A Brief Compendium of Boneheaded E-Discovery Mistakes

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An article by Craig Ball, Esq. on his blog Ball in Your Court.

This article discusses the difference between "recall" and "precision" as they relate to eDiscovery.

The article states, "Recall and Precision aren’t friends. In e-discovery, they’re barely on speaking terms. Every time Recall has a tea party, Precision crashes with his biker buddies and breaks the dishes.

It’s easy as pie to achieve a high recall of responsive information in e-discovery. You simply grab it all: 100% of the data = 100% recall. But, if only one out of a hundred items is what you seek, your precision stinks–it’s just 1%. You’ll look at 99 irrelevant documents for each one worth reviewing."

The article points out certain common mistakes in utilizing searching during eDiscovery, the list includes a discussion of the following items:

Boneheaded Mistake 1: Searching for a custodian’s name or e-mail address in the custodian’s e-mail

Boneheaded Mistake 2: Assuming the Tool can Run the Search

Boneheaded Mistake 3: Not Testing Searches

Boneheaded Mistake 4: Not Looking at the Data!

Boneheaded Mistake 5: Ignoring the Exceptions List

The article goes on to indicate that this is just a short list of mistakes and the author seeks input from readers regarding other mistakes that they have seen. Feel free to respond to Mr. Ball's article if you want to share some more information about mistakes to avoid.