Report of Second Phase of Seventh Circuit eDiscovery Pilot Program Published
From Legal Informatics:
The Seventh Circuit Electronic Discovery Pilot Program has published its Final Report on Phase Two, May 2010 to May 2012 (very large PDF file).
A principal purpose of the program is to determine the effects of the use of Principles Relating to the Discovery of Electronically Stored Information in litigation in the Circuit.
The report describes the results of surveys of lawyers who participated in efiling in the Seventh Circuit, and of judges and lawyers who participated in trials in which the Circuit’s Principles Relating to the Discovery of Electronically Stored Information were applied.
True enough, the report is “a very large PDF file.” At 969 pages and 111.5 MB. Don’t try downloading while you are on the road, unless you are in South Korea or Japan.
I don’t have the time today but the report isn’t substantively 969 pages long. Pages of names and addresses, committee minutes, presentations, filler of various kinds. If you find it other than in PDF format, I might be interested in generating a shorter version that might be of more interest.
Bottom line was that cooperation in discovery as it relates to electronically stored information reduces costs and yet maintains standards for representation.
Topic maps can play an important role both in eDiscovery but in relating information together, whatever its original form.
True enough, there are services that perform those functions now, but have you ever taken one of their work products and merged it with another?
By habit or chance, the terms used may be close enough to provide a useful result, but how do you verify the results?