The Names and Faces of “Technology Assisted Review” 9 May 2012 - Based on a website review of leading providers in the electronic discovery arena, Rob Robinson has compiled a list that provides a quick, non-all inclusive reference of firms that appear to have developed “technology assisted review” technology  (one form of this being “predictive coding”) for [...]

May 11th weekend edition of our “Top 20 +” e-discovery compendium of news and views Our weekend edition of the “Top 20 … plus more” … a snapshot of some interesting e-discovery blog/web site posts, vendor news/views on a wide range of electronic discovery related issues, and other tech developments from the past week.    It is compiled by Master Sensei Social Media Guru Rob Robinson [...]

Gartner — The number of Information Professionals needed will grow by 50% per year — #CIP A new Gartner report by Deb Logan and Mark Raskino — Prepare to be an Information Leader — notes that the first half of the Information Age was all about building plumbing and making processes more efficient, and that [...]

Counsel’s Perspective: Florida Considers eDiscovery Amendments to Their Civil Court Rules By Cynthia Courtney, Esq., Vice President, Advisory and Engineering Group On July 29, 2011, the Board of Governors of the Florida Bar voted to adopt changes to the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure relating to e-discovery that would largely mirror the 2006 amendments to the [...]

Do Litigators Need to Understand Predictive Coding Theory? With the debate over Predictive Coding entering a feverish pitch, there is an interesting thread of discussion beginning to emerge asking whether or not litigators and other users need to understand what I am going to refer to as Predictive Coding Theory. In a May 4, 2012 Blog  titled, [...]

Morton’s Fork, Oil Filters the Nexus with Information Governance Those old enough to have watched TV in the early eighties will undoubtedly remember the FRAM oil slogan where the mechanic utters his iconic catchphrase: “You can pay me now, or pay me later.”  The gist of the vintage add was that the customer could either pay [...]

Twitter Seeks To Quash Order Requiring Production of Account Holder’s User Information, Tweets People v. Harris, No. 2011NY080152 (N.Y. Crim. Ct.) Following up on the case summary from last week (posted May 1, 2012) in which the court denied defendant’s motion to quash the District Attorney’s subpoena and issued an order requiring the production of defendant’s user information [...]

Myspace Confesses Failure to Abide by Privacy Laws Myspace agreed to 20 years of US government oversight of privacy, just like Facebook did in 2011 and Google did in 2010. On May 8, 2012 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a statement about its settlement with Myspace dislosing the following mispresentations which were violations of [...]

Technology Assisted Review, Concept Search and Predictive Coding: The Limitations and Risks Technology Assisted Review (TAR) is a marketing term used in the eDiscovery community to describe the process of automatic classification of documents in a so-called legal review. Similar documents are classified based on training data or seed sets. Typical classes include Confidential, Privileged [...]

From The Sedona Conference®: a Commentary on Ethics & Metadata In March, The Sedona Conference® released a public comment version of its latest publication: Commentary on Ethics & Metadata.  The commentary is the first “to move beyond [Working Group 1’s] previously exclusive focus on aspects of discovery or records management/preservation” and focuses on ethical obligations [...]