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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.

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.

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.

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.

Impishee wrote: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.

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.