Anyone who has worked for Big Law knows the scene well: A large windowless room furnished only with a table and folding chairs, surrounded by stacks of banker boxes filled with documents representing the product of discovery in an antitrust case, or class action, or environmental mega-suit. The associate’s job is to read the documents—one-by-one—and sort them in accordance with issues identified by the lead partner in the case, or by sender or receiver, or the like, and to redact or exclude attorney-client communications in the process.
The associate does this without interruption, day after day, for 10 or 12 hours per day until he reaches the last document in the last box or runs screaming from the room, whichever comes first.
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