Extract from Gina Jurva’s article, “What Makes AI Defensible in Ediscovery?”
Insights from BDO and Everlaw
Here’s something interesting: when legal professionals logged into a recent webinar on AI in ediscovery, the opening poll showed most of them are already using or at least experimenting with generative AI in their work. That’s a big shift from even two years ago, when most people were still in wait-and-see mode.
The webinar, “Ethical and Practical Strategies for AI in Ediscovery,” brought together Daniel Gold, Principal and Forensics Ediscovery Managed Service Leader at BDO USA, and Cal Yeaman, Senior Strategic AI Advisor at Everlaw, for a practical discussion about what actually works and what defensibility really means when AI enters the discovery workflow.
Nobody Voted for Billable Hours (But Everyone’s Thinking About It)
Those same viewer polls revealed something else: defensibility and accuracy concerns are the top barriers to AI adoption, with training and capability gaps close behind. Billable hour incentives? Not a single vote.
