Smarter, Faster Document Review with Cecilia Auto Review

DISCO has been delivering award-winning AI-powered litigation solutions to clients since 2013, and now is demonstrably at the forefront of delivering generative AI to litigators and legal professionals through Cecilia, DISCO’s generative AI solutions suite. These solutions are revolutionizing how litigators use technology to strategize, execute, and win complex cases.

Today, Cecilia Auto Review joins DISCO’s suite of generative AI solutions. 

Lawyers provide tag descriptions to Cecilia Auto Review, which then reviews documents faster and more consistently than humans can. DISCO’s testing of Cecilia Auto Review on customer data demonstrated review speeds of 3,800 documents per hour — over a 24 hour period, equivalent to a 140-person review team working an eight-hour day — and precision and recall metrics 10-20% higher than typical from human reviewers. DISCO will leverage its deep bench of in-house expertise to support and optimize each customer’s experience with Cecilia Auto Review.

What is Cecilia Auto Review?

More than 80% of legal professionals surveyed in 2024 believed that document review would be heavily and immediately impacted by the introduction of generative AI into legal processes. 

DISCO’s product research and development teams have believed the same – and been preparing for that eventuality – since the founding of our AI lab in 2015. Now, we’re proud to bring Cecilia Auto Review into general availability. 

Cecilia Auto Review uses a secure, customized large language model to predict whether a tag should apply to your document set, and provides detailed explanations for each tag prediction with the ability to jump straight to a second pass quality control review.

With Cecilia Auto Review, you can perform first-pass document review with much faster, more accurate, and more consistent results. 

Generative AI-powered document review is just a click away, allowing you faster access to the facts of your case.

The process mirrors how human-managed reviews are performed today. You:

• Provide tagging instructions based on your review protocol or other descriptive summary of responsive documents by category
• Review sample sets to ensure that predictions have good fidelity
• Iteratively adjust tag descriptions based on findings from the sample set

Early users of Cecilia Auto Review have been able to dramatically accelerate processes and review accuracy. 

“Cecilia Auto Review enables us to identify responsive documents with unprecedented speed. This technology will be a game-changer for the legal industry, and as an associate, I am personally very excited about Cecilia. These tools will allow me to deliver high-quality results to my clients in a fraction of the time.” 

– Shelby Rampolo, Associate, Perkins Coie LLP

What are the benefits of using generative AI for document review?

Elevate your legal strategy

First-pass review can consume over 25% of a litigation’s total budget, and the large amount of time and money spent separating the wheat from the chaff can delay crucial case strategy. 

Cecilia Auto Review allows you to identify responsive documents and break them down by tags or descriptions in days, not weeks. 

By fast-tracking your first-pass document review, you can ensure a more rapid understanding of the documents in your database so you can advise your client earlier on risk, be front-footed on case strategy, and reallocate your and your team’s time and budget towards more strategic thinking and case building. 

Deliver faster, more consistent results to clients

In litigation, time not only is money, it often determines which party is on offense, and which party is on defense, particularly in large, complex litigation matters. 

With Cecilia Auto Review,  by gaining a preliminary understanding of the documents earlier and faster, you can help your clients understand and report risk, advise the business, and set strategy earlier and faster. 

This is a differentiator in today’s world in which clients put the highest value on proactive and forward-looking lawyers.

Seamlessly integrate with your existing workflows

Document review is just one part of litigation where generative AI shines. Cecilia Auto Review works with your established tools and workflows to accelerate your ability to resolve disputes or investigations.

By using the right tools for the right problems, legal professionals can demonstrate a commitment to effective client service through the adoption of state-of-the-art technology.

How does Cecilia Auto Review work with DISCO’s suite of generative AI solutions?

As a DISCO user, you can combine the power of this tool with the rest of our platform. This, among many other features, sets Cecilia Auto Review apart from other generative AI offerings in the legal tech market. DISCO’s other Cecilia skills include, for example:

Cecilia Q&A 💬

What it is: Cecilia Q&A is an AI fact expert fully integrated into DISCO Ediscovery. Cecilia Q&A answers questions in plain English about your specific database with sources and relevant documents cited.

Why it matters: Cecilia Q&A provides comprehensive insight into your case, helping you quickly identify crucial documents, so you can concentrate on developing your case strategy.

How it works with Cecilia Auto Review: Cecilia Auto Review helps you cast a wide net – reviewing any number of documents to identify the documents that are relevant and you are obligated to produce to the opposing party. Cecilia Q&A, on the other hand, finds the top documents relevant to any question that comes up over the lifetime of the case. Ask Q&A some questions and use the results to write the review protocol you provide to Cecilia Auto Review for your large-scale document review.

Cecilia Doc Summaries ✍️

What it is: With Cecilia summaries, you can instantly get a concise summary of long and foreign-language documents with a single click.

Why it matters: Have you ever had a surprise document sprung on you at a hearing or deposition? Have you ever needed to understand the gist of a foreign language document before translating it? Cecilia doc summaries gives you a quick digest in plain English, so that you can understand the key points without breaking your stride. (And, if you need to ultimately translate a document, DISCO’s powerful translation tool with 75 different languages capability that will translate it in seconds.)

How it works with Cecilia Auto Review: Once Cecilia Auto Review finds responsive documents, use Cecilia doc summaries to generate a quick summary of any hot document. Then, use that summary when sharing the document with the case team or when adding it to your Timeline.

Who can use Cecilia Auto Review?

Cecilia Auto Review is available for purchase to all DISCO Ediscovery users.

Embrace the benefits of generative AI-powered legal tech with DISCO

If you’re ready to join the firms already using generative AI to improve accuracy and turnaround time for document review, check out Cecilia Auto Review plus DISCO’s secure generative AI suite for ediscovery, review, depositions, and more. Request a demo.

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