In the legal arena's contest of man versus machine, the U.S. Justice Department has given a big boost to the machines.
Department officials reviewing the proposed merger of Anheuser-Busch InBev NVBUD -1.56% and Mexico's Grupo Modelo GMODELO.MX -0.26% SAB recently approved a request to use software—rather than a horde of lawyers—to determine which documents needed to be turned over to the government.
Cases involving large companies often require legal counsel to sift through...
