Dearest EDRM Community,
Word of the week: Boundaries.
In legal tech last week, suitcases were packed for ILTA, and EDRM welcomed Khrys McKinney and K L McKinney to the EDRM Trusted Partner Network. Look for our EDRM Trusted Partners in the 2H 2025 Andrew Haslam eDisclosure Systems Buyers Guide, and consider offering your input into the semi-annual pricing survey before it closes.
Join us for a series of live webinars hosted by our long-standing trusted partners, Exterro, eDiscovery Today, and Nextpoint.
Mary and Kaylee, EDRM.
On August 13 at 1 PM Eastern, Exterro will present Chat Data: The Ugly Discovery Data Source. Then, on August 19 at 1 PM Eastern, Nextpoint and eDiscovery Today will discuss Revisiting Hyperlinked Files: What’s changed, What’s new, and What’s Still a Hot Mess.
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 fifth year.
On the EDRM Blog:
- HaystackID® Launches ReviewRight® Mobile App to Advance Remote Legal and Cybersecurity Review
- Order for Phased Discovery
- Epiphanies or Illusions? Testing AI’s Ability to Find Real Knowledge Patterns – Part Two
- Sanctions for Loss of ESI Imposed Under Court’s Inherent Power After Privilege Log is Used to Determine the Date that the Duty to Preserve Was Triggered
- At CTRL ALT Defend, Cyber Investigators Face a New Reality—and Find New Tools to Match
- Inside the 2H 2025 Update of Andrew Haslam’s eDisclosure Systems Buyers Guide: Insight, Strategy, and Market Signals
- Court Finds Subject Matter Waiver in Expert Communications Under Fed.R.Evid. 502(a)
- EDRM Announces K L McKinney as Newest Trusted Partner
- When Can Opposing Counsel be Deposed?
- From Search Hits to Answers: How GenAI Solved Complex Discovery Challenges at HKA’s “Hands On” AI Program in London
- Beagle Launches Professional Services Line to Support Ethical, Accurate AI Use in Legal Practice
- Three More Lessons for eDiscovery from Home Improvement Projects
- Motion to Compel Preservation of RAM Denied Without Prejudice
Upcoming Webinars on the EDRM Global Webinar Channel:
- 13 August 2025: 1PM ET – Chat Data: The Ugly Discovery Data Source
- 19 August 2025: 1PM ET – Revisiting Hyperlinked Files: What’s changed, What’s new, and What’s Still a Hot Mess
- 20 August 2025: 12PM ET – Building eDiscovery Expertise: Where Education Begins—and Never Ends
- 25 August 2025: 1PM ET – Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for August 2025
Updates from Around the Globe:
- Global Legal Tech Developments: The US federal court system’s security was upgraded after an incursion. Welcome to Aleeza Furman, the new legal tech editor at ALM, joining Rhys Dipshan and the team. EDRM Trusted Partner Relativity’s David Horrigan assessed the Lamborghini of AI hallucination cases. A law professor advocated against creating AI avatars of the dead. IDC quantified “legal friction,” the cost of inefficient workflows. OpenAI relented and allowed users to go back to previous versions during their bumpy rollout. Ralph Losey continued to test the releases, pushing them to create new knowledge. Steven Embry examined the recent M&A activity in the legal tech sector.
- International eDiscovery Trends: EDRM is proud to welcome Khrys McKinney to the EDRM Global Advisory Council and KL McKinney, the recruiting and consulting firm she founded and leads, to our EDRM Trusted Partner Network. EDRM Trusted Partners Nextpoint and eDiscovery Today will be at ILTA. EDRM Trusted Partner Beagle announced technology-neutral consulting services to promote the ethical and accurate use of AI. AOL finally discontinued its dial-up service. The shape of the systems running and using AI is coming into focus. Phil Favro examined the parallels between TAR acceptance and AI acceptance for EDRM Trusted Partner HaystackID. Thank you to ILTA bound eDiscovery Today’s Doug Austin for filling his Kitchen Sink with EDRM bloggers: Helen Geib with three more items in her post on how home improvement projects can prepare one for eDiscovery projects, Mike Berman on when the duty to preserve arises when a privilege log is involved, Rob Robinson on the EU AI Act and IP risk and the data breach on the dating review site Tea, and much more.
- World Events Impacting Legal Tech: Donald Trump will meet with Vladimir Putin in Alaska to discuss the war in Ukraine. Israel readied plans to take over Gaza. The US brokered a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Milwaukee had historic floods, as did Japan. Colorado’s evacuations from their unprecedented wildfire included a prison, while Nebraska’s extreme storms took the roof off a prison. Jim Lovell of Apollo 13 passed away. NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon.
Catch our latest syndicated EDRM Global Podcast Network episodes on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and more.
Recent Illumination Zone Podcasts:
Recent guests include Jeff Fleming, Young Yu, Bruce Holbert, Dorothe Schuch, Erica Zolner, and Aaron Pribil.
Recent Echoes of AI Podcasts:
- Episode 36 | Epiphanies or Illusions? Testing AI’s Ability to Find Real Knowledge Patterns – Part Two
- Episode 35 | Epiphanies or Illusions? Testing AI’s Ability to Find Real Knowledge Patterns – Part One
- Episode 34 | Navigating AI’s Twin Perils: The Rise of the Risk-Mitigation Officer
EDRM Announcements:
- EDRM is proud to announce that K L McKinney has joined the EDRM Trusted Partner Network.
- EDRM encourages participation in ComplexDiscovery OÜ’s Summer 2025 eDiscovery Pricing Survey.
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 287th call. For mental health care, consider these professional resources.
All are welcome,
Mary, Kaylee, and Holley
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P.S. This update was assisted by GAI and LLM Technologies as per EDRM GAI and LLM Policy.
