Weekly Letter to our EDRM Global Community – 29 Aug 2023


Weekly Letter to our EDRM Community 29 Aug 2023
Image: Kaylee Walstad, EDRM

Dearest EDRM community,

The word of the week is interest.

Florida’s Gulf Coast is facing a hurricane and in Jacksonville, another white supremist killed black people shopping.  Defendants in the Fulton County RICO trial surrendered.  The leaders of Russia’s Wagner group suffered a complicated fate, when their plane went down.  California is deploying AI to spot wildfires.  WordPress introduced 100 year web hosting with a 100 year domain.  IBM is using AI to migrate from COBOL to Java.  For a glimpse of how AI models are trained and compared, check out CodeLlama-34B v. GPT 4.0

EDRM Project Leaders Khrys McKinney (AI Ethics/Bias), Cristin Traylor (Priv Logs), Jay Yelton (Special Master and Discovery Neutral), Monica Harris and Matt Rasmussen (Short Message Metadata Primer 1.0) and Dave Cohen (GDPR) updated the community on progress on the EDRM Global Webinar channel. 

 It’s available on demand, if you missed it.

The Radio Television Digital News Association published a list of the rules by state for cameras in the courtroom. (HT @BSpacific).  Thomson Reuters published The Future of Professionals Report, assessing the impact of AI in our sphere.  Stephen Embry wrote on EvenUp’s Plaintiff focused AI Analytics.  Rhys Dipshan and Isha Marathe’s roundup of ILTA announcements includes EDRM Trusted Partners, HaystackID and Cellebrite. Doug Austin reports on an adverse inference in advance of August’s Case Law Webinar.

Recent Posts on the EDRM Blog 

DefCon Chronicles: Hackers Respond to President Biden’s Unprecedented Request to Come to DefCon to Hack the World for Fun and Profit

Cellebrite Supercharges Corporate Investigative Capabilities with New SaaS Offering

iCONECT Expands Accessibility with Launch of iCONECT SaaS and Innovative Pricing

From Bleeding Edge to Leading Edge: GAI and Reciprocal Intelligence in eDiscovery

HaystackID® Appoints John Brewer as Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer

DefCon Chronicles: Where Tech Elites, Aliens and Dogs Collide – Series Opener

Relativity Announces Launch of Relativity Contracts at ILTACON 2023  

Upcoming Webinars on the EDRM Global Webinar Channel

Recent Podcasts

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.  Recent podcasts guests include Tony Sipp with Oyango SnellTom KempSonali Ray and Andy Greene,  Anna Siroonian with David Horrigan andAdam Rubinger. 

EDRM News

EDRM Project Leaders Khrys McKinney (AI Ethics/Bias), Cristin Traylor (Priv Logs), Jay Yelton (Special Master and Discovery Neutral), Monica Harris and Matt Rasmussen (Short Message Metadata Primer 1.0) and Dave Cohen (GDPR) updated the community on progress on the EDRM Global Webinar channel.  It’s available on demand if you missed it.

EDRM updated its policies by adding our DEI & B initiative and our Generative AI and Large Language Model policy.   Read them all here

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 185th 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.

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 Trusted Partners and Event Sponsors. 

You matter!

Mary & Kaylee


Authors

  • Mary Mack is the CEO and Chief Legal Technologist for EDRM. Mary was the co-editor of the Thomson Reuters West Treatise, eDiscovery for Corporate Counsel for 10 years and the co-author of A Process of Illumination: the Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery. She holds the CISSP among her certifications.

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  • Kaylee Walstad, chief strategy officer of EDRM, leads the global project based organization and is the former VP of client engagement at a certification organization. Kaylee is known for her role in building communities, uniting people and companies across the globe, and brand amplification for partners through social media and events. A frequent public speaker on a variety of topics, from personal development to the nuances of e-discovery. Kaylee has a broad background in e-discovery and skills that uniquely position her to provide insight into the challenges faced by the end-users of e-discovery services and technology and the organizations serving them. She has extensive expertise in developing cross organizational discovery strategies for large litigation and investigations.

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