The Legal Discovery Process: From Review to Analysis

This post details how AI is shifting the legal discovery process from document review to analysis. It explains the six stages of legal discovery and how AI-assisted review, by enabling the review of entire document productions overnight and providing explanations for classifications, allows legal teams to recover significant time. This recovered time is then redirected towards higher-value activities like case strategy and legal judgment. The post emphasizes the importance of defensibility and traceability in AI-assisted review, highlighting that Harvey's design grounds answers in sources and keeps reasoning open to inspection for verification against underlying documents. It also outlines how to run document review with AI by defining standards, running first-pass review, verifying decisions, and maintaining records for auditability.