On Monday, Virginia Circuit Court Judge James H. Chamblin issued what appears to be the first state court Order approving the use of predictive coding technology for eDiscovery. Tuesday, Law Technology News reported that Judge Chamblin issued the two-page Order in Global Aerospace Inc., et al, v. Landow Aviation, L.P. dba Dulles Jet Center, et al, over Plaintiffs’ objection that traditional manual review would yield more accurate results. The case stems from the collapse of three hangars at the Dulles Jet Center (“DJC”) that occurred during a major snow storm on February 6, 2010. The Order was issued at Defendants’ request after opposing counsel objected to their proposed use of predictive coding technology to “retrieve potentially relevant documents from a massive collection of electronically stored information.”
In Defendants’ Memorandum in Support of their motion, they argue that a first pass manual review of approximately two million documents would cost two million dollars and only locate about sixty percent of all potentially responsive documents. They go on to state that keyword searching might be more cost-effective “but likely would retrieve only twenty percent of the potentially relevant documents.” On the other hand, they claim predictive coding “is capable of locating upwards of seventy-five percent of the potentially relevant documents and can be effectively implemented at a fraction of the cost and in a fraction of the time of linear review and keyword searching.”
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Source: eDiscovery 2.0
By: Matthew Nelson
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