Civil Litigation
Mar. 17, 2012
eDiscovery: predictive coding offers lawyers relief
A recent decision by Judge Andrew Peck makes review of electronically stored information an easier task.
A. Marco Turk
Emeritus Professor, CSU Dominguez Hills
Email: amarcoturk.commentary@gmail.com
A. Marco Turk is a contributing writer, professor emeritus and former director of the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding program at CSU Dominguez Hills, and currently adjunct professor of law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law.
Historically, the challenge of eDiscovery has been that lawyers and their clients were required to conduct expensive, tedious, time-consuming manual document review and keyword searches. The heavy yoke of those requirements has now been lifted by U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck's opinion in Da Silva Moore v. Publicis Groupe & MSL Group, No. 11 Civ. 1279 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 24, 2012). This decision discusses predictive coding (technology assisted review of electronically stored...
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