During Legalweek 2022, a panel of e-discovery experts argued keyword searches are too limiting and should only play a small role in lawyers’ data review.

On March 11, Merlin Search Technologies Inc. founder and CEO John Tredennick led the “Search 2.0: Integrating AI With Keywords to Revolutionize Document Search” panel where he highlighted Sherlock, his company’s machine learning-powered document review platform, as a game-changing upgrade from searching keywords. But beyond his platform, Tredennick and the other panelists agreed simply leveraging keyword searches to find or analyze data is a disservice to clients.