Dear EDRM Community,
The word of the week is unprecedented.
Tornados tore through towns and neighborhoods killing almost 30 in the Southeast and Midwest US. For the first time, a former US President will be indicted this week. Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and others signed an open letter advocating a pause in generative AI development past GPT 4 as the DAIR Institute begs to differ. Jason Furlong proposes legal intermediaries with a large language model to increase access to justice. Nondisparagement clauses are retroactively voided.
EDRM will feature two webinars, one this week “Flash Webinar- Navigating the Risks of Generative AI: An Expert Panel Discussion” and the other on April 12th is a How-To step by step to help you or your colleagues get started to experiment with ChatGPT.
In legal tech this week, ChatGPT will upend the tasks in legal departments, Italy has banned ChatGPT over privacy concerns. Goldman Sachs report estimates that almost half the tasks in legal can be done with ChatGPT. EDRM will feature two webinars, one this week “Flash Webinar- Navigating the Risks of Generative AI: An Expert Panel Discussion” and the other on April 12th is a How-To step by step to help you or your colleagues get started to experiment with ChatGPT.
Recent EDRM Blog Posts:
- eDiscovery Mergers, Acquisitions and Investments in Q1 2023
- ChatGTP-4 Prompted To Talk With Itself About “The Singularity”
- Cyber Fundamentals: A Tale of Two Companies
- EDRM Honors Women’s History Month Highlighting Some of our Favorite Trailblazers
- Start Preparing For “THE SINGULARITY.” There is a 5% to 10% chance it will be here in five years. Part 2
- Start Preparing For “THE SINGULARITY.” There is a 5% to 10% chance it will be here in five years. Part 1
- The Next E-Discovery Evolution: Five Recent Developments in the E-Discovery Space
- AI Threatens Courts With Fake Evidence UW Prof Says
Recent EDRM Project Activity
We were thrilled to meet with many EDRM project leaders at Legalweek, to see the collaboration among contributors and trustees and to meet our colleagues and friends in person.
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.
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. 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.
Upcoming Webinars- save your seat!
Apr 6: 1PM Eastern: Flash Webinar- Navigating the Risks of Generative AI: An Expert Panel Discussion with Dr. Maura R. Grossman, John Tredennick and Dr. Johannes (Jan) Scholtes
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 [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 discuss 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
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 160th 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.
See you in Detroit!
Mary & Kaylee
