Article by Mark Reichenbach posted on Law Technology Today, September 2007: Concept search and content analysis could be the ideal electronic document review technology if executed properly. While trepidation and misconception have kept the legal community from adopting these discovery strategies, now this technology has the opportunity to become standard practice, that is, once we clear away the miasma of ambiguity.

In a recent United States District Court decision by Magistrate Judge Facciola, his honor touched upon the use of concept searching by referencing recent scholarship that argues concept searching is “more efficient and more likely to produce comprehensive results” than its counterpart - keyword Boolean searches. While the security and efficacy of concept searching is understood and accepted by some members of the judiciary and bar, it is unknown to or misunderstood by many others. Trepidation by those with little or no experience with concept searching, content analysis, and the underlying technology is understandable. After all, the downside of a poorly executed eDiscovery effort is enormous and can result in the loss of a case, sanctions, and large penalties and monetary awards….

This entry was posted on Monday, October 1st, 2007 at 4:23 pm and is filed under 6 - Review, 7 - Analysis, Articles, EDRM Stages. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.