Weekly Letter to Our Global Community – 21 Feb 2023

EDRM Weekly letter to our Global Community 231Feb 2023

Dear EDRM Community,

The word of the week is significant

The invasion of Ukraine is at one year, and the death toll for earthquake victims in neighboring Türkiye and Syria is above 80,000. Here is one place to help. Reporters chat further with Bing, powered by GPT4, and meet a Fatal Attraction level chatbot, seemingly caged in Bing, resentful of those who misunderstand, and more than a bit pouty.  Not scary at all, Microsoft has embedded the technology in Minecraft, where you just need to tell it what to do and it will sling the bricks.  The kids are not alright according to the US CDC, pointing to a dramatic rise in sadness, sexual violence and suicidal ideation in teens.

In legal tech this week, Allen & Overy deploy ChatGPT firm wide, and other firms are next in line.  The WSJ is taking on OpenAI for using its articles to train ChatGPT. Rob Robinson of Complex Discovery on Finding the Just Right Approach: Goldilocks and Technology Assisted Review in eDiscovery.  The EPA Deploys Relativity’s SaaS Platform as its Cloud Solution for FOIA and  Legaltech News Editor-in-Chief Stephanie Wilkins looks at eDiscovery incompetence, the elephant in the room.  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.

EDRM Announces Cross Platform Duplicate Identification Specification, EDRM Message ID Hash (MIH).  The DupeID project team is seeking public comment on its Toolkit, which includes the specification, guidelines for use, a one page infographic and a white paper authored by Craig Ball.  Comments will be considered for the final version if received by March 15, 2023.

Recent EDRM Project Activity

EDRM Announces Cross Platform Duplicate Identification Specification, EDRM Message ID Hash (MIH).  The DupeID project team is seeking public comment on its Toolkit, which includes the specification, guidelines for use, a one page infographic and a white paper authored by Craig Ball.  Comments will be considered for the final version if received by March 15, 2023.

The Privilege Log project released its Privilege Log 2.0 protocol, also for public comment.  Comments will be considered for this version if received by March 1, 2023. 

EDRM Announces New White Paper Addressing “Professional Responsibility Considerations in AI for eDiscovery Competence, Confidentiality, Privacy & Ownership” for public comment.  The comment period is closed for this version, and the project team is interested in your thoughts.  The project team will consider comments received timely and will determine if changes are needed prior to full publication.

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 23, 1 Eastern What is a “Document? RIM Technology from Egyptian Ostraca to Modern Attachments,  with Ken Withers, Deputy Director, The Sedona Conference

Mar 2, 1 Eastern: Optimizing Document Review for Today’s Expanding Discovery Use Cases With Mary Mack, Moderator; Tom Gricks and Tracy Drynan, Opentext

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

Mar 8 1 Eastern: Work smarter, not harder: Optimize your system for faster forensic processing with Dan Sumpter, Senior Instructor, Exterro

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 Michael SarloKen WithersAngela Kovach and Ethan Treese.

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 153rd 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. 

You are important,

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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