Dearest EDRM Community,
Word of the week: Resolve.
In legal tech last week, our legal tech community dug into how the release of ChatGPT 5.0 enables new AI-driven workflows and unpacked thought-provoking insights from ILTA keynotes on finding joy and reframing our current moment in legal tech.
Join us for a series of live webinars hosted by our long-standing Trusted Partners, Nextpoint and HaystackID.
Mary and Kaylee, EDRM.
On August 19 at 1PM Eastern, Nextpoint and eDiscovery Today will discuss Revisiting Hyperlinked Files: What’s changed, What’s new, and What’s Still a Hot Mess with Brett Burney, Doug Austin, and Kelly Twigger. Then, on August 20 at 12PM Eastern, HaystackID’s Mary Bennett will moderate a workshop discussion with David Horrigan, Tom O’Connor, Ryan Costello, and Mary Mack on Building eDiscovery Expertise – Where Education Begins and Never Ends.
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:
- Exterro Launches “Data Xposure,” the Industry’s First Podcast Led by Legal, Forensics, Compliance and Security Practitioners
- Three Depositions Reopened to Address After-Produced Documents – Fed.R.Civ.P. 30(d)(1)
- When AI Conversations Become Compliance Risks: Rethinking Confidentiality in the ChatGPT Era
- The Shape of Justice: How Topological Network Mapping Could Transform Legal Practice
- The Best Defense Was Not a Weak Offense
- No Affidavit – No Joint Representation/Common Interest Privilege
- Will Courts “Search, Forward” with eDiscovery Case Law on AI?
- Criminal Conviction Reversed After State Failed to Timely & Fully Disclose its Use of a Type of Artificial Intelligence
Upcoming Webinars on the EDRM Global Webinar Channel:
- 19 August 2025: 1PM ET – Revisiting Hyperlinked Files: What’s changed, What’s new, and What’s Still a Hot Mess
- 20 August 2025: 12PM ET – Building eDiscovery Expertise: Where Education Begins—and Never Ends
- 25 August 2025: 1PM ET – Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for August 2025
- 11 September 2025: 1PM ET – Beyond Fines: Has Johnson v. Dunn Raised the Stakes for AI Citation Errors
Updates from Around the Globe:
- Global Legal Tech Developments: Ralph Losey stretched OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.0 and discovered a way to demonstrate joint and several liability and damage allocation using data streams like telemetry and more traditional eDiscovery documents. Rob Robinson covered OpenAI’s Sam Altman on how ChatGPT prompts can become court evidence and an ILTA keynote on substantial shifts in legal grounded by data from Chambers surveys. The Law Society of Scotland’s Legal Technology Conference 2025 demonstrated an enthusiasm for AI adoption. Gerry Spence passed this week. After the federal court system was hacked, attorneys in several states are back filing on paper. A leading law firm is litigating against a former workflow and technical transformation partner. Reuters detailed Meta’s AI rules, sparking controversy about suggestive chats with children.
- International eDiscovery Trends: Exterro, EDRM’s long-standing Trusted Partner, launched a podcast called Data Xposure. Phil Favro wrote for our Trusted Partner, HaystackID, about AI in light of the groundbreaking article authored by Judge Peck to encourage the use of TAR. In a significant shift for legal people, Google Gemini will remember prompts and projects unless you tell it otherwise. EDRM Trusted Partner DISCO’s Arnaldo Pereira wrote on TAR in the Age of Gen AI. Thank you to eDiscovery Today’s Doug Austin for filling his Kitchen Sink with EDRM bloggers: Mike Berman on phased discovery and a criminal conviction reversed due to improper facial recognition disclosures, ComplexDiscovery’s Rob Robinson on the extraordinary ILTA keynote from Ryan Campbell about the importance of finding and centering your Pink Cadillac, the joy in your life, and Aaron Patton’s Gates Dogfish meme of the pre-pre meeting and much more.
- World Events Impacting Legal Tech: West Virginia sent National Guard troops to Washington, DC. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met in Alaska as the war continues. Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet in Washington. Norway’s police believe Russia hacked into a critical dam, affecting water levels. A nationwide protest to end the war and get hostages back erupted in Israel. Levees in Alaska saved Juneau from catastrophic flooding this season. Monsoons drowned over 300 in Pakistan. Wildfires burned across Europe. Serbia’s political factions attacked rival party headquarters. The strike on Air Canada continued.
Catch our latest syndicated EDRM Global Podcast Network episodes on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and more.
Recent Illumination Zone Podcasts:
Recent guests include Jeff Fleming, Young Yu, Bruce Holbert, Dorothe Schuch, Erica Zolner, and Aaron Pribil.
Recent Echoes of AI Podcasts:
- Episode 37 | The Shape of Justice: How Topological Network Mapping Could Transform Legal Practice
- Episode 36 | Epiphanies or Illusions? Testing AI’s Ability to Find Real Knowledge Patterns – Part Two
- Episode 35 | Epiphanies or Illusions? Testing AI’s Ability to Find Real Knowledge Patterns – Part One
EDRM Announcements:
- EDRM is proud to announce that K L McKinney has joined the EDRM Trusted Partner Network.
- EDRM encourages participation in ComplexDiscovery OÜ’s Summer 2025 eDiscovery Pricing Survey.
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 288th 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.
