Dearest EDRM Community,
Word of the Week: Demonstration.
Legal Week is here. Look for EDRM Trusted Partners on the exhibit floor as well as in satellite demo rooms circling the Midtown Hilton. Be sure to attend EDRM’s Trusted Partner Nextpoint + EDRM’s Happy Hour and Book Signing event with Tom O’Connor and his latest book “eDiscovery For the Rest of Us”. Register here to get your complimentary signed copy. We’ll be listening for the hottest demos of the show.
ComplexDiscovery’s quarterly survey taking the pulse of our business confidence is seeking input from our EDRM community for the Winter 2024 edition
Kaylee Walstad and Mary Mack.
In Legal Tech This Week Let’s remain united in our support for each other, especially those who are facing career transitions. For support or to assist a colleague, contact us at info@edrm.net and join our weekly Community Support Call, now in its 207th week.
On the EDRM Blog:
- Will AI Summarization Disrupt Discovery?
- Relativity Announces Expansions to Relativity aiR, its Suite of Generative AI Solutions, at Legalweek 2024
- HaystackID® Expands Protect Analytics AI™ Suite, Advancing Cybersecurity Workflows for Investigations, Responses, and Notifications
- Florida’s New Advisory Ethics Opinion on Generative AI Hits the Mark
- Nextpoint and Tom O’Connor Launch New Book “eDiscovery for the Rest of Us” at Legalweek 2024
- Order in the Court with Paul W. Grimm
- Lawyer Refused to Appear on Camera in Virtual Deposition
- HaystackID® Advances Mobile Workflows with MEDAL Suite Focused on Assessment, Integration, and Review
- ModeOne Announces Industry-First Participant Filtering Feature
- The Good, The Bad and The Way Forward: What You Need to Know About eDiscovery with Microsoft 365
- eDiscovery and Litigation Support Firm Complete Legal Acquires Frontline Managed Service’s eDiscovery Unit to Add Talent
- Transform Your Legal Practice with AI: A Lawyer’s Guide to Embracing the Future
- And When I Die…. What Happens to My Social Media-Part II?
Upcoming Webinars on the EDRM Global Webinar Channel
- 08 Feb 2024: 1PM Eastern: Data Retention 201: Best Practices for Building and Enforcing Global Retention Schedules
- 20 Feb 2024: 1PM Eastern: Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for February 2024
- 29 Feb 2024: 1PM Eastern: Tracking User Behavior using the Windows Registry
Updates from Around the Globe –
- Global Legal Tech Developments: Taylor Swift’s name was not searchable on X after deep fake pornography filled the site. Windows Co-Pilot will be the first amongst equals for other Microsoft Co-Pilots. The AmLaw 100 are beginning to use Large Language Models in their work (Law.com.). Carolyn Elefant published practical tips on using AI tools in a legal context. A class action lawsuit was filed against 23andMe on behalf of Jewish and Chinese customers whose data was breached.
- International eDiscovery Trends: A judge orders the Oregonian to return and destroy documents inadvertently released by a party by mistake. ComplexDiscovery’s quarterly survey taking the pulse of our business confidence is seeking input from our EDRM community for the Winter 2024 edition. eDiscovery Today released this week’s “Kitchen Sink” report. IAPP reports on data (aka ESI) transferred during electric car charging.
- World Events Impacting Legal Tech: The World Court responded to South Africa’a allegation of genocide in Gaza and Israel detailed Aid agency workers who were part of the attack on October 7. Three US troops were killed in a drone strike in Jordan. Nvidia has competition from its chip clients.
Recent Illumination Zone Podcasts:
Catch our latest EDRM Global Podcast Network episodes on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and more. Recent guests include Jason Covey, Joey Seeber, David Greetham, Anya Korolyov, Tom O’Connor, Aaron Patton aka Gates Dogfish and Vazantha Meyers.
EDRM Announcements
- New projects including eDiscovery Workflows and EDRM 2.0 project are off and running.
- Feedback on GDPR Guidelines: Thanks to all who commented on the “General Data Protection Regulation Cross-Border Discovery Guidelines”. The public comment period is closed, and the team is reviewing feedback and updating the guidelines in light of recent developments in this fast moving area..
- Generative AI Policy Update: Check out our updated Generative AI and Large Language Model policy, focusing on disclosure and fact-checking Read Policies Here.
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New York is the “show me” state this week,
Mary & Kaylee
P.S. This update was assisted by GAI and LLM Technologies as per EDRM GAI and LLM Policy.
