More than just for the producing party, the party receiving the documents could potentially bear significant costs to review thousands of pages
of irrelevant documents.
Be careful of generic terms: they will likely produce a large volume
of irrelevant documents to review to determine relevance.
The second aspect is the solution's «cull» feature, which represents an easy way to remove
irrelevant documents from the pool of documents to be processed.
To make matters more interesting, it was expected that the preliminary document pull had netted many privileged and
irrelevant documents which would need to be identified and weeded out.
As well as needing simultaneous emergency measures to be taken on both sides of the Scottish / English border in order to prevent Police Scotland taking privileged and
irrelevant documents out of the jurisdiction, this case raises complex and important issues concerning cross-border criminal enforcement arising in the context of civil disputes.
Technology Assisted Review, or TAR, is a provocative technology that litigants are using to
cull irrelevant documents and identify documents that are important to a case.
However, in addition to classifying and clustering documents into piles of relevant and
irrelevant documents there are «predictive coding» techniques that can be used to infer legal consequences and outcomes for clients, for example, identifying elements of risk, or degrees of liability, etc..
As the court noted without humor, the production included «car and camera manuals, personal photographs, and other
plainly irrelevant documents, including offensive materials.»
This permitted us to identify and pull out large groups of privileged and
irrelevant documents which would otherwise have required a page by page, linear, bilingual review.
When lawyers reviewed paper copies of client files, weeding out duplicates and
irrelevant documents while flagging the relevant documents, they billed those hours and the firm collected the fees.
Do not do the following when settling with ICBC: (1) Hold back your treatment expenses; (2) Agree to repay your employer's insurance company after the settlement; (3) Put an inappropriate value on your case; and (4) provide unnecessary and
irrelevant documents.
For example, instead of rushing to over-collect and process mountains of
irrelevant documents, the legal team might benefit by focusing first on interviews with key persons of interest to glean early insight into the facts and use this knowledge to narrow the issues as early as possible.
«Rather, it is simply an algorithm that analyzes words according to their frequency and proximity in relevant documents compared to
irrelevant documents.»
This may not be appropriate in all cases, in particular, where the resulting documents are likely to include privileged material,
irrelevant documents, confidential material, or a non-party's personal / sensitive information.
Particularly in this sort of case, parties may wish to consider the use of a clawback agreement to minimise concerns about the disclosure of privileged or
irrelevant documents.
We leverage advanced technology with our legal strategy to avoid costly manual review of
irrelevant documents.
But careful selection is critical unless you want to review responsive yet
irrelevant documents.
The cull feature draws on this interface to allow efficient removal of
irrelevant documents or document sets, which helps organizations reduce the amount of material that must be processed.