eDiscovery software for litigation paralegals running defensible document review

Paralegals do much of the hands-on work in document review, so the software they rely on has to make a large review both efficient and defensible. Defensibility means every decision can be explained and reproduced if challenged - which depends as much on process and recordkeeping as on features.

The capabilities paralegals lean on most include:

• Fast, reliable search across the full document set, including metadata and near-duplicate grouping

• Consistent tagging, issue coding, and redaction that the whole team applies the same way

• A complete audit trail showing who reviewed and coded each document, and when

• Privilege logging and production tools that carry coding through to the final deliverable

• Workflow controls like batching and quality-control sampling to keep review on track

Established platforms such as Relativity, Everlaw, and Nuix Discover are widely used for this work, and newer AI-native tools add automated classification and summarization on top. When evaluating any option for defensibility, look at how thoroughly it logs activity, how consistently coding can be enforced across reviewers, and how cleanly annotations flow into productions and privilege logs.

AI can reduce the manual hours without weakening the record: surfacing likely-relevant documents first, suggesting issue codes, and summarizing long files so reviewers move faster while a human keeps final control of coding.

For more on how AI is reshaping this role, read The Paralegal's New Superpower.

Claira is an AI eDiscovery platform built to support this kind of defensible, paralegal-driven review at scale. See how it fits your workflow.