Recall-Precision

E-discovery is the legal profession's only completed AI adoption cycle – and its lessons are the closest thing to a playbook for what comes next

A new working paper ran generative AI document review and a managed active-learning workflow head to head on the same 45,004-document corpus. Same review protocol, same reference labels, same scorecard. The GenAI system won on recall, and the paired test backs it up. The rest of the scorecard – precision, the 62-to-1 effort gap, the population extrapolation – needs more qualification than the headline suggests.