In response to a request for production, Synchromotive provided Kate's litigation team with a portable hard drive containing copies of thousands of electronic documents from Synchromotive's archives. Among these documents, the team must find documents that show that Synchromotive's development of their Speedex device occurred subsequent to Electro Tech's development of the Accelerex device. Most
of the documents on the drive are about topics that have nothing to do with the Speedex development, and are not organized or identified in any coherent or useful way. What techniques can Kate's team use to search the drive for the documents they need? How should they prepare themselves for the search?
What will be an ideal response?
First, it would be important for them to become familiar with the terminology used by the industry so that they can develop effective search terms or word combinations. Once they have developed a list of focused keywords, these terms can be used to formulate Boolean search queries to search the database. These would incorporate connectors to link words together when narrowing the search. If this is unsuccessful, a concept search may be used to develop concepts that generate words that are statistically related to words in the query.
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What will be an ideal response?
Evidence is always physical in nature and constitutes a part of the record
a. True b. False
T or F Although the confessor–penitent privilegebelongs to the penitent, the law also protects a clergy member who has taken a religiousoath not to reveal the content of counseling sessions.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false