Category Archives: E-Discovery

Canadian Judicial Council develops eDiscovery Cost Benchmarks

In a discussion paper sponsored by the Canadian Judicial Council entitled, “Guidelines on Benchmarking of Costs,” Sandra Potter of Indicium Legal has presented for discussion an approach to determining appropriate costs for standard ediscovery services. The paper should serve as … Continue reading

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Predictive Coding in Unpredictable Order from US Chancery Judge

Over the last year, there has been some important but still fairly cautious movement in the US courts on two fronts: (1) increased willingness to accept computer-assisted review (“CAR”) as a valid and defensible means of reducing the cost of … Continue reading

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Cowen Group Survey points to strong growth in EDiscovery hiring, investment & use of computer-assisted review

The Cowen Group, based in New York City, is one of the US’s most important players in the world of EDiscovery headhunting and trend-spotting. Last Thursday, it released the results of its “2Q Critical Trends” poll of law firms and in-house legal … Continue reading

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EDiscovery experts in U.S. propose standards for ediscovery processes and audits

At a conference in Chicago on June 14, 2012 (the Seventh Circuit’s Electronic Discovery Committee Workshop on Computer-Assisted Review), a group of ediscovery experts moved one step closer to an important watershed in developing best practices in ediscovery. The idea … Continue reading

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Judge Peck approves computer-assisted review for use in “appropriate cases”

Those of us in eDiscovery interested in whether (or when) computer-assisted review (in this case, “predictive coding”) would gain judicial acceptance as a defensible means of conducting large-scale document reviews should read – and read carefully – Magistrate Judge Andrew … Continue reading

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Dominic Jaar on eDiscovery : new search methods, predictive coding and social media

The video of Dominic’s intervention at CPDP in now online. Dominic participated on a panel on search methods, predictive coding and social media. Along with him were Monique Altheim (The Law Office of Monique Altheim, moderator), James Daley (Daley & … Continue reading

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Dominic Jaar’s presentation at the CPDP conference in Brussels

Here is the presentation Dominic gave at the Computers, Privacy & Data Protection conference in Brussels. Please feel free to comment and discuss, below ! Dominic Jaar – Understanding your corporation’s e-discovery needs View more presentations from Dominic Jaar

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Dominic Jaar will speak at the Computer, Privacy & Data Protection conference in Brussels

From January 25 to 27, Brussels will be home to the 5th Computer, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP) conference. This conference provides a forum for academics, practitioners, policy makers and civil society, and unite them around the topics of IT, … Continue reading

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KPMG’s Conference on Forensic Collection

Here is Robert Castonguay and Danny Garwood’s presentation on remote collection and forensically-sound self-collection: At the Frontier of forensic collection View more presentations from Dominic Jaar

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KPMG’s eDiscovery Conference

Here is Dominic Jaar’s introductory presentation: KPMG conference on documents collection and review methodology and technology View more presentations from Dominic Jaar

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