I need some guidance. I have an absurdly massive document review project on my hands. 40,000+ documents for production. I’m using a program similar to Relativity, and spending some time messing with searches and predictive algorithms has not gotten me very far. I fear that a manual review of much if not all of this stuff is warranted as it is not separable into categories by search terms alone. Do you ever use an outside doc review vendor? Please help. Manual review would take months and months

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If you’re licensing your review platform from a vendor that also offers managed review services, that should be your first place to turn.

If not, if you can give a little more info (what platform, your budget, timeline, etc) I would be happy to make some recommendations. Director of eDiscovery at a midsized firm and have worked with (and for) many vendors over my career.

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If you cannot handle it in-firm, you use a review company. They will pay attorneys $25/hour to review, while charging you much more. It is much cheaper for your client than reviewing it yourself.

Another option is to do a quick privilege review (search on known attorney or firm names and the word “privilege”). Review all those hits for privilege and produce everything else. Make sure you have a privilege clawback clause in the protective order.

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In my branch of law, we don't deal with such large document review issues. It's mostly researching jurisprudence on similar cases, which by definition would be separated into more manageable search fields. Others in the more document-heavy arenas may have more useful info, but from my perspective being presented 40,000 documents to review and prepare would fall into an "all hands on deck and give me your pizza orders because we're gonna be here all weekend" situation. Hopefully you're not working under an impending deadline. The only other advice I can give is that I think Walmart is hiring.

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