Predictive Coding Drama is Good for eDiscovery Market

In a Law.com blog post by Evan Koblentz on August 1, 2011 titled, "Bragging Rights or Blowing Smoke?", Mr. Koblentz indicates that Recommind's CEO Bob Tennant pointed out that, "If nothing else, the ruckus acknowledged the importance of automation to the future of legal discovery, and the significance of our intellectual property, including the announced patent, to the e-discovery industry."  I am not sure about the significance of Recomminds intellectual property and its announced patent.  But, Bob is spot on about the fact that the rukus over who owns what predictive coding IP is absolutely outstanding to the future of eDiscovery.  litigators, judges, general counsel, IT directors, litigation service providers and even some litigation technology vendors need to realize that mature and tested technology already exists to completely change the game and change the paradigm in which we currently view how technology is utilized and how it affects litigation.

As a result, it won't be long before risky off-shore coding and document review and expensive on-shore coding and document review will be practices that we read about in the history books and wonder why.

Finally, I couldn't let another blog posting on predictive coding go by without mentioning, as may others have, that there are lots of other predictive coding vendors with exceptional predictive coding technology that need to be acknowledged, including Orcatec, Equivio, Capital Legal Solutions, Catalyst, FTI Technology, InterLegais, Kroll Ontrack, Valora and Xerox.