The Georgetown Law Advanced E-Discovery Institute, held in December in Tysons Corner, Va., was an excellent conference. It boldly addressed the numerous issues that surfaced last year around the concepts of technology-assisted review aka computer-assisted review or predictive coding, all variants of lurching moves towards more efficient search and review of data.
If you polled the 600 attendees for a definition of these terms, you would no doubt get 600 (or more) answers. The conference reinforced the undisputed fact that we are in the very early stages of using advanced technology for electronic data discovery. Few legal professionals believe that discovery can actually be provided in a box, or that it can possibly be anywhere near simple.
