Whether you're an attorney, paralegal, legal editor, or
legal document reviewer, Voca provides expert recommendations and insight to help you find the perfect position with an ideal employer.
Not exact matches
Sometimes, the
document review falls through just as quickly for a variety of reasons: Case settled, other
legal staffing place got the job, the law firm decides it only needs two
document reviewers instead of ten
document reviewers.
And even if you don't go all the way back, you can and may need to return to the law either as a
document reviewer contract lawyer, freelancing,
legal blogger, etc..
Fortunately for many doc review attorneys, software hasn't completely eliminated the need for human
reviewers, and predictive coding raises at least two important issues for attorneys: (1) their
legal obligations to conduct a reasonable search for responsive
documents under federal discovery rules, and (2) their ethical obligation to safeguard a client's privileged information.
Applied to the problem of large - scale
legal document review and production, technology - assisted review enables a small number of expert human
reviewers to train a computerized system to recognize the subtle differences between responsive and non-responsive
documents based on the review of a small but representative sample of the
document collection.
This question usually comes up in the context of e-discovery and whether the tasks performed by
document reviewers are
legal work requiring a licence to practise.
Often,
document reviewers are attorneys who understand the
legal and factual issues in the litigation and are able to make the necessary judgment calls as to privilege and responsiveness.