Phil Favro Discusses Deepfakes and Authentication

Michael Berman examines Phil Favro’s analysis of U.S. v. Belt and the growing challenges surrounding deepfake evidence authentication. The article highlights video provenance, native-file preservation, chain of custody, forensic examination, and established authentication methods for...

Keyword Search Isn’t Dead. Searching With Keywords Alone Should Be.

Keyword search remains indispensable, but it is no longer sufficient. John Tredennick and Dr. William Webber explain how keyword search, semantic search, and continuous active learning can work together to uncover evidence that any one...

The Case of the Missing Lab Notebooks

In Terran Biosciences, Inc. v. Compass Pathfinder Limited, defendants sought sanctions over missing physical lab notebooks in a trade secrets dispute. The court found sanctions unwarranted because defendants failed to establish that the notebooks were...

EDRM Releases EDRM 2.0, Modernizing the Global Framework for Electronic Discovery

EDRM has released EDRM 2.0, the first substantive update to the Electronic Discovery Reference Model in years. Developed by approximately 150 global practitioners, the new model integrates information governance, unified data acquisition, disposition and continuous...

A Brief Writing Lesson from the Court of Federal Claims

The Court of Federal Claims offered a pointed writing lesson in Scale AI, Inc. v. U.S.: the strongest briefs exercise restraint, focusing on the arguments most likely to prevail rather than taking a “scattershot” approach...

Weekly Letter to Our EDRM Global Community – 01 September 2026

The First Amendment Privilege Against Discovery by the Government

5 tips on how to collect data for ediscovery

A Request for “Three-Strata Validation” Was Denied

A federal court addressed a proposed “three-strata validation” process for ESI discovery in In re Class Action Settlement Administration Litigation. The parties agreed to statistically valid sampling of documents coded nonresponsive, while the court rejected...

[Podcast] HaystackID® in the EDRM Illumination Zone: Erin Meyer, Mary Bennett, Jason Cassel, and Alex Lewandowski

Use of Personal Email by Government Personnel

Government personnel who use personal email or devices for government business may expose those systems to discovery. A federal court ordered counsel-supervised searches of personal email and cell phone data in Washington v. Mass. Dept....

[Webcast Transcript] From Breach to Legal Crisis: The Hours that Define Your Exposure

What happens in the first hours after a breach can shape an organization’s legal, regulatory, and notification response. HaystackID experts discuss preparation, evidence preservation, data governance, outside counsel, notification workflows, and the use of generative...