Computer Assisted Review - Effective and Economical
Computer assisted review is more popularly known as ‘predictive coding’
and is one of the most upcoming and cost effective methodologies of
reviewing documents in the process of electronic discovery. This is not a
case where humans are being replaced with human beings to ease out the
work and add to its efficiency. On the contrary, it is a method where
the computer simply tries to review and find the relevant documents
coded by humans.
What do you know about the working of computer assisted review
There
is very thin line difference between the implementation and working of
the traditional way to review the documents and computer assisted way.
In
case of traditional reviews project manages and senior attorneys
involved in civil litigation give training to their assistants to review
the lengthy documents manually. These senior attorneys or project
managers thereafter do their own quality review.
Even in the
case of computer assisted review senior attorneys and project managers
control the whole process of reviewing the documents. The only
difference being that instead of training human beings, they are
actually training the computer on how to perform the review. All that
these senior attorneys have to do is codify a sample set of intensive
documents, which the computer will then review for relevancy with much
more accuracy and efficiency. The logic behind the computer assisted
review is that computer first learns about the primary issue of the case
and accordingly apply the logic to review it. Though, like traditional
review, senior attorney or project managers review the documents after
computer has reviewed to ensure that accuracy and relevance is
maintained.
Reasons to use Computer Assisted Review
Even
though the computer will perform the review only upon receiving manual
input regarding core issues involved in the case concerned, it is still
deemed to be the most preferred and upcoming means of performing
document review because of the following reasons:
- You can expect higher efficiency and scope of errors minimizes in case of computer assisted review as machines are smart enough to pick up errors and look for discrepancy.
- Since a large volume of documents needs a number of reviewers, the cost of reviewing tends to be very high while the computer assisted review is highly economical.
- A quicker and efficient source of performing review of documents, especially in intense cases which involve several thousands of documents.
There
is a debate going on for long to validate the relevance an efficiency
of computer assisted review. There is no doubt that computer assisted
review is one of the best ways available to review the documents
quicker, at affordable prices and with such high precision.
Even
though this process has not been formally implemented by the law, it
find millions of takers. Although one can come across few cases in the
United States of America where specific judges have recommended the
practice of computer assisted review where parties are mutually
agreeable.
