Weekly Letter to Our EDRM Global Community – 29 April 2025

EDRM - Letter to the EDRM Global Community - 29 April 2025
Image: Holley Robinson, EDRM with AI.

Dearest EDRM Community,

Phrase of the week: Tradition meets Transformation

In legal tech this week, we returned from our Spring Pause to the funeral for Pope Francis, a Wisconsin county judge being arrested in a deportation enforcement and judicial proceeding collision, and GenAI permeating the practice of law, litigation, and eDiscovery.

Have you had a chance to take the five-minute eDiscovery Business Confidence survey? We are so curious about how the current economic and geopolitical climate affects business confidence in our legal tech and eDiscovery market and community. We appreciate and value your opinion very much. ComplexDiscovery’s 1H 2025 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey will close very soon. Even as the survey moves to twice yearly, it will still illustrate trends from 2016 to the present.

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:

Upcoming Webinars on the EDRM Global Webinar Channel:

Updates from Around the Globe:

  • Global Legal Tech Developments: A Milwaukee county judge was arrested by federal agents for allegedly assisting an immigrant to make it more difficult for them to make an arrest outside her courtroom. Here is the complaint against the judge. Rev, the speech-to-text transcription platform that acquired SmartDepo, released a legal tech survey. An end-to-end AI-enabled court workflow is being developed in India by a nonprofit. This case is an AI doozy, with an order to show cause regarding sanctions on the party (Mike Lindell), the firm representing them, the attorney representing them, and the person identified by counsel as the QC for the brief that was filled, allegedly riddled with AI errors and hallucinations. Nike is in a lawsuit about NFTs, and Ziff Davis has sued OpenAI. Bennett Borden of Clarion AI Partners talked with us about AI for Good on the Illumination Zone. Rob Robinson of our Trusted Partner ComplexDiscovery OÜ and CMO at EDRM’s Trusted Partner HaystackID talked to us on the Illumination Zone about his expanding analysis and coverage of eDiscovery, regulatory, and geopolitical events.

Catch our latest syndicated EDRM Global Podcast Network episodes on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and more.

Recent Illumination Zone Podcasts:

Recent guests include Bennett Borden, Rob Robinson, Esther Birnbaum, John Tredennick, Xen Hartzell, Nicole Fryson, and Sergey Demyanov.

Recent Echoes of AI Podcasts:

EDRM Announcements:

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 272nd 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.

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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  • Holley Robinson is the Marketing Operations Manager for EDRM and ComplexDiscovery OÜ. She supports social media strategy, podcast and webinar production, and content management for EDRM while also overseeing updates to ComplexDiscovery’s industry-recognized eDisclosure Buyers Guide and assisting with their social media and content efforts. A recent graduate of Texas Tech University with a background in marketing, Holley began her journey in eDiscovery as an intern with EDRM and now contributes to amplifying valuable resources for the eDiscovery community.

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