Judge Issues A “Wake Up Call” on the Use of Search in E-Discovery

by Deidre Paknad, President and CEO, PSS Systems
Yet another judge with e-discovery expertise is warning litigants about reliance on search in e-discovery. Magistrate Judge Peck from the Southern District of New York in an opinion dated March 19, 2009, issues what he terms “a wake up call” about “the need for careful thought, quality control, testing and cooperation with opposing counsel in designing search terms or ‘keywords’ to be used to produce emails or other electronically stored information”.