COVID news

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 […]

While the respondents to this quarter’s eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey increased their optimism for the upcoming six months, they also recognized that budget constraints will have an outsized impact on activity.  According to the editor of Complex Discovery, Rob Robinson, originator of the survey in 2016: The results of this summer eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey […]

By Darius E. Bennett, Esq. While reading this passage –part of his final letter to his daughter– one senses Ashe’s patience and worry, as well as a sense of urgency and fatherly insistence. He references, and leans heavily on, Maya Angelou’s poem On the Pulse of Morning to teach the lessons of “a rock, a […]

ComplexDiscovery has opened their flagship survey, the quarterly eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey, to responses.  The nineteenth quarterly survey is the second such survey in the current pandemic.  Rob Robinson, principal analyst at ComplexDiscovery, said: The current global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to alter life as we know it. It also continues to alter […]

By Marcin Wojtczak, Chief Strategy Officer at Relativity At the first-ever virtual Relativity Fest London, I had the chance to hear the diverse perspectives of four e-discovery experts who discussed challenges and opportunities facing the industry and how their experiences serving their clients in a time of unprecedented uncertainty has shaped their new normal. I’ve shared […]

Marc Zamsky, COO, and Rick Garcia, Director of Forensics for EDRM Guardian Partner, Compliance, somehow managed to link 80’s glam rock with BYOD and the co-mingling of personal and corporate data. Zamsky and Garcia leave the reader with concrete steps to take, including being mindful of the confidentiality and security implications of handing down devices in […]

EDRM Guardian Partner, ComplianceDS, is collating a survey on remote work practices (WFH). Compliance does not require you to identify yourself to take the survey unless you would like a copy of the results.  Many of our contributors are curious about how other organizations are handling remote work and work from home.  This short, five question […]