What is "Document Review Experience?" Forum

[Impishee]

Applying to doc review jobs. When some of these say, "prior document review experience"...is there something I'm missing here, or if you were a clerk/legal intern reviewing large amounts of documents (but ultimately used them for you, yourself creating more substantive work like reports/filings) is that "document review experience"? Or if you reviewed enormous amounts of documents for a law-related job does that qualify? Just wondering if they have specific skills in mind I'm not thinking of/not aware of.

Thanks.

[Impishee]

Anyone? 101 views and no answers? If it helps, I do feel like I'm asking a dumb question. I just want to be sure before I start applying places.

[Anonymous User]

I think it's basically asking, are you familiar with Relativity/Concordance/other platforms, with reviewing and applying a document review protocol, etc.

I don't quite understand the two examples you described. But if they were document review in a document review platform for purposes of legal work, then yes, that is document review experience.

[Impishee]

Gotcha, thanks! Yeah, I've not used those programs. Most of my sifting through various documents involved all the fanciness of CTRL+F or manual review from hard paper copies. I did soft through thousands of pages of documents to find/build relevant evidence for cases though, so I'm wondering if that type of work would qualify.

[HillandHollow]

Gotcha, thanks! Yeah, I've not used those programs. Most of my sifting through various documents involved all the fanciness of CTRL+F or manual review from hard paper copies. I did soft through thousands of pages of documents to find/build relevant evidence for cases though, so I'm wondering if that type of work would qualify.

There are quite a few tutorials for the various DR programs available on youtube, just fyi.

[Anonymous User]

As the others say doc review experience means experience with Casemaker, Relativity, etc. But most doc review projects don't require experience. Some of the better long-term ones do, but most aren't that competitive and people get them fresh out of law school after failing the bar. You should contact legal recruiters (Robert Half Legal is a national one i've done doc review with and you can look up others near you), most doc review jobs aren't posted so you have to go through recruiters.