Dear EDRM Community,
The word of the week is volatile.
Social contagion felled Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. California weathers yet another flood inducing atmospheric river. Eran Kahana created a data stewardship framework for generative AI. In the UK, legal is embracing the Mindfulness Business Charter, reminiscent of the Sedona Conference Cooperation Proclamation.
In legal tech this week, John Tredennick and our Trusted Partner, Merlin Search Technologies earned looks from Stephanie Wilkins at Legaltech News and Joe Patrice at Above the Law for his groundbreaking Cloud Utility Pricing enabled by cloud based single tenant architecture. We’re preparing for Legalweek and hope to see you. The banking and crypto crises will highlight firms with personnel and technology able to wrestle new data types and arrangements as contracts unravel and regulation and investigations proliferate. Ralph Losey penned a two part series From Information to Knowledge to Wisdom: Can Ai Save the Day? – Part 1 available today. For Sunshine Week, Rob Robinson of Complex Discovery, looked at the French attraction to DSAR’s. Jason Tashea and Georgetown’s Justice Tech project have Innovation Fellowships in underserved geographies for underserved communities. Our Trusted Partner, Ricoh, will cover cross border issues between Canada and the US on their webinar, March 15, 1 PM Eastern: A New Look at Old Data Strategies: Management, Organization & Canada/US Border Readiness with Sean Lynch, Dir., Client Strategy, Legal Services, Jessica Lockett, B.A., LL.B., M.A., Director, Review Services, Ricoh Canada and Mary Mack.
Save the date for EDRM’s Detroit Symposium/Workshop June 1-2, 2023 with keynote speaker Craig Ball. Project teams will be invited to present and collaborate, as well as Advisory Council leaders and partners. Space will be limited, so let us know you are coming. Registration will be available shortly.
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. An webinar open to the community was held (and recorded for later replay) for CROSS PLATFORM EMAIL DUPLICATE IDENTIFICATION with Beth Patterson, Craig Ball, Matt Golab, Paul Sirkus and Ian Folkman at two different times for our global audience:
EDRM is Awarded JD Supra’s Readers’ Choice Award for #1 Firm and Top 2 Authors in eDiscovery . Heartfelt thanks to our EDRM Global Community, our authors, contributors, faculty experts, advisory council leaders, podcast guests and Team JD Supra.
Mary Mack and Kaylee Walstad
The Privilege Log project released its Privilege Log 2.0 protocol, also for public comment. The Public Comment Period is complete and the project team is considering the input. Thank you for reading!
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.
March 15: 1 PM Eastern: A New Look at Old Data Strategies: Management, Organization & Canada/US Border Readiness with Sean Lynch, Dir., Client Strategy, Legal Services, Jessica Lockett, B.A., LL.B., M.A., Director, Review Services, Ricoh Canada and Mary Mack
March 28: 1 PM Eastern: Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for March 2023 with Doug Austin, Hon. Judge Andrew Peck (ret.), Tom O’Connor & Mary Mack
March 29: 1 PM Eastern: ChatGPT: Should Ediscovery Lawyers be Nervous? with John Tredennick and Dr. William Webber
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 Adrian Lürssen, Rakesh Madhava, Michael Sarlo, and Ken Withers.
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 157th as we start our fourth year of our support call. Our 158th will be held off Zoom returning for 159. 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.
Toward resilience,
Mary & Kaylee
