In a recent study in the Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, lawyer labor was tested against lawyerbots
with predictive coding software.
To get a comprehensive update on predictive coding watch this on - demand webcast
with predictive coding expert Ralph Losey, Predictive Coding 3.0.
But
with predictive coding comes a host of questions.
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The challenge
with predictive coding is the question of judicial defensibility.
Predictive Discovery combines an interdisciplinary expert team
with predictive coding software to help corporate and law firm attorneys review and produce documents for commercial litigation and regulatory investigations.
Despite the advances expected
with predictive coding, emerging challenges such as increasing data volumes, complex data types such as from social media and the cloud, as well as increasing international discovery demands provided such a counterweight that 47 % of counsel expect e-discovery costs to increase over the next few years.
While expectations for predictive coding were high, many respondents noted that the technology was evolving quickly, requiring acceptance from the courts, new skills from e-discovery practitioners, and necessitating greater partnership
with predictive coding services providers.
«As judges and lawyers become more comfortable
with predictive coding it will lead to greater use.»
In fact, while 97 per cent said they were familiar
with predictive coding, 69 per cent have yet to adopt the technology.
Not exact matches
With about 100 lines of
code, a Morgridge Institute for Research team has unleashed a fast, simple and
predictive text - mining tool that may turbo - charge big biomedical pursuits such as drug repurposing and stem cell treatments.
When reality fails to match the models, which produce, despite millions of lines of
code, little more than a lagged rescaling of the inputs, and which,
with their copious parameters, have become over-fit, then either reality is adjusted by unjustified manipulations of past temperature data, or new explanations (excuses) for why the models have no
predictive skill are invented.
These variables are an important reminder as to why it is critical that clients beginning to leverage
predictive coding work
with experts to advise on which methods make the most sense for a matter's unique needs.
Likewise, for cases that involve a mix of hard copy documents and electronic documents, it is better to deal
with the hard copy documents manually, and use some form of
predictive coding on the electronic documents to balance the manual work
with a highly efficient approach for the digital portion.
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With Ringtail, law firms can provide more cost - effective e-discovery services to their clients as well as expand into areas like data analytics,
predictive coding and managed review.
Understand the role that technology plays in reducing costs
with managed review, specifically analytics and
predictive coding
Paul is a PhD - qualified mathematician
with more than a decade of commercial software development experience and has provided expert witness testimony on
predictive coding methodology.
On a practical level, Vogl pointed out that many law firms are working
with vendors using machine learning and
predictive coding for e-discovery.
We've been working
with a range of clients, including regulators, law firm partners and corporate legal teams to help them understand: first, the
predictive coding process as a whole from start to finish, and what that looks like for their particular matter; and second, some basic elements such as precision and recall, so they don't get bogged down in the nuts and bolts of the data science.
And most lawyers will still want to vet
predictive coding with humans, at least on a sampling basis.
Or
predictive coding that requires far fewer lawyer hours to do eDiscovery work and allows them more time to explore and test new opportunities
with their clients.
Pursuant to the legal authorities which I have cited supra, and
with particular reference to the albeit limited Irish jurisprudence on the topic, I am satisfied that, provided the process has sufficient transparency, Technology Assisted Review using
predictive coding discharges a party's discovery obligations under Order 31, rule 12.
It was an informative gathering
with lively roundtable discussions amongst peers on interesting e-discovery topics such as: judges ordering the use of
predictive coding, indexing data by concepts, the practicality of co-operation and disclosure of
predictive coding to opposing counsel, whether it's possible to conduct privilege reviews using
predictive coding and even securing executive buy - in for «spring cleaning» data remediation projects.
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With E-Discovery Solutions and Services 5.5.2.2 Contradiction Between Data Protection and E-Discovery 5.5.3 Opportunities 5.5.3.1 Rise in Demand for
Predictive Coding 5.5.3.2 Increased Usage of Social Media Websites 5.5.4 Challenges 5.5.4.1 Less Awareness About E-Discovery 5.5.4.2 Increase in Cross-Border E-Discovery
An interview
with Ron Friedmann of Integreon; the legal paradigm shift,
predictive coding, document categorization, and more was published 29 January 2010.
In the survey, the most commonly cited reasons for not adopting it, among those familiar
with their company's stance on
predictive coding, were: concerns about accuracy (62 per cent); difficult to defend (57 per cent); cost (57 per cent); concerns about privilege / confidentiality (54 per cent), and difficult to understand (53 per cent).
As
predictive coding and analytics play a bigger role in e-discovery, those
with legal, IT and mathematical skills will be in great demand.
Where, as here, petitioners reasonably request to use
predictive coding to conserve time and expense, and represent to the Court that they will retain electronic discovery experts to meet
with respondent's counsel or his experts to conduct a search acceptable to respondent, we see no reason petitioners should not be allowed to use
predictive coding to respond to respondent's discovery request.
With judicial support and basic economics in its favor, why hasn't
predictive coding fulfilled its promise in eDiscovery?
In - house counsel will begin conducting more
predictive coding pilots
with experienced service providers.
Technology: Advanced technology like analytics and
predictive coding, used in combination
with repeatable processes, can help provide cost savings.
Our second segment was a panel led by Chris Dale, an industry leading eDiscovery consultant, who held an interactive discussion
with the audience regarding the «acceptance of
predictive coding technology by the English courts».
A typical managed services agreement
with D4 includes litigation support, consulting, collections and forensics, processing,
predictive coding, analytics, hosting and review.
With the emergence, and apparent judicial acceptance, of
predictive coding and the certainty of greater technological advancements on the horizon, attorneys will be well - served to understand and embrace these changes as they come.
After starting
with over 8 million documents, through culling,
predictive coding, analytics and privilege review, the healthcare companies produced less than 700,000 documents in total.
The eDiscovery industry is saturated
with new whitepapers, blog posts, and webinars regarding Technology Assisted Review and
Predictive Coding, which, at times, can be more confusing than helpful.
Additionally, since the
predictive coding program relies on the judgment of the senior attorney who trains it, the outcomes are likely to be more consistent and accurate than if an attorney hires multiple individuals who are less familiar
with the facts to review the documents.
In his opinion, Magistrate Judge Treece specifically noted that, «
With the advent of software,
predictive coding, spreadsheets, and similar advances, the time and cost to produce large reams of documents can be dramatically reduced... the Court is more convinced than ever that [the subpoena] is not... an overwhelming and incomprehensible burden.»
With predictive -
coding, the software delivers results based on keywords that are set by seasoned attorneys, and then the software can be tweaked to improve accuracy over time.
Industry studies have shown that
with the right training,
predictive coding achieves better and more cost - effective results than traditional, Boolean logic - based eDiscovery, which requires humans to give detailed, specifically structured instruction sets for searches.
Also in July, the company began providing Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, a national law firm
with more than 500 lawyers,
with an end - to - end managed services platform that includes litigation support, consulting, forensics and collections, processing,
predictive coding, analytics, hosting and review.
This type of analytics - driven review is commonly referred to as
predictive coding, used interchangeably
with technology assisted review (TAR) and computer assisted review (CAR).
During an interview
with Law Technology News, Tom Groom discusses how using
predictive coding or technology assisted review (TAR) «can be an incredible cost - and time - saver» for legal teams, but it is not «an easy button.»
Under the terms of the agreement, D4 will support Buchanan
with an end - to - end managed services model that includes litigation support, information governance consulting, forensics and collections, processing,
predictive coding, analytics, hosting and review.
88 percent of firms polled now also use
predictive coding to cull large data sets and 68 percent of these rated their experience
with it as six or higher on a scale of one to ten.
Finally, and perhaps not obviously at all, lawyers also work
with technology — not simply word processing and email, but software for document generation, electronic discovery,
predictive coding and technology assisted review, analysis by rules - based expert systems, blockchain.
In the second installment of our series later this summer, we'll dive into one particular example of litigation software
with Etgen and explore why «
predictive coding» technology has so far failed to fulfill its promise in eDiscovery.
I disagree
with the conclusions on
predictive coding.
Document review accounts for a considerable portion of attorney time and money, but our automated issue
coding, also known as
predictive coding, uses cutting edge high technology to streamline this process
with technology assisted review (TAR).