Kilpatrick Townsend

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Platform-Agnostic Search Mojo!

KT LitSmart Blog

February 3, 2020

Searching is a core e-discovery skill that has been a part of the legal case landscape for about two decades now. Throughout that time, the fundamental capabilities for keyword searching have not changed much. Keyword searching persists as a useful technique in spite of new legal technology. Logical connectors (OR, AND, NOT, etc.) and proximity operators (w/X) are simple keyword search tools. Yes, they are crude compared to the technologies du jour, but they work well! Thank 19th Century mathematicians, 20th Century computer scientists, and many others!