Dearest EDRM Community,
The word of the week is: aurora.
In our legal tech world this week, Jonathan Hiroshi Rossi’s The CJK Group was acquired by Elevate and Reveal absorbed yet another legaltech company, Onna, during the week of the CLOC annual conference.
Your Insights are Needed for the Microsoft 365 eDiscovery Spring 2024 Survey.
Kaylee Walstad and Mary Mack, EDRM.
Can eDiscovery be performed Within Microsoft 365?
This follow-up to the 2018 eDiscovery Challenge survey, revisits the question of which processes can be performed in-house to help control costs while meeting legal obligations.
Survey Results will be Shared on the EDRM Global Webinar Channel on 8 May 2024: 1PM Eastern: Unlocking Microsoft 365: Navigating the Future of eDiscovery Tools
Let’s remain united in our support for each other. For support or to assist a colleague, contact us at info@edrm.net and join our 222nd weekly Community Support Call.
On the EDRM Blog:
- ·ABA Formal Opinion on Lawyer Use of Listservs
- Some Legal Ethics Quandaries on Use of AI, the Duty of Competence, and AI Practice as a Legal Specialty
- Evidence that AI Expert Panels Could Soon Replace Human Panelists, or is this Just an Art Deco Hallucination?: Part One of Two
- An Epilog: 4 Things You Never Wanted to Hear + 8 Lessons & A Dispute Over Revealing Recipients of Litigation Hold Notices, All in One Case
- 8 Lessons Learned – Part IV – Disclosure of Recipients of Litigation Hold Notices
- 8 Lessons Learned – Part III – Redaction Provision of ESI Protocol
- 8 Lessons Learned – Part II – “Hit” Report Provision of ESI Protocol
- 8 Lessons Learned – Part I – The “Humpty Dumpty” Clause of ESI Protocol
- A Finger on the Ethical Pulse: Navigating AI in Legal Practice with Confidence
Upcoming Webinars on the EDRM Global Webinar Channel
- 16 May 2024: 1PM Eastern: Empowering Investigations with Data from the Cloud
- 21 May 2024: 1PM Eastern: Rise of the Machines III: Mastering AI Implementation for Legal Excellence
- 22 May 2024: 1PM Eastern: ESI and Crimes: Catching Criminals and Protecting Rights
- 23 May 2024: 1PM Eastern: How Legal Must Mitigate Risk in Today’s Dangerous and Changing Data Landscape
- 28 May 2024: 1PM Eastern: Unlocking Microsoft 365: Navigating the Future of eDiscovery Tools
- 30 May 2014: 1PM Eastern: Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for May
- 18 Jun 2024: 1PM Eastern: Public Access or Not: What Can and Cannot Be Protected from Disclosure in Litigation
Updates from Around the Globe –
- Global Legal Tech Developments: Microsoft has released an air gapped LLM for intelligence services, dramatically increasing security for those adopting it. Another ransomware attack impacted the nation’s largest Catholic health system. AI is reanimating dead loved ones. Reportedly, the GPS in smart tractors were affected by the solar storm this last week, and this during planting season. Christies has been forced offline for its high end namesake auctions due to a cyberattack. .
- International eDiscovery Trends: Some police departments are using AI to write reports from bodycam footage. EDRM Trusted Partner, Disco, released Cecilia Doc Summaries. Elevate bought Jonathan Hiroshi Rossi’s The CJK Group. Onna was acquired by Reveal. The floppy disk is still in use in critical infrastructure and transportation. Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today’s weekly Kitchen Sink includes EDRM posts from the Hon. Ralph Artigliere (ret.) and Ralph Losey. Mike Berman was on a tear this week with multiple posts exploring the Social Addiction case, the ABA on listservs and the legal/ethical implications of rummaging in someone else’s Dropbox.
- World Events Impacting Legal Tech: Putin replaced key military leaders as Russia advanced into Ukraine. Israel moved into Rafah and back into Northern Gaza. The solar storm disrupted satellites and dazzled viewers across the world. Switzerland’s Nemo won Eurovision. Smoke season comes early to Minnesota as western Canada’s wildfire season erupts. The world’s largest carbon removal facility has opened in Iceland.
Recent Illumination Zone Podcasts:
Catch our latest syndicated EDRM Global Podcast Network episodes on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and more. Recent guests include Rene Novoa, Zef Deda, Nate Latessa, Andy Paredes, Greg Witczak and Charisma Star .
EDRM Announcements:
- EDRM’s AI Ethics &Bias team released its GenAI Judicial Orders Repository
- EDRM announced two new projects seeking contributors, the Testimony Evidence Reference Model (TERM) project and the Gigabytes Metrics (ESI File Size Project.) Reach out to info@edrm.net to learn more and get involved.
- Update to EDRM’s Code of Conduct: EDRM has updated our Code of Conduct around in person, virtual, social and project events for respect and civility.
- Generative AI Policy Update: Check out our updated Generative AI and Large Language Model policy, focusing on disclosure and fact-checking. Read the Policy Here.
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All the colors,
Mary & Kaylee
P.S. This update was assisted by GAI and LLM Technologies as per EDRM GAI and LLM Policy.
