Bloomberg Law
June 30, 2015, 3:32 PM UTC

As Data Streams Grow, Lawyers Look for New Ways to Find Facts

Gabe Friedman
Freelancer

Earlier this month, a thunderstorm rolled over the mountains near Park City, Utah forcing Bennett B. Borden, a Drinker Biddle & Reath partner, who had been hiking in the area, to seek shelter for several hours in a nearby resort’s lodge.

Borden co-chairs Drinker Biddle’s eDiscovery practice group, a position that often requires supervising dozens of contract attorneys who comb through emails and other documents in search of relevant evidence.

But increasingly, U.S. courts are allowing lawyers to use new technology and software platforms during eDiscovery that can drastically reduce the number of documents that need review by humans. The ...

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