Dearest EDRM Community,
The word of the week is: progress.
In our legal tech world this week, LegalTech News’ Cassandre Coyer joins Bloomberg Industry Group to focus on privacy, the AI companies release many more advances and deep fakes come into focus.
Join us this week for live discussions with The Hon. Judge Ralph Artigliere (ret.) and EDRM Trusted Partner, CodexTen’s Clayton Romero on Rise of the Machines III: Mastering AI Implementation for Legal Excellence (Tuesday) and (Wednesday), the Hon. Ron Hedges on ESI and Crimes: Catching Criminals and Protecting Rights.
Kaylee Walstad and Mary Mack, EDRM.
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 223rd weekly Community Support Call.
On the EDRM Blog:
- Bad Things Can Happen When Company Officers Use Their Private Email Accounts for Work
- Cooperation in Discovery is Not Capitulation: It is a Sign of Strength
- Documents Withheld Under Deliberative Privilege – No Privilege Log Needed?
- Level Legal and Casepoint Team Up for Turnkey eDiscovery
- May’s Notable Cases and Events in E-Discovery
- Flowering Optimism? Profiling Spring 2024 eDiscovery Business Confidence
- Experiment with a ChatGPT4 Panel of Experts and Insights into AI Hallucination – Part Two
- The Global Struggle Against Deepfake Technology: A Critical Overview
Upcoming Webinars on the EDRM Global Webinar Channel:
- 21 May 2024: 1PM Eastern: Rise of the Machines III: Mastering AI Implementation for Legal Excellence
- 22 May 2024: 1PM Eastern: ESI and Crimes: Catching Criminals and Protecting Rights
- 23 May 2024: 1PM Eastern: How Legal Must Mitigate Risk in Today’s Dangerous and Changing Data Landscape
- 28 May 2024: 1PM Eastern: Unlocking Microsoft 365: Navigating the Future of eDiscovery Tools
- 30 May 2014: 1PM Eastern: Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for May
- 06 Jun 2024: 1PM Eastern: Building the Case: Get Buy-In to Minimize Data Across Your Organization
- 18 Jun 2024: 1PM Eastern: Public Access or Not: What Can and Cannot Be Protected from Disclosure in Litigation
Updates from Around the Globe:
- Global Legal Tech Developments: Sensei Enterprises wrote on the top reasons law firms invite data breaches (ATL) and Joe Patrice thinks the California Bar may go bankrupt because of bar exam woes. Cassandre Coyer analyzed the legal aspects of data scraping. EDRM Trusted Partner, Cellebrite, will participate in several investor meetings. Peer review awarded Chat GPT-4 a midlevel bar exam score. Slack users were surprised to learn their data was being used to train AI models.
- International eDiscovery Trends: Greg Buckles created a quick Microsoft Purview export checklist. Mary Bennett wrote on repeatable, scalable human QC for Legaltech News. Doug Austin and EDRM Trusted Partner, eDiscovery Today’s Kitchen Sink includes Ralph Losey’s Part 2 on AI panelists, Rob Robinson on Deep Fakes and OpenAI’s co-founder departures. EDRM Trusted Partner, Nextpoint’s Andy Greene is bullish on lawyers and legal tech. Sriram Krishnan shared why group chats rule the world.
- World Events Impacting Legal Tech: Israel Coalition Leader gave June 8 deadline for postwar plan. Iran’s President and Foreign Minister experienced a hard helicopter landing and both have died. Disney characters unionized to secure better pay and improved safety conditions.. Afghanistan, Brazil, Indonesia and the US South are reeling from flooding.
Recent Illumination Zone Podcasts:
Catch our latest syndicated EDRM Global Podcast Network episodes on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and more. Recent guests include Rene Novoa, Zef Deda, Nate Latessa, Andy Paredes, Greg Witczak and Charisma Star .
EDRM Announcements:
- EDRM’s AI Ethics & Bias team released its GenAI Judicial Orders Repository.
- EDRM announced two new projects seeking contributors, the Testimony Evidence Reference Model (TERM) project and the Gigabytes Metrics (ESI File Size Project.) Reach out to info@edrm.net to learn more and get involved.
- Update to EDRM’s Code of Conduct: EDRM has updated our Code of Conduct around in person, virtual, social and project events for respect and civility.
- Generative AI Policy Update: Check out our updated Generative AI and Large Language Model policy, focusing on disclosure and fact-checking. Read the Policy Here.
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Co-creating with you,
Mary & Kaylee
P.S. This update was assisted by GAI and LLM Technologies as per EDRM GAI and LLM Policy.
