Discovery without the document review army.
Quillio runs discovery and eDiscovery in AU litigation — classifies documents for relevance, applies privilege tags, and produces the review summary under UCPR Part 21 and FCR Part 20.
Quillio handles AU litigation discovery end-to-end. I classify documents for relevance against the pleaded issues, apply privilege tags (legal professional privilege, without-prejudice, Harman), and produce the document list in the form UCPR Part 21 (NSW), FCR Part 20, and equivalent state rules require. For significant matters I replace the junior-heavy review team while keeping the supervising lawyer's judgment at the centre.
What changes
A discovery review on a mid-size commercial matter with 50,000 documents takes 3-4 weeks with a team of juniors and paralegals. Privilege calls are inconsistent across reviewers and cost the client $80-120k in review time.
Quillio runs the first-pass review in 6 hours, classifies every document for relevance, applies privilege tags, and hands the supervising lawyer a quality-controlled output. Human review is targeted at the privilege edge cases and the supervising lawyer's sign-off.
From upload to output
Upload the document set
Connect your document review platform (Relativity, Everlaw, DISCO, Nuix) or upload directly. I handle PDFs, emails, spreadsheets, and most modern file formats.
I classify for relevance
I read every document and classify against the pleaded issues. The review schema matches the issues in the pleadings — no generic categories.
I apply privilege tags
I identify legal professional privilege (advice privilege, litigation privilege), without-prejudice material, and Harman-type material. Edge cases are surfaced for human review rather than guessed.
I produce the discovery list
Output is the list of documents to be discovered, with the claim to privilege where made, in the form UCPR Part 21 or FCR Part 20 requires. I build the redacted versions where needed.
Supervising lawyer signs off
The supervising lawyer reviews the privilege edge cases, the borderline relevance calls, and signs off on the list. Final discovery compliance is the lawyer's duty, unchanged.
What you can do with Quillio ai discovery & ediscovery review
- Classify documents for relevance against pleaded issues
- Apply legal professional privilege tags with edge-case flagging
- Identify without-prejudice material and Harman-type material
- Produce discovery lists in UCPR Part 21 and FCR Part 20 form
- Run redaction workflows for privileged or confidential material
- Surface the documents that actually matter — hot docs, inconsistencies, contemporaneous material
- Handle eDiscovery across email, messaging, and cloud storage
A real example
You act for the respondent in a NSW Supreme Court Commercial List matter. Discovery has been ordered under UCPR Part 21 over a 50,000-document review set spanning 4 years of email and document storage. The trial is in 10 weeks.
Connect Quillio to your Relativity workspace. Upload the pleadings and the list of discovery categories ordered by the court.
In 8 hours: first-pass classification of 50,000 documents against the 11 ordered discovery categories, privilege tags applied with 1,240 edge cases surfaced for human review, a summary of 18 hot documents identified during review (including 3 inconsistencies between contemporaneous correspondence and the respondent's pleaded case), and the draft discovery list in UCPR Part 21 form. Supervising lawyer review time estimated at 40 hours rather than 400.
Documents, jurisdictions, and practice areas
Document types
- Email archives (including chain de-duplication)
- Contracts and correspondence
- File notes and diaries
- Meeting minutes and board papers
- Spreadsheets and financial records
- Messaging data (Teams, Slack)
- Cloud storage (SharePoint, Google Drive, Dropbox)
Jurisdictions
- NSW
- VIC
- QLD
- WA
- SA
- TAS
- ACT
- NT
- Federal
Practice areas
- Litigation
- Commercial
- Regulatory
- Class Actions
- Employment
- Insurance
AI Discovery & eDiscovery Review FAQs
How accurate is Quillio's privilege review?
I classify legal professional privilege and without-prejudice material with high recall (close to 100% capture) and good precision on clear cases. Edge cases — mixed privileged/unprivileged documents, copy lists including non-lawyers, waiver questions — are surfaced for human review rather than guessed. The supervising lawyer's judgment on edge cases is where privilege review sits.
Which eDiscovery platforms does Quillio integrate with?
Relativity, Everlaw, DISCO, Nuix, and the major AU eDiscovery platforms. I can also run as a standalone workflow where you upload documents directly and export the classified set to any platform for review and production.
Does this comply with UCPR Part 21 and FCR Part 20 requirements?
Yes. Discovery lists are produced in the form UCPR Part 21 (NSW), FCR Part 20, and equivalent state rules require — document descriptions, privilege claims, and the verification by the supervising lawyer. The lawyer's duty to verify remains; I produce the list for that verification.
Will Quillio replace document review lawyers?
I replace the first-pass document review — the work that is mostly structured classification. I do not replace the strategic review that surfaces hot documents for trial preparation, or the supervising lawyer's judgment on privilege edge cases. Most firms using Quillio for discovery redeploy juniors from document review to trial preparation.
Can Quillio handle messaging data (Teams, Slack)?
Yes. I process Teams and Slack exports, email threads, and messaging data. I handle threading, de-duplication, and the conversation-context problem (where a single message needs the surrounding conversation to make sense).
Is the review data confidential and privileged?
Yes. Discovery data is highly sensitive. Quillio runs on Australian infrastructure under SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 with data encrypted in transit and at rest. Discovery material never leaves Australia and is not used to train any model. Access is controlled at the matter level with audit logs on every document access.
How does this work in a court-ordered discovery regime?
Under UCPR Part 21 you can use any method to produce the discovery list provided the supervising lawyer verifies it. Quillio produces the first-pass list; the supervising lawyer verifies and certifies. The court does not prescribe the tool; it prescribes the duty and the form.
Try it on a current document.
The fastest way to test Quillio on discovery is to run it alongside an in-progress review and check the classification. The free trial requires no credit card and no sales call.
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