Getting Comfortable with Technology Assisted Review

 
February 07, 2017

Technology Assisted Review or (TAR) has been available as a tool in the e-discovery marketplace for roughly a decade. In those early days, some attorneys viewed TAR as simply a new label for existing smart review strategies. Other attorneys (particularly with risk-averse clients) were slow to embrace a review method that did not include a set of human eyes on every document before it went to government or opposing counsel in a production. Over time, much of the initial debate about the value of TAR fell away, particularly as more judges in U.S. courts identified TAR as the most sensible, efficient, and accurate process to review documents in the era of Big (and growing) Data. Now the discussion has shifted to TAR 2.0 and creating proposed uniform standards for TAR projects as the Duke Law Conference plans to do later this year.

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