Dearest EDRM Community,
Word of the week: Resilience
In legal tech this week, among other things, we are curious about how the current economic and geopolitical climate affects business confidence in our legal tech and eDiscovery market and community. We’d very much appreciate your taking five minutes to let us know your assessment of where we find ourselves in ComplexDiscovery’s 1H 2025 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey.
Join us for our Spring 2025 workshop, From Summation to AI Tokens: A Journey Through eDiscovery’s Most Transformative Shifts, with industry experts Caroline Sweeney, Dennis Kiker, Doug Austin, the Hon. Judge Young Kim, Mary Mack, and EDRM Trusted Partner HaystackID’s Adam Rubinger and Mary Bennett.
Mary, Kaylee, and Holley, EDRM.
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 weekly Community Support Call, now in its fifth year.
On the EDRM Blog:
- “It Ends With Us”
- French Competition Authority Fines Apple €150 Million Over ATT Framework and Market Dominance
- No Privilege Log is Necessary in Limited Circumstances When Discovery Requests Are Overbroad
- From Texts to Trials: The Impact of Mobile Data on eDiscovery Today
- Texas Upholds Narrow Geofence Warrant After Melee Resulted in Murder
- The Pulse of Progress: Inside the Q1 2025 Update of Andrew Haslam’s eDisclosure Buyers Guide
- Motion to Compel Searching of BYOD Devices – Defendant’s Information Governance Policy Determined Outcome
- Everything a Corporate Legal Team Needs to Know About eDiscovery
Upcoming Webinars on the EDRM Global Webinar Channel:
- 16 April 2025: 12PM Eastern: From Summation to AI Tokens: A Journey Through eDiscovery’s Most Transformative Shifts
- 23 April 2025: 1PM Eastern: All Your Data, One Place: Streamlining E-Discovery
- 28 April 2025: 1PM Eastern: Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for April 2025
- 29 April 2025: 1PM Eastern: A Winning Story: How to Use Technology to Build and Present a Compelling Case
- 30 April 2025: 1PM Eastern: Spring Into Action: Real-World AI in Managed Review
Updates from Around the Globe:
- Global Legal Tech Developments: Above the Law is tracking Big Law’s negotiations and lawsuits with the White House. EDRM Trusted Partner Munger Tolles and Eimer Stahl filed an amicus brief in the Perkins suit. Congratulations to Leslie O’Neal, who earned a JD Supra’s Readers’ Choice Top Author Award in Alternative Dispute Resolution. The US DOJ is disbanding its cryptocurrency enforcement unit. Ireland’s data regulator opened an investigation of X’s alleged use of personal data to train Grok. Rob Robinson illustrated his post on Ghiblifying art via OpenAI here. Meta’s antitrust trial kicked off. The Hill advocates against granting legal personhood to AI. Cheryl Fields Tyler shared four ways to make your organization more resilient.
- International eDiscovery Trends: EDRM Trusted Partner, Nuix, launched an AI Data Curator. Microsoft’s Recall, with its screenshot ESI, has returned. ChatGPT has the capability to remember past conversations. Ai2 OLMoTrace can ‘trace’ LLM results back to the source training data. ComplexDiscovery included 5 EDRM Trusted Partners in the Q1 2025 update of the Andrew Haslem eDisclosure Buying Guide for the first time: Nextpoint, Lockhaven Solutions, DecoverAI, Merlin Search Technologies, and Clarity. Virginia allows license plate readers statewide. ALM’s Legaltech News profiled their Lifetime Achievement winners, including EDRM Trusted Partner Reed Smith’s Dave Cohen and Trusted Partner HaystackID’s Hal Brooks. Thank you to Doug Austin and our Trusted Partner, eDiscovery Today, for including EDRM’s JD Supra Readers’ Choice Top Author Mike Berman on BYOD, geofence warrants, ESI protocols, and a Blake Lively case, ComplexDiscovery OU’s release of the Q1 2025 Andrew Haslam eDisclosure Buyers Guide and OpenAI’s “Ghiblifying” Feature, and Aaron Patton’s Gates Dogfish.
- World Events Impacting Legal Tech: The UK took control of British Steel. Israel took control of Rafah. Russia and Ukraine continued fighting during peace negotiations. DoorDash started robot deliveries in LA. Gale force winds hit China. Major nations levied a fee on greenhouse gasses targeting the shipping sector. The US created a buffer zone for military enforcement on the Mexican border. Some foreign nationals must register immediately with the US Department of Homeland Security. Keep up with EDRM Trusted Partner Reed Smith’s Tariff Tracker.
Catch our latest syndicated EDRM Global Podcast Network episodes on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and more.
Recent Illumination Zone Podcasts:
Recent guests include Esther Birnbaum, John Tredennick, Xen Hartzell, Nicole Fryson, Sergey Demyanov, Kara Barnes, and John Wilson.
Recent Echoes of AI Podcasts:
- Episode 20 | Escaping Orwell’s Memory Hole: Why Digital Truth Should Outlast Big Brother
- Episode 19 | New Battle of the Bots: ChatGPT 4.5 Challenges Reigning Champ ChatGPT 4o
- Episode 18 | Bar Exam Battle of the Bots – Part 2
EDRM Announcements:
- EDRM congratulated those who were celebrated for their contributions at the Fifth Annual Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards Dinner.
- EDRM celebrated our 200th Episode of the Illumination Zone podcast.
- EDRM relaunched the Testimony Evidence Reference Model (TERM) Project.
Weekly Community Support Call: Join us every Tuesday at 6PM Eastern on Zoom for support and camaraderie. Email info@edrm.net for an invitation to our 270th call. For mental health care, consider these professional resources.
All are welcome,
Mary, Kaylee, and Holley
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P.S. This update was assisted by GAI and LLM Technologies as per EDRM GAI and LLM Policy.
