Transparency in a Salt Lake TAR Pit?

A Salt Lake City Court braved the TAR pits to decide a “transparency” issue. Entrata, Inc. v. Yardi Systems, Inc., Case No. 2:15-cv-00102 (D.C. Utah, 10/29/18). The results were predictable for TAR, which is usually dark. The requesting party tried Read More …

Do TAR the Right Way with “Hybrid Multimodal Predictive Coding 4.0”

The term “TAR” – Technology Assisted Review – as we use it means document review enhanced by active machine learning. Active machine learning is an important tool of specialized Artificial Intelligence. It is now widely used in many industries, including Law. Read More …

Elusion Random Sample Test Ordered Under Rule 26(g) in a Keyword Search Based Discovery Plan

There is a new case out of Chicago that advances the jurisprudence of my sub-specialty, Legal Search. City of Rockford v. Mallinckrodt ARD Inc., 2018 WL 3766673, Case 3:17-cv-50107 (N.D. Ill., Aug. 7, 2018). This discovery order was written by Read More …

Dumb and Dumber Strike Again: New case out of California provides a timely lesson in legal search stupidity

An interesting, albeit dumb, case out of California provides some good cautionary instruction for anybody doing discovery. Youngevity Int’l Corp. v. Smith, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 210386 (S.D. Cal. Dec. 21, 2017). Youngevity is essentially an unfair competition dispute that Read More …

TAR Course Expands Again: Standardized Best Practice for Technology Assisted Review

The TAR Course has a new class, the Seventeenth Class: Another “Player’s View” of the Workflow. Several other parts of the Course have been updated and edited. It now has Eighteen Classes (listed at end). The TAR Course is free Read More …