Dear EDRM community,
The word of the week is expansion.
Mark Lanier opened a London practice with 2 English barristers to bring plaintiff group litigation (aka class action, mass tort) to the UK while on the defense side, Womble Bond Dickinson courts UK’s BDB Pitmans. The US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals deemed the funding mechanism for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unconstitutional and the 8th Circuit is blocking student loan forgiveness.
Bloomberg reports stunning employment results for the legal community. The lawyer unemployment rate fell from a microscopic 1% to 0.1% from the second to third quarter. (In the fourth quarter, we’re aware of two large eDiscovery providers with layoffs.) The same Bloomberg article reports that paralegal unemployment increased, and that more men entered the legal workforce and more women left. Jason Tashea dives into humane access to justice in: “A Human Rights Approach to Justice Technology Procurement.
#EDRM is once again a very proud Gold Sponsor of Relativity Fest and we will once again open Thursday, Oct 27th at 8am CT with a Red Carpet Kick-Off presented by EDRM. Join Mary Mack, CISSP Mack, CEO and Chief Legal Technologist and Kaylee Walstad, Craig Ball, TX Trial Attorney, Forensics Expert, Special Master, Doug Austin, Editor in Chief of eDiscovery Today, David Horrigan, Discovery Counsel and Legal Education Director at Relativity and Monica Harris, Product Business Manager, Cellebrite Enterprise Solutions as we kick off Relativity Fest discussing favorite Fest memories and what we are most looking forward to doing at Fest! Come and share, wear your favorite Fest swag and join us for a lively conversation.
On the EDRM blog this week, EDRM Trusted Partner, Everlaw, releases a comprehensive survey in collaboration with ACC with provocative results. EDRM Trusted Partner, Lockhaven Solutions, explains the benefits of the NIST Computer Security Framework (find Dr. Jack and James Dever at Relativity Fest this week.) John Paztakis, Chairman of the Board and CLO of X1 (Check out their booth at Relativity Fest) recaps our proportionality webinar in Proportionality in eDiscovery is Ideal, but Difficult to Realize Without an Optimized Process. EDRM CEO Mary Mack joined Codex10’s Clayton Romero, Dr. Maura R. Grossman of the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo and Maura Grossman Law and John Barkett, Partner at Shook Hardy Bacon for a webinar on Ethics, Data Exchange and eDiscovery for the World Ethical Data Forum, airing Friday, Oct. 28th at 5am PT with complimentary registration, and available on demand. Rob Robinson of ComplexDiscovery Launched Total Cost of Ownership Survey. Tim Rollins of our Trusted Partner, Exterro, gets us ready for E-Discovery Day with some trivia.
#EDRM is once again a very proud Gold Sponsor of Relativity Fest and we will once again open Thursday, Oct 27th at 8am CT with a Red Carpet Kick-Off presented by EDRM. Join Mary Mack, CISSP Mack, CEO and Chief Legal Technologist and Kaylee Walstad, Craig Ball, TX Trial Attorney, Forensics Expert, Special Master, Doug Austin, Editor in Chief of eDiscovery Today, David Horrigan, Discovery Counsel and Legal Education Director at Relativity and Monica Harris, Product Business Manager, Cellebrite Enterprise Solutions as we kick off Relativity Fest discussing favorite Fest memories and what we are most looking forward to doing at Fest! Come and share, wear your favorite Fest swag and join us for a lively conversation.
Register here for Relativity Fest.
EDRM projects are open to new contributors, please reach out to info@edrm.net to let us know your interest, and we will introduce you to the appropriate Project Trustee. You can check out EDRM’s project listings here. The Text Message Metadata Primer Project has a call out for participation to add more government perspectives.
Our Syndicated EDRM Global Podcast Network is available via iTunes, Spotify, Google Play and your favorite podcast app, so you can listen at your leisure. Kaylee and Mary have our own podcast, the Illumination Zone, joining TAR Talk and Ryan Short’s eDiscovery After Hours podcasts. Reach out to info@edrm.net to suggest guests, including your own fabulous self.
Every Tuesday at 6PM Eastern, community members gather via Zoom to offer or request support as we navigate our work and personal challenges. Email us at info@edrm.net to be included on the group invitation for the 135th support call. Remember, you are not alone, and you are welcome at our events, or to reach out for help. If you are having a mental health emergency, please consider these resources for professional help. Tall Poppy has some resources specifically for those experiencing online harassment, with some great sources of general mental health resources.
We welcome your participation in our projects, webinars, support gatherings, and our EDRM Hub, our job board/event/directory website. There is no charge for these EDRM offerings, thanks to our very generous partners.
Growing with you,
Mary & Kaylee
