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Assisted review is merely one way for attorneys to find their way through mountains of evidence.
In one of the more debated lines in English literature, Dick the Butcher, a character in Shakespeare’s “Henry VI, Part II,” said, “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” Some argue the line shows Shakespeare’s disdain for lawyers, others that, because Dick was engaged in a nefarious plot, the line is actually commentary about how necessary lawyers are. Fast-forward four centuries, and technology brings a new twist to the necessity for lawyers: The development of assisted review technologies, including predictive coding.
Read the original article at: Tech is Litigants’ Boon, Not Profession’s Doom