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The case centers on a breach of fiduciary duty business dispute between several businesses and individuals, in which an original set of 17 million documents had been reduced — by removing duplicates — to roughly 3 million documents that need review for relevance and possible disclosure to the other side.
“The cost of manually searching these documents would be enormous, amounting to several million pounds at least,” Matthews wrote. “In my judgement, therefore, a full manual review of each document would be ‘unreasonable’… at least where a suitable automated alternative exists.”
He estimated the cost of review with “predictive coding software” could run as high as $672,000, plus monthly hosting costs of $30,000 — which he characterized as “obviously” less expensive than a full manual review by humans without technology.
Read the complete article at U.K. Decision Signals Growing Automation in Discovery Process