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What is a respectible pages per hour reviewed in a doc review?
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 3:56 pm
by Desert Fox
Reviewing for respnsiveness, confidnetialy and privilege
Re: What is a respectible pages per hour reviewed in a doc review?
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 3:58 pm
by dixiecupdrinking
Depends on the doc but maybe 100ish pp/hour if I'm really moving on it.
Re: What is a respectible pages per hour reviewed in a doc review?
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 4:00 pm
by Johann
not sure about pages, but docs per hour:
if you are the first priv gate and just bucketing for a future priv log review, 40 docs an hour.
if you are supposed to be making the right priv call on all docs, probably 15 an hour. 5-10 might even by fine.
Re: What is a respectible pages per hour reviewed in a doc review?
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 4:08 pm
by smaug
Desert Fox wrote:Reviewing for respnsiveness, confidnetialy and privilege
managing some k attys? I think 50-100 is the range you expect from them maybe? Not sure
Re: What is a respectible pages per hour reviewed in a doc review?
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 4:11 pm
by Desert Fox
smaug wrote:Desert Fox wrote:Reviewing for respnsiveness, confidnetialy and privilege
managing some k attys? I think 50-100 is the range you expect from them maybe? Not sure
no im the doc review monkey in this situation. Discovery is rediculous. 10 dollars a document is just absurd.
Re: What is a respectible pages per hour reviewed in a doc review?
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 4:18 pm
by mvp99
Desert Fox wrote:smaug wrote:Desert Fox wrote:Reviewing for respnsiveness, confidnetialy and privilege
managing some k attys? I think 50-100 is the range you expect from them maybe? Not sure
no im the doc review monkey in this situation. Discovery is rediculous. 10 dollars a document is just absurd.
aren't you almost a 4th year associate?
Re: What is a respectible pages per hour reviewed in a doc review?
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 4:21 pm
by Desert Fox
mvp99 wrote:Desert Fox wrote:smaug wrote:Desert Fox wrote:Reviewing for respnsiveness, confidnetialy and privilege
managing some k attys? I think 50-100 is the range you expect from them maybe? Not sure
no im the doc review monkey in this situation. Discovery is rediculous. 10 dollars a document is just absurd.
aren't you almost a 4th year associate?
yea. I haven't done doc review in like 16 months so i forgot what a reasonable pace is.
Re: What is a respectible pages per hour reviewed in a doc review?
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 4:21 pm
by Desert Fox
Desert Fox wrote:mvp99 wrote:Desert Fox wrote:smaug wrote:Desert Fox wrote:Reviewing for respnsiveness, confidnetialy and privilege
managing some k attys? I think 50-100 is the range you expect from them maybe? Not sure
no im the doc review monkey in this situation. Discovery is rediculous. 10 dollars a document is just absurd.
aren't you almost a 4th year associate?
yea. I haven't done doc review in like 16 months so i forgot what a reasonable pace is.
i literally cannot believe someone would pay my billing rate for this.
Re: What is a respectible pages per hour reviewed in a doc review?
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 4:26 pm
by TLSModBot
Depends on the technology/process being used, but basic first level review is ~50 documents per hour (assuming several page documents of a similar theme). I'd say 100 is about average if there are no complex documents requiring deep scrutiny AND you're just doing a first pass and not doing final coding (which it sounds like you might be).
50-100 pages is probably reasonable if you're doing responsiveness, confidentiality, AND privilege. (at my peak I ran a couple reviews - on the technical side as a discovery consultant, not a lawyer - and we got around 250 pages per hour but we were organizing batches by document similarity or email chain, auto-coding near-duplicates, and a whole bunch of other stuff to up the speeds. Plus the firm was killing these contract attorneys I think.)
The thing that's ridiculous is that there are fucking machines that can do a better job than attorneys at responsiveness review. We're technically capable of doing confidentiality/privilege review as well but the software isn't quite designed for that yet (it's more geared towards binary yes/no calls like Responsiveness than on which privilege may apply from a list of several options).