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Hal Brooks, CEO of EDRM partner, Haystack, posted a Thanksgiving message of appreciation for clients, friends and partners. Brooks reiterated the commitments Haystack holds on behalf of its work: affection, comfort, encouragement, respect, security, support and understanding. From our team to you, I wish you a healthy, hopeful, and harmonious Thanksgiving Holiday. Hal Brooks, CEO, […]

Craig Ball, author of the award winning Ball in Your Court, has published another step by step tutorial for a thorny eDiscovery task: native file BATES labeling. [Note: Craig Ball is EDRM’s General Counsel.] Titled, “C’mon! Bates Numbering Native Production is Easy“, Craig lays out free and almost free software alternatives for the various sorts […]

Key considerations when social media is digital evidence The recent Netflix documentary, “The Social Dilemma,” has taken the airwaves by storm and paints a bleak picture of social media consumption, manipulation, and obsession. With a daily active user base that spans over half of the humans on earth (3.8B) and spends an average of three hours per […]

Kaylee Walstad and Mary Mack of EDRM took Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today on a tour of our virtual campus. The EDRM will debut the campus at E-Discovery Day 2020. We toured the entrance, the dressing room where avatar choices and a wardrobe are available. After Doug chose his cowboy hat, we were off to […]

Deciphering legal AI and debunking myths Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to fundamentally change the practice of law, from automating repetitive tasks, to dramatically accelerating time to insight, to amplifying the decisions of legal practitioners across vast data sets. Despite the potential benefits and the seeming endless hype surrounding legal AI, adoption of this […]

“We have the tendency to make assumptions about everything. The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth . We could swear they are real.”                                                 — The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruíz In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruíz, believing that all suffering arises from self-inflicted wounds, counsels readers to engender the conditions for a […]

“One can’t understand everything at once, we can’t begin with perfection all at once…And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan’t understand them thoroughly.”                                                                         — The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky Aiming to portray “a truly beautiful soul,” Dostoevsky wrote Prince Myshkin as a probing character, one whose feeble appearance creates the impression that he is […]

Why discovery for mobile devices is more complex than meets the eye  Mobile devices are hardly a new kid on the block when it comes to inclusion in ESI requests and creating discovery headaches. In fact, even my earliest cases involved BlackBerrys, Nokias, and Palm Pilots! When the smartphone hit the stage, the nuance and […]

We are in the final push to the end of what has been quite a year.  For some, it has been a year filled with abundance and opportunity, for others, a significant period of question.  Regardless of what side of 2020 you landed, what is common to all is the level of uncertainty each of us carries […]

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 […]