Weekly Letter to our Global Community: 22 Feb 22

The word for the week is deliberate.  

With lives in the balance, global powers are practicing shuttle diplomacy while releasing videos and documents methodically dissected for metadata clues about authenticity.  Canada grapples with protests inclusive of trucks at chokepoints, freezing bank accounts funding the protests.  Health authorities are debating lifting mandates around vaccination and masking.

.  It is our EDRM intentional strategy to create a space for competitors to collaborate toward common vocabulary, process points and interchange formats in our field.  

In legal tech this week, EDRM is fielding insightful comments on our Project drafts, and our teams continue to collaborate to find common ground.  It is our EDRM intentional strategy to create a space for competitors to collaborate toward common vocabulary, process points and interchange formats in our field.  We honor Sedona’s late Richard Braman’s dream of cooperation as those in our EDRM community could have weaponized superior command of technology rather than centering tech as a vehicle to resolve issues. 

As March approaches with the late start of our legal tech season, EDRM will showcase our Trusted Partners and their new offerings to help you narrow your dance card deeper dives at Legalweek.

EDRM projects are open to new contributors again, please reach out to info@edrm.net to let us know your interest, and we will introduce you to the appropriate Project Trustee.  You can check out EDRM’s project listings here.

Our Syndicated EDRM Global Podcast Network is available via iTunes, Spotify, Google Play and your favorite podcast app, so you can listen at your leisure.  Kaylee and Mary have our own podcast, the Illumination Zone, joining TAR Talk podcast.  Reach out to info@edrm.net to suggest guests, including your own fabulous self.  

We continue to Zoom gather for an hour to give and get general support in our one hundredth and second week each Tuesday, with our two year anniversary approaching.  These sessions are point in time for us as humans and are not recorded. 

Email us at info@edrm.net to be included on the group invitation for our interactive general support. Remember, you are not alone, and you are welcome at our events, or to reach out for help.  If you are having a mental health emergency, please consider these resources for professional help.

We welcome your participation in our projects, webinars, support gatherings, and our EDRM Hub, our job board/event/directory website.  There is no charge for these EDRM offerings, thanks to our very generous partners. 

 
Intent is not impact,
Mary & Kaylee

Author

  • Mary Mack is the CEO and Chief Legal Technologist for EDRM. Mary was the co-editor of the Thomson Reuters West Treatise, eDiscovery for Corporate Counsel for 10 years and the co-author of A Process of Illumination: the Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery. She holds the CISSP among her certifications.

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