eDiscovery Daily Blog

It is important to include misspellings when searching for relevant ESI to broaden the search to retrieve potentially responsive documents that might be otherwise missed. Another way to identify misspellings is to use a resource that tracks the most typical misspellings for common words.

We all make mistakes. And, forgetting that fact can be costly when searching for, or requesting, relevant documents in eDiscovery. For example, if you’re searching for e-mails that relate to management decisions, can you be certain that “management” is spelled perfectly throughout the collection? Unlikely. It could be spelled “managment” or “mangement” and you would miss those potentially critical emails without an effective plan to look for them.