While document review work is an easy way to make money while you are developing your own solo practice or trying to pay bills between jobs, getting document review work is not always so easy. A few weeks ago, Randall Ryder gave readers great tips on how to stay assertive in your full-time job search. Similarly, it’s important to be aggressive with staffing agencies if you want to avoid those dreaded gaps in employment when you finish a project and want (read: need) a new project to begin soon.
This is in response to a recent important article by Kate Battle about how predictive coding software is threatening to replace the document reviewers. There is no doubt in my mind, the document reviewers will be replaced. The only question is how many years away are we from that? If it’s 10 years away, then presumably all of my fellow document reviewers are not going to scramble to plan their next career move. But if the trend starts happening in the next year or two, this could cause major upheaval. So what should you do?
We have been working to bring web shows back to Bitter Lawyer since we took over the site, so we are very excited to announce the premiere of our new web series, The Bottom Rung, a humorous take on document review hell! Check out episode 1 right now, share it with your friends, and let us know what you think!