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Extract from article by Ralph Losey
The Legal Profession’s Remarkable Slow Adoption of Predictive Coding
The article begins with the undeniable point of the remarkably slow adoption of TAR by the legal profession, in their words:
Adoption of TAR has been remarkably slow, considering the amount of attention these offerings have received since the publication of the first federal opinion approving TAR use (seeDa Silva Moore v. Publicis Groupe, 287 F.R.D. 182 (S.D.N.Y. 2012)).
I remember getting that landmark ruling in our Da Silva Moore case, a ruling that pissed off plaintiffs’ counsel, because, despite what you may have heard to the contrary, they were strenuously opposed to predictive coding. Like most other lawyers at the time who were advocating for advanced legal search technologies, I thought Da Silva would open the flood gates, that it would encourage attorneys to begin using the then new technology in droves. In fact, all it did was encourage the Bench, but not the Bar.