From time to time I like read poetry. Lately it has been the poetry of Billy Collins, a neighbor and famous friend. (He was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003.) I have been reading his Read More …
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Document Review and Proportionality – Part Two
This is a continuation of a blog that I started last week. Suggest you read Part One before this. Simplified Six Step Review Plan for Small and Medium Sized Cases or Otherwise Where Predictive Coding is Not Used Here is 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 …
The Key Players and Play of an e-Discovery Team in a Complex AI-Enhanced Document Review Project
The gears in this diagram show the mechanics of a complex document review project circa 2018. The role I play in such projects, and other search specialists like me, is that of the AI Trainer (the dark blue gear with Read More …
Analysis of Important New Case on Predictive Coding by a Rising New Judicial Star: “Winfield v. City of New York”
There is an important new predictive coding opinion in the SDNY by a new judge in town. Winfield, Stewart, Noel v. City of New York, Case no. 15-CV-05236, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 194413 (S.D.N.Y., Nov. 27, 2017). The opinion is by Read More …