Listen to Karl Schieneman, Founder and President of Review Less be interviewed by Tom Gricks, head of E-Discovery at Schnader Harrison and the attorney who argued the Global Aerospace v. Dulles Aviation case in Virginia, the first case in the country where a judge allowed a party to use predictive coding over the objection of the other party. While we won’t be talking about that case in detail, we will be talking more generally about predictive coding. In particular, Tom will be interviewing me about my Forbes article from January called Legal Hydra where I included a “Top 10 List” advising attorneys on how to learn more about predictive coding. With two cases nationally ordering the use of Predictive Coding, this article is certainly more topical today than it was when I wrote it. Tom and I will discuss this Top 10 list, update it for May, 2012, and no doubt talk about predictive coding, a topic we both are professionally associated with.

Recorded 5/11/12

Listen to Karl Schieneman, Founder and President of Review Less talk with a collection of law school E-Discovery professors started by Bill Hamilton, a partner with Quarles & Brady who also teaches E-Discovery at the University of Florida and is Dean of E-Discovery at Bryan University. He is now actively running a cloud based collection of law school E-Discovery professors networked through cloud computing tools called the E-Discovery Adjuncts and Professors Group.

We also have a collection of other law school professors in this group including Steven Bennett head of e-discovery from Jones Day who teaches law school courses at Hofstra, New York Law School, Allison Skinner from Sirote & Permute who teaches E-Discovery at the University of Alabama; Allyson Haynes from the College of Charleston School of Law; and Jennifer Smith from Florida A&M University College of Law and formerly a litigator with Holland and Knight. This show is a nice human interest story and a great testimonial on the power of the Internet to spread a good idea. All in all, this is a great panel for this topic and a very interesting show.

Recorded 5/1/2012

Listen to Karl Schieneman, Founder and President of Review Less talk with Magistrate Judge James C. Francis IV from the S.D. of NY, M. James Daley co-founder of Daley & Fey, and Philip Favro, discovery counsel with Symantec about navigating the world of international e-discovery and how this impacts litigation in the United States. It’s nice to take a breather from predictive coding issues which have taken over ESIBytes lately and return to a mainstream topic. This is a good one as privacy statutes in foreign jurisdictions can complicate e-discovery cases in the U.S. We will also talk about Symantec’s new free web service called an e-discovery passport. This provides the ability to download material on foreign privacy issues broken down by specific country. All in all, this is a great panel for this topic and a very interesting show.

Recorded 4/19/12

Listen to Karl Schieneman, Founder and President of Review Less talk with Warwick Sharp, co-founder of Equivio, Jim Wagner co-founder and CEO of DiscoverReady, and Tom Gricks, head of E-Discovery at the law firm Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis about how predictive coding workflows are being created and developed. We are fortunate to have users of different predictive coding programs and review model providers on the show. Between the four of us, we have a very exciting and practical conversation on how electronic discovery will impact the world of review as well as the ongoing issues of validation and the heightened need for cooperation when predictive coding is used.

Recorded 03/26/2012

Judge Peck

Listen to Karl Schieneman, Founder and President of Review Less talk with Herb Roitblat, Chief Scientist at OrcaTec, a predictive coding software company and the Chairman of the E-Discovery Institute. Together we will discuss the validation of predictive coding, a topic which has become the central issue in the Da Silva Moore v. Publicis Group case in the S.D. of NY. We will also talk about statistics and other items which impact this discussion. For extra measure, we will discuss studies which are out in the field and what they mean when defending predictive coding.  The Kleen case in the 7th Circuit will be mentioned quite a bit as well. This is an exciting show as we tackle some of the hottest issues in predictive coding the legal community is facing right now.

Recorded 03/22/2012

Listen to Karl Schieneman, Founder and President of Review Less talk with Vince Catanzaro from Dupont and Kevin Brady from Eckert Seamans on Delaware’s Default Standard For Discovery Including Discovery of Electronically Stored Information (”ESI”). This standard for federal litigation in Delaware was passed on Dec 8, 2011 and the standard is to be used when the parties can’t agree on standards of their own in the meet and confer process.

Delaware has always been known as a corporation-friendly jurisdiction. So, the question is, “do these new default standards for e-discovery advance that reputation or do they just provide certainty to parties which helps to contain costs?”  We delve into the default standards in some detail in this program and we have two excellent guests to talk about these standards because both were involved in the intimate process of creating them.

Listen to Karl Schieneman, Founder and President of Review Less talk with three judges from federal court in the Western District of Pennsylvania about the recent training they received on predictive coding and their reaction to using these newer search and retrieval tools. Our three guest judges were Judge Joy Flowers Conti, Judge Nora Barry Fischer, and Judge Mark Hornak. This is the first time a single court has sought training in predictive coding and the event was well attended by 16 judges and law clerks.

In addition, we have included Herb Roitblat, Chief Scientist with predictive coding software provider OrcaTec and Chairman of the Electronic Discovery Institute. Herb conducted the training sessions for the judges as well as a follow up training session for the Special Masters in the Western District of Pennsylvania’s Pilot Program for using Special Masters to help parties mediate and resolve electronic discovery disputes. In this training, Herb provided and discussed statistics surrounding the use of predictive coding and then demonstrated OrcaTec’s predictive coding tools to the audience. This program was also well attended by 20 Special Masters including myself. Listen in to hear how judges from a mainstream U.S. court react to predictive coding.

Recorded 2/14/2012

Listen to Karl Schieneman, Founder and President of Review Less talk about his humorous take on the Occupy Movement and applying it to LegalTech in support of predictive coding. What better place is there to stage a protest against the limited use of predictive coding other than LegalTech? There will be plenty of vendors who have predictive coding or forms of these tools demonstrating their capabilities. So for the curious, this is as good a place as any to learn about the tools. I have personally looked at about a dozen tools and compared them to academic studies of human review using key words or just pure responsiveness coding. They all outperform linear review.

Numerous judges have approved the use of predictive coding in articles, blog posts and here at ESIBytes. Yet still, the field is only slowly considering these tools. To me that sounds like fertile ground for a protest. So the idea for Occupy LegalTech 2012 was created. Listen to this show to learn more about this spontaneous, social media fueled protest. Hope you enjoy the show and I look forward to meeting listeners of this show at LegalTech this year and talking about the Occupy LegalTech movement, handing out humorous buttons and discussing other podcast ideas.

Listen to Karl Schieneman, Founder and President of Review Less talk about LegalTech with Henry Dicker, Vice President of Events at ALM, Executive Director, LegalTech and Christine Alemany, Director of Marketing at DiscoverReady and a vendor who sponsors and presents at LegalTech. Henry has been with ALM for 13 years and has been running the LegalTech brand for his entire tenure. He will talk about how LegalTech has evolved over the years and might provide a sneak peek into this year’s show. DiscoverReady has been an active sponsor of LegalTech and they can explain what being involved with LegalTech means for them and for other participants.

LegalTech can be overwhelming at times and is appropriately held in New York City which can also be overwhelming to outsiders. The goal of this show is to share advice on how to make the most of your LegalTech experience including strategies, how to work the largest legal technology trade exhibit in the world and what to expect this year. Most visible E-Discovery experts attend LegalTech so it’s a great place to catch up with industry analysts and learn what new technologies are hitting the field. Most importantly, the trade show and some of the programs are free.

Listen to Karl Schieneman, Founder and President of Review Less, discuss the recent  US v. Jones decision with Ed McNicholas, privacy expert attorney and partner from the Washington, D.C. office of Sidley & Austin.   In this decision, the Supreme Court unanimously held that the police must first obtain a search warrant before placing GPS device on a car for an extended period of time to covertly follow a suspect. This discussion will center on what the Supreme Court’s GPS opinion means to the general public and how the Supreme Court feels about the important field of privacy rights for individuals in the electronic age.

Recorded 1/23/2012