Good luck to FIRST Robotics Team 116!

Backstop is a proud sponsor of Herndon High School FIRST Robotics Team 116, currently competing at the national robotics championships in St. Louis.  This year's competition calls for teams to build robots that can scoop up frisbees and shoot them into goals.  View the team website or follow the national tournament.  We wish Team 116 much success.

Humorous video regarding use of keyword search

In an earlier post, I discussed the focus on keyword search terms in the new Federal Circuit model order for e-discovery in patent cases, specifically, how that focus seems misplaced in light of the availability of predictive coding and other tools which yield superior recall and precision.  Comes now a humorous "text-to-movie" video about the pitfalls of keyword search and the utility of predictive coding.  To view the video, click here.

Additional humorous e-discovery videos can be viewed here and here.

Federal District Court for the District of Delaware issues new e-discovery default rules

The Federal District Court for the District of Delaware on December 8, 2011 promulgated new default rules regarding e-discovery, including access to source code.  Law Technology News summarizes the new rules (and their predecessors) here.  The new default rules are generally geared to alleviate the burden of production:

Model order for e-discovery in patent cases: podcast

The  Federal Circuit Advisory Council recently drafted and adopted a model order governing e-discovery.  According to the announcement at the Federal Circuit, the "Model Order is offered to aid trial courts in the exercise of their discretion in crafting orders tailored to the facts and circumstances of each case.  The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has not approved the specific language of the posted Model Order."  Chief Judge Randall Rader announced the model order during a speech in Texas on September 27 of this year.

Welcome to the Backstop E-Discovery Blog

Where we will share our thoughts on the field of e-discovery, with a focus on the application of machine-learning technology to the legal context.