Featured Search Posts
In Praise of Proportionality: Judge OKs Predictive Coding After Keyword Search
Predictive coding purists might argue that the process is tainted if it is preceded by the use of keyword searching to reduce the document set. As a matter of fact, that was… [more]
My Key Word Searches are Better than Your Predictive Ranking Technology!
I recently got a distress call from an e-discovery partner of ours with an unhappy client. “It seems like there is something wrong with your predictive ranking technology,”… [more]
Treading Past Angels: Finding the Right Search Expert for Your Case
Last February, Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. sued UBS Real Estate Securities Inc. for breach of contract, accusing the company of failing to meet obligations related to… [more]
In Search, Evaluation Drives Innovation; Or, What You Cannot Measure You Cannot Improve
Last week, I was honored to join a small group of information-retrieval researchers from around the world, from both industry and academia, who gathered at the Shonan Village… [more]
What Google Can Teach You about Effective E-Discovery Search
In e-discovery, it all comes down to search. All the time spent collecting and reviewing. All the whiz-bang platforms from an array of vendors. All the newfangled technologies… [more]
The Next Big Predictive Coding Case that Wasn’t
The case that many believed might be the next big bang in predictive coding jurisprudence instead has ended with barely a whimper. As I noted here last month, in the wake… [more]
Court Orders Counsel to Disclose E-Discovery Search Strategy
Out of concern that counsel may not have sufficiently supervised their client's production of electronic documents, a federal judge in New Mexico has ordered the attorneys… [more]
Courts Should Consider Search Technology, Say New Penn. E-Discovery Rules
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has adopted new e-discovery rules that expressly distance federal e-discovery jurisprudence and instead emphasize "traditional principles… [more]
Two Catalyst Researchers Coauthor Book on Next-Generation Search
Two leaders of research and development here at Catalyst have helped write a seminal new book on search and information retrieval, Next Generation Search Engines: Advanced… [more]
