Extract from George Socha’s article “eDiscovery Leaders Live featuring Allison Dunham of Epiq”
Allison Dunham, Director, Advanced Technologies, Case Insights at Epiq, joins George Socha, Senior Vice President of Brand Awareness at Reveal, for ACEDS #eDiscoveryLeadersLive.
Allison Dunham is a Director of Advanced Technologies at Epiq and oversees the Case Insights practice. She has significant experience consulting on eDiscovery workflows, as part of Early Case Assessment (ECA), Review Management, and Technology Assisted Review (TAR). Allison is an analytics expert and an ECA thought leader whose proficiencies include the use of analytics and custom techniques that leverage AI to defensibly cull data, as well as innovative solutions to inform legal strategy and reduce litigation spend. Allison holds a BA from Pennsylvania State University and a JD from Michigan State University. She is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts. Allison recently co-authored a chapter in the 2022 edition of eDiscovery for Corporate Counsel, titled “Outsourced Document Review: Data Intelligence, Technologist Lawyers, Advocacy Support.”
After sharing how she got into eDiscovery and her describing her current role at Epiq, Allison dove into analytics. She compared and contrasted using analytics and relying on search terms and encouraged practitioners who are not already doing so to get started with analytics. She discussed the shortcomings of relying exclusively or primarily or search terms, then talked about how analytics can be a better option. Allison described how they make use of analytics, especially advanced analytics, looking at the art of analytics and how analytics can be used to better frame and achieved client goals. She the discussed the differences between analytics in litigation and in investigations, and closed with her vision of the ideal eDiscovery platform.
