Weekly Letter to Our EDRM Global Community

Image: Kaylee Walstad, EDRM with AI – Hat Tip to Ralph Losey’s Visual Muse GPT.

Dearest EDRM Community,

Word of the week: Inspiration.

In our legal tech world this week, as our greater legal tech community recovered from the CrowdStrike outage, the giant Clio, serving the small and medium law firm market, received funding at a $3 billion valuation.

Congratulations to Jack Newton and the team at Clio for their major market validation at $3 Billion.
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 weekly Community Support Call, now in its fourth year.

On the EDRM Blog:

Upcoming Webinars on the EDRM Global Webinar Channel:

31 July 2024: 7PM Eastern: Are You Using the EDRM MIH to Identify Email Duplicates? If Not, You Should Be! Real Life Use Cases to Save Time & Cost for Cross Platform Duplicate Identification
20 August 2024: 1PM Eastern: Unlocking the Power of ROPA: Why It Matters, Latest Privacy Trends, and How It Protects Your Business
22 August 2024: 1PM Eastern: Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for August 2024

Updates from Around the Globe:

Global Legal Tech Developments: Legaltech startup Clio raised $900m at a $3 billion valuation. The American Arbitration Association partnered with Suffolk University School of Law on an Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Innovation Clinic for family law. Bill Gates turns his attention to metacognition in AI. AI is challenging the power grid.

International eDiscovery Trends: Automakers sold driver data to insurers. Via MIT, the Imperial College of London created an app with “copyright traps” to identify infringers. Greg Buckles wrote on CoPilot’s capabilities and mobile device preservation. Ninety countries will not tax cross-border data transfers (WTO). Security expert Bruce Schneier wrote about detecting AI-generated videos. Border agents in the Eastern District of NY need a warrant to seize electronic devices. Doug Austin’s Kitchen Sink contrasts the free and paid versions of CoPilot and highlights Ralph Losey’s Bill Gates and metacognition article and Rob Robinson’s update on CrowdStrike and the rise of Techno-journalism.

World Events Impacting Legal Tech: Israel authorized retaliation against Hezbollah for an attack on the Golan Heights. Fiber optic lines were sabotaged in France as the world was transfixed by the Olympics. Firefighters are addressing over 100 fires in the US. ComplexDiscovery reports on corruption arrests, shifts in Russian assets and approach and Ukraine’s strike against an airbase in occupied Crimea. Two meteor showers will light up the sky this week.

Recent Illumination Zone Podcasts:

Catch our latest syndicated EDRM Global Podcast Network episodes on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and more. Recent guests include Bryan Bellack, Doug Kaminski, Karen Jensen-Clark, Daniella Virgile, Brett Burney with Doug Austin, and Gabe Landau.

EDRM Announcements:

EDRM Announces ComplexDiscovery as Newest Trusted Partner.
EDRM’s AI Ethics & Bias team released its GenAI Judicial Orders Repository.
Update to EDRM’s Code of Conduct: EDRM has updated its Code of Conduct for respect and civility at in-person, virtual, social, and project events.
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.

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 233rd call. For mental health care, consider these professional resources.

Get Involved with EDRM: We invite you to participate in our projects, webinars, support gatherings, and the EDRM Hub. Access these offerings at no cost, courtesy of our Trusted Partners and Event Sponsors.

Never give up,

Kaylee & Mary

P.S. This update was assisted by GAI and LLM Technologies as per EDRM GAI and LLM Policy.

Authors

Mary Mack

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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Kaylee Walstad

Kaylee Walstad, chief strategy officer of EDRM, leads the global project based organization and is the former VP of client engagement at a certification organization. Kaylee is known for her role in building communities, uniting people and companies across the globe, and brand amplification for partners through social media and events. A frequent public speaker on a variety of topics, from personal development to the nuances of e-discovery. Kaylee has a broad background in e-discovery and skills that uniquely position her to provide insight into the challenges faced by the end-users of e-discovery services and technology and the organizations serving them. She has extensive expertise in developing cross organizational discovery strategies for large litigation and investigations.
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