Legal Document Review Task

A Legal Document Review Task is a critical document review task that involves systematic evaluation of legal documents (to assess compliance, risk, and legal requirements).

• AKA: Legal Document Assessment, Legal Document Evaluation.
• Context:
  • Task Input: Legal Documents, Supporting Materials
    • Optional Input: Previous Versions, Reference Materials, Legal Precedents
  • Task Output: Legal Document Review Findings, Document Markups, Review Comments
  • Task Performance Measure: Review Quality Metrics such as accuracy, completeness, and timeliness
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  • It can typically follow Review Protocol through systematic evaluation.
  • It can typically assess Legal Compliance through requirement verification.
  • It can typically identify Legal Risk through risk assessment process.
  • It can typically evaluate Legal Language through terminology review.
  • It can typically verify Legal Reference through citation check.
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  • It can often coordinate Stakeholder Review through collaborative process.
  • It can often track Document Version through version control.
  • It can often manage Review Timeline through scheduling system.
  • It can often document Review Finding through structured documentation.
  • It can often validate Legal Authority through jurisdiction check.
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  • It can range from being a Basic Legal Review to being a Complex Legal Analysis, depending on its document complexity.
  • It can range from being a Single Document Review to being a Multi-Document Legal Assessment, depending on its review scope.
  • It can range from being a Quick Legal Check to being a Comprehensive Legal Review, depending on its review depth.
  • It can range from being a Solo Legal Review to being a Team Legal Assessment, depending on its reviewer count.
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  • It can integrate with Legal Research Process for precedent verification.
  • It can maintain Review Documentation for audit trail.
  • It can support Legal Risk Management for risk mitigation.
  • It can establish Legal Compliance Process for requirement validation.
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• Examples:
  • First-Pass Legal Document Review Tasks, such as:
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  • Contract Review Tasks, such as:
    • Commercial Contract Reviews, such as:
      • Service Agreement Review for service term validation.
      • Licensing Agreement Review for license compliance.
    • Employment Contract Reviews, such as:
      • Employment Agreement Review for labor law compliance.
      • Non-Disclosure Agreement Review for confidentiality term.
  • Regulatory Document Reviews, such as:
    • Compliance Filing Reviews, such as:
      • SEC Filing Review for securities compliance.
      • Regulatory Report Review for requirement verification.
    • Policy Document Reviews, such as:
      • Corporate Policy Review for policy compliance.
      • Procedure Manual Review for process validation.
  • Litigation Document Reviews, such as:
    • Legal Filing Reviews, such as:
      • Court Document Review for procedural compliance.
      • Legal Brief Review for argument validation.
    • Evidence Document Reviews, such as:
      • Discovery Document Review for relevance assessment.
      • Witness Statement Review for testimony verification.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Document Drafting Task, which creates rather than reviews legal documents.
  • Contract Negotiation Process, which determines terms through discussion.
  • Legal Discovery Process, which obtains rather than analyzes documents.
  • Litigation Process, which argues cases in court.
• See: Legal Review Process, Due Diligence Process, Compliance Review, Risk Assessment Process, Document Analysis Task.

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2022

• (Wei et al., 2022) ⇒ Fenglong Wei, Haiyang Qin, Shizhuo Ye, Hao Zhao. (2022). “Empirical Study of Deep Learning for Text Classification in Legal Document Review." In: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), pp. 1188-1194. https://doi.org/10.1109/bigdata.2018.8622566
  • NOTES: Discusses using convolutional neural networks for text classification and retrieval in legal document review. Results showed CNNs perform better with larger training datasets.

2021

• (Yang et al., 2021) ⇒ Ellen Yang, David D. Lewis, Ophir Frieder. (2021). “On Minimizing Cost in Legal Document Review Workflows." In: Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, pp. 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3465034.3467605
  • NOTES: Examines using active learning and human-in-the-loop techniques to minimize the cost of technology assisted review workflows for legal discovery.

2019

• (Mahoney et al., 2019) ⇒ C. J. Mahoney, J. Zhang, N. Huber-Fliflet, R. Keeling, S. Levitan. (2019). “A Framework for Explainable Text Classification in Legal Document Review." In: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), pp. 6053-6062. https://doi.org/10.1109/bigdata47090.2019.9006458
  • NOTES: Presents an analytics platform for explainable AI text classification models to assist with legal document review.

2017

• (Chhatwal et al., 2017) ⇒ R. Chhatwal, N. Huber-Fliflet, R. Keeling, S. Levitan. (2017). “Empirical Evaluations of Active Learning Strategies in Legal Document Review." In: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), pp. 1188-1197. https://doi.org/10.1109/bigdata.2017.8257977
  • NOTES: Evaluates different active learning strategies to minimize the cost of legal document review through iterative training.

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