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Why the Predicted Demise of the Attorney Reviewer Is Greatly Exaggerated

Concluding that AI will eliminate the attorney reviewer, or even the broader document review market, misses a much larger change underway. The question is not simply how many people it takes to analyze a million documents. The more interesting question is: What happens when analyzing information becomes dramatically less expensive?

7 minute read October 01, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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Greg Mazares Sr.
Why the Predicted Demise of the Attorney Reviewer Is Greatly Exaggerated

For more than a decade, the legal industry has been predicting the demise of the document review attorney. Predictive coding was going to do it. Technology-assisted review was going to do it.

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