Finally there was a way to add eDoc Metadata to our databases without having to go to the “proprietary systems” guys.īy 2010 we needed to be able to process 10s of Terabytes of emails and electronic files in multiple languages and multiple encodings. Concordance was a thing then too.īy 1999, we had Zprint. John Rome at TechLaw was perfecting his system for databases that contained not only searchable text but viewable and printable images of the original documents.īy 1995, we had connectivity to the internet and the web.

Oracle released a version of its RDBMS for Xenix. Forensics was done with the Norton Utilities hex editor.

In 1987, in Lawrence Walsh’s Office of Independent Counsel Iran/Contra, Patti Maslinoff had created databases for most of the documents and full-text searchable databases of all grand jury and trial testimony.

The “give me the document I need (not necessarily what I asked for)” problem became a central concern for developing research concerning how to apply computer technology.

In our spare time we built toy neural nets and played with applying Bayseian algorithms to make sense of the queries we were getting and whether the responses were relevant. It’s amazing how much and how little things have changed in those 40 years.Įxplaining how we would use the new personal computers and databases to manage litigation documents was the order of the day in 1983.īy 1984 we were using computers and dBase at Debevoise & Plimpton to do just that. Stopped by ALM Legal Week at the Hilton in NYC (the largest legal technology conference of the year) yesterday to commemorate 40 years of introducing computer technology to the legal profession.

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