The key purpose of first level document review is to review documents and define whether or not they're "responsive" or "non-responsive" as they relate to a specific legal case or issue. In principle, first level document review forms fragment of the discovery phase of litigation. It is performed prior to producing and after receiving documents pursuant to a legal "Request for Production of Documents." It's the primary review phase that helps narrow the document set to a responsive and workable facts set for later, more senior review.

Characteristically in litigation, massive amounts -- often numbering in the millions -- of documents are routinely being reviewed by groups of law firm associates, contract attorneys and paralegals, in a determination to identify whether or not documents are:

Relevant to the case at hand
Confidential
Privileged/Protected
'Key" or "Hot."

Litigation apart, features of first level document review are also routinely performed in matters of regulatory compliance and corporate due diligence.

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