Dear EDRM Community,
The word of the week is balloon.
The death toll for Syria and Turkey keeps increasing due to the devastating earthquake. After a meander over Canadian and US airspace, the US shot a Chinese surveillance or weather balloon out of the sky over the Carolina coast. Russia continues its assault into Ukraine. Microsoft announced ChatGPT will be used in Bing and Google announced their own generative AI called Bard. Maybe not so coincidently, ChatGPT passed the Google coding interview for a level 3 engineer.
EDRM Announces New White Paper Addressing “Professional Responsibility Considerations in AI for eDiscovery Competence, Confidentiality, Privacy & Ownership” for public comment.
In legal tech this week, Julia Agwin gifts us some algorithmic validation lessons with applicability to our space as she exits the Markup. A judge used ChatGPT to draft an opinion, Getty sued to protect its images. We’ll be taking a close look at this study on creating synthetic data. Ralph Losey enlists ChatGPT to explain his active machine learning method and our Trusted Partner, Lockhaven Solutions were honored by Senator Tammy Duckworth. 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 here: https://surveymonkey.com/r/WJ26KT6. Bobby Balachandran, Founder and CEO of our Trusted Partner, Exterro, lays out his vision in the second of a two part series on the acquisition of Zapproved.
Projects
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 9, 1 Eastern Ripped from the Headlines: Ethics Charges for Alex Jones’ Attorneys with Hon. Ron Hedges (ret.), Mary Mack, CEO, EDRM and David R. Cohen, Partner at Reed Smith
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 23, 1 Eastern What is a “Document? RIM Technology from Egyptian Ostraca to Modern Attachments with Ken Withers, Deputy Director, The Sedona Conference
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 151st 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.
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Up, up and away,
Mary & Kaylee
