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Dear EDRM community, The word for the week is unrelenting.  Storms, with snow, wind, tornadoes and rain, pummel areas of the earth unaccustomed to such vehemence.  We are hoping for survivors in an underground earthquake and volcanic eruption in the beautiful island nation of Tonga.  Even with less virulence, the infectiousness of Omicron has hospitals at their breaking […]

[Editor’s Note: EDRM is proud to support the educational efforts of our Trusted Partner, Zapproved, and welcomes their perspective on the EDRM diagram and community.] An excerpt from the Zapproved blog: The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) refers to both a framework for conceptualizing the ediscovery process and the community that maintains that model. The EDRM framework diagrams the approximate processes […]

Complex Discovery, founded by Rob Robinson, released the results of their survey for Winter 2022. Recurring revenue bullishness almost doubled. The eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey is a non-scientific quarterly survey that shares insight into the business confidence of individuals working in the eDiscovery ecosystem. The survey consists of nine core questions on factors related to […]

Craig Ball has updated his master work, Electronic Evidence Workbook 2022, designed to provide aspiring attorneys with a solid technical foundation and aspiring information technology professionals with functional legal requirements and considerations regarding electronically stored information (ESI). I’m hell bent on making encoding understandable, and I’ve incorporated the new Processing Glossary I wrote for the […]

Mary Rechtoris, co-host of our Trusted Partner, Relativity’s Stellar Women community and our EDRM/Relativity Stellar Women crossover series, shared a list of twenty resolutions for the new year contributed by the group. From cleaning out closets to forgoing automatic responses, Stellar Women are on the move to change behavior and outcomes for themselves, their organizations […]

Dear EDRM community,  The word for the week is nonfungible.  NFT’s are all the rage. Entire corporate structures being created, contractual workflows including the tokens are being created.  NFT’s are now funding businesses and political campaigns. NFT’s, like blockchain and Bitcoin, are an emerging challenge those of us dealing with electronically stored information (ESI).  The opposite of fungible, […]

[Editor’s Note: EDRM is proud to celebrate with our partner, HaystackID, on the occasion of forensics powerhouse, Warren Kruse, joining by amplifying their press release.] Hiring of Warren Kruse continues expansion of company’s Forensics First capabilities WASHINGTON – January 6, 2022 – HaystackID, a specialized eDiscovery services firm supporting law firms and corporate legal departments, has announced Warren […]

Everlaw, EDRM’s Trusted Partner, assessed and quantified the usage of their platform and generated statistics demonstrating current shifts and foreshadowing future shifts in eDiscovery community practices. The report, titled “Lighting the Way, 2021 Ediscovery Trends and Everlaw’s 2022 Predictions. Remote work, generally centered around video Zoom and Teams meetings, contributed to a massive increase in […]

eDiscovery Today’s Survey, sponsored by EDRM, covers predictive coding, mobile, remote and more. eDiscovery Today, EDRM’s Trusted Media Partner, released a survey sponsored by EDRM that covers the landscape of our community, marketplace and multidisciplinary ecosystem. The complimentary report can be downloaded from the award winning eDiscovery Today blog. Doug Austin, founder and editor of […]