Cranking Up the Buzz on Info-Governance, Predictive Coding

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An article by David Snow posted on law.com on the LTN webpage.

This article discusses the recent Legal Tech Conference held in New York City last week, and addresses two hot topics:  Information Governance; and Predictive Coding.

The article states, " The two topics are proving to be major buzzwords for 2012, and for good reason. They're complex and intimidating, in part because of the risks and expenses associated with them, and in part because of the understandable angst felt by many in the legal industry over being among early adopters of new technology."

The article goes on to further state, ""Information governance in particular can have a kind of 'boil the ocean' stigma to it," says Dean Gonsowski, e-discovery counsel for Symantec, who came to the company through its acquisition of Clearwell Systems. Gonsowski, who attended LegalTech and was involved with the survey, points out that one challenge is that a coalition of people from different departments need to be brought to the table to address the complexity of information governance. "If not presented correctly, it can get folks' eyes to glaze over. It can be too big. What we tell folks is that it's more of a pyramid. People are already doing parts of it, like document retention programs, to build on."

Part of the concern over predictive coding in electronic data discovery, aka computer-assisted coding to parse documents during the document review process, is that it's a cultural shift for lawyers to accept that machines can review documents well enough to be defensible in court."

P.S.  These are two of the favorite topics of the authors of the Litigation Support Technology and News blogs, and they will both continue to be important topics for the legal profession to address.