by Joshua Neil Rubin | Jul 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Having good information governance policies makes ediscovery faster, cheaper, and easier. Fortunately, even in today’s mobile, bring-your-own-device world, it’s a snap to make your employees’ text messages easy to save and produce, even with no budget for...
by Joshua Neil Rubin | Nov 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
The FBI should and could easily have finished its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop by no later than early Monday morning. And, consistent with its current policy, it should have disclosed the result of its review by no...
by Joshua Neil Rubin | Apr 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
In 1997, Judge D. Brooks Smith (W.D. PA) ordered the defendant in a class action to produce its counsel’s database of potentially responsive documents or suffer the consequences. One reason I sought that order was to cut through what would otherwise have been an...
by Joshua Neil Rubin | Jan 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
In describing predictive coding systems, it’s important to distinguish document-based systems from corpus-based systems. Document-based systems make their predictions based on the similarity of each document to a single, previously-categorized...
by Joshua Neil Rubin | Aug 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
On August 3, 2015, ediscovery SAAS provider Logikcull unveiled the first all-inclusive, flat rate pricing plans in the ediscovery industry. I interviewed Logikcull’s CEO, Andy Wilson, about his company and its business model. What follows is an abridged version...
by Joshua Neil Rubin | Jun 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
Group document reviews usually aren’t particularly ennobling. And in recent years we’ve learned that they can sometimes produce results that are worse than what we’d get from a well-trained machine. That can change. We can use social technology to...
by Joshua Neil Rubin | Mar 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
In his latest blog post, ediscovery expert Craig Ball seeks input on a curriculum that would provide litigators with basic ediscovery competence. In my comments to Craig’s post, I explain my view that most litigators don’t have the interest in information...
by Joshua Neil Rubin | Mar 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
Last October 30, Equivio Ltd announced, in response to one of my earlier posts, that it was incorporating a unique new feature into its Zoom analytic and review platform.Last month, I met with Alon Avraham, Equivio’s Director of Product Management, who showed me...
by Joshua Neil Rubin | Feb 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
In his most recent book, Harvard Law Professor Yochai Benkler surveys the sciences to summarize our current knowledge about what maximizes cooperation. Yochai Benkler, The Penguin and the Leviathan (1st ed. 2011). The Penguin of the title refers to Tux, the emblem of...
by Joshua Neil Rubin | Feb 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
A new model of conflict resolution is gaining ground in our culture. It’s based on the idea of cooperatively restoring equilibrium instead of beating the other guy to death. The proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure reflect this emerging...
