Podcasts

In the twenty seventh episode of EDRM Trusted Partner, HaystackID’s monthly podcast series, Esther Birnbaum, Executive Vice President of Legal Data Intelligence, sits down with Kaylee & Mary to talk about how her in house experience informs her approach to Legal Data Intelligence. Esther talked about her experience with Generative AI applied to document review and how HaystackID has integrated it into its full suite of service offerings. Esther also explained where HaystackID will be during Legalweek (Booth #3121) and the awards Hal Brooks and Vazantha (V) Meyers will receive, ending on a surprising fun fact about her.

John Tredennick, CEO and founder of EDRM Trusted Partner, Merlin Search Technologies, sits down with Kaylee & Mary to talk about his journey from litigation partner to eDiscovery entrepreneur, why he founded another eDiscovery company, how the fourth generation of his AI-first platform, rebranded from Discovery Partner to Alchemy, differs from its previous incarnations, and differs from his first company’s innovation with CAL, Catalyst. Our discussion traversed the surprising facility of Merlin Alchemy to go beyond summarizations and timelines to actually crafting case outlines, compelling closing arguments even with high volume and difficult data types, like medical records and construction documents. John will demo Alchemy at Legalweek, and on the EDRM Global Webinar Platform.

Xen Hartzell, podcast producer and editor of the Illumination Zone, sits down with Kaylee & Mary to celebrate the Illumination Zone’s 200th episode. Xen’s fiction podcasts “Midst” and “Unend” have repeatedly topped global fiction podcast charts and have garnered numerous editing and audio drama podcasting awards. Xen set the foundation for the Illumination Zone and has been behind the scenes editing the show since day 1. After sharing their journey to eDiscovery through Death Metal, EDRM’s best kept secret came over to the other side of the mic to interview us as we look back on 200 episodes of the Illumination Zone and reflect on the past, present, and future of eDiscovery and podcasting.

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, “New Battle of the Bots: ChatGPT 4.5 Challenges Reigning Champ ChatGPT 4o”. The podcasters dig into the results of the test Ralph put them through. They zeroed in on the humor test, and were amazed that the bots were developing their own taste in humor. Not quite AGI, the podcasters discussed the feeling of “qualia” as a distinctly (for now) human sense of wonder and awareness of consciousness as a differentiator from human consciousness. The podcast ended with an encouragement to minimize hallucinations with tips like developing careful, specific prompting and more. While the podcasters still cannot pronounce Ralph Losey’s last name correctly, they brought their A game to the critique

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, “Bar Battle of the Bots – Part 2”. The podcasters dig into what happened with buying and selling a diamond where the price quoted was dramatically low. They then dive into the legal issues and how the issues were presented, fangirling over Mae West and then looking at an actual Florida case on point for “unilateral mistake” and what should be done to resolve the dispute. They also talk about what the LLM’s got right, and wrong, with a discussion of the thought process of the LLM in breaking down and synthesizing the answers.

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 blog post as he attempted to replicate the research done on large language models (LLMs) and the bar exam. Previously published research awarded the earlier version of ChatGPT highest honors on the bar exam, creating a chill down the spine of attorneys and law students. Ralph Losey picked a bar exam question, documented his process in prompts and the LLMs’ responses and graded, as a law professor might, the answers. The LLMs will not be replacing top attorneys today, Ralph concluded, although the majority would pass the exam.

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.