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Data Analytics: e-Discovery Accuracy, Defensibility and Cost Efficiency

Keyword-based automated search tools are not necessarily accurate, especially when the search terms are brainstormed by counsel in a vacuum. And new-age concept-based tools, while often quite effective at targeting documents based on subject matter or concept, are technologically hard to explain and, as a result, hard to defend. Data analytics adds testing and analysis to keyword-based search, providing litigators with more accuracy and defensibility ' often at a much lower cost.

17 minute read May 30, 2007 at 09:26 AM
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Eugene Eames
Data Analytics: e-Discovery Accuracy, Defensibility and Cost Efficiency

The explosion of electronic documents in the corporate environment has had a profound effect on the litigation-discovery process. With computers pervasive in our society, the number of electronic documents that must be examined for responsiveness is usually enormous.

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