In a recent Legaltech News article, “Legal Tech's Predictions for Legal Technology Innovation in 2022,” Gareth Evans shares his prediction that improvements in deep learning technology will cement AI’s use in the document review process.

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Gareth T. Evans, partner, Redgrave LLP: “AI increasingly will be used to identify privileged documents in massive document populations, and it will work better than it has in the past. Privilege review and logging remains one of the most expensive, time consuming, and problematic processes in complex litigation, and the challenges are only growing with ever increasing document volumes. The difficulty of using AI in privilege logging has been training the model to recognize privileged communications where doing so is often nuanced and challenging even for human reviewers. Using deep learning and accessing much larger volumes of training documents—e.g., from prior cases for the same client—AI will do a much better job of solving the privilege logging conundrum.”

Read the full Legaltech News article here.