Resource Library

Honest Brokers are Needed
Published in The National Law Journal by H5's Nicolas Economou
This article posits that gamesmanship in discovery can be effectively mitigated and cooperation can be facilitated by entrusting the supervision or execution of electronic document discovery to a neutral intermediary—an honest broker of discovery.[read]

Measuring the Accuracy of Technology-Assisted Reviews
H5 Practice Brief
H5's latest Practice Brief boils down the key considerations in designing a document review quality assurance protocol and provides practical how-to tips. [read]

The Professionalization of Search and Review in E-Discovery
Published in KMWorld by H5's Nicolas Economou
This article discusses the need to recognize legal "search" as a professional expert discipline and ways in which information retrieval expertise can reduce costs and mitigate risks. It also explains the leading role of TREC in developing standards for e-discovery search methods. [read]

Court Opinions Show Path toward More Defensible Document Review
H5 White Paper
This paper analyzes three recent opinions by Judge Paul Grimm and Judge John Facciola. Together these opinions provide useful guidance as to how discovery of electronically stored information should be conducted today in order to successfully defend against challenges and thereby avoid incurring the massive costs and legal risks that come with losing such challenges. [read]

Concept Search: Perceived Security, Actual Risk
H5 White Paper
This paper reviews the academic literature on query-based approaches to information retrieval, summarizes the limitations of these approaches, and identifies the key challenges that a successful solution to document review and management problems must overcome. [read]

Benchmarking the Document Review Process
H5 White Paper
This paper discusses a framework for the quantitative evaluation of review solutions along the three key factors of time to completion, cost, and accuracy/risk of missing relevant documents. [read]

Searching in All the Wrong Places: The Effectiveness of Search Tools in E-Discovery
Published in Digital Discovery & e-Evidence by H5's Bruce Hedin, Ph.D.
This paper surveys academic studies of the performance of search tools and other information retrieval methodologies. [read]

How Can We Do This Differently? How a Law Firm and a Search Company Can Work Together for Litigation Clients
Chris Dale explores the alliance between H5 and law firm O'Melveny & Myers. [read]

E-Discovery Expert H5 Befriends the Law Firm; Can It Now Fix Enterprise Search?
The 451 Group's latest Market Impact report discusses H5's e-discovery and information governance businesses. [read]

H5 — Combining Technology and Process Expertise to Facilitate Information Retrieval for Information Retention and eDiscovery
This vendor profile by IDC offers an evaluation of H5 and discusses H5's unique combination of technology and human expertise for search and review. [read]

H5 Puts Data in Its Place with First Product Release, a Document Classifier
Independent technology-industry analyst company The 451 Group provides a review of the H5 EDGE Classifier. [read]

H5 and Information Governance: Lowering Risk, Lowering Cost
This opinion piece by The Taneja Group discusses challenges of information governance and how the H5 EDGE Classifier helps organizations meet these challenges. [read]