Designing a Predictive Coding System for Electronic Discovery

Abstract

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.