Discovery Land Show
This show takes a special look back at the E-Discovery Board Game built in 2005 by Karl as he is joined by some of the experts featured prominently in the game. Guests include Kevin Esposito – the million dollar bill, Jim Michalowicz – the $500,000 bill, Jim Daley – the $100,000 bill and Tim Opsitnick – the $50,000 bill. The purpose of the show is to look back at how we saw issues back in 2005 when we built the game and then look forward to 2014 and see if we see things the same way now.
Read MoreEDI Oracle Study on Technology Assisted Review (“TAR”)
Learn about the recent study by the eDiscovery institute with Oracle that involved ranking different predictive coding tools. What started as a “bake off” between technology assisted review (“TAR”) tools is now turning into a wonderful source of data on TAR.
Read MoreBiomet a BioMess?
Discussion of the Biomet M2a Magnum Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation (MDL 2391) regarding the pre-cull of ESI using keywords before predictive coding.
Read MoreMaking Predictive Coding Pizza at the DESI V Conference in Rome
In this show, we talk about the upcoming DESI V conference in Rome, Italy which will focus on predictive coding. DESI is a more technical conference than the typical CLE program and you are just as apt to meet a thought leader who is a lawyer as you are likely to meet the chief scientist behind software you might be using or might be hitting the market soon. It is a pure and academic experience which I highly recommend after attending DESI IV in Pittsburgh, PA in 2011.
Read MoreeDJ and ReviewLess Predictive Coding Boot Camps
Karl is joined by Barry Murphy, analyst for the eDJ Group , who will be talking about the series of boot camps they are bringing to cities around the country. The goal is to seed more lawyers who can be conversant about these tools and to make it accessible and affordable. That is why we are not just doing a big conference that attendees need to travel to and pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to attend plus travel costs.
Read MorePredictive Coding Gets a Glossary
Learn about the recent publication by Dr. Maura Grossman and Dr. Gordon Cormack entitled The Grossman-Cormack Glossary of Technology-Assisted Review published in Volume 7 Issue 1 of the Federal Courts Law Review in 2013. Joining us on this show are the Honorable John M. Facciola from the District of Columbia who wrote the foreword to the Glossary and Maura R. Grossman, Counsel at Wachtell Lipton, Rosen & Katz and and Dr. Gordon V. Cormack Professor from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario.
Read MoreOver Processing of ESI and The Microsoft Letter – Part 1
On today’s show, we do part 1 of a 2 part series on the problems of over collection and the challenges this presents to corporations. We’ll discuss the incredible analysis that Microsoft put together in preparation for a meeting in Dallas for the Rules Subcommittee to discuss detailed metrics on why the Federal Rules on E-Discovery need more guidance on the obligations companies should adhere to in order to make them proportionate to the case at hand.
Read MoreeDiscovery Journal Predictive Coding Survey
Learn about a new survey from the eDiscovery Journal that seeks to better understand the current state of predictive coding.
Read MoreChelsea Schieneman 2012 E-Discovery Survey of Law Firms and Document Review
We’ll discuss the results of an extremely interesting Senior Year student marketing research project at John Carroll University where 218 attorneys were surveyed from around the country on their views regarding document review projects.
Read MoreWaiving Work Product With Predictive Coding
Learn about a collection of astute search issues which lawyers need to be thinking about, including the inadvertent disclosure of work product, lawyers having their search techniques scrutinized, and how to make sense of the variety of search techniques that are in the marketplace of predictive coding.
Read MoreTop 10 Tips for Learning Predictive Coding and Forbes Legal Hydra Article
Tom Gricks interviews Karl Schieneman about his Forbes article from January called Legal Hydra where he included a “Top 10 List” advising attorneys on how to learn more about predictive coding.
Read MoreESIBytes 2011 Recap and Looking Forward Into 2012
Listen to Karl talk about ESIBytes’ past year, some of the highlights and what is planned for 2012 as ESIBytes heads into its 3rd year. He also shares a little more about his background and his thoughts on what the biggest issue is in electronic discovery at this time.
Read MoreE-Discovery Search and Retrieval and is Human Review The Gold Standard?
Listen to a discussion on search and retrieval issues with Maura Grossman of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Professor Gordon V. Cormack from the University of Waterloo. Maura and Gordon have been deeply involved with the TREC program measuring different approaches for accomplishing document reviews with electronically stored information. They have jointly published a number of cutting edge articles describing their results.
Read MoreThe Importance of Metrics in Electronic Discovery
Learn about the importance of metrics in electronic discovery. We discuss the different forms of metrics, how to gather metrics, whether relying just on vendors to supply metrics makes sense, and get Alex to discuss some of her favorite metrics.
Read MoreWatson, The NY Times Doomsday Article and the Legal Profession
In this podcast, we talk about the string of technology-driven press about Watson, IBM’s artificial intelligence computer system, and the front page NY Times article that predicted the demise of armies of expensive lawyers at the hands of cheaper software in electronic discovery.
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