Bloomberg Law
Aug. 4, 2016, 7:17 PM UTC

Will Technology Slow the Growth of e-Discovery Services?

Gabe Friedman
Freelancer

In the Rand Institute’s oft-cited 2012 report “Where Does the Money Go,” the authors bet that of all possible solutions, predictive coding technology would be most likely to reduce the high cost of large e-Discovery projcts.

“We believe that one way to achieve substantial savings in producing massive amounts of electronic information would be to let computers do the heavy lifting for review,” the report concludes, adding with some caveats, “the savings are ... likely to be considerable and meet the goal we set of a three-quarter reduction in review expenditures.”

At the time, predictive coding could still be considered “nascent” technology, ...

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