Normally, Law Technology News steers pretty far away from the topic of e-discovery vendor patents and trademarks and the ensuing skirmishes that frequently arise over them (affectionately known in the industry as "pissing contests"). But this week has been pretty interesting and we couldn't resist.
Our new reporter, Evan Koblentz, has been following the posturing by Craig Carpenter, general counsel and vice president of marketing of e-discovery vendor Recommind, over the company's new U.S. Patent 7,933,859: Systems and Methods for Predictive Coding. (Yes, PC has supplanted "early case assessment" as the EDD buzzword du jour.)
There's been a lot of buzz about whether PC protocols -- "a human and technical process where a subset of records is examined by lawyers, and decisions made on those records are then propagated throughout the document population" -- can save money and increase accuracy of document reviews. The quote is from Anne Kershaw's and Joe Howie's terrific cover story in our October issue, "Crash or Soar," where they detailed testing results that fueled their enthusiasm for the methodology. You can also listen to her on the October Law Technology Now podcast.
And at last week's Georgetown E-Discovery Training Academy, Maura Grossman also waxed enthusiastic, reports Tom O'Connor, citing her recent findings as reported in the Richmond Journal of Law & Technology.
To Continue Reading: Click Here
----------------------------------------------
Source: law.com
By: Monica Bay
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment