Sifting through hundreds of thousands of emails to find all the relevant correspondence for a court case can be long and laborious, costly and complicated, but with the introduction of technology to help with this process, the process could be a lot simpler and easier. The eDJ Group’s assessment demonstrates that 2012 is the year when technology ‘assists’ the review of electronic data, and the new method of predictive coding could really be the new ‘hot’ solution for companies and litigators.
Technology-driven assisted review methods, such as predictive coding, is essentially bringing together ‘man and machine’, with the technology element automatically ‘marking’ documents as either privileged, responsive or both. Predictive coding has been in use in other industries for some years, like Pandora’s music service, the legal industry has taken a bit longer to adopt the methods of technology-assisted reviews. The eDJ Group is currently running an online survey regarding eDiscovery and have asked respondents on their use of predictive coding; early results indicate that adoption of assisted review methods as being low, with just one third of them confirming they have used or are using predictive coding. Despite this low feedback, what is encouraging is that 28% of those who are not using predictive coding say they plan to within the next year, which could give the method a market penetration of 50%.
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Source: enterprisecommunications.com
By: Allie Philpin
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