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Robots have taken many of the assembly-line jobs previously occupied by humans, and now it looks like computers may be able to take over what amounts to legal assembly-line work: document review. A Virginia judge ordered predictive coding to determine the relevance of over 1.3 million documents. The parties estimate the computer found about 81% of all relevant documents, which is a bit better than the 77% accuracy predicted by a 2011 article in the Richmond Journal of Law & Technology (pdf). By contrast, the same study estimated humans accuracy at about 60%.

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Watch the rest of the Bottom Rung on Bitter Lawyer, including character sketches of the dreamers, gunners, and lifers that make up document review.

Watch the rest of the Bottom Rung on Bitter Lawyer, including character sketches of the dreamers, gunners, and lifers that make up document review.

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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.

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Meet Paige Brenner, Loyola law grad and solo artist. She blames a drummer for getting her into doc review.

Watch the rest of the Bottom Rung on Bitter Lawyer, including character sketches of the dreamers, gunners, and lifers that make up document review.

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Check out Marty Feldman: FIU Law Grad and Doc Review Lifer on Bitter Lawyer.

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Did you miss the first two episodes of The Bottom Rung on Bitter Lawyer? Shame on you. Good news, though. You can watch them right here, right now!

All your doc reviews are belong to us.

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?

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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!