EDRM Blog

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 […]

Relativity, an EDRM Guardian Partner, announced  they were invited to join the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA).  Relativity also achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Authority to Operate (ATO) at the Moderate security impact level for its RelativityOne Government service offering. Relativity earned their invitation to MISA with Relativity Trace. Relativity’s application for proactive compliance and surveillance, Relativity Trace, integrates with Microsoft […]

Let’s face it: the legal industry is not known for being at the cutting edge of technology. While consumers and others have flocked to cloud services, risk-averse legal pros have largely held back. Moreover, today’s corporate legal teams are losing budget and staff at the same time that litigation is exploding. It’s hard to spend […]

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 […]

Annual E-Discovery Day Enters Its Sixth Year of Educating and Informing Industry Professionals  WASHINGTON, D.C. – November 2, 2020 – HaystackID, a specialized eDiscovery services firm that helps corporations and law firms find, understand, and learn from data when they face complex, data-intensive investigations and litigation, is pleased to once again be a premier supporter of E-Discovery Day, the […]

“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 […]