The first phase of the Oracle/Electronic Discovery Institute research project has been completed, and it confirms what many advocates have been preaching about technology-assisted review: 1) spending more money doesn’t correlate with greater quality, 2) senior attorneys know what they are doing, and 3) you can’t turn discovery over to robots—humans are still the most vital component of the project.
Nonprofit EDI launched the project with Oracle Corp. in 2012. Stanford University professors Peter Glynn and Gerd Infanger are chief scientists; advisors are Pallab Chakraborty, e-discovery director in Oracle’s legal department, and EDI co-founder Patrick Oot, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s senior special counsel.
