The "Streetlight Effect," described by David Freedman in his 2010 book "Wrong," is a species of observational bias where people tend to look for things in the easiest ways. It neatly describes how lawyers approach e-discovery.
December 10, 2012 at 12:00 AM
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In the wee hours, a beat cop sees a drunken lawyer crawling around under a streetlight searching for something. The cop asks, “What’s this, now?” The lawyer looks up and says, “I’ve lost my keys.”
They both search for a while, until the cop asks, “Are you sure you lost them here?”
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