Weekly Letter to Our Global Community – 13 Dec 22

EDRM Weekly Letter to our Global Community 13-Dec-22. EDRM will be closed from Dec 19-Jan 6

Dear EDRM community,

The word of the week is breakthrough.

Generating more energy than is put into it via fusion has been a pipe dream, and an announcement regarding an advance is forthcoming.  The Special Master part of the Mar-A-Lago case has been dismissed.  ChatGPT and Dall-E have mesmerized us, with the recovering Ralph Losey venturing out into blog posts.  We couldn’t stop talking about ChatGPT with the editor of Legaltech News, Stephanie Wilkins, on the EDRM Illumination Zone podcast. And, the tripledemic is knocking at our door.

Exterro, steward of E-Discovery Day, made the year end caselaw webinar available to the EDRM Global Webinar Channel.  Tune in today, Tuesday, for EDRM collaborated with eDiscovery Today’s Doug Austin, Top 7 eDiscovery Cases of 2022 with Tom O’Connor, the Hon. Andrew Peck (ret.) and “Doug and Mary.

This week in legal tech, Phil Saunders takes the reins at our Trusted Partner, Relativity as their new CEO amid layoffs and sunsetting Trace. EDRM Global Advisory Council, Shawn Tuma, and EDRM Chair of the Project Trustees, Dave Cohen, are featured in an article by Isha Marathe for Legaltech News on the inadvertent productions and leaks of 2022.  Apple will encrypt end-to-end, closing off the unencrypted cloud option for Apple hardware collection. Exterro, steward of E-Discovery Day, made the year end caselaw webinar available to the EDRM Global Webinar Channel.  Tune in today, Tuesday, for EDRM collaborated with eDiscovery Today’s Doug Austin, Top 7 eDiscovery Cases of 2022 with Tom O’Connor, the Hon. Andrew Peck (ret.) and “Doug and Mary,” covered by Cassandre Coyer of ALM’s Legaltech News.  ComplexDiscovery launched its semi-annual eDiscovery Pricing Survey providing a mechanism for cyber, data, and legal discovery professionals to share and consider current pricing for selected eDiscovery-centric collection, processing, and review tasks. 

EDRM will be closed from December 19, 2022 through January 6. 2023. We wish you all a wonderful holiday and respite. The newsletter will return on January 10, 2023.

EDRM will be closed from December 19, 2022 through January 6. 2023. We wish you all a wonderful holiday and respite. The newsletter will return on January 10, 2023.

And, we’d love to hear from you:  info@edrm.net will get to both Kaylee and Mary.

EDRM’s project listings here.  

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.  

Every Tuesday at 6PM Eastern (including over the holiday), 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 142nd 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.

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. 

Wishing you and your loved ones health and happiness at the holidays and into the New Year,

Mary & Kaylee



Author

  • Mary Mack is the CEO and Chief Legal Technologist for EDRM. Mary was the co-editor of the Thomson Reuters West Treatise, eDiscovery for Corporate Counsel for 10 years and the co-author of A Process of Illumination: the Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery. She holds the CISSP among her certifications.

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