Henig v. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

OPINION & ORDER

RONNIE ABRAMS, United States District Judge:

The history of law, Oliver Wendell Holmes observed, “is the history of the moral development of the race.” But many practicing lawyers — especially junior attorneys at large law firms — know that their jobs too often have less to -do with the development of the human race or the law than with tasks that are necessarily repetitive in nature; modest in intellectual scope, and banal in' character. Particularly in a litigation in which a good deal of money is at stake, attorneys generally must review thousands if not millions of documents…