Dearest EDRM Community,
Word of the week: Gratitude
In legal tech last week, the Gayle O’Connor Spirit Award ceremony was held on the EDRM Global Webinar Channel. Moderated by Tom O’Connor, the event featured remarks from the finalists, and the Gayle O’Connor SPIRIT Award Committee announced Bree Murphy as the 2025 recipient. A press release announcing the award and an on-demand recording of the ceremony are now available.
As the year comes to a close, the EDRM team will be out of the office celebrating the holidays with friends and loved ones. We will return on January 6.
Mary Mack and Holley Robinson, EDRM.
We wish everyone the gift of time to allow a happy holiday season and look forward to reconnecting in the new year.
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:
- Your Policy, Your Problem: Company Policies Often Define the Limits of Employee Privacy
- Bree Murphy Awarded the 2025 Gayle O’Connor Spirit Award
- Second Requests Settle In: HSR Data Points to a New Normal in M&A Scrutiny
- Smart Tech, Stronger Cases: Legal Tools in Litigation – Q1 2026 Facts & Findings
- No Waiver When Work Product Was Disclosed to FBI
- Confidence Meets Complexity: Full Results from the 2H 2025 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey
- Cross-Examine Your AI: The Lawyer’s Cure for Hallucinations
Upcoming Webinars on the EDRM Global Webinar Channel:
- 15 January 2025, 1 PM ET – Beyond the Prompt: Assessing the Discoverability of AI Prompts and Outputs
- 20 January 2025, 1 PM ET – Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for January 2026
- 22 January 2025, 1 PM ET – Truth on Trial: How to Detect and Challenge Deepfake Evidence in the AI Era
- 26 January 2026, 1 PM ET – Microsoft 365 Copilot | Key eDiscovery and Information Governance Considerations for In-House Legal Teams
Updates from Around the Globe Will Return on January 13
Catch our latest syndicated EDRM Global Podcast Network episodes on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and more.
Recent Illumination Zone Podcasts:
- Recent guests include Nate Latessa, Greg Moreman, Justin Tolman, Capri Miller, and Alex Walstad.
Recent Echoes of AI Podcast:
- Episode 41 | The New Stanford–Carnegie Study: Hybrid AI Teams Beat Fully Autonomous Agents by 68.7%
- Episode 40 | Google’s New ‘Quantum Echoes Algorithm’ and My Last Article, ‘Quantum Echo’ (Debate Style)
- Episode 39 | Google’s New ‘Quantum Echoes Algorithm’ and My Last Article, ‘Quantum Echo’ (Conversational)
EDRM Announcements:
- The 2026 eDiscovery Today State of the Industry Survey is now open. Sponsored by EDRM, the survey gathers insights from eDiscovery professionals on key trends shaping the industry, including the impact of GenAI, discovery from collaboration platforms and mobile devices, and emerging challenges for 2026. Participants will receive a free copy of the report when it is published in January.
- EDRM hosted the Gayle O’Connor SPIRIT Award ceremony on December 16, honoring Bree Murphy as the 2025 recipient. Read the full press release announcement here.
- Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell hosted EDRM’s Mary Mack on the Kennedy-Mighell report, the longest-running legal tech podcast.
- EDRM will be out of the office for the holiday season and will be returning on January 6, 2026. Our Tuesday support calls will continue as scheduled.
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 305th call. For mental health care, consider these professional resources.
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.
