Extract from Gina Jurva’s article, “AI in Ediscovery: Where It Works, Where It Exposes You.”
Insights from Everlaw’s CTO, Max Christoff
Everlaw Chief Technology Officer Max Christoff has a distinct childhood memory of his father, a patent litigator, spending 90 hours a week at a giant dining room table buried under stacks of bankers’ boxes, sticky notes, and highlighters. “I remember thinking, I don’t know precisely what a litigator does, but I definitely don’t want to do that,” Christoff laughs. Years later, he finds himself solving that exact problem from the technology side.
We have officially passed the point where artificial intelligence in ediscovery is just a novelty. On defined litigation tasks, the math shows it’s already meeting, and regularly beating, human review speeds and accuracy. But as the tech moves from simple acceleration to deep strategy, the line between an asset and a liability is thinning.
This exact tension was the catalyst for a recent fireside chat at LegalTechTalk 2026 in London, where Christoff joined Tom Whittaker, Director and Solicitor Advocate, Burges Salmon, and moderator Karina Morawska, Chief Operating Officer, Linklaters.
