Levin College of Law

UF Law E-Discovery Project

The UF Law E-Discovery Project is supported by generous contributions from The International Center for Automated Research at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.

William Hamilton
Executive Director

Welcome to the UF Law E-Discovery Project

The UF Law E-Discovery Project is a multidisciplinary endeavor enhancing litigation competence through electronic discovery law courses, research, the development of information retrieval method and tools, and offering electronic discovery skills training for practicing attorneys and litigation support professionals through public conferences and continuing legal educational offerings.

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Courses

Electronic Discovery

Course Number: LAW 6930 Credits: 2

Explores how the current information explosion is transforming the civil litigation process and the critical issues which arise in managing data in the civil litigation process. The course will examine developing case law and address the practical problems and issues which arise in the preservation, collection, searching, processing, and production of electronic data.

Electronic Discovery Data Analysis and Review

Course Number: LAW 6930 Credits: 2

This course will explore “search” or information retrieval: the central issue in e-discovery and legal defensibility of the discovery process. The course will explore the varieties of search methodology applied to e-discovery including manual search, key word search, conceptual and cluster search, revolutionary predictive coding and machine learning, and the strengths and weakness of each approach and focus on developing an intermodal legally defensible approach.

UF law E-Discovery Internships and Externships

E-Discovery Externships

The E-Discovery project facilitates e-discovery externship courses where students during the summer between their first and second law school years take credit courses working on-site with e-discovery legal service providers. In past years, UF law students have been interns with such firms as Advanced Discovery, in Washington, D.C., and Inspired Review, in Sunrise, Florida. UF Law student Carey Taylor completed a UF E-Discovery Externship with Advanced Discovery. Watch an interview of her talking about the externship experience here.

Read more about UF Law Externships.

E-Discovery Internships

The E-Discovery Project facilitates paid e-discovery internships with major e-discovery service providers that are career pathways for students seeking opportunities working in the electronic discovery industry.

UF Law alum Stephanie McNeff completed a UF E-Discovery Internship with Advanced Discovery in Detroit. Watch an interview of her talking about the internship experience here.

UF Law alum Shalyn Doskoez completed a UF E-Discovery Internship with Inspired Review in Sunrise, Florida. Watch an interview of her talking about the internship experience here.

Publications

“Trial Practice: Analyze This!”

American Bar Association: Litigation, Fall 2016

Read the article here.

“League of Women Voters of Fla. v. Detzner: The Florida Supreme Court’s Hidden Pre-Litigation E-Discovery Preservation Mandate”

Florida Bar Journal, November 2016

Read the article here.

“Streamlining and Modernizing Florida’s Pre-litigation Preservation Standard: Modern Technology Demands a Modern Solution”

Florida Bar Journal, May 2014

Read the article here.

“SMART Electronic Legal Discovery Via Topic Modeling” White Paper

AAAI Publications, Presented at The Twenty-Seventh International Flairs Conference

Read the white paper here.

“Semantic Edge Labeling Over Legal Citation Graphs”

Presented at the Legal Text, Document and Corpus Analysis meeting

University of San Diego Law School

June 17, 2016

Read the proceedings here.

“Do the New Rules Lighten the Sisyphean Boulder?”

American bar Association Litigation Journal, Summer 2018

Read the Article here.

 

Random Sampler Application

The University of Florida Levin College of Law E-Discovery Project and the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) are pleased to announce the availability of the Random Sampler application for e-discovery. This application has been collaboratively developed and is freely available under an open source license.

Click here for more information and to download the Random Sampler Application.