Monday, January 16, 2012

Are Lawyers Getting in the Way of Machine-Assisted Review?



http://ow.ly/8vLVw

An article by Sharon D. Nelson, Esq. posted on the Ride the Lightning blog.

This article discusses technology assisted review, and references another recent article written by Karl Schieneman for Forbes last week entitled "Legal Hydra? Top Ten Tips to Become More Proficient with Machine-Assisted Review."  A link to that article is provided in Ms. Nelson's writing.

Ms. Nelson's article states, "Lawyers are uncomfortable with this new machine-assisted review which they generally don't understand very well, if at all. They prefer to do things the way they've always done them. They speak a different language than their experts and their IT departments and the two cannot seem to communicate effectively. Very often, the in-house folks are told to simply follow orders.

It is absolutely true that some lawyers try to keep experts away from cases in the mistaken belief that they are saving money. If you get a good expert, that expert will always be focused on saving time and money while doing the best possible job."

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