The 2011-2012 EDRM midyear meeting will be held in St. Paul, MN on Wednesday, October 19, and Thursday, October 20, 2011 at the Saint Paul Hotel. Details to follow.

The 2011-2012 EDRM kickoff meeting will be held in St. Paul, MN on Wednesday, May 11, and Thursday, May 12, 2011 at the Saint Paul Hotel. Details to follow.

The EDRM mid-year working meeting (aka The October Meeting) is scheduled for October 19 and 20. The objective of this meeting is to bring together the EDRM working groups for face-to-face meetings to work through the issues and advance the efforts of each working group toward completion of working group objectives and deliverables.

The proposed agenda for the meeting is noted below. Over the next couple of weeks, we will work with the project and working group leads to refine the details of the schedule. We need to hear from everyone whether you will be able to attend these meetings as well as suggestions. Your response by Friday, September 10 will be greatly appreciated.

To register for the meeting, go to edrm.net/8372

Location: The Saint Paul Hotel, St. Paul, MN.

Agenda overview:

As we have done for previous meetings, we have reserved a block of rooms at the Saint Paul Hotel. For any guest wishing to make reservations, the Saint Paul Hotel can be reached at 1-800-292-9292. When making your reservations, please refer the “Gelbmann & Associates Room Block” to ensure you receive the best rate, or use corporate code 557454 when making reservations online to ensure the group rate ($174/night). You will have until Sept 6 to make your reservation.

The hotel is telling us that our dates in October are very busy, and they expect to sell out the hotel. We have a room block reserved, but we have to start releasing unsold rooms beginning on September 10 per our contract. If you’ve waited until the last minute in the past to book your room, you may not be so lucky this time. Please make your reservations soon!

We would also like to take this opportunity to recognize the significant level of progress already made by several project teams. Despite the challenges of summer vacations, heavy business workloads, coordination of schedules for conference calls, project teams are well on the way to making the 2010-2011 EDRM Projects successful. Thanks to all.

As always, your comments and suggestions to shape this event are welcome and appreciated.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

George and Tom

August 26, 2010 – Today we publish the second paper in the EDRM White Paper Series: The Reality of Native Format Production and Redaction.

Prepared by Christine Musil, Director of Marketing, Informative Graphics Corporation, this white paper examines issues regarding production of ESI, in particular native production, as well as redaction of native files:

The issue of production format in eDiscovery has long been discussed, argued and downright misunderstood. Historically, attorneys produced documents in paper form or electronically in TIFF or Adobe® PDF format. Even documents that originated electronically were often either printed and re-scanned or batch-converted to TIFF or PDF. The December 1, 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) – specifically rule 34(b) – made the default obligation to produce a document “in a form or forms in which it is ordinarily maintained or in a form or forms that are reasonably usable” unless the requesting party – or failing that, the producing party – specifies a different format. Does this demand that the producing party must deliver all documents in their original, native format (e.g., Microsoft Word or Excel)? more…

For the full EDRM White Paper Series listing, go to http://edrm.net/7596

All opinions expressed in the EDRM White Papers are those of the authors, of course, and not of EDRM, EDRM participants, the author’s employers, or anyone else.

August 26, 2010 – In response to participant requests, effective today we are revising the EDRM participation fee structure to offer a new anniversary pricing model.

Here is how it works:

• Participants join for a one-year period (for example, Sept. 1, 2010 – Aug. 31, 2011, Jan. 15, 2011 – Jan. 14, 2012).
• Participants may join EDRM at any time in the year (for example, Sept 1, 2010 or Jan. 15, 2011), with official one-year participation beginning the first day of the month after invoicing.
• Payment may be made by check, by credit card, or by money transfer.
• Payment is due in full upon invoicing; if payment is not made in full within 30 days of invoicing, then unless other arrangements have been made a late payment fee of 1% of the balance due may be charged each month.

We will work with current participants who wish to move from the current to the anniversary model before May 2011.  All other participants will be converted to an anniversary date of May 1.

Participation fees remain the same as they have been for the past 4 years, except for the individual meeting fee:

¹ Participating organizations:

• Are listed on the EDRM website and in EDRM work product. Listings may include both the organization and individuals from the organization. Listings also may include links to the organization’s website.
• May use EDRM participant logos on their websites, in printed materials, etc.
• May advertise and promote their participation in EDRM.

² Participating individuals:

• Are listed on the EDRM website and in EDRM work product. Listings do not include references to the organization for whom the individual participant works, or links to individual or organizational websites.
• May not use EDRM participant logos on their websites, in printed materials, etc.
• May not use their participation in EDRM to advertise or promote their offerings.
• Pay an additional fee of $300 per meeting attended to cover a portion of meeting expenses.

³ In response to the current economic challenges and the accompanying reduction in e-discovery personnel at service and software providers, law firms and corporations, for select individuals we are temporarily waiving the individual EDRM participation fee. This waiver applies to individuals who have lost, or are about to lose, positions in the e-discovery field. Individual participants who elect to attend the Spring and Fall EDRM face-to-face working meetings will still be required to pay a fee to cover a portion of meeting expenses. We know this will not solve everyone’s problems; we hope at least it can ease the pain a little.

Please contact us with any questions (mail@edrm.net; George 651-690-1739; Tom 651-483-0022).

Thank you,

George Socha and Tom Gelbmann

EDRM Presents:  Who Wants to be an eDiscovery Guru? Game Show & Social Event

Do you know what the EDRM stands for?  Then you too could be a winner!!! (hint: check out www.edrm.net)

OVER $2000 in prizes to be given away just by showing off your eDiscovery knowledge and prove to your peers that you have what it takes to be an “eDiscovery Guru.” Several contestants will be selected at random and asked multiple choice questions including this one:

“There are four (4) primary ways to transfer data from the European Union listed in the EU Privacy Directive (95/46/EC).  What are they?”

Test your knowledge!

Prizes will be awarded to all that play as well as audience prize drawings throughout the event.

Meet EDRM members!!! Find out more about the exciting EDRM projects and learn how you can participate.

Come join members of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) for a fun-filled hour of entertainment, information and prizes.

Entrance for the game show is free.  A meal ticket will be required for lunch. Participating EDRM members are not eligible as contestants.

Where: ILTA – Aria – Pinyon 2

When: Wednesday, August 25 @ 12:30 pm PST

For questions about the EDRM ILTA event or prize sponsorship:  Please contact Jason Velasco at jasonvelasco@kpmg.com.  Feel free to invite others to this event:

http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/RMHJKOZYWPLBYDWLVBJC/EDRM_ILTA_2010

Current Prize Sponsors:

The mid-year meeting for the EDRM 2011-2012 project will be held in Saint Paul, Minnesota on October 19 and 20 at the Saint Paul Hotel.

The EDRM 2011-2012 project kickoff meeting will be held in Saint Paul, Minnesota on May 11 and 12 at the Saint Paul Hotel.

July 21, 2010

Today, we introduce the EDRM White Paper Series and the first of the papers in that series, Once is Not Enough: The Case for Using an Iterative Approach to Choosing and Applying Selection Criteria in Discovery by Gene Eames, David J. Kessler and Andrea L. D’Ambra.

With the EDRM White Paper Series, EDRM offers:

• White papers about electronic discovery and information management
• Prepared by leaders in the field
• Evaluated by EDRM participants prior to publication
• Published on the EDRM site on a non-exclusive basis, in keeping with the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License

All opinions expressed in the white papers are those of the authors, of course, and not of EDRM, EDRM participants, the author’s employers, or anyone else.

The EDRM White Paper Series is at edrm.net/7596

The first paper in the series, Once is Not Enough: The Case for Using an Iterative Approach to Choosing and Applying Selection Criteria in Discovery by Gene Eames, David J. Kessler and Andrea L. D’Ambra, is at edrm.net/7566

We have just put up our first EDRM survey.  About the EDRM XML Schema, the survey is at edrm.net/5838 – Please participate!

We are gathering information to improve the EDRM XML schema, to help facilitate a more unified and clear and concise standard.  Your answers and comments to the following questionnaire will provide us with invaluable information and will bring a stronger focus to what you would like to see improved.

The survey is at edrm.net/5838

Thank you,

- The EDRM XML Team