Discovery Accelerator Proximity Searches

[MarkOlsen]

All:

I was recently speaking with some of our legal folks and a question surfaced regarding proximity searches in DA.  On first analysis, it appears that DA cannot do proximity searches like find two words within 10 words of each other or find a phrase within the same sentence or paragraph as a second phrase.   Is this true?  Evidently this is doable in lawyer familiar products like WestLaw and Lexis-Nexis.

By way of real example, here is a recent court ordered search.   How would you do these in DA?

Thanks ... Mark

Extracted from Williams v. Taser International, Slip Copy 2007 WL

1630875 (6/4/2007):

(The court ordered the defendant to produce electronic documents and communications as follows):

1. Taser will conduct, at a minimum, searches of its email database using following terms:

A) "acidosis"

B) "cardiac" OR "respiratory"

C) "fibrillation"

D) "in-custody death"

E) "pre-existing" within 10 words of "condition"

F) "pre-existing" within 10 words of "health"

G) "Frederick" OR "Williams"

H) "safe* " within same sentence as "X26"

I) "safe* " within same sentence as "M26"

*6 J) "epilep* "

K) "mental* " within 5 words of "ill* "

L) "mental* " within 5 words of "condition"

M) "continu* " within 10 words of "discharg* "

N) "repeat* within 10 words of "discharg* "

O) "multipl* " within 10 words of "discharg* "

P) "continu* " within 10 words of "expos* "

Q) "repeat* within 10 words of "expos* "

R) "multipl* " within 10 words of "expos* "

S) "chest" within same sentence as "discharg* "

T) "caus* " within same sentence as "death"

U) "contribut* within same sentence as "death"

[MichelZ]

Hi Mark

Have you got a solution for this?

Cheers
Michel