Mark Michels, a consultant in Silicon Valley who formerly worked on litigation and discovery matters at Cisco, has an interesting piece in Law Technology News discussing “predictive coding,” or technology-assisted document review. Although several federal judges have expressed approval of this technique, the “defensibility”—that is, the reliability and robustness—of predictive … More »
Possible Downsides to Software as a Service
Brian Proffitt at ITWorld has an interesting post on possible downsides to software as a service (SaaS), specifically Amazon Silk. Amaz0n Silk is a new “cloud-powered” web browser which will work with Amazon’s new ereader/tablet, the Kindle Fire. Silk uses Amazon’s cloud-based web service (AWS) to perform faster. From its website: … More »
Obtaining iPhone Geolocation Data in Civil Discovery
Remember the buzz earlier this year that your iPhone was cataloging your location in a hidden file? InternetLawCommentary points us to an article in Trial Advocate Quarterly that describes how an attorney might go about obtaining such information in civil discovery, and how to make sense of the data once obtained. It … More »
