EDRM Blog

Dear EDRM community, The word for the week is unrelenting.  Storms, with snow, wind, tornadoes and rain, pummel areas of the earth unaccustomed to such vehemence.  We are hoping for survivors in an underground earthquake and volcanic eruption in the beautiful island nation of Tonga.  Even with less virulence, the infectiousness of Omicron has hospitals at their breaking […]

[Editor’s Note: EDRM is proud to support the educational efforts of our Trusted Partner, Zapproved, and welcomes their perspective on the EDRM diagram and community.] An excerpt from the Zapproved blog: The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) refers to both a framework for conceptualizing the ediscovery process and the community that maintains that model. The EDRM framework diagrams the approximate processes […]

Complex Discovery, founded by Rob Robinson, released the results of their survey for Winter 2022. Recurring revenue bullishness almost doubled. The eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey is a non-scientific quarterly survey that shares insight into the business confidence of individuals working in the eDiscovery ecosystem. The survey consists of nine core questions on factors related to […]

Craig Ball has updated his master work, Electronic Evidence Workbook 2022, designed to provide aspiring attorneys with a solid technical foundation and aspiring information technology professionals with functional legal requirements and considerations regarding electronically stored information (ESI). I’m hell bent on making encoding understandable, and I’ve incorporated the new Processing Glossary I wrote for the […]

Mary Rechtoris, co-host of our Trusted Partner, Relativity’s Stellar Women community and our EDRM/Relativity Stellar Women crossover series, shared a list of twenty resolutions for the new year contributed by the group. From cleaning out closets to forgoing automatic responses, Stellar Women are on the move to change behavior and outcomes for themselves, their organizations […]

For Immediate Release EDRM Announces Monthly Demythigator MINNEAPOLIS, January 12, 2022 – Setting the global standards for e-discovery, the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) is pleased to announce the launch of the  Demythigator, designed to dispel myths about artificial intelligence (“AI”), analytics and machine learning as applied to legal challenges. The Demythigator Project’s goal is to start a discussion in […]

Like the perseverance of Bigfoot or the Chupacabra, myths that limit the acceptance and use of machine learning/AI continue to strike distrust in the hearts of legal professionals longing to venture into a land of efficiency in eDiscovery. EDRM is excited to announce an upcoming social media series aimed at tackling these myths. Our goal […]

Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Keep going. No feeling is final.                                                 -Rainer Maria Rilke, Go to the Limits of Your Longing René Karl Wihelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a poet and novelist born in 1875’s Prague, when Prague was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At […]

Dear EDRM community,  The word for the week is nonfungible.  NFT’s are all the rage. Entire corporate structures being created, contractual workflows including the tokens are being created.  NFT’s are now funding businesses and political campaigns. NFT’s, like blockchain and Bitcoin, are an emerging challenge those of us dealing with electronically stored information (ESI).  The opposite of fungible, […]