How Legal Teams are Using AI for Legal Discovery
Jun 5, 2026

Summary
This post details how Harvey's AI capabilities are applied to legal discovery, focusing on relevance determination and privilege review. It contrasts traditional TAR with generative AI review, discussing their respective defensibility, explainability, and scalability tradeoffs. The post also outlines a five-element defensible AI discovery protocol (written ESI protocol, validation methodology, sampling-based quality control, audit trail, and meet-and-confer disclosure) crucial for court acceptance. It emphasizes that defensibility is a documentation and process problem, not solely a technology one.