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It is with great sadness that we honor Robert Childress, Masters Conference founder and eDiscovery serial entrepreneur, in his passing. Diagnosed several years ago and given the timeframe of weeks to live, Robert instead sought out treatment near and far, established and experimental. He often made calls from his hospital bed, and flew to attend […]

The conventional wisdom that small firm and solo attorneys avoid eDiscovery like the plague and that bar associations are luddites behind the times in member engagement has been soundly disproven in a live experiment conducted by the Monroe County Bar Association with the EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model). Niki Black, trustee of the Monroe County […]

According to a new Ernst & Young Law Report, “CEOs are demanding that legal departments cut budgets by as much as 18% while workloads are being increased by 25%.” This reality comes as corporate legal teams are being tasked with managing more ediscovery projects with varying degrees of complexity and risk. However, there is huge potential […]

[Editor’s Note: EDRM is grateful to ComplexDiscovery for sharing an early look at the Spring 2021 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey Results. Thank you to our EDRM community for participating so we can get a collective perspective on our economic headwinds, or in this case, tail winds. The results, compared to the previous quarter’s results, follow, […]

Understanding how our greatest innovations are creating legal challenges now and in the future When you watch the news today or read a great legal periodical like EDRM or Legaltech News, it is hard not to think that we have veered a bit into the realm of science fiction. You might even think that we […]

[Editor’s Note: Press Announcement Originally on PRWeb.] Zapproved®, the leading ediscovery software provider for managing corporate ediscovery, today announced the availability of the ZDiscovery® platform.  ZDiscovery unites Zapproved’s industry-leading legal hold management with its powerful processing and review engine to enable corporate legal teams to manage ediscovery more efficiently, cost-effectively, and confidently–with the built-in flexibility […]

EDRM Opens Island for Community Education and Networking Dave Cohen, Reed Smith Partner and Chair of their Records and E-discovery Group and Mary Mack, CEO and Chief Legal Technologist of EDRM will lead a lively, interactive discussion on avoiding sanctions. The event will feature Ethics CLE in participating states. The Ethics CLE will be sandwiched […]

Create an App for That? Five Lessons We Learned from Development Not surprisingly, delivering an app is easier said than done. Reed Smith’s E-Discovery App was introduced to the legal community in 2020, and firm partner and development team leader David Cohen shares his top five lessons learned. Reed Smith Partner and Chair of the […]

EDRM Guardian Partner, Relativity, announced that its SaaS solution RelativityOne is now hosted in Singapore. KPMG in Singapore was the first Big Four firm to offer RelativityOne in Asia and is the first Relativity partner to offer RelativityOne in Singapore, demonstrating its commitment to expand cloud capabilities in the region.   The e-discovery and compliance market in Asia is rapidly developing, and Singapore is a major hub for innovation. This […]

A colleague I once had was fond of the phrase, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” While there are of course exceptions to this rule, I think it’s an excellent starting point for explaining the goals, purpose, and design of a legal ops dashboard.  …imperfect metrics tracked over time are better than […]