Intro to Predictive Coding: Overview & Interpretation of Terminology June 2014 | Page 15

Chapter Four
8 Technological Issues in Using
Predictive Coding
The following is an outline of a basic, effective predictive coding
protocol. It addresses the technological issues involved in using
predictive coding, while recognizing that there will also be legal
strategic issues that must be considered. This protocol is only
one of many that may be appropriate to a particular situation.

1. Meet and Confer. The parties meet to determine the
parameters of eDiscovery, including preservation, collection,
selected custodians, time ranges, topics, concepts, and
other pertinent issues. Repeat as necessary as the case
evolves. Although limiting the documents to be considered
by date ranges and custodian makes some sense, it may not
be advisable to try to limit the documents by keywords,
because of the difficulty in guessing the right keywords.