Humans Against the Machines: Still Reaffirming the Superiority of Human Attorneys in Legal Document Review

In September 2020, the Richmond Journal of Law & Technology published an article by the undersigned authors, in which the authors examined the limitations and risks of relying solely on predictive coding in the discovery process and demonstrated, with empirical data, that human attorney review significantly increases the quality of a document production. In response to this publication, Maura R. Grossman and Gordon V. Cormack have submitted a comment, in which they claim the article contains a “material error” that “calls into question its results and conclusions.” This claim is simply not true, on either count.