Adam J. Schwartz: Trust AI, But Verify Everything | Ep 1313

In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Adam J. Schwartz, founder and CEO of DocumentReview.law, to explore what happens when a practicing attorney gets frustrated enough with existing tools to teach himself JavaScript and build a better one. Adam opens with the breaking point that sparked everything: a case with a few hundred documents where every existing platform was built for millions, making it both overkill and cost-prohibitive for the client. So he sat down in his converted garage in Los Angeles, dusted off his JavaScript knowledge, and spent two years building a prototype that eventually made professional developers chuckle — before they rebuilt it into a modern, browser-agnostic platform attorneys can use from any device. He then makes a clear-eyed case for where AI belongs in legal work and where it does not. AI can triage documents, surface the relevant ones faster, and eliminate the redundant early review passes that drive up billable hours — but until AI can stand in a courtroom, argue before a judge, or sit across from an opposing party in mediation, lawyers still need to know the case inside out. His governing principle is simple: trust but verify. He then pulls back the curtain on why document review consumes roughly seventy-five percent of discovery costs — the combination of hundreds of attorney hours and expensive vendor storage infrastructure — and explains how DocumentReview.law attacks both. He closes with a vision of legal practice where AI handles the ministerial work so attorneys can spend more time on the two things only humans can do: building the case and building the relationship with the client.

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