporting an initiative to require that metadata be permanently adhered to image, text, audio, and video files are understandably focused on protecting copyrights. However, there could be other repercussions to the move. Writer [...]
posted at 12:06am on Jan 4th
- January 2nd
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ZyLAB on Disorganization
We look at the enterprise search forum on LinkedIn.com occasionally. We have noticed that “problems” are a big part of the discussion. If you are struggling with search challenges, you may want to consider that disorganization is an issue. The ZyLAB blog CodeZED’s new piece about “Legacy Data Clean-up for Email, SharePoint, Audio and More” [...]
posted at 12:09am on Jan 2nd
- December 28th
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There is Only One Way to Rock Search Terms
In Re National Association of Music Merchants, Musical Instruments and Equipment Antitrust Litigation involved a dispute over additional searches of electronically stored information using abbreviations and acronyms for previously agreed-upon search terms. Instead of turning the discovery dial up to 11, the Court pulled the plug on the additional search terms. In re Nat’l Ass’n [...]
posted at 2:35pm on Dec 28th
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Text Analytics Offers Summit, Podcast
Social media has exploded, with billions and billions of pieces of content hitting the Web every day; making sense of it all can be overwhelming. That’s why Text Analytics News is sponsoring the first ever two day conference dedicated solely to social media analytics– the Social Media Analytics Summit in San Francisco next April 17–18. [...]
posted at 12:04am on Dec 28th
- December 27th
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Practical QC in eDiscovery
One key element for transforming your eDiscovery from an ad hoc reactive fire drill into a mature, proactive business process is the development and implementation of formal Quality Assurance(QA) and Quality Control(QC). I have always viewed QA as tackling ongoing process improvement such as regular cross case comparisons, while QC tends to be checking on did the process perform properly. Basically, how can we make the process better versus did everything work right? When interviewing corporate client eDiscovery teams, everyone is conscious of the need for QA/QC, but the vast majority seem to feel that it is impractical or unrealistic given their tight deadlines, lack of resources and typical fire-fighter mentality. Some law firm clients have swung to the opposite extreme, with elaborate workflow, check lists, physical chain of custody forms and more. Their QC has grown out of reasonable proportion and their productivity suffers because their overall QA has been neglected. So how do we achieve a reasonable quality process without bringing the legal process to a halt?
posted at 10:02am on Dec 27th