Featured Search Posts
The Case of the Missing Acronyms, Or How to Avoid Having to C.Y.A. in Search
You don't have to read too many legal documents to know that lawyers love to use acronyms and abbreviations. Why is it, then, that lawyers sometimes forget about acronyms… [more]
Best Practices in Predictive Coding: When are Pre-Culling and Keyword Searching Defensible?
Predictive coding is an effective e-discovery tool for ranking large sets of documents. However, it is commonly performed in a manner that may be severely under-inclusive--and… [more]
In E-Discovery, Even Google Needs Help with Search: Oracle Case is Lesson in the Complexity of Privilege Search
Lest anyone underestimate the complexity of privilege searching in e-discovery, consider the recent case in which none other than search giant Google got tripped up. Although… [more]
Does Sampling Case Set a ‘Dangerous Precedent’?
At her On the Case blog for Thomson Reuters, Alison Frankel has an intriguing report about a U.S. magistrate judge's order in an e-discovery dispute that has prompted the… [more]
New Model E-Discovery Order for Patent Cases Turns Fishing Expeditions into Games of ‘Go Fish’
Two weeks ago in his speech at the East Texas Judicial Conference, Chief Judge Randall R. Rader of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals announced approval of An E-Discovery… [more]
Catalyst Search Scientist Selected to Co-chair International Panel in Glasgow
An area of ongoing research here at Catalyst is the use of collaborative search to achieve more intelligent and precise results in e-discovery search and review. Our work… [more]
Seminar in Houston this Week on Protecting Privilege Using Defensible Search
There is still time to register for How to Protect Privilege Using Defensible Search and Review Strategies, a live seminar and lunch in Houston on Wednesday. The seminar panel… [more]
Judge Grimm: ‘Mt. Hawley’ Set the Search Bar too High
U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul W. Grimm may just be the E.F. Hutton of e-discovery--when he talks, people listen. Judge Grimm is the author of several landmark e-discovery opinions--most… [more]
Search Q&A: How ECA is ‘Broken’ and the Solution that will Fix It
[This is another in a series of search Q&As between Bruce Kiefer, Catalyst's director of research and development, and Dr. Jeremy Pickens, Catalyst's senior applied research… [more]
