COVID news

As 2020 draws to a merciful close, we stop to reflect on the impacts and openings we experienced within the EDRM community.  From a bang up, hug filled January at Legal Tech New York to an avatar-based romp through the EDRM’s virtual island campus, we experimented with connecting in decidedly different environments during this year of […]

EDRM Partner OpenText™  this week announced a combined donation of $1 million USD to food banks in OpenText communities around the world.  “The demand for food banks has never been greater, and we wanted to do our part to meet this heightened and historic need,” said OpenText CEO & CTO Mark J. Barrenechea. “This holiday […]

Every corner of every business has felt the impact of COVID-19. Yes, even in the normally staid realm of internal investigation. Not only are pre-pandemic investigations still simmering, companies also must prepare for a new category of COVID-related claims. As we get ready to enter a new year, now is a great time to check […]

Frank Ready from Legaltech news surveyed the eDiscovery business and hiring landscape in this tenth month of the COVID-19 pandemic and found optimism for 2021. Interviewing EDRM’s Mary Mack, Kiwi Camera, CEO of DISCO and Shamus Flower, senior vice president at Consilio, all of whom saw impacts and recoveries at their respective organizations. DISCO is […]

Frank Ready of Legaltech news surveyed the eDiscovery provider landscape about remote working now and in the future post pandemic world. Ready interviewed Shamus Flower, senior vice president at Consilio, David Greetham, director and vice president of e-discovery sales and operations at Ricoh, an EDRM Guardian partner, and Mary Mack, CEO and chief legal technologist […]

The Fall 2020 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey stewarded by Rob Robinson of ComplexDiscovery is open for your input. This survey, in its fifth year, will have 20 seasons consistent data to give us an idea of our eDiscovery business sentiment. The results are anonymized and published freely. The core surveys consist of nine multiple-choice questions […]

Leading analyst firm, IDC, featured EDRM partner, HaystackID, in a recent market note regarding COVID-19 and its effect on document review, moving from on-premise to the cloud with a dispersed review force. Written by Ryan O’Leary, senior research analyst for Legal, Risk and Compliance for IDC and one of the only attorney-analysts, the market note […]

by Darius E. Bennett, Esq. “Maybe the hardest part is if you teach, you have to live your teaching. You can’t say, ‘You do, not as I do, but do as I say.’ No, no. You have to say, ‘I’m doing my best to live what I teach.’”               […]

Compliance, an EDRM Guardian Partner, gathered input from over 165 individuals from corporate and legal departments on their experience with working from home (WFH) in their WFH survey. “How well does my team stack up to my peers in their WFH environment?” Of these respondents, approximately 64% were from law firms, while 36% were from corporate. […]

MINNEAPOLIS, August 5, 2020 – Setting the global standards for e-discovery, the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) is pleased to announce its new EDRM Job Search Workshop with legal tech expert recruiter, Laureen Kautt. For the next 3 months, EDRM will offer informative webinars, supplemented by a biweekly virtual job search workshop, to support those impacted […]