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Search engines based on Generative AI, known as Generative Search Engines (“GSE”), provide actual answers to user queries, not just website links. These links suggest dozens, hundreds, if not thousands of websites where...more
As data volumes grow, the use of technology to make sense of it is increasing – especially within disputes and investigations where the key data is buried within thousands or millions of documents, emails, text messages,...more
Preparing a talk about keyword search, I set out to distill observations gleaned from a host of misbegotten keyword search efforts, many from the vantage point of the court’s neutral expert née Special Master assigned to...more
Harnessing the power of forensically sound remote collection is essential to eDiscovery investigations. As the scope and volume of data that must be reviewed increases, so does the cost of eDiscovery. No matter where...more
As ChatGPT enters the mainstream, there are still open questions (and a lot of generalities) of how and the extent to which ChatGPT and other large language models will transform ediscovery and investigations. John...more
You rely on searching every single day, whether enmeshed in an eDiscovery project, shopping online, or figuring out where to go for dinner. There are differences in the intent and the treatment of those search results when...more
A typical digital forensic investigation can consist of reviewing and searching through hundreds of thousands of files on a computer system, mobile phone, or tablet. Not every file is going to be of interest or pertinent to...more
In civil litigation or regulatory inquiries, parties often must engage in electronic discovery, also known as eDiscovery, which is the process of identifying, preserving, collecting, reviewing, and producing electronically...more
This post explains how to craft searches that get the results you're looking for in document review. We dive into the technical aspects of searching and provide ediscovery keyword search examples. ...more
DATA FILTERING SERIES / PART TWO - Ediscovery is automated in many important ways, but attorney judgment is still vital to the process. Legal teams need to make smart decisions up front about how to filter, what to cull, and...more
A prior post (Keyword Searching – What is it? And How Do I Do It (Well)?) offered some tips for crafting effective search terms for use in the e-discovery process. Although those tips still hold true, today’s blog offers ways...more
Since Judge Andrew Peck’s ruling over nine years ago in Da Silva Moore v. Publicis Groupe & MSL Group, the use of Technology-Assisted Review (TAR) for managing review in eDiscovery has been court approved. Yet many lawyers...more
Keyword searching for electronic discovery is about balancing recall and precision to produce a proportional volume of electronically-stored information (ESI) that is responsive to the case, which could be thousands or even...more
Looking beyond the keyword list paradigm as AI and analytics take the stage - In a 2012 True North blog post, one of our H5 experts provided some practical advice on reducing privilege review burdens and costs by...more
Within the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) there are a number of techniques that can be deployed for the purpose of information retrieval and understanding the relationships between documents. The growth in...more
Keyword search has been around since the inception of eDiscovery. Keywords works well in standard eDiscovery since their definitive character enable legal professionals to provide a clear scope in search, and find everything...more
If you read our previous blog on multi-language ediscovery, you’re aware of the challenges faced when dealing with international matters. Searching across languages with the same degree of accuracy and proportionality can be...more
The smoking gun isn’t a gun anymore; it’s an email, text or instant message. This interactive session will focus on strategies and best practices around email investigations illustrated with real documents obtained through...more
Searching is a core e-discovery skill that has been a part of the legal case landscape for about two decades now. Throughout that time, the fundamental capabilities for keyword searching have not changed much. Keyword...more
Hard to believe, but it took until August 29, 2019 for the North Carolina Court of Appeals to tackle the issue of eDiscovery for the very first time. But tackle it the court did....more
In my December 2016 blog post, I wrote about how developing effective key words is very much an iterative and thought intensive process. This message was recently reaffirmed by a decision out of the Southern District of...more
Many attorneys are under the impression that keyword searches are the core of discovery. Their assumption is that the natural (and perhaps only) method for locating documents is to run a simple language search through a large...more
It is well established that courts will support parties electing to use technology assisted review (TAR) to identify responsive documents in discovery. However, TAR methodologies and quality control (QC) measures are still...more
Preserving Evidence: •“The duty to preserve evidence begins when litigation is ‘pending or reasonably foreseeable.’” Micron Tech., Inc. v. Rambus, Inc., 645 F.3d 1311, 1320 (Fed. Cir. 2011) •“It is, of course, not...more
When collecting electronically stored information (“ESI”) from multiple custodians (i.e., various individuals/ different sources), there will necessarily be duplicative documents collected in the process. In company-wide...more