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Keyword Searching Is Pretty Good After All

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. [...]

Saving Time and Money in Document Review

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.

California: Backup Tapes Are About To Be “Accessible”

There has been a bit of debate (okay, a LOT of debate) over what makes backup tapes truly “inaccessible”.  The California Assembly is on the verge of making that discussion moot.  From Law.com, this article agrees with their proposed new rule of evidence that it’s no longer necessary to consider backup data is presumptively inaccessible:

Zubulake’s bright-line test [...]

We Love It When People Agree With Us

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 [...]

Is OCR Worth the Money?

Joshua Gilliland is a California lawyer who writes “The Bowtie Law’s Blog”.  In this entry, he discusses the recent decision by Judge Ron Clark in Procter & Gamble v. S.C. Johnson, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13190 (E.D. Tex. Feb. 19, 2009).  The part of this opinion that’s important to us are Judge Clark’s observations about the [...]

The End of “Normal Course of Business”?

Craig Ball has an interesting take on Judge Shira Scheindlin’s opinion in S.E.C. v. Collins & Aikman Corp.  Judge Scheindlin, of course, is the author of the landmark Zubulake v. UBS Warburg decisions, so her pronouncements on EDD carry a lot of weight. 

Craig says that Judge Scheindlin’s opinion articulates a newer, stronger standard for collaborative search than we [...]

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