Showing posts with label urban dictionary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label urban dictionary. Show all posts

Monday, May 3, 2010

Urban Dictionary's Take on "Document Review"

"Document Review" is a term that we throw around here on BIDER pretty often.  I guess I take it for granted that my readers know what it means.  I shouldn't assume that.  0Ls have no idea how mind numbing it is.  Document review is truly the modern day sweatshop a la Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle".  But Urban Dictionary puts it better when it says that "Document Review" is:

the fate of attorneys who don't graduate from the top 14 schools or in the top 10% of their class if they are outside of the top 14 schools. you click on legal database software for 12 hours a day without being allowed to take breaks. it is a dead end job with no benefits or chance of advancement. most law students are blissfully unaware that this world even exists, but once they graduate, they become slaves to the doc review mill.
or....

A position for attorneys that is not as good as being a BigLaw Associate or a federal court clerk, but is infinitely better and more interesting than working in insurance defense. Pays better, too.
BigLaw is Heaven. Document review is Purgatory.  Insurance defense is the 7th Circle of Hell.
or....

A miserable existence on Earth. Hell. Usually leads to suicide.  Document review is the 2nd circle of hell.

Yah, that sums it up.  They forgot to mention the carpal tunnel syndrome that you inevitably develop from repetitive motions.

I kinda like the third one.  What do you think?

 

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