craigball
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Lawyer, Special Master, teacher, forensic examiner, traveler. My purpose and passion is helping lawyers master technology.
New Orleans, U.S.A. Sol 3
Joined January 2009
Native or Not? Rethinking Public E-Mail Corpora for E-Discovery (Redux, 2013→2025)
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Yesterday, I found myself in a spirited exchange with a colleague about whether the e-discovery community has suitable replacements for the Enron e-mail corpora1—now more than two decades old—as a …
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Still on Dial-Up: Why It’s Time to Retire the Enron Email Corpus
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Early this century, when I was gaining a reputation as a trial lawyer who understood e-discovery and digital forensics, I was hired to work as the lead computer forensic examiner for plaintiffs in …
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The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older: intelligence and good manners.~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If I drove the way Trump steers the U.S. economy, I’d be pulled over for DWI.
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Seventeen years since the last snow in New Orleans and nothing like this!
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“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear” - Antonio Gramsci, “Prison Notebooks”
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I’ve been moving continuously, never stopping, for nine days; from Brest, France to Nassau, Bahamas. That’s a lifetime record for this peripatetic. In past voyages, there’s always been at least a brief stop, but weather made that impossible. How about you? Longest continuous?
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Free Georgetown Law CLE Pre-conference discussion: eDiscovery Basics Part 2 - The A-Z of eDiscovery TODAY at 1pm EDT: https://t.co/qMXUZGQJPm
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Big thinker/brilliant blogger, Greg Bufithis writes,"The [new iPhone] 'camera control' lets you use the phone like a regular camera...." I gather he means a "point-and-shoot" camera. But, those have been made obsolete long enough that younger readers may hardly take the point.
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Did we really hear one presidential candidate accuse the other of “putting out?” What next? Accuse her of stuffing her bra and being a “tease.” Put a fork in that old, angry man.
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Sure, Harris eviscerated Trump, but the scourge of delicious pets got the attention it’s long deserved.
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When it comes to making claims about Modern Attachments in discovery, don't guess, measure! There's No Better Rule
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“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.” I quote this line from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations at the end of all my emails. It’s…
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A lucid, insightful metaphor is my favorite way to explain technology, and Ted Chiang, a science fiction writer, nails it when he likens ChatGPT and LLMs to lossy compression. Excellent!
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I fly a lot. There are rules. RULE: If you stow your bag some distance behind your row, you must wait until the rows between you and your bag disembark to retrieve your bag. We are not obliged to pass it hand-to-hand over everyone's heads or let you rush back and return.
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Can requesting parties tailor requests for production in discovery to elicit superior performace from the AI tools used by the other side? Here's how. Adapting Requests for Production for AI GLLM Assessment
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The integration of Generative Large Language Models (GLLMs) into the discovery process is transforming how documents are reviewed for relevance and responsiveness. These AI models, which excel at p…
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With generative large language models (AI) used to assess information for responsiveness, wise counsel frame requests for production to include elements of effective AI prompts. If you want their AI to find what you need, tell it how to discriminate.
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