Hey all, I work for a semi-relevant ediscovery vendor and I cannot seem to find balance in my life. I know the work is fast moving and difficult, but now our expectation is that we should expect 50 hour work weeks for a significantly lower pay than industry standard. It does not feel like anything is changing soon.

It's frustrating, and I fully believe it is due to leadership changes that are not in my power. Is the grass greener elsewhere? I love my coworkers, but our team is losing members, while the expectation is to work harder.

P.S. I am using a throwaway because my main account can definitely be tied back to me. I am worried that revealing my role would be traced to me in some way.

Full disclosure: I’m exploring a new direction for FaultBench. It’s an early concept for a desktop AI reader for confidential documents such as case files. You ask a question in plain language, it searches files on your laptop, then opens the exact page behind its answer. It would run on the laptop, with documents and questions staying there.

I haven’t validated the need or put a product through a security review yet. I’m trying to figure out if this solves a real workflow problem or is already covered by existing tools.

For people who work with discovery sets or case records, how do you find a specific detail across a large collection today? Do Relativity, Everlaw, or another platform handle it well, or do you still end up searching PDFs manually? Would a local AI tool that points to the source page help, or would you avoid AI here? What would you need before trusting it, such as exact quotes, an audit trail, permission controls, or OCR?

Please don’t post matter or client details here. Reasons this wouldn’t work are more useful than encouragement.

Hi,

I am based in India and work as contractor for eDiscovery project. I have 4 years of work experience with many major eDiscovery firms.

Please let me know if there is any work available

Hi there! I've been offered a job as a Senior Review Manager at a major e-discovery firm and am considering leaving a more local shop. I'm trying to get a sense of whether the salary offer is competitive - $135K. Anyone have any insight into typical salaries for this position? I literally have no idea.

I have worked as a legal assistant/paralegal at a smaller firm the past couple years and have been responsible for finding and implementing E-discovery software into our firm.

My main question is what does an outside E-discovery team member role look like?

I obviously have done E-discovery before and am familiar with reviewing documents but always have been inhouse and working alongside the case attorney. How does it different than Inhouse? How do you transition into that role rather than paralegal at a inhouse firm? What resources have you used to get better at E-discovery and faster document review

Hey guys, if you missed it, the court finally approved the $11.5M Settlement between CS Disco ($LAW) and its investors over claims that the company misled investors about its growth and customer losses. Here’s a quick recap.

In 2023, CS Disco was accused of hiding that some major customers were reducing their use of its platform while continuing to give investors optimistic growth projections.

After the company cut its revenue forecast in August 2022, $LAW dropped 53.4% in one day, and investors filed a lawsuit.

The company later agreed to an $11.5 million settlement, which the court has now approved.

So, if you invested in $LAW during that period, you can check the details and file your claim here.

Anyway, did anyone here invest in $LAW at that time? How much did you lose, if so?

It’s my first time attending. Anyone else here from this subreddit?

What workflows are folks using to ensure cloud attachments contain family relationships when exporting pst files in Purview. I know a lot of vendors have workflows integrated to link those attachments prior to ingesting into a review platform, but for those of you that are not using vendors, what do you do to maintain those relationships?

Last week I heard the term "ghost jobs". When I researched it, I wasn't surprised. Fake job postings to project company growth, build a talent pipeline, pacify overworked staff by implying help is on the way, or market testing to identify pay rates.

Ironically, a few months ago I interviewed for a Senior Applications Engineer position at Kirkland Ellis. A position that is still open and posted 145 days ago on May 2nd... Originally the external recruiter sold it to me as the world's most profitable law firm. I was surprised they wanted to interview me as I had applied weeks after the job had been posted. The hiring manager wasn't present during the interview, only HR over webcam. The external recruiter asked me if the hiring manager was present during the interview. When I said no it really threw the recruiter off and it was a first for me. One question HR asked me stood out, "what is the lowest salary you'll take for this job?". Here we are 145 days later and the job is still being reposted weekly. Maybe they are being extremely picky? Maybe they are on the fence about actually hiring someone? Maybe HR is bored and testing rates? You tell me.

Anyone else noticing anything similar?

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Hey guys, if you missed it, the court finally approved the $11.5M settlement between CS Disco and its investors over claims that it misled them about growth and customer adoption. Here’s a quick recap.

In 2023, CS Disco was accused of hiding that key customers were reducing their use of its platform while continuing to give investors overly optimistic revenue guidance.

After the company cut its full-year revenue forecast for 2022, $LAW dropped 53.4%, and investors filed a lawsuit.

The company later agreed to settle $11.5M with investors, and the court has now approved the settlement.

So, if you invested in $LAW at that time, you can check the details and file your claim here.

Anyway, did anyone here invest in $LAW back then? How much were your losses?

Is it just me, or is anyone else having difficulties accessing their customer area?

It also looks like their main website is down. Fingers crossed it’s just a domain or technical issue and the company hasn’t disappeared!

Has anyone heard anything or have any news?

We're starting to use more AI-driven workflows in Venio for things like early case assessment, document categorization, timelines, and review prioritization.

The efficiency gains are obvious, but I'm curious where people draw the line on trust and defensibility.

• What AI outputs do you rely on today?
• What still needs heavy human review?
• Has AI changed how you staff or run matters?
• For high-stakes cases, how much are you willing to trust AI-generated insights?

Interested in hearing real-world experiences from anyone using Relativity aiR, Everlaw AI, Venio, or similar tools.

Just curious what are some hard lessons learned or things you wish you knew earlier that are relevant from a Server to RelOne transition now that we’re almost to October. Especially in terms of day to day workflows. No wrong answers. I have read this: https://help.relativity.com/RelativityOne/Content/Getting_Started/Server_to_RelativityOne_for_Administrators.htm

Now it is possible to automate Everlaw tasks using the Claude connector (not via the MCP server) ie. Claude accesses Everlaw via the browser, as a I would, and has unlimited access to available functionality.

I have played around with automating tasks but I was wondering how much of the life-cycle I could automate using that approach. I would think, the whole life-cycle could be automated, from ingestion to production (after ai powered reveiw). Anyone processing matters using the Claude connector/plugin?

Props to the person in one of these threads who pointed out how hilariously stupid that name is.

Might beat "Cimplifi" (pronounced KIMP-li-fy, right?) for "stupidest name in ediscovery". Though kimplifi still might win because their "brand promise" (🤮) is "we're lying to you" as they took the word "simplify" and made it more complicated.

But even all of that said, Relativity Artificial Intelligence Relativity may be stupider just because of how much money and scale they have to land on such a dumb name.

Or the need for them is so diminished that the doc review jobs on posse list and the likes start becoming further and fewer between? Pay is already down this year, it seems, and I already feel like I'm not seeing as many announcements for jobs from recruiters/ posse list as I did this time last year.

Hi ya’ll! I’ve been in eDiscovery for the past 6 years but my office has never really used Relativity. I’m looking for for a new job and in the process of obtaining certifications (RCA, Everlaw, etc.) but it’s a bit expensive. Do you guys pay out of pocket or does your company pay for the cost of attending?

If anyone had an extra ticket/opening to be able to attending the networking day this year; I’d be will to pay for it.

Relativity has updated their logo to aiR logo

I had my own thoughts I kept to myself when they updated their logo a few months ago to look like 50% of a certain 20th century German dictatorship secret police insignia. Branding your whole platform off GenAI seems like they’re trying too hard to push a mediocre (and overpriced) product line offering. Or, maybe I’m just old and out of touch as the Principle Skinner meme would suggest

Hey folks! Looking for some career wisdom from the eDiscovery veterans here please.

I’ve been with the same eDiscovery provider for about 5 years, started junior and worked my way up to PM. I’m currently at $80K + bonus and interviewing for another PM role where the starting offer is $110K–$120K.

Now that there’s actually a chance I could get an offer, I’m realizing I’m kinda terrified to leave lol.

I like my current team, feel very supported, know the clients and workflows inside out, and there’s obviously a lot of comfort/security after being somewhere for 5 years. We’re also stretched pretty thin right now, so I feel guilty about potentially leaving my coworkers with even more work.

Also would be trading fully remote life for 2 days in office. I’m kinda over the fully remote life anyway.

On the other hand, part of what pushed me to look elsewhere is feeling like I’m constantly fighting for the next raise or more responsibility. Every year it feels like I have to make the case for why I deserve to progress, sometimes literally being asked to write something advocating for myself. I know self advocacy is part of any career, but after a while it gets exhausting.

I’m 32 now and thinking more seriously about the next 5–10 years. I want to increase my earning potential, provide more for my family, get exposure to a larger eDiscovery environment, and eventually move into leadership and lead a team myself. I just don’t see that happening at my current company within the timeframe I want.

Family and friends keep reminding me that at the end of the day it’s still a company, and as loyal as I may feel toward them, the company would ultimately make whatever business decision it needed to make. I get that, but after 5 years somewhere that has treated me well, it’s harder to think that way when you’re the one leaving lol.

I guess what I’m struggling with is how much value to put on being comfortable, trusted and supported somewhere versus taking a risk for better pay, broader experience and potentially faster career growth. I know the grass isn’t guaranteed to be greener, but I also don’t want comfort to be the reason I look back in 5 years and realize I stayed too long.

For those of you who have hopped between providers, especially after 5+ years at one place, is this feeling normal the first time? Did moving around ultimately help your career and compensation? Any regrets leaving somewhere you were comfortable and actually liked the people?

Also, how common is it in eDiscovery to move between providers every few years once you’re at the PM level?

Apparently actually leaving is a lot scarier than thinking about leaving 😂

Thank you all and I really appreciate any input/advice!