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What is Ediscovery?

Paralegal Bootcamp

Some terms, concepts, products, and services make sense to us instantly. Electronic discovery (AKA eDiscovery/ediscovery/E-Discovery/e-Discovery) is in the more exclusive category of “Things that are both invaluable and tedious to learn/apply but necessary to stay relevant and effective professionally.”. What is Ediscovery? Ediscovery.

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Top Technology Trends for Transactional Lawyers

LawTechnologyToday

Litigation technology was born out of a need to manage the high volume of potentially responsive documents because of the shift from paper to electronic documents and communication. Electronically Stored Information (ESI) renders a 3D image of a document by introducing metadata, or data about data.

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TechReport 2022: Litigation & TAR

LawTechnologyToday

“Slowly but surely” may be an apt phrase to describe the results from the 2022 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report covering Litigation Technology & E-Discovery. It is perplexing to continue to see both Concordance and Summation Pro as those tools are legacy software products that are not designed for the modern cloud architectures.

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A Path to eDiscovery Certification

Paralegal Bootcamp

I wouldn’t be doing the association any service by not doing that. The technology has gotten so advanced that we’re using machine learning and AI and tools like those to parse through large volumes of data. It just makes so much more sense to do it with today’s computers and technology. I understand.

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Directing the Course of an Investigation With Database Discovery Tactics

InHouseOps

CCBJ: Databases have been a source of electronically stored information (ESI) for some time, and discovery of structured database content is not new. Unstructured data is the content of emails or documents or other individual files, as I was just describing, and structured data is what comes out of a transactional system.

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Is Your Early Case Assessment Process Hurting Your Case?

InHouseOps

Fundamentally, unlike a litigation document review, where critical facts are known and issues defined, in ECA or an investigation often there is little information to go on or none at all. More often than not, legal teams struggle to execute the right strategy and tools to zero in on key information quickly.