{"id":21500,"date":"2021-10-08T11:17:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T15:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gutenberg-atl.staging.breakingmedia.com\/legal-innovation-center\/?p=21500"},"modified":"2021-10-10T09:29:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T13:29:15","slug":"the-legal-tech-to-english-dictionary-ediscovery-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/legal-innovation-center\/2021\/10\/08\/the-legal-tech-to-english-dictionary-ediscovery-software\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legal Tech-To-English Dictionary: eDiscovery Software"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"There\u2019s a term for when attorneys use Latin and other arcane languages to describe legal processes to consumers: \u201clegalese.\u201d<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s no similar term for when vendors use technical and other arcane languages to describe their legal software operations to lawyers.<\/p>\n

True, this dynamic may seem unfair. But now we have The Legal Tech-to-English Dictionary to help us cope.<\/p>\n

Read on for the latest installment, where we translate eDiscovery-related topics to plain English. And while you’re here, check out our eDiscovery room at the Non-Event<\/a> to see just how effective the latest software is.<\/p>\n

Special thanks to Shree Sharma of HaystackID<\/a> for her assistance with this article.<\/p>\n

ESI<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Electronically Stored Information<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. If you didn\u2019t at least know that the \u2018e\u2019 stood for some variant of \u2018electronic,\u2019 it may be time to upgrade your dial-up.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Lawyer 1: Do you have a handle on the ESI dump we just received?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

    Lawyer 2: No, I don\u2019t get that with my cable package.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

    Cf. ESI was <\/span>defined in 2006 via an update to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure<\/span><\/a>, to help to streamline the eDiscovery process.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Cf. This is at least a better method of proceeding than searching for paper documents in a bankers box, while trying to avoid all the flattened, dead spiders.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Metadata<\/strong><\/p>\n

      \n
    1. The related information that describes the characteristics of ESI, e.g. – sender, recipient, author, date.<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Colloquially, data about data.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Lawyer 1: Do you have the sender information for all those emails?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

      Lawyer 2: That\u2019s so meta.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

      Lawyer 1: Fuck off, Chuck.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

      Cf. <\/span>Aristotle\u2019s \u2018Metaphysics,\u2019<\/span><\/a>\u00a0only about data.\u00a0 (Give me a break, okay \u2013 I went to a liberal arts college.)<\/span><\/p>\n

      Cf. <\/span>Much of the \u2018Deadpool\u2019 franchise<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

      Structured Data<\/strong><\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Data stored in a structured format (such as a database), or delimited in form (as in a CSV file).<\/span><\/li>\n
      2. My fantasy baseball rankings for middle relievers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Cf. Coming across unstructured data is kind of like when you step on a Lego, and just as painful.\u00a0 (Get it?\u00a0 Stray, single Legos have been removed from a larger structure.) <\/span>Fortunately, there\u2019s a shoe for that<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

        Deduplication<\/strong><\/p>\n

          \n
        1. The process of comparing the characteristics of electronic documents to identify and\/or remove exact duplicate items.<\/span><\/li>\n
        2. As opposed to reduplication, which uses repetition of sounds to create words, like: pitter-patter and flim-flam; also, of course, pee-pee.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Lawyer 1: Can we dedupe this text message with the Michael Jordan crying face meme?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

          Lawyer 2: Those are actually lots of different text messages.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

          Lawyer 1: Oooohhhh.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

          Cf. It turns out that reading the same exact email 64 times won\u2019t actually teach you anything new about your case.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

          Pseudonymization<\/strong><\/p>\n

            \n
          1. GDPR<\/span><\/a> measure requiring that data be processed in a way that separates it from identifiers “in such a way that the data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information.\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n
          2. Data management de-identification procedure<\/a> by which personally identifiable information fields within a data record are replaced by one or more artificial identifiers, or pseudonyms.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Lawyer 1: And your pseudonym shall be <\/span>Pickles Dilhoefer.<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

            Cf. How I went by the alias \u2018<\/span>DB Cooper<\/span><\/a>\u2019 in the early ’70s.\u00a0 . . . Oh, shit.<\/span><\/p>\n

            \n
            \n
            \n

            Jared Correia, a consultant and legal technology expert, is the host of the Non-Eventcast, the featured podcast of the Above the Law Non-Event for Tech-Perplexed Lawyers.<\/i><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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