Keyword Searches: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You — New White Paper by Conrad J. Jacoby, Esq. Brought to You by Equivio

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For attorneys skimming through boxes of documents, keywords have been useful indicators of a document's potential value, enabling them to focus on a smaller group of documents more likely to have relevance to the legal dispute.

And yet, for all its power, the limitations inherent in keyword search routinely generate unsatisfactory results. Keyword search possesses the seemingly contradictory weaknesses of finding too few documents (under-inclusion) and finding too many documents (over-inclusion). Of late, these limitations have led to a small but growing judicial voice questioning whether keyword search alone meets the legal standards for reasonably and defensibly looking for potentially relevant documents and information.

The new white paper Understanding the Limitations of Keyword Search by lawyer and eDiscovery expert Conrad J. Jacoby researches the issues lawyers face when using keyword searches to reduce discovery document collections:

In this white paper, you'll learn:

• How keyword search is frequently under- and over-inclusive.


• Why keyword search alone does not provide legally defensible results.


• How the inflexibility of keyword search can cause timing and budget issues.