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E-discovery is an example of the legal market trying to get a handle on the vaulting demands of the real world. The explosion in data volumes has made an absolute mess of discovery in even the most routine litigation. Throwing bodies at the problem proved unsustainable even when labor arbitrage moved some of those bodies overseas (PDF). The rules had to evolve, as did the technology. Predictive coding is not just “black letter law,” it is now such a standard part of the e-discovery landscape that Thomson Reuters bundled it with the free portion of their new eDiscovery Point platform and barely talked about it at the summit.
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