Topic
Document Review
169 published works
Business of Law
Pole dancing and an interesting insight into BigLaw document review
By Patrick Lamb
I was reading Above The Law and saw an interesting headline, Dancing The Pole. I had to read it--it sounded so People magazine-ish. You can read the article yourself, but…
Litigation & Trial
The Scary New World Of E-Discovery Artificial Intelligence In Big Lawsuits
The NYTimes had an article this weekend about the growing number of e-discovery vendors who can go beyond mere keyword searches into linguistic and sociological reasoning about millions of pages…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Court of Chancery Dismisses Challenges After In Camera Review of Privileged E-Mail Chains
In Cephalon, Inc. v. Johns Hopkins University, et al., C.A. No. 3505-VCP (Del Ch., Dec. 4, 2009), read letter decision here, Cephalon asked the Delaware Court of Chancery to review…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Are contract lawyers being asked to pursue quantity over quality in reviewing documents?
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
The ABA Journal reports here about increasing pressure on contract attorneys to review discovery documents at a faster pace. A contract lawyer reports having received an e-mail instructing the lawyer to…
DennisKennedy.Blog
Are Lawyers Doing Work That Should Be Done By Machines?
Good question. Important question. Maybe the Big Question. Ron Friedmann offers his insights into the question in a post about an article in which Cisco's Mark Chandler raises the question…
Legal Profession Blog
Lawyers Beware “Track Changes”: That’s Metadata You’re Handing Over
At Law.com's Legal Blog Watch, Robert Ambrogi posts "Keeping Track of 'Track Changes,' " on the usefulness and risk to lawyers of using Word's Track Changes collaboration function. "The bottom…
Drug & Device Law
Approaches to coding documents
By Bexis
Wake up! Wake up!We know we put you to sleep with the title of this post, but we promise: The post will be a short one, and you might actually…
TortsProf Blog
Outsourcing Discovery
Business Week has an example. This one involves DuPont using Filipino attorneys (some U.S.-trained) to review documents, but there's no obvious reason it couldn't be used in document-intensive tort cases…
ContractsProf Blog
An Increase in the Number of “Contract Attorneys”
Law.com reports that, increasingly, the nation's largest 250 law firms are turning to temporary attorneys -- "contract attorneys" -- to wade through seemingly infinite piles of discovery documents. The article…