Targeted document assignments in an electronic discovery system

An apparatus for determining targeted document review assignments in an electronic discovery system, the apparatus comprising:

• a computing platform including a memory and a processor;
• a targeted document review assignment application stored in the memory, executable by the processor and including a
• a concept-based data grouping mechanism configured to receive a plurality of predetermined concepts and determine a plurality of data groupings for a corpus of electronic data, wherein each of the data groupings are defined by inclusion of at least one of the predetermined concepts in the data grouping, and
• a document review assignment generator configured to generate a plurality of document review assignments based on the determined data groupings.

A computer program product comprising:

• a computer-readable medium comprising:
• a first set of codes for causing a computer to receive a plurality of predetermined concepts included within a corpus of electronic data associated with a case in the electronic discovery system;
• a second set of codes for causing a computer to determine a plurality of data groupings for the corpus of electronic data, wherein each of the data groupings are defined by inclusion of at least one of the predetermined concepts in the data grouping;
• and
• a third set of codes for causing a computer to generate a plurality of document review assignments based on the determined data groupings.