Kacey Hall shared Verizon’s impressive experience in the advanced access program for Relativity aiR for Review and limited general availability program Relativity aiR for Privilege. Unlike most corporations, Verizon’s legal department manages all discovery in house, largely relying on their RelativityOne instance. They have automated most upstream workflows including integrated Google Workspace holds and collections. aiR for Review has effectively extended that automation and efficiency downstream into relevance and privilege review.

The unlimited analysis during the advanced access program enabled the Verizon team to run validation tests with aiR for Review on two previously coded matters. This complies with my ‘trust but verify’ approach to new technology. Overall, Kacey says that in one day, aiR for Review produced an 80% cost savings and a 98% match to the 5-month manual review. aiR for Privilege identified additional privileged documents (missed by a manual review team) and player nicknames in similar tests.

Highlights:

  • aiR for Review testing was run against a data set previously coded by contract attorneys and used the original review protocols for consistency.
  • Kacey says that aiR for Review can effectively eliminate first pass. Verizon still puts eyes on all documents, but now they have the right eyes on the key documents up front.
  • In retrospect, manual review forces a simplistic set of issues and privilege calls that cannot compete with AI’s ability to apply almost infinite choices.
  • The review highlights the responsive/privileged text, gives you the rationale and considerations. This allows the reviewer to quickly validate the recommendation.
  • Use it on prior reviewed cases and look at the delta. A day or two with aiR will convince you that it produces better work product.
  • “When you see how accurate aiR for Privilege is, it feels almost negligent not to use it.”
  • aiR for Privilege takes a bit more time to load and tune your counsel lists.
  • Kacey was looking forward to discussing workflow options and matter volume thresholds with other aiR users. The very large volume collections may require a more nuanced approach to control the analysis costs.
  • aiR for Review is approachable. It does not take TAR experts to run it.

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