Privileged material · Read in-house
Privileged documents, analysed without disclosure.
Attorney work product, privileged correspondence and expert drafts are exactly the material a firm cannot upload — and exactly where the analysis is most valuable.
The documents firms will not put in a cloud tool
These are the ones HIGHCOURT was built to read.
Attorney work product
Internal memoranda, strategy notes and draft analysis, read alongside the record they refer to.
Privileged correspondence
Client communications that cannot be disclosed to a vendor under any data-processing agreement.
Expert and consulting material
Non-testifying expert work whose protection depends on it staying inside the firm.
Settlement and negotiation files
Positions and authority that would be commercially damaging in anyone else's hands.
What stays true on every matter
These do not change by practice area, firm size, or the question asked.
Start with the file you would never upload.
That is the honest test. If the tool is only useful on material you were relaxed about, it is not solving the problem.
Request a BriefingQuestions firms ask
The answers below are specific to this page’s subject.
Does it separate privileged from non-privileged material?
Privilege flags are applied during document classification, and the review surfaces them. The determination remains an attorney's, as it has to be.
Can it help with a privilege log?
It can identify candidates and pull the metadata a log needs. The log itself is legal work and stays that way.
What if privileged material was produced by mistake?
A finding of that kind is exactly what the review queue is for — it is surfaced as an issue rather than silently used.
Is the analysis itself privileged?
Work product generated at an attorney's direction generally carries the same protections as other work product. Because it is created and stored inside the firm, the usual third-party complication does not arise.
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