Dearest EDRM Community,
Word of the week: Persistence
In legal tech last week, there was a changing of the guard at Reveal, and Relativity celebrated its Innovation Awards for 2025. Congratulations to Jim Calloway on his well-deserved American Legal Technology Lifetime Achievement Award, hat tip to Carolyn Elefant, Dennis Kennedy, and Tom Mighell.
Join us as Nuix introduces its on-premises AI-enabled solution with time zone appropriate sessions for our Global EDRM Community.
Mary Mack, EDRM.
The events are on 30 October & 3 November 2025 at various times, and we invite you to register here: Cloudy About Options? Nuix Delivers On-Premises Security and Control
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 sixth year.
On the EDRM Blog:
- Crushing the Marathon (Without Running in it): A Lesson in Digital Evidence Verification
- Relativity Celebrates Legal Industry Leaders at the 2025 Innovation Awards
- The Agentic State: A Global Framework for Secure and Accountable AI-Powered Government
- “Discovery on Discovery” Ordered After Amazon’s Flawed Implementation of Litigation Hold
- Cyberocracy and the Efficiency Paradox: Why Democratic Design is the Smartest AI Strategy for Government
- Definition and Application the Crime-Fraud Exception to A-C Privilege
Upcoming Webinars on the EDRM Global Webinar Channel:
- 21 October 2025, 12 PM ET– Building a Resilient and Repeatable White-Collar Investigation Playbook
- 22 October 2025, 1 PM ET – Beyond the AI Hype: Exterro Intelligence Delivers Outcomes You Can Trust
- 30 October & 3 November 2025, various times – Cloudy About Options? Nuix Delivers On-Premises Security and Control
- 4 November 2025, 12 PM ET – Framing Construction Discovery’s Future with AI-Powered Document Review
- 5 November 2025, 1 PM ET – Judicial Strategies for Discovery & Cooperation
Updates from Around the Globe:
- Global Legal Tech Developments: Exterro* published a report on The Four Forces Shaping Government Data Strategy. The NSO Group was blocked from Meta’s WhatsApp by U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton in a 25-page ruling. LLM’s are training using user prompts and uploaded documents. John Bolton, former National Security Advisor, and Letitia James, New York Attorney General, have joined James Comey, former Director of the FBI, in being indicted. TypePad sunsetted its blogging platform, taking the content with it. Kevin O’Keefe and LexBlog sprang into action; Bob Ambrogi has the receipts on 600,000 plus legal posts saved. Law school admissions are up significantly this year.
- International eDiscovery Trends: Eric Harmon took the reins as CEO from Reveal’s Wendell Jisa, who will become Chairman of the Board. Thank you to eDiscovery Today’s* Doug Austin for filling his Kitchen Sink with EDRM bloggers: Mike Berman on Definition and Application the Crime-Fraud Exception to A-C Privilege and “Discovery on Discovery” Ordered After Amazon’s Flawed Implementation of Litigation Hold, ComplexDiscovery’s* Rob Robinson on Europe Under Siege: How Cybercriminals and State Actors Are Rewriting Digital Threat Rules, and Aaron Patton’s Gates Dogfish meme on the glass half full. E-Discovery Day, stewarded by Exterro, is December 4, 2025; mark your calendars. Microsoft confirmed the last update to Windows 11 had issues that need to be immediately addressed. Giving new meaning to “garbage in – garbage out,” Kohler is putting an AI camera in a toilet for health tracking. PC Magazine compared Google Apps and Microsoft 365.
- World Events Impacting Legal Tech: The Gaza ceasefire has been tenuous. The Russia Ukraine war continued, with peace gambits floated. Apprehensive neighboring countries to the front developed resilience. Afghanistan and Pakistan established a ceasefire. Houthi rebels detained 20 UN employees. ChatGPT 5.0 is still not a math whiz. There was a successful 7-minute daylight heist of priceless jewels from the Louvre. Amazon AWS and their customers experienced a long outage.
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Recent Illumination Zone Podcasts:
- Recent guests include Capri Miller, Alex Walstad, Bryan Bellack, Todd Tabor, and Jeff Fleming.
- A very special episode from Mary Mack on Kaylee Walstad, featuring reflections and a retrospective in Kaylee’s own voice.
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- The 2H 2025 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey is now open. Share your insights and help capture the pulse of our industry.
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All are welcome,
Mary and Holley
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P.S. This update was assisted by GAI and LLM Technologies as per EDRM GAI and LLM Policy.
