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By Darius E. Bennett, Esq. “The most powerful and obvious ‘truths’ within cultures are often the things that are not said and not directly acknowledged.”                                     –Mary Anne Staniszewski, Believing is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art The context in which this statement arises within Staniszewski’s work is during the opening statements of this her […]

Leading analyst firm, IDC, featured EDRM partner, HaystackID, in a recent market note regarding COVID-19 and its effect on document review, moving from on-premise to the cloud with a dispersed review force. Written by Ryan O’Leary, senior research analyst for Legal, Risk and Compliance for IDC and one of the only attorney-analysts, the market note […]

According to the Predictive Coding Technologies and Protocols Fall 2020 Survey by ComplexDiscovery, Relativity and Brainspace are the two leading Technology Assisted Review (TAR) platforms, and over 90% of respondents used TAR platforms for more than simply document review for litigation. Far and away, Continuous Active Learning® (CAL®) was the protocol of choice: Continuous Active Learning® (CAL®) […]

By Darius E. Bennett, Esq. “As an athlete, I couldn’t control what my teammates or the people against whom I was competing were doing, but I could control what I was doing, how hard I worked, and how disciplined I was about aspects of my training.” — Dylan Casey, in Come to Win California native […]

Rob Robinson, managing partner of ComplexDiscovery Solutions, invites legal technology practitioners who use predictive coding (PC), technology assisted review (TAR), computer assisted review (CAR), continuous active learning (CAL) or other like technology to fill out the Predictive Coding Technologies and Protocols Survey.  There are five short questions on the survey. EDRM frequently promotes ComplexDiscovery’s surveys and results […]

by Darius E. Bennett, Esq. “Maybe the hardest part is if you teach, you have to live your teaching. You can’t say, ‘You do, not as I do, but do as I say.’ No, no. You have to say, ‘I’m doing my best to live what I teach.’”               […]

By: Victoria Blake, Senior Director of Product, Zapproved User Privilege, Identity, and Risk As the legal office moves more and more into the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) space, legal departments are more and more being asked to understand and move fluidly in the GRC functions. At the heart of the GRC function is security: […]

Compliance, an EDRM Guardian Partner, gathered input from over 165 individuals from corporate and legal departments on their experience with working from home (WFH) in their WFH survey. “How well does my team stack up to my peers in their WFH environment?” Of these respondents, approximately 64% were from law firms, while 36% were from corporate. […]

MINNEAPOLIS, August 5, 2020 – Setting the global standards for e-discovery, the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) is pleased to announce its new EDRM Job Search Workshop with legal tech expert recruiter, Laureen Kautt. For the next 3 months, EDRM will offer informative webinars, supplemented by a biweekly virtual job search workshop, to support those impacted […]

MISSION, Kan. — Aug 5th, 2020 — Xact Data Discovery (XDD), a leading international provider of eDiscovery, data management and managed review services for law firms and corporations, announces the acquisition of Anexsys Group Limited, an eDiscovery services company based in London, UK.  David Moran, XDD President and COO, states, “Complementing our recent domestic acquisitions, […]