Dear EDRM Community,
The word of the week is unfiltered.
The death toll for the Türkiye and Syria is above 30,000. Here is one place to help. After China’s balloon was shot down, NORAD opened the filters of radar data, resulting in three more takedowns. An environmental catastrophe is expanding in the trainwreck in Ohio. Microsoft’s Bing smoked Google’s Bard in the competition for AI enabled search.
In legal tech this week, EDRM welcomes veteran Nextpoint and the great Brett Burney to the EDRM Trusted Partner program. Legaltech News Editor-in-Chief Stephanie Wilkins looks at DoNotPay’s fall in their attempt to create AI chatbots for legal consumers. Trusted Partners Merlin Search Technologies and HaystackID’s nSight Search earned 2023 Trailblazer awards presented by the National Law Journal. Susan Bennett of our Trusted Partner, InfoGov ANZ, invites EDRM to take part in the 4th #InfoGov Industry Survey tracking developments over the past 7 years – have your say and provide your valuable insights. Ralph Losey puts another AI tool to the test, this one D-iD.com. Our Trusted Partner, Exterro, shares the results of their collaborative survey with ACC.
EDRM Announces New White Paper Addressing “Professional Responsibility Considerations in AI for eDiscovery Competence, Confidentiality, Privacy & Ownership” for public comment.
Projects (Public comment periods are closing)
EDRM Announces New White Paper Addressing “Professional Responsibility Considerations in AI for eDiscovery Competence, Confidentiality, Privacy & Ownership” for public comment.
In addition, the Privilege Log project released its Privilege Log 2.0 protocol, also for public comment.
The State Rules Project is looking for some contributors to fill out the rest of the US map. See if your state is covered here
EDRM’s project listings are here.
Webinars
Feb 14, 1 Eastern Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for February 2023 with Doug Austin, Hon. Judge Andrew Peck (ret.), Tom O’Connor & Mary Mack.
Feb 15, 1 Eastern Love What You Do with IPRO’s Jeffrey Wolff and EDRM’s Mary Mack.
Mar 2, 1 Eastern, Optimizing Document Review for Today’s Expanding Discovery Use Cases with OpenText’s Tom Gricks and Tracy Drynan.
Mar 7, 1 Eastern NIST CSF 2.0: Back to the Future with James Dever, M.A., J.D., Dr. Jack Dever, J.D., LL.M- Principals, Lockhaven Solutions.
And, we’d love to hear from you: info@edrm.net will get to both Kaylee and Mary.
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. Our latest guests include Ken Withers, Angela Kovach, Ethan Treese and Erin Meyer.
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 152nd 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.
Curious,
Mary & Kaylee
