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Forensic Data Collection: A Bridge Between Digital Forensics, eDiscovery, And Artificial Intelligence   

Above The Law

In the summer of 1956, when John McCarthy gathered researchers at Dartmouth College, he did not just coin the term “artificial intelligence” he sparked a digital revolution that would span generations. The emphasis on data quality is why data collection from a legal and investigative perspective is crucial for moving forward.

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How Litigation Attorneys Manage & Review High Volumes of Electronic Evidence

CARET Legal

Firms dont need to rely on manual management and analysis of digital data. Evidence collection has evolved beyond paper documents to include a flood of digital dataemails, cloud-stored files, social media posts, and more. Without the right tools, you and your team could spend weeks or months manually reviewing all this data.

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What is Ediscovery?

Paralegal Bootcamp

Electronic discovery (AKA eDiscovery/ediscovery/E-Discovery/e-Discovery) is in the more exclusive category of “Things that are both invaluable and tedious to learn/apply but necessary to stay relevant and effective professionally.”. a dictionary definition that starts by first defining the legal term “discovery;” and.

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Clean Up Your Docs with Microsoft’s Document Inspector

LawTechnologyToday

But before we go through the steps on how to use the MS Word Document Inspector, let’s thoroughly discuss what these types of personal information and hidden data are. Types of Personal Information and Hidden Data. Document Metadata and Personal Information. Custom XML data. Watermarks, headers, and footers.

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Top 7 Tips for Litigation Paralegals in 2024

Paralegal Bootcamp

Start by reviewing all of the motions, briefs, discovery responses, and pleadings. Extract any dates that you come across during that review and put them into a chronology. As you’re doing your review, create a master to-do list for that case where you can keep notes about the things that you come across.

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Guest Post: The Caselaw Access Project — Then, Now, Tomorrow

LawSites

Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain and l were sitting down with Daniel Lewis and Nik Reed , the founders of a legal research startup named Ravel Law, along with lawyers from Harvard’s Office of General Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton and Gundersen Dettmer. So we did research and made one. We didn’t have all the books we needed.

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3 Ways Big Data Will Influence the Future of People Analytics

The Process Street

All of those things depend on Big Data. As data collection methods improve, more and more applications for that data are coming into play. In addition to customer profiles , education, healthcare, and finance are all jumping on the Big Data bandwagon. That’s only one idea of the cyborg, though.

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