Document Review

Technology: Document Review

Our clients define a “successful” document review as one that is effective and efficient as well as timely, accurate and headache-free. Accomplishing this requires thoughtful alignment of intellectual capital, process discipline and the right technology to manage outsourced legal processes effectively.

While there are commonalities among all reviews, varying elements such as:  the matter type, industry-specific issues, data types, alternative legal matters, timelines, data volumes and review complexity, among others, require the ability to manage for the unique requirements of every project. The challenges in document review are many, as are the approaches and technologies for solving them, each with its own strengths and weaknesses.

The QuisLex Legal Technology Group comprises 30+ technologists, statisticians, linguists and search specialists. The Group works in close concert with the review management and quality management teams to maximize review efficiency and effectiveness and lower the cost of discovery and review. Some of their activities include:

• Search term analysis combined with “eyes-on-paper” review to assess results;
• Data stratification, filtering, and sampling to prioritize documents for review;
• Statistically valid sampling of system-defined and reviewer-defined non-relevant documents;
• Continuous refining of search terms based on analysis of review results and search term performance;
• Management of third-party review platforms to support the review and analysis activities;
• Reporting and documentation that establishes a statistically sound, quantifiable, auditable, and defensible process;
• Highly automated privilege logging and QC.

Working in tandem with the Legal Technology Group, the QuisLex Development Group builds customized applications to either automate processes that were previously manual or to enhance existing technology solutions. This includes building new applications from the ground up, such as the development of a privilege log processing application that automates many of the steps involved in creating and QCing a privilege log.