The Role of Machine Learning in Legal Discovery

Recently Lofty Labs was engaged by a law firm. Now, that's not the type of business we generally target as clients for a data analysis consultancy. It turned out they had a data problem, though. When two large companies sue each other, a lot of historical communication records get exchanged between the two sides through the facilitation of the court in a process known within the field as "discovery". This is the process you probably think of from the movies, where lawyers can be seen carting dollies full archival boxes overflowing with paper documents.