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 make group document reviews better, faster, and less costly, while making the reviewers’ work more professionally rewarding to them and more valuable to their employers. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
In any case where emails between the parties will be discoverable, the parties should collect and jointly analyze the emails between them, before the initial scheduling conference, in order to agree on an efficient and proportional ediscovery plan and to attempt early resolution.
My last post showed how you can use pre-reviewed seed sets of relevant and irrelevant documents to help prioritize unreviewed documents, using WordSmith 6 from Lexical Analysis Software Ltd. (USD $88.73 or EUR €67.57 from lexically.net – Please note that I’m not affiliated with Lexical.)
Here’s how you can help your document reviewers hit the ground running by investing a few hours of attorney or paralegal time with WordSmith before you’ve reviewed any documents. Continue reading
