Can lawyers be replaced by machines that read?

02/02/2017

According to the results of a recent survey in a US publication, Corporate Counsel, 40 per cent of in-house attorneys in major American corporations said they rely on technology assisted review (TAR). What is TAR? Rather than having many lawyers read a million documents, a few review a percentage of the possible evidence and predictive coding technology uses those answers to guide a computer review of the rest. Can lawyers be replaced by machines that read? Follow this link.


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