Cross-role collaboration between the lawyers acting as Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), the technology experts and the best-of-breed Technology Assisted Review (TAR) tools, is critical – with all three working in alignment to ensure a successful review outcome. As you work through your case, it is also important to adjust your approach to TAR in the face of Concept Drift if you are going to truly advance your understanding of your case and cascade the insight gained across your data universe.
Technology in Practice speaker alumnus and well-known ediscovery lawyer and blogger, Ralph Losey, discusses this topic in detail in his three-part blog series titled, Concept Drift and Consistency: Two Keys To Document Review Quality:
"High quality effective legal search, by which I mean a document review project that is high in recall, precision and efficiency, and proportionally low in cost, is the holy grail of e-discovery. Like any worthy goal it is not easy to attain, but unlike the legendary grail, there is no secret on how to find it. As most experts already well know, it can be attained by:
- Following proven document search and review protocols;
- Using skilled personnel;
- Using good multimodal software with active machine learning features; and,
- Following proven methods for quality control and quality assurance..."
Read Mr. Losey's full blog series here: PART 1, PART 2, PART 3
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