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[Editor’s Note: EDRM is thrilled to support our wonderful partner, Exterro, on E-Discovery Day, and EDRM will celebrate the whole week. Stay tuned!] The sixth-annual industry-wide event will take place December 3 with the goal of bringing together e-discovery professionals from around the world to meet, have fun and learn from experts. Portland, Ore., Sept. […]

[Editor’s note: EDRM is proud to support our wonderful partner, Zapproved] Oftentimes legal department expertise can be utilized by partnering with other business teams on functions such as conducting internal investigations with HR or even cybersecurity incidents. You probably hear “ediscovery costs are increasing!” fairly often in the corporate ediscovery world. Certainly there’s nothing especially […]

The e-discovery profession has evolved tremendously over the past two decades, and the rate of change is accelerating rapidly. Just as the scope of ESI we now must navigate has expanded, so has our role expanded beyond traditional document review for litigations and regulatory investigations. E-discovery practitioners today are required to conduct complex search and […]

Everlaw’s cloud-native ediscovery platform adds an extra layer of security to safeguard sensitive information Oakland, CA, Sept. 13, 2021 – Everlaw announced today the migration of its FedRAMP Authorized federal SaaS platform to Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud (US), making it one of the first cloud-native ediscovery, collaboration and document review solutions to meet these […]

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[Editor’s Note: EDRM is proud to support our Guardian Plus partner, Zapproved.] Is your ediscovery software in need of an upgrade? The truth of the matter is, many companies are still using outdated, mishmashed, or even spreadsheets to manage their ediscovery process. These antiquated processes may work for some companies or use cases, but corporate […]

Reuters reports that EDRM Trusted Partner, UnitedLex, acquired West Coast powerhouse Blackstone Discovery, led by Derek Duarte, EDRM Global Advisory Council leader. According to Reuters: The deal, announced Thursday, allows UnitedLex to better serve technology companies, a sector on which it has not traditionally focused, according to senior vice president Ryan Reeves. BlackStone, which markets […]

Pop quiz: Which is growing faster – corporate data volumes or ediscovery expenses? Trick question! The answer doesn’t matter, because they are each skyrocketing, and legal teams are on the hook for both. As data storage becomes virtually limitless and new workplace technologies emerge, organizations and their employees are generating exponentially more data each year. Data retention […]

Lilith Bat-Leah, director of data science and AI strategy at Driven, Inc. and Dr. Jermey Pickens, principal data scientist at EDRM Partner, OpenText, and both EDRM leaders of the Analytics and Machine Learning project, presented on the differences between technology assisted review (TAR), continuous active learning (CAL) and simple active learning (SAL) at ILTACON 2021. […]

Mitigating risk is important to legal professionals regardless of their role or area of expertise. Many investigations involve sensitive data and serious allegations, all of which have the potential for additional complications if the information is mishandled. Today, we’re discussing one of the primary risks associated with ediscovery: data security. What is Data Security for […]