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E-discovery does not sit still. To provide high-level service, practitioners necessarily deal with legal technology at the bleeding edge of development. This involves the embrace of nascent artificial intelligence (AI) in combination with other analytic tools and techniques to tackle increasingly challenging discovery projects. As ever-expanding volumes and sources of information strain the capacity of counsel to manage discovery, AI is coming just in time.

These changes address the increasing discovery challenges created by ever-growing amounts of electronic information. “Today, the cost of discovery can sometimes outweigh the potential value of the claims in the case,” says Jeane Thomas, chair of Crowell & Moring’s E-Discovery & Information Management Group.