Elizabeth Guthrie, Brett Burney, eLaw Evangelist of EDRM Trusted Partner Nextpoint, and Tom O’Connor, Director of the Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center, sit down with EDRM’s Mary Mack and Holley Robinson. In this episode, the team shares their excitement over the release of Tom’s new book, Artificial Intelligence for the Rest of Us. The team explained the challenges of nailing down the book in the midst of rapid Large Language Model (LLM) upgrades and changes. Elizabeth, Tom, and Brett were laser-focused on the benefits for smaller law firms and corporate teams so much that the glossary was repurposed from the end to the beginning to facilitate understanding. We ended our discussion with surprising fun facts from all three guests. You can order your copy of the book at https://www.nextpoint.com/ai-for-the-rest-of-us-book/.

In this episode, Sam and Mark were live from the 2025 Construction Super Conference in FL. The two shared insights into the unique challenges of those with construction-related proprietary files, and partially repetitive items that can be key in a dispute, like change orders. They explained how HaystackID has carefully implemented AI to assist in moving through the volumes and variety of the data.

In this episode, the thirty-fifth in a series, Nate Latessa, Chief Revenue Officer and Vice President of Advisory Services for EDRM Trusted Partner HaystackID, sits down with EDRM’s Mary Mack and Holley Robinson to update us on his journey and to talk about Corporate Data Intelligence. The multidisciplinary mandate of Corporate Data Intelligence makes great use of the multidisciplinary experience in the EDRM community. Nate deepened the reuse of data after review in a repository scenario with the reuse of search terms and prompts to proactively classify data across an enterprise. The high octave of international practice in this area was also highlighted. Nate ended with his surprising fun fact about the beginnings of his work life, pre-eDiscovery.

Attorney, award-winning blogger, and AI expert Ralph Losey’s curated and vetted podcast features his Anonymous Podcasters as they do a deep dive on Ralph’s EDRM blog post titled “Cross-Examine Your AI: The Lawyer’s Cure for Hallucinations.” This episode is an example of a debate format contrasted to the discussion format in Episode 42.

Attorney, award-winning blogger, and AI expert Ralph Losey’s curated and vetted podcast features his Anonymous Podcasters as they do a deep dive on Ralph’s EDRM blog post titled “Cross-Examine Your AI: The Lawyer’s Cure for Hallucinations.” This episode is an example of a discussion format contrasted to the debate format in Episode 43.

Attorney, award-winning blogger, and AI expert Ralph Losey’s curated and vetted podcast features his Anonymous Podcasters as they do a deep dive on Ralph’s EDRM blog post titled “The New Stanford–Carnegie Study: Hybrid AI Teams Beat Fully Autonomous Agents by 68.7%.”

David Meadows is a Senior Managing Director at FTI. In the episode, we talked about how he went from growing up in small town Iowa to splitting time between Chicago and Toronto for the past 15 years, how he picked up cycling during COVID and his 100-mile bike rides, and some of the technology that differentiates FTIs discovery practice. Mix up an Old Fashioned and listen in!

Andreas Mueller is the founder and CEO of Downstreem. In this episode, we discuss the multiple degrees he earned by age 20 – including one in the culinary arts – moving from Germany to the United States, fatherhood, and why Downstreem chose to stay narrowly focused on mobile device forensics in a “one-stop-shop” world. Pour a glass of sauvignon blanc and listen in!

Joey Seeber is the Co-Founder and CEO of Level Legal. In this episode, we discuss his journey from practicing law to purchasing a business he knew nothing about to public service as the Mayor of Tyler, TX to entrepreneurship, and how he thinks about differentiation in a crowded market. Pour a glass of Basil Hayden and listen in!

Episode 23: John Tredennick, Tom Gricks and Dr. Jeremy Pickens talk with University of Florida’s Bill Hamilton about TAR. Barriers to adoption, opportunitites and challenges for teaching TAR to law students and practicing attorneys are explored by the panel.

John, Tom and Dr. J explore the Hon. Jay Francis’ order regarding TAR validation, including richness and recall as applied to TAR and keywords, parsing Sedona Principle 6 (responding party best suited to evaluate methods.)

John, Tom and Dr. J explore elusion or null set thresholds, alone and in relation to other benchmarks, such as recall and richness with information retrieval and new Merlin Search Technologies data scientist, William Webber.