The sine qua non for stuff: search

Searching a large body of anything, be it case law or data in response to litigation, requires not only good search tools but a good process to find what is relevant and discard what is not. In regard to searching case law, we know a key skill for lawyers is finding and analogizing cases in legal argumentation. Dr. Adam Wyner discusses the application of natural language processing tools to online bodies of case law for quicker, more cost-effective delivery of accurate analytic search results. And in regard to searching data in response to litigation, TREC 2008 results are out and the tasks for 2009 are in.