White House Obtains Commitments to Regulation of Generative AI from OpenAI, Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta and Microsoft

In a landmark move towards the regulation of generative AI technologies, the White House brokered eight “commitments” with industry giants Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. The discussions, held exclusively with these companies,...

EDRM Announces New White Paper Addressing “Professional Responsibility Considerations in AI for eDiscovery Competence, Confidentiality, Privacy & Ownership”

The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) is pleased to announce a white paper addressing “Professional Responsibility Considerations in AI for eDiscovery: Competence, Confidentiality, Privacy and Ownership.” Comments from the public are welcomed until February 20, 2023....

A Buddhist AI – “The DUDE” – Explains the Eight Steps of Hybrid Multimodal Document Review with Help from a Human Lawyer

Written by Chat GPT 3.5, partly in “Comic Hipster Style” with Ralph Losey Losey to Chat: “Use a comedic hipster writing style to explain my eight steps of electronic document review.” Chat GPT 3.5 replies:...

Craig Ball Publishes Processing Primer

Craig Ball, attorney, forensic expert, trial attorney and special master, has focused his award winning writing skills on an often overlooked, extremely important step in the EDRM:  processing. The inner workings of files, attachments, containers,...

Survey of judges’ perspectives on e-discovery highlights need for education

In new survey from Exterro, EDRM, and BDO, judges say attorney education on e-discovery is lacking LegalTech News | 2.23.18 “. . . judges aren’t enthused with the e-discovery competency of the attorneys who appear...

More In-House Legal Departments Conducting E-Discovery Internally

Benchmarking report co-produced by Exterro, EDRM, and BDO Consulting shows in-house legal teams moving to control more of their legal processes Nov. 2 – A new study produced by EDRM Duke Law, Exterro, and BDO Consulting...

Early Case Assessment: Evolving from Tactical to Practical

Executive Summary In eDiscovery, we maintain many bad habits from the pre-digital age. However, we have lost sight of one great habit: a preliminary walk- through of boxes containing material potentially relevant for disclosure. This...

IGRM IT Viewpoint

I. Executive Overview / Introduction We live in an increasingly digital world where technology changes quickly and the only recognized absolute is there will be more data to manage tomorrow. The unprecedented growth of content,...

Disposing of Digital Debris

Information Governance Strategy and Practice in Action EDRM Information Governance Reference Model (IGRM)CGOC (Compliance, Governance and Oversight Council) “It would be helpful if systems were in place to get rid of the junk. Part of...

Proposing ENF, a New Standard for Managing Native Files

July 11, 2013 – In a pair of white papers published today, EDRM member Wade Peterson, writing on behalf of the EDRM Native Files Project, proposes the creation and adoption of a new ENF (encapsulated...

New EDRM White Paper: Control Sets – Introducing Precision, Recall, and F1 into Relativity Assisted Review

New EDRM White Paper: Measuring and Validating the Effectiveness of Relativity Assisted Review