July 2025 saw a rise in HSR filings, signaling renewed M&A momentum. As regulatory scrutiny deepens, cybersecurity, governance, and eDiscovery are key to strategic deal success.
The Enron Email Corpus has been the eDiscovery industry’s go-to dataset for decades, but in 2025, it’s a relic. Craig Ball argues it’s time to move on to datasets that reflect today's email technologies and privacy standards.
When AI-generated hallucinations appear in court filings, how should judges respond? A new four-pillar framework proposes principled, proportional sanctions to protect the justice system without overreach.
This week’s EDRM community update features recent blog posts, upcoming webinars, notable podcasts, and key announcements. Stay engaged with the EDRM community for the latest insights and support.
Exterro’s new podcast, Data Xposure, gives legal, forensics, and compliance professionals an unfiltered look at real incidents, breaches, and evolving data risk challenges.
A recent decision in In re Sandisk SSDs Litigation highlights how delayed document production, especially tied to withdrawn privilege assertions, can justify reopening depositions under Fed.R.Civ.P. 30(d)(1).
AI chats may seem private, but legal experts warn they could become courtroom evidence. As AI integrates into legal work, professionals must rethink digital confidentiality and privilege risks.
What if justice had a shape — not rigid scales or a blindfolded figure, but a living, dynamic map? Imagine causation as a multidimensional space, where influence, control, and responsibility could be mapped across a moving legal landscape, like tides over a reef. That is the vision behind Topological Jurisprudence, a framework first glimpsed through work with applied mathematics using advanced AI — now, for the first time, including ChatGPT-5.
In back-to-back July 2025 rulings, the S.D.N.Y. sanctioned Charles Oakley for failing to preserve thousands of text messages after his 2017 MSG ejection, crediting MSG’s expert over Oakley’s and granting an adverse inference. Oakley’s counter-motion for sanctions over alleged MSG spoliation failed after the court accepted a “technical glitch” explanation for lost emails, found no duty to produce texts, and confirmed binder documents had been produced.
Attorney, award-winning blogger, and AI expert Ralph Losey's curated and vetted podcast features his Anonymous Podcasters as they do a deep dive on Ralph's EDRM blog post titled "The Shape of Justice: How Topological Network Mapping Could Transform Legal Practice."
In Fond Du Lac Band v. Cummins, the court ruled that a vague attorney affidavit failed to establish joint representation, dooming a privilege claim under the joint representation and common interest doctrines.
Phil Favro compares early TAR adoption to today’s AI developments in eDiscovery, noting that while case law is scarce, existing precedent offers guidance on defensibility, cooperation, and transparency. He urges practitioners to focus on sound processes rather than wait for judicial approval.