Document Review Today: "Lower Costs, Faster Cycle Time, Better Leveraging of Technology, and Higher Quality"
"World-Class Project Management and Process Engineering" Yesterday, I made a short posting recognizing the impact on me (Wow!) of some recent research found here on the dramatic shift in the BigLaw staffing model over the last 25 years. Interestingly, my experience as a BigLaw associate in 1985 corresponds to the time when BigLaw relied on a highly leveraged triangle staffing model, in which associates out-numbered partners significantly. Most of those associates performed the grunt work I describe here . Today, I quote at length from Williamm D. Henderson's article: Three Generations of U.S. Lawyers: Generalists, Specialists, Project Managers , 70 Md. L. Rev. 373, 384-85 (2011) . It describes the increasingly dominant approach to document review and management using technology and specially trained professionals. The system offers corporate clients better management of document reviews for litigation or due diligence. It offers these