Civil Litigation
Aug. 6, 2011
E-Discovery: Orwellian world (and more) arrives for lawyers and their clients
Newly developed e-discovery software seeks to monitor and interpret human behavior.
A. Marco Turk
Emeritus Professor, CSU Dominguez Hills
Email: amarcoturk.commentary@gmail.com
A. Marco Turk is a contributing writer, professor emeritus and former director of the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding program at CSU Dominguez Hills, and currently adjunct professor of law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law.
In the July 4 edition of the Singularity Hub blog, Peter Murray reassuringly comments that, "Robots won't be replacing lawyers anytime soon, but computer programs are already acting like overachieving interns." He goes to great length to discuss the metamorphosis that the practice of law has undergone in terms of how computer programming is completely revamping the traditional discovery process into e-discovery. Now, the old "warehouses filled with boxes containing files" are being repla...
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