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Extract: Technology continued to grow as more firm introduced dashboards and other platforms that added transparency to their billing and work, allowing clients to not only manage their spending more easily, but to use automated systems for routine work. Most studies suggest that automation will only increase in the coming year.
In eDiscovery, the days of manual review continue, but more and more firms launched specialized practice groups, staffed by lawyers and data scientists who understand how to use complex statistical techniques and even programming to cut down on man hours needed to perform document review. Technology-assisted review, also known as TAR and referring to programs that employ machine-learning algorithms to improve document review efficiency, became commonplace. In March, U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck wrote that “the case law has developed to the point that it is now black letter law that where the producing party wants to utilize TAR for document review, courts will permit it.”
Read the complete article at 2015, A Year in Review for the Legal Business