Review Velocity
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
This week we had quite a fire drill over at DM—important client, tight turnaround, and a small to medium data volume. Jobs like this happen all day every day in our market, because the technology allows it to happen. When all was said and done DM processed about 30 GB, before filtering and posted roughly 150,000 documents to the site. A relative average page volume on this collection, just over 10 pages per doc or 2 million pages to review. The fire drill part was the condensed time frame, data arriving Friday, Saturday, and Sunday with a production deadline of MONDAY!
Just a few years ago this type of insanity wasn’t even possible. Today a vendor has the ability to make it happen. How did we get here in such a short time? Mostly it’s the technology and tools that are available in the market, which allow crazy deadlines to be met. I’ve also noticed a comfort level, from our clients, in trusting the technology. People are not able to read faster today; instead they are able to pinpoint with precision what needs to be read. So a 2 million page collection can be tackled by a few attorneys in just a weekend.
I would say that things like concept search and its derivative, near-dupes, played a huge role in getting through this collection. Giving the tools to the end user with the ability to make one click and 50 doc decisions, builds trust and transparency around some of these tools. Letting someone click on a “diff” to see where the near-dupes diverge, gives that user the confidence in the algorithm making the decision for them. This is where the black box solution loses the client.
This is just one example of how far the industry has come in such a short time. It’s incredible the amount of AI and research going into our market. I’m hoping we can continue to defy Moore’s Law on our ability to innovate.