FindLaw's Legal Technology Center's Metadata collection includes free articles on this eDiscovery topic. Metadata is a technical term referring to data that contains information about data. Metadata is often not readily apparent to users of technology, yet it contains information that can be used as evidence in litigation. Therefore, companies and individuals should be aware of how, where and why metadata is stored. Understanding the issues surrounding metadata may be of critical importance to your legal matter.
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Top Five Tips for Using the Cloud for eDiscovery
Here are five important points for law firms and businesses to consider when preparing to take advantage of cloud computing.
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The Power of Pre-Discovery
Electronic discovery is about fact finding, accuracy, truth . . . and money. Corporate clients pay millions of dollars, in some cases, for the time and expertise of their lawyers and technologists. These costs are rising, the direct result of rising quantities of discoverable electronically stored information (ESI).
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Predictive Coding Primer
Predictive coding (also known as technology assisted review) heavily leverages statistics to reduce the time needed to examine large document sets that in the past may have taken a group of attorney reviewers weeks or months to review at great cost. What are the benefits and risks involved with this tool?
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Proactive Email Management Translates to Better Early-Stage Discovery
Corporations are continuously challenged by increasingly complex eDiscovery demands and disjointed processes to meet them. The sheer volume of email generated and stored today can be cumbersome for IT and legal counsel to deal with, and metadata further complicates the process since it is also discoverable and potentially relevant.
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The Future of Predictive Coding: Rise of the Evidentiary Expert?
Welcome to computer-assisted document coding and review, sometimes better known by the legal industry as predictive coding. Thanks in part to three cases that have recently emerged on predictive coding, this relatively novel technique is now garnering recognition, and in one seminal case, judicial approval.
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Did We Really Send that File to Opposing Counsel?
The top 10 mistakes in producing data for discovery -- and how to fix them.
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The Future of Predictive Coding II - Caveats Revealed
Is predictive coding poised to take the e-discovery world by storm, as the courtroom catches up to technology? Following its first major judicial approval, predictive coding has been garnering major attention as a potential e-discovery game-changer.
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Intelligent Discovery Solutions Launches Enterprise Security Practice
Industry-leading consultancy staged to assist corporate America with security risk management
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ZyLAB and e-Disclosure Expert Chris Dale Campaign to Bridge Legal and IT Gap
Paper and webinar address the challenges of differing priorities and levels of understanding between the departments.