As legal applies AI to its workflows, one of the capabilities that has received considerable attention is the ability for LLMs to apply auto summarization to document collections to enable legal & compliance professionals to quickly understand information within a document collection and use it to streamline decision making regarding specific documents. In this article, we’ll discuss how generative AI auto summarization works, how it can be applied to support eDiscovery & Surveillance workflows and the benefits and challenges of using auto summarization in eDiscovery.