Dear EDRM Community,
The word of the week is turbulence. Russia is presiding over the UN Security Council. Israel retaliated for rockets being fired from Syria. China held war games as a bipartisan US delegation held meetings with Taiwan. A bank robbery gone wrong resulted in multiple casualties in Kentucky, while in neighboring Tennessee, hearings were held whether to reinstate a legislator, one of the Tennessee Three, where the two black legislators were ejected for leading a protest over lack of action on gun laws sparked by a school shooting the week before. The white legislator was not ejected. Unionization comes to legal: Mlex and FTC Watch staffers form union.
EDRM 2.0 project is in full launch phase with the updated EDRM diagram. Subteams and the governing leadership are in formation this month. Reach out to info@edrm.net to get involved. See the Q&A by Legaltech News’ Isha Marathe here. See Law 360’s Sarah Martinson’s article here.
In legal tech this week, hospitals are waking up to the pixel tracking on their sites with HIPAA implications. Ukrainian war intelligence was leaked with documents being examined by Bellingcat for accuracy. Policing software was found to be full of errors. A New York law firm was fined $200K for a data breach on an unpatched system. Stanford looks at whether Section 230 protects ChatGPT and Large Language Models. John Tredennick, fresh from a Flash Ripped from the Headlines Webinar on the open letter to stop GPT development (with Dr. Maura R. Grossman and Johannes “Jan” Scholtes), will show us How-To step by step to help you or your colleagues get started to experiment with ChatGPT on Wednesday 4/13.
Recent EDRM Blog Posts (reach out to info@edrm.net with your original content for consideration):
- Business Intelligence Group: 5 People, 30 Companies, and 65 Products Awarded for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence
- Relativity Announces Dates for Relativity Fest 2023
- Prompting a GPT-4 “Hive Mind” to Dialogue with Itself on the Future of Law, AI and Adjudications
- EDRM Announces ModeOne as Newest Trusted Partner
- Here Are the Practical Risks of Generative AI, Experts Say
- ChatGPT Alone Not Enough for E-Discovery
- Lessons From Google’s Spoliation Sanctions: Don’t Dismiss Systemic Holds –Or Chat
- Cellebrite Announces RelativityOne Integration for Quicker, Safer Data Review
- ChatGPT-4 Prompted to Talk With Itself About the Singularity
Recent EDRM Project Activity
EDRM 2.0 project is in full launch phase with the updated EDRM diagram. Subteams and the governing leadership are in formation this month. Reach out to info@edrm.net to get involved. See the Q&A by Legaltech News’ Isha Marathe here. See Law360’s Sarah Martinson’s article here.
EDRM Announces the EDRM Detroit Symposium June 1-2, kicking off with a reception, a Craig Ball keynote, education with Judicial Stories of eDiscovery Disasters, a You Be the Judge interactive CLE, project team overviews and collaboration and more.
EDRM Cross Platform Duplicate Identification Specification, EDRM Message ID Hash (MIH) got quite a bit of attention. The MIH Toolkit includes the specification, guidelines for use, a one-page infographic and a white paper authored by Craig Ball. In addition, two new tools were published: An Excel calculator using webservices rather than macros, and a method to calculate the hash in Notepad. Two webinars open to the community were held and recorded for later replay with Trustee Beth Patterson, Craig Ball, Matt Golab and Ian Folkman. Access the recording here 24×7.
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.
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, please reach out to info@edrm.net if you are interested in joining a project or championing a new idea.
Webinars
Apr 11: 1PM Eastern: Identifying and Triaging Security Risks in your Organization with Joshua Barone, Senior Developer III at Cellebrite.
Apr 12: 1PM Eastern: ChatGPT 101- How Do I Use It? with John Tredennick, Founder & CEO of Merlin Search Technologies.
Apr 13: 1PM Eastern: [Zoom Roundtable] A RAIR Opportunity: Stump the eDiscovery Experts with Mary Mack, CEO and Chief Legal Technologist, EDRM, Tom Gricks, Lead Strategy Consultant, OpenText, and Tracy Drynan, Principal Consultant, OpenText discussing rapid analytic investigative review.
Apr 20: 1PM Eastern: Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for April 2023 with Doug Austin, Hon. Judge Andrew Peck (ret.), Tom O’Connor & Mary Mack.
May 3: 1PM Eastern: Survey Says…Top 3 E-Discovery Takeaways from Recent Survey of +800 CLOs with Linda Luperchio, The Hanover Insurance Group; Jessica Averitt, Esq. Baker McKenzie; David Yerich, Esq., UHG; Mike Hamilton, 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 Chris Wall, Brett Burney, TracyAnn Eggen and Adrian Lürssen.
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 161st 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.
Wishing you grace,
Mary & Kaylee
