Extract from Petra Pasternak’s article “AI Translation Speeds up Multi-Language Ediscovery for Legal Professionals”
Ediscovery is hard enough in one language, with mountains of documents, myriad formats, and multilayered processes. Add documents in multiple languages and that difficult puzzle feels like being trapped in a sprawling maze.
Dealing with documents in a variety of languages dramatically escalates the time and cost of ediscovery. Hiring human translators with expertise in specific languages, contextual knowledge, and a deep understanding of legal issues can be prohibitively expensive. Securely sharing large volumes of highly sensitive documents and avoiding data breaches also creates formidable hurdles. And the entire translation process takes time.
This is exactly the kind of problem AI is supposed to solve. And it has. Everlaw has released a new tool that handles translation challenges to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance security.
What Are the Challenges of Cross-Border Ediscovery?
In today’s global business environment, multilingual ediscovery has emerged as a major operational hurdle in litigation and investigations management. Legal professionals are called on to process mountains of electronically stored information, or ESI, across languages, formats, and jurisdictions.
