Dear EDRM Community,
The word of the week is precarious.
Bangladesh and Myanmar are deluged with Cat 5 winds and rain as Alberta’s spring wildfires stoke evacuations. The presidential election in Turkey goes to a runoff. The US flirts with the debt ceiling and unthinkable default. ChatGPT’s Sam Altman is raising funds for an offering in identity and access, trading iris scans for digital currency. China regulates AI as the EU’s regulations move through the process.
EDRM announces project sessions, keynotes, CLE at the EDRM Detroit Symposium June 1-2. Read the agenda and register here.
In legal tech this week, Curt Meltzer tracks those giving back. New York’s AG fined a company over $600k for generating synthetic comments as the FCC was reconsidering Net Neutrality. Jordan Furlong writes on AI, the billable hour and the essence of legal practice. And as CLOC kicks off, Legaltech News Editor in Chief, Stephanie Wilkins, interviews Jessica Vander Ploeg, Vice President Legal Operations, and Steven Rippberger, Senior Manager Legal Operations, at EDRM Trusted Partner, OpenText (formerly MicroFocus), this year’s winner for Most Innovative Legal Operations Team, Law Department in the 2023 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards. EDRM Trusted Partners, HaystackID and ModeOne, launch an intriguing partnership. Complex Discovery’s twice annual pricing survey, generating a nonscientific community benchmark for use in budgeting and scope negotiations, is open for your input.
Recent EDRM Blog Posts (reach out to info@edrm.net with your original content for consideration)
Cobra Legal Rebrands as Purpose Legal
VEGAS BABY! The AI Village at DEFCON Sponsors Red Team Hacking to Improve Ethics Protocols of Generative AI
Netzer: Employers and Jobseekers: Using AI to Write Resumes and Job Descriptions
Marathe: Generative AI is Trained on Online E-discovery Resources. Here’s What That Means for E-discovery
Relativity’s Justice for Change Programme Expands to EMEA
The Hon. James Francis IV: Special Masters in E-Discovery and Beyond
Ralph Losey: A Discussion of Some of the Ethical Constraints Built into ChatGPT with Examples of How They Work
Recent EDRM Project Team Activity
EDRM announces project sessions, keynotes, CLE at the EDRM Detroit Symposium June 1-2. The Symposium kicks 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. Sponsorship opportunities abound, please reach out to us at info@edrm.net to see what is available. Read the agenda and register here.
EDRM 2.0 project is in full launch phase with the updated EDRM diagram. Subteams and the governing leadership are in formation this month and will meet at the Detroit Symposium. 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 Cross Platform Duplicate Identification Specification, EDRM Message ID Hash (MIH) continues its global market launch. The MIH Toolkit includes the specification, guidelines for use, a one-page infographic, smaller case tools and a white paper authored by Craig Ball. Multiple webinars open to the community were held and recorded for later replay with Trustee Beth Patterson, Craig Ball, Matt Golab and Ian Folkman. Access one of the recordings here 24×7. Trustee Beth Patterson will update us on adoption, and gather community input for next steps at the Detroit Symposium.
The Privilege Log project released its Privilege Log 2.0 protocol. The Public Comment Period is complete and the project team led by Trustee Cristin Traylor will discuss at the Detroit Symposium.
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. Trustee Mark Lyon will review progress at the Detroit Symposium.
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
May 16: 1PM Eastern: *New Quarterly Series* Finger on the Pulse: The Doctor is IN! Legal Tech Job Success Strategies with David Netzer, President, Chief Recruiting Officer, Legal Tech Talent Network, Mary Mack and Kaylee Walstad.
May 18: 1PM Eastern: Streamline Investigations with Remote Collection of Androids and Workplace Apps with Emmy Gamble, Technical Customer Success Manager, Cellebrite Enterprise Solution
May 24: 1PM Eastern: Mastering eDiscovery in Box: Best Practices for Legal TeamswithAnna Simpson, Senior Director of Product Management, Box John Price, Technical Success Manager, Onna
May 30: 1PM Eastern: Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for May 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 Greg Mazares, Andrew Haslam, eDiscovery Chicks: Dakota Bloch and Angie Nolet and Shawn Arnold and Clayton Romero.
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 170th 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.
Faithfully,
Mary & Kaylee
