In the beginning there was brute force linear review of electronic data — lawyers would start at one end of a document collection and march through it, document by document, making decisions regarding relevance, confidentiality, privilege, topic, and importance.

Then came linear “clustered” review, where documents on similar topics are electronically identified and grouped so that review lawyers could read topically-related documents together and hopefully in sequence — clearly a huge step towards consistency.

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