Weekly Letter to Our Global Community – 10 Jan 23

Dear EDRM Community,

The word of the week is fired up. 🔥

Football fans learned more about automated external defibrillators in a New Year’s miracle for Damar Hamlin and the Buffalo Bills.  As fighting continued, the sweet sound of Christmas carols echoed in Ukraine. Brazil repelled and arrested hundreds of pro-Bolsonaro protesters who stormed the seat of government this week.

In legal tech this week, layoffs continued in line with the greater economy, with the market shifting to employers, many of whom are upping their “return to office” requirements.  Ephemeral messaging standout, Telegram, introduced the capability to blur sensitive data at origin.  Craig Ball released a tour de force of a richly annotated ESI protocol primer.  Alex Jones’ Connecticut attorney was suspended for not safeguarding client data.  In addition to increased regulatory scrutiny, social media platforms are being sued by the Seattle school district in a novel case addressing mental health.  And the Hon. Paul Grimm (ret.) took the reins from Director Emeritus, the Hon. David Levi (ret.) at the Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law School. Ralph Losey has quite the partnership with ChatGPT. Dr. Maura R. Grossman waxes poetic on ChatGPT.

EDRM is hosting webinars all week to welcome you back, starting today with:

• Tues, Jan 10. Exterro’s From the Frontlines: the Current and Future State of Document Review
• Wed, Jan 11 eDiscovery Today: Ethics and Explainability of AI Algorithms in Legal Use Cases
• Thur, Jan 12 Venio Systems: Are Humans Underrated in eDiscovery
• Fri, Jan 13, eDiscovery Today: Third Annual eDiscovery Today State of the Industry Results.  EDRM is grateful to our global community for your participation, and you can get your complimentary copy of the results before the webinar by subscribing to Doug’s daily blog.

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

EDRM’s project listings are 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, 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 146th 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. 

Thrilled its 2023,

Mary & Kaylee