In an industry that prides itself on cutting-edge technology, why are so many people still using a file type that is archaic? Adobe owns the rights to the TIFF image file format and has not updated its specifications since 1991. That same year, the Internet was first opened for commercial use, the World Wide Web [...]
I must admit, I like the title that the editors at the National Law Journal came up with for Fabio Celeita’s and my article: “Computer infections are bad enough, but the cure can kill” (premium subscription required). Our article provides a basic overview of the threats to electronically-stored information, let alone to a legal team’s [...]
Josh Gilliland and his always-entertaining “Bow Tie Law’s Blog” turn this week to the case of In re NetBank, Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 69031 (N.D. Ga. Aug. 7, 2009), in which the producing party went to great lengths to prove to opposing counsel and the court that they knew absolutely NOTHING about e-Discovery.
The Defendants [...]
From Jason Krause on Law.com comes this article regarding the Text Retrieval Conference Legal Track 2008. The main points to take from this article are that, properly used, Boolean keyword searching is equally as effective as more “advanced” search technologies such as clustering and concept searching.
However, as the article points out, Judge Peck (in Gross Construction v. [...]
From the Texas Lawyer (part of the Incisive Media megagroup) comes this useful article on how to effectively manage document reviews. LitManager is an outstanding review tool to help keep costs under control, but there is no substitute for managing the review process itself effectively to ensure that it gets done right the first time.
Tom O’Connor is Director of the Legal Electronic Document Institute. In this post to PivotalDiscovery.com, Tom sings the praises of hosted litigation support solutions and secure browser access to a web-based document repository.
LLM had nothing to do with this article, we promise — even though it’s nice to hear an unbiased observer write what we’ve been [...]