At face value, the terms ‘e-discovery’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ may not appear to have a common role in the future of law. However, these tech arenas overlap more than many realize.
“What’s in a name?” John Tredennick, CEO at Catalyst Repository Systems, asked his audience in the closing panel at Vanderbilt Law’s “Watson, Esq.: Will Your Next Lawyer be a Machine?,” an event focusing on AI’s developing role in the practice of law. He also asked his audience to consider terms like technology assisted review (TAR) and computer assisted review (CAR). “What’s exciting about [TAR] … I think without exception, this is where AI rubber hits the road,” Tredennick said. “This is the most widely used, in the law, true-AI, true machine learning – it’s fun, it’s exciting.”
