Browsing by Subject "Law firms"

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    Designing a Predictive Coding System for Electronic Discovery
    (2017-07-14) Soundarajan, Dhivya; Hook, Sara Anne
    This paper presents the preliminary results of a pilot project to design a predictive coding system for electronic discovery (e-discovery) that will be able to handle potentially relevant evidence in a myriad of formats and that will have the features and functionality that lawyers and members of the legal team will find most use-ful. We developed our predictive coding system to combine available software tools with particular emphasis on usability and in making the user interface as in-tuitive, attractive and user-friendly as possible. Future work will include a survey and interviews with potential users, testing the system with larger sets of files and documents, and continued refinement of the user interface and backend processing.
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    Legal and Ethical Implications of Social Media
    (2016-05-03) Hook, Sara Anne
    Social media technologies continue to evolve at an increasingly rapid rate and have now replaced email as the preferred method of communication for many. Because of the Rules of Professional Conduct and other doctrines, lawyers need to be especially careful in using social media for client communication, marketing and other law firm functions, as well as handling social media as evidence. And it doesn't stop there: not only might incorrect use of social media end up as a breach of ethical rules, but it also has the potential to communicate a lack of professionalism to the community and damage a case or a client.