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Technology-Assisted Review: Use It or Lose It?
The primary benefit of TAR is to prioritize documents within a corpus by likelihood of relevance as early as possible in the eDiscovery lifecycle.
E-discovery By The Numbers: How to assess the return on investment of e-discovery
By Chuck Kellner, SVP, Discovery Engineering This is the first of three articles to assist with cost factors and ROI for e-discovery. Assessing e-discovery costs can be challenging. Compared to outside legal fees or offers of settlement, the value isn’t always transparent. So it may be useful to assess e-discovery technology by return on [...]
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Three Methods for eDiscovery Document Prioritization
By Tom Groom, Vice President, Discovery Engineering, D4
Keyword Search, Concept Based Search and Support Vector Machines are all three valid approaches for document classification but there are key differences that should be considered before deciding which and—perhaps more importantly, when—to employ these approaches in the eDiscovery workflow. The intent of this white paper is to highlight the differences in the features, functions and benefits of these three approaches and identify potential application areas where they best work in the eDiscovery lifecycle
Applying Predictive Coding to Reduce Costs and Increase Quality in Document Review
By Tom Groom, Vice President Discovery Engineering, D4
The application of Predictive Coding can significantly reduce costs, dramatically reduce review time and increase quality for document review. Yes—cheaper, faster and better, all three. Computerized technology has greatly impacted the efficiencies of document review over the years.
10 Critical Things to Consider Before You Bring eDiscovery In-House
By Peter Coons, Senior Vice President, Computer Forensics and Collections, D4
There can be a number of unforeseen and unexpected costs and hassles associated with bringing eDiscovery in-house that can quickly mitigate the savings and streamlining you hoped to achieve.
eDiscovery & Metadata: What’s In a Date?
What am I talking about? Metadata. Specifically file dates and times. Is metadata important in discovery? Does it actually tell us anything about the file or document? I will let you be the judge and jury.
But first, what is metadata?
Metadata, Metadata, it’s Everywhere!
By Peter Coons, Senior Vice President, Computer Forensics and Collections, D4
Metadata! That term is used a lot in the eDiscovery world and many people use it but are unsure of its meaning. So what is metadata? Let’s look to a reliable eDiscovery resource for an answer.
Part III: Reviewing Electronically Stored Information (ESI) from Social Networking Sites (SNS)
In the first two parts of this series on SNS and eDiscovery we discussed the Why, What and How. The third part will address the “OK, we identified and collected it, now what?” part…..Social Networking Sites (SNS) data is just like any other ESI.
Part II: Preserving Electronically Stored Information (ESI) on Social Networking Sites (SNS)
Now that we know SNS information is potentially discoverable and where to find it, how do we go about preserving it? No matter what method you choose for persevering SNS info, remember these 8 key tips…





