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# Lawyers Need to Create Defensible Document Review Using Stats

  April 30, 2012

Chicago Daily Law Bulletin

 

 

 

 

 

 

This article discusses statistical sampling as effective quality control in document reviews. The author also covers the ​“acceptable error rate” in a document review and provides suggestions for improving accuracy or correcting errors in a document production using statistical sampling.

 

 

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