Technology-assisted review in eDiscovery (2012)
In Da Silva Moore v. Publicis Groupe, a federal magistrate judge in New York approved predictive coding, software that ranks documents by relevance, for discovery review. The judge called it the best option available, endorsing machine reading over armies of lawyers flipping through documents by hand.
Courts began accepting computer-assisted review as a legitimate substitute for manual document review in litigation.
Technology-assisted review became standard practice in large-scale discovery, cutting costs and turnaround times dramatically.
The same mechanism now targets bankruptcy trustees: document review was the dominant time cost, and software that reads documents automatically is replacing manual effort.
