Guest Blog by SONYA SIGLER, Vice President and General Counsel of Cataphora, Inc.
I have spent a bit of time over the last couple of weeks thinking about and mulling over Jason Baron’s guest post on coming up with best practices or standards in eDiscovery. See Jason Baron’s In Search of Quality: Is it Time for E-Discovery Search Process Quality Standards? I want to thank Ralph for letting me post my thoughts on eDiscovery standards, more specifically as it relates to search and retrieval technologies.
The Right Question
In assessing Jason’s proposal/discussion of whether it is time for eDiscovery search process quality standards, I find myself thinking that there isn’t just one right question to ask when it comes to search and retrieval processes or search methods. Unfortunately, there is no easy button here – there isn’t one magic way to search data and get “the” answer. In his guest post, Jason suggests that these two are:
[t]he right questions: how does one go about designing an optimal process that produces a quality result. And are there ways to regularize or standardize that process so as to “certify” the result in a way that is defensible?
The issue with these two questions as the “right” questions to ask is that the search process could be perfect and your implementation of that search process could be perfect, but if, in your implementation of the “perfect search process” you chose an ineffective search method for that data type and content, the perfect process won’t matter. Your search results will stink and you won’t get the relevant information you need or want. The search process is too highly variable to standardize. One of the best things we can do to help the eDiscovery industry move from the “Wild Wild West” is to concentrate on the fundamental reason why you are using search in the first place.
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Source: e-discoveryteam.com
By: Sonya Sigler
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