Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article:  Markoff, John (2011), Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software, New York Times, Retrieved on 2012-01-04
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    04 JAN 2012

     Lawyers Replaced by Computers

    In January, for example, Blackstone Discovery of Palo Alto, Calif., helped analyze 1.5 million documents for less than $100,000. … “From a legal staffing viewpoint, it means that a lot of people who used to be allocated to conduct document review are no longer able to be billed out,” said Bill Herr, who as a lawyer at a major chemical company used to muster auditoriums of lawyers to read documents for weeks on end. “People get bored, people get headaches. Computers don’t.” The c...
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    To conduct discovery. Because humans get bored and only have a 60 percent success rate.

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