Biographical Information
Jay Leib
Chief Strategy Officer, kCura
Jay Leib is kCura's chief strategy officer and resident computer-assisted review expert, providing clients with insight and guidance on computer-assisted review workflows and text analytics. He has been a speaker on computer-assisted review, and has authored several articles and white papers on the process. Before joining kCura, Leib was a senior manager with Ernst & Young's Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services practice. Prior to Ernst & Young, he founded Advocate Solutions, Inc., where he architected the world's first shrink-wrapped e-discovery application, Discovery Cracker. His software applications have been recognized by numerous awards in the litigation support and e-discovery fields.
Articles by Jay Leib
The New Axiom of Computer-assisted Review
29 Jan 2013
Offering legal teams a forward-thinking solution to the problem of big data, the topic of computer-assisted review is the conversation du jour in the e-discovery marketplace. There's good reason for that. According to a recent Rand Corporation survey, document review is the single most expensive step in the discovery process. Logically, the option to reduce time wasted on irrelevant documents can make a big difference in any case, particularly on costs. Therefore, when it comes to document review, legal teams see huge value in the ability to quickly separate the wheat from the chaff. . . .