
Dearest EDRM Community,
Word of the week: Credibility.
In legal tech last week, Chambers released their Chambers USA Legal Guide 2025, with well-deserved congratulations to the attorneys at EDRM Trusted Partners Munger Tolles & Olson, Redgrave, and Reed Smith. Courts in many jurisdictions are having no patience with hallucinations in filings, and multiple levels in many jurisdictions are attempting to regulate AI.
Join us for a rare, live exploration of EDRM Trusted Partner Exterro in this Product/Service Showcase, featuring a live demo of Exterro Intelligence with Q&A. This demonstration will showcase transparency by design to maintain control and verify results.
Mary and Kaylee, 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:
- Merlin Launches Industry’s First GenAI Services Division for Legal and Investigation Teams
- Non-Party Law Firm Ordered to Provide Defaulting Client’s Affidavit to Support Claim of Client’s Privilege
- AI Companionship and Machine Intuition: Rethinking Relationships in the Age of Artificial Empathy
- Reach New Heights: Paving the Way for Your Journey to the Cloud
- From Prompters to Partners: The Rise of Agentic AI in Law and Professional Practice
Upcoming Webinars on the EDRM Global Webinar Channel:
- 10 June 2025: 1PM ET – Sad Face, Happy Face, or Shoulder Shrug? How to Navigate Emojis in eDiscovery
- 18 June 2025: 1PM ET – Ask the Experts: Live Demo + Interactive Q&A on Exterro Intelligence Capabilities
- 25 June 2025: 1PM ET – Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for June 2025
Updates from Around the Globe:
- Global Legal Tech Developments: The US State Department sanctioned judges in the International Criminal Court. Attorneys at EDRM Trusted Partners Munger Tolles & Olson, Reed Smith, and Redgrave gathered high rankings in the Chambers USA Legal Guide 2025. Judges in the UK and a Utah appeals court are not pleased with attorneys not checking their cites. Ralph Losey believes attorneys will be augmented, not replaced, and he introduced agentic AI in legal practice. AI regulation is center stage with the US House’s 10-year ban on regulation at the state level; the Senate’s Commerce Committee left the ban out. State leaders are pushing back, as are very active global regulators. EleutherAI released an AI training set of open domain and licensed text, and Amazon reportedly licensed New York Times content for AI training. WordPress veterans offered an alternative distribution method for plugins and packages to circumvent the Automattic disputes.
- International eDiscovery Trends: EDRM Trusted Partner Cellebrite acquired Corellium. EDRM Trusted Partner Merlin Search Technologies launched their GenAI Services Division for eDiscovery and investigation. The eDiscovery in the OpenAI and NYT case has heated up, with a court order to preserve ChatGPT logs and CEO Sam Altman arguing for a sort of AI privilege, warning of privacy issues. EDRM Trusted Partner Level Legal’s CEO Joey Seeber talked with Law360 about building trust. EDRM Trusted Partner DISCO’s AI Consulting Director James Park talked with Artificial Lawyer about how AI has impacted the eDiscovery practice. The newly generated data from Meta’s Aria Gen 2 upgrades may start as ephemeral, and it will likely flow to another device and become ESI. Trefera added to data volume with drone and satellite data to visualize supply chains. Thank you to Doug Austin for his Kitchen Sink that begins with a hilarious Aaron Patton-Gates Dogfish meme on changing just one little tag and continues with Ralph Losey on attorney augmentation rather than replacement by AI, Mike Berman on needing client assent to assert privilege, and Rob Robinson on the New York Times licensing content for AI to Amazon.
- World Events Impacting Legal Tech: Fighting between Russia and Ukraine continues across borders. Thailand and Cambodia are experiencing high tension at their borders. A Chinese ship ran aground on a Philippine-occupied island in the disputed South China Sea. The UN reported that the average daily food intake in Gaza is below the amount needed for survival. The White House issued a new travel ban, with some exceptions. Japan is experiencing a rice shortage. Hugging Face, the go-to site for data sets, hopes to bring a more affordable humanoid robot to market. Accelerating quantum computing, a startup has put a logical qubit in a single piece of hardware. The US TSA will no longer accept Costco cards with picture IDs for travel. Immunotherapy (CAR-T) cured multiple myeloma.
Catch our latest syndicated EDRM Global Podcast Network episodes on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and more.
Recent Illumination Zone Podcasts:
Recent guests include Dorothe Schuch, Erica Zolner, Aaron Pribil, Bennett Borden, Rob Robinson, Esther Birnbaum, and John Tredennick.
Recent Echoes of AI Podcasts:
- Episode 29 | From Prompters to Partners: The Rise of Agentic AI in Law and Professional Practice
- Episode 28 | AI Can Improve Great Lawyers – But It Can’t Replace Them
- Episode 27 | Bots Battle for Supremacy in Legal Reasoning – Part Five: Reigning Champion, Orion, ChatGPT-4.5 Versus Scorpio, ChatGPT-o3
EDRM Announcements:
- EDRM is pleased to announce that eDiscovery AI has joined the EDRM Trusted Partner Network.
- EDRM congratulated those who were celebrated for their contributions at the Fifth Annual Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards Dinner.
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 278th 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.