Tara Emory, PMP
August 16, 2018
There are important differences between searching for documents using technology-assisted review (TAR) and keywords. According to a U.S. Magistrate Judge based in Chicago, math should not be one of them.
April 26, 2018
Every evolution of ediscovery has launched a new set of exciting technologies, efficient workflows and savvy experts. We have come a long way from the old “check the box” view of discovery in which the main measure of a project’s success was whether it avoided adverse consequences like sanctions. Skilled professionals today know how to plan a project strategically, cull enormous amounts of data into manageable sets, leverage machine learning and other computer analytics and use statistics to prove that the needed documents were indeed found.
July 14, 2016
The ideal of cooperation by opposing parties to address eDiscovery has been around for a while now. Since the The Sedona Conference Cooperation Proclamation called for “cooperative, collaborative, [and] transparent discovery” in 2008, adversarial cooperation has been touted among the judiciary and certain practitioners as the key to success in proportional discovery.
December 1, 2015
In today’s digital age, organizations are constantly faced with the risk of costly consequences from delay in the implementation of a defensible deletion program for their electronically stored information (ESI). As data accumulates, companies waste precious resources to maintain that data, at the expense of innovation and revenue. In fact, 96 percent of respondents to an industry survey agreed a defensible deletion strategy is “absolutely necessary” to reduce the costs and risks associated with information retention, according to an article by the American Bar Association.