Why Lawyers Can't Ignore eDiscovery
The AI Trust Test in eDiscovery
eDiscovery Tips: Helpful Questions to Ask Your Clients
30-Minute Workshop: Resume Clinic for EDiscovery Project Managers
eDiscovery for the Rest of Us: Why Small Firm eDiscovery Matters
Sitting with the C-Suite: Trial Teams – Narrowing Data through Centric Search
I have recently begun experimenting with using AI, which stands for “Artificial Intelligence”, to help me in my day-to-day work. I will explain how I use it and how I don’t use it, but first two things...more
As the “AI Revolution” continues to gain momentum, questions concerning professional ethics have arisen across almost all professions. For legal services providers in particular, this disruptive technology poses both risks...more
Ralph Losey’s custom GPT, Panel of AI Experts for Lawyers, was tested again to evaluate its effectiveness on ChatGPT4o Omni. This time an entirely new topic was selected for the AI panelists to discuss, AI Mentors for...more
There’s only one answer that my lawyers give when I ask them what they’re curious about when it comes to the practice of law, and that’s generative AI. We’re not the only ones talking about it. Last year, the Thomson Reuters...more
This article continues the Ai creativity series and examines current thinking among lawyers about their work and job security. Most believe their work is too creative to be replaced by machines....more
E-Discovery, as most people know, is a relatively young branch of legal practice. Depending on matters of definition, one could reasonably argue that it’s: ...12 years old, dating to the 2006 FRCP Amendments ...15 years...more
eDiscovery has become a well-established industry, having been used in litigation for nearly two decades now. And whether we want to admit it or not, nearly every case filed has a potential eDiscovery element. So, what do you...more
Attorneys across the country use technology assisted review (“TAR”) to streamline and manage document review, which is the most time consuming aspect of litigation because of the high volume of data that organizations...more
..Any judge who begins an opinion about ediscovery with a quote from Donald Rumsfeld (of all people!), and then tosses in a reference to Marge from The Simpsons while quieting lawyers’ fears of technology by noting that...more
A Big Four accounting firm with offices in Tokyo recently asked Catalyst to demonstrate the effectiveness of Insight Predict, technology assisted review (TAR) based on continuous active learning (CAL), on a Japanese language...more
When tasked with a document review project, there are various analytic tools available to streamline the process in order to improve efficiency and accuracy. We’ve already discussed certain of these tools (see April 26 post...more
PART ONE: This is part one of a series on my journey to appreciating TAR. Be on the lookout for part two in the coming weeks. Recently, I (Russ Beets) began work on a complex litigation case that had millions of documents...more
Traditional document review can be one of the most variable and expensive aspects of the discovery process. The good news is that there are innumerable analytic tools available to empower attorneys to work smarter, whereby...more
Electronic discovery cases that made headlines in 2017 featured well-known names such as Taylor Swift and Lynyrd Skynyrd, and reached all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. As the year draws to a close, it’s a good time to...more
Several years ago, we were told that technology-assisted review (TAR) was the wave of the future and, by now, manual attorney review would likely be a thing of the past. Although TAR has gained some traction, it is not yet...more
The main problem with discovery is the cost. In a very small number of truly bet-the-company cases (for example, where the CEO’s emails must be produced) the greater risk can be failing to do discovery perfectly. But 99 times...more
It’s hard not to feel a bit embarrassed for all the bloggers who await, and write about, nearly everything Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck (S.D.N.Y.) writes about the search for and production of electronically stored...more
Action Item: Companies and individuals involved in litigation that includes e-discovery, should be aware of a decision last week by Magistrate Andrew J. Peck, whose e-discovery decisions are well-regarded in the legal...more
On July 13, 2016, in Dynamo Holdings Limited P’ship v. Comm’r, the U.S. Tax Court strongly defended the taxpayer’s use of computer-assisted review in a dispute with the IRS. In a 2014 decision in the same case, the Tax Court...more
A reading recap of the most well-read Electronic Discovery updates on JD Supra this month. E-discovery at the intersection of social media, BYOD, the Internet of Things, and more...more