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The warmer weather MAY be heating up eDiscovery case law disputes! Our May 2023 monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog discusses six disputes including a dispute over sanctions for failing to preserve text messages for a stolen phone, failing to provide the correct cell phone records, waiver of privilege for inadvertently disclosed materials used in a deposition, disqualification sanctions for failing to notify of receipt of privileged materials, sanctions for conducting deposition in bad faith after load file production confusion and ESI protocol requirement to conduct document review!

Join Doug Austin, Editor of eDiscovery Today, Mary Mack, CEO of EDRM, Tom O’Connor, Director of Gulf Legal Technology Center, and Hon. Andrew Peck (Ret.), Senior Counsel at DLA Piper as they discuss important rulings that may impact how you conduct discovery in the future. Topics to be addressed include:

+ Sanctions For Failing to Preserve Text Messages for A Stolen Phone
+ Failing To Provide the Correct Cell Phone Records
+ Waiver Of Privilege for Inadvertently Disclosed Materials Used in A Deposition
+ Disqualification Sanctions for Failing to Notify of Receipt of Privileged Materials
+ Sanctions For Conducting Deposition in Bad Faith after Load File Production Confusion
+ ESI Protocol Requirement to Conduct Document Review
 
Expert Presenters:
Doug Austin, Editor, eDiscovery Today
Mary Mack, CEO and Chief Legal Technologist, EDRM
Hon. Andrew Peck (Ret.), Senior Counsel at DLA Piper
Tom O’Connor, Director, Gulf Legal Technology Center

Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for May 2023

Join Anna Simpson, Senior Director of Product Management at Box, and John Price, Technical Success Manager at Onna, as they highlight and demonstrate best practices for eDiscovery on Box. 

In this session, you will learn about:
• Box's Compliance API
• Collecting data from Box for eDiscovery
• How to search and export data for review

Speakers: 
Anna Simpson, Senior Director of Product Management, Box
John Price, Technical Success Manager, Onna

Mastering eDiscovery in Box: Best Practices for Legal Teams

Secure remote collection and analysis of endpoint data is critical in today’s hybrid working environment. With employees generating more data than ever before, stored in more places than ever before, every second of collection efficiency counts. 

Organizations of all sizes need a secure, intuitive, and easy to implement solution to properly handle the changing landscape of corporate investigations. Current remote collection tools in the market can take an average of five days of training and onboarding before the user is up and running. 

With Endpoint Inspector, users can use it successfully in less than one day with our deployment team. Join us for our upcoming webinar to see Emmy Gamble, Cellebrite Enterprise Solutions Customer Success Manager, show how Endpoint Inspector can remotely collect from mobile devices and cloud workplace applications all in a single easy to use tool, saving your team valuable time and money. She will showcase how simple it is to streamline your investigative workflow for remote collections by setting up a custodian’s Android device, collecting from the device, and collecting from their cloud based Office365 account all in one single easy to follow workflow. 

Bio:
Emmy Gamble, Technical Customer Success Manager, Cellebrite Enterprise Solution
  
Emmy Gamble is one of the Technical Customer Success Managers within Cellebrite Enterprise Solutions. She started out as a Technical Customer Support Engineer, before moving on to the Quality Assurance team with Cellebrite. She has worked closely with the computer forensic tools for the past several years, troubleshooting issues and testing bug fixes to help improve solutions to better meet with customer investigation needs.

Streamline Investigations with Remote Collection of Androids and Workplace Apps

A groundbreaking webcast exploring the legal tech job market through the eyes of a seasoned legal tech Recruiter in an interactive fireside chat format.

Are you eager to stay ahead of the curve in the ever-evolving Legal Tech job market? Look no further! Join us for the latest edition of our scintillating quarterly series, "Finger on the Pulse: The Doctor is In!", where we bring you cutting-edge insights and updates on the hottest opportunities in Legal Tech and how to find top talent for companies. 

In each episode, our seasoned host, the brilliant "Dr.” David Netzer, President, Chief Recruiting Officer, Legal Tech Talent Network, serves up a fresh dose of indispensable knowledge, helping you navigate the dynamic landscape of legal innovation. Mary Mack, CEO and Chief Legal Technologist, EDRM and Kaylee Walstad, Chief Strategy Officer at EDRM will also share their valuable insights.

This quarter, we'll explore: The most in-demand Legal Tech skills that'll skyrocket your employability!  A behind-the-scenes look at some of the top employers and their hiring strategies! How to tailor your resume to stand out in the crowded Legal Tech job market! 
Educational resources and courses that'll keep your expertise razor-sharp!  Strategies/tips for Employers to attract and retain top talent!  

Be the first to discover new trends, market shifts, and exciting career opportunities in the Legal Tech sphere. Register now and never miss an episode of "Finger on the Pulse: The Doctor is In!" 
Stay relevant. Stay informed. Stay ahead. The doctor will see you now! Bring your questions!

Finger on the Pulse: The Doctor is IN! Legal Tech Job Success Strategies

Join EDRM and Bob Zeidman, the renowned software expert, and founder of Zeidman Consulting, for an engaging fireside discussion on how he won the "Prove Mike Wrong Challenge" initiated by My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell. Lindell offered a $5 million reward to anyone who could prove that the data he released related to the U.S. 2020 election was invalid.

Zeidman took up the challenge and was successful in proving that the data provided by Lindell was not valid evidence that China interfered in the U.S. 2020 elections and tipped the outcome to Joe Biden. He will share with you the original data and how he was able to ascertain the facts.

This webinar is a unique opportunity for anyone interested in understanding the technical aspects of the U.S. 2020 election, and claims of voter fraud. Zeidman will also discuss his journey, the challenges he faced, and how he overcame them. The audience will have an opportunity to ask questions and engage with the expert in a Q&A session.

Don't miss this exciting and informative session that will provide a detailed insight into the truth behind the "Prove Mike Wrong Challenge." Register now and join us for an engaging conversation with Bob Zeidman.

A Fireside Chat with Bob Zeidman on Winning the My Pillow CEO's Challenge

In partnership with the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), Exterro, the leader in E-Discovery software, created this year's Chief Legal Officer's (CLO) Report.
With over +800 CLOs participating, hear experts analyze the results and learn how legal executives are planning to manage e-discovery activities in 2023.
Register for this webcast and learn...
- The top challenges facing legal departments (all have to do with e-discovery activities)
- How CLOs are looking to overcome these challenges
- How you can add value and ensure efficiency/defensibility within your legal department

Speakers: 
• Linda Luperchio, CEDs -- Director of Information Governance and E-Discovery, The Hanover Insurance Group
• Jessica Averitt, Esq. -- Partner, Baker McKenzie
• David Yerich, Esq. -- Director of E-Discovery, UnitedHealth Group 
• Mike Hamilton, J.D. -- VP, Marketing, Exterro

Survey Says...Top 3 E-Discovery Takeaways from Recent Survey of +800 CLOs

We’re ready to “spring” into new eDiscovery case law disputes! Our April 2023 monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog discusses six disputes including a dispute over search terms and custodians for a non-party discovery request, sanctions against counsel for failing to respond to discovery requests, proportionality of search terms, possession, custody and control and agents of golf professionals, sanctions for fraudulent text messages and sanctions against Google for failing to preserve Google Chat messages!

Join Doug Austin, Editor of eDiscovery Today, Mary Mack, CEO of EDRM, Tom O’Connor, Director of Gulf Legal Technology Center, and Hon. Andrew Peck (Ret.), Senior Counsel at DLA Piper as they discuss important rulings that may impact how you conduct discovery in the future. Topics to be addressed include:

+ Non-Party Discovery Request Disputes
+ Sanctions Against Counsel for Failing to Respond to Discovery Requests
+ Proportionality of Search Terms
+ Possession, Custody and Control and Agents of Golf Professionals
+ Sanctions for Fraudulent Text Messages
+ Sanctions Against Google for Failing to Preserve Google Chat Messages
 
Expert Presenters:
Doug Austin, Editor, eDiscovery Today
Mary Mack, CEO and Chief Legal Technologist, EDRM
Hon. Andrew Peck (Ret.), Senior Counsel at DLA Piper
Tom O’Connor, Director, Gulf Legal Technology Center

Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for April 2023

Welcome to ChatGPT 101, a webcast designed to help you get started with ChatGPT, the powerful AI language model built by OpenAI!

In this webcast, we will cover the basics of ChatGPT, including what it is, how it works, and how you can start using it as a basic user. We will also provide some tips and tricks for getting the most out of ChatGPT and answer some frequently asked questions about this amazing AI tool.

To get started with ChatGPT as a basic user, you don't need any technical skills or programming experience. All you need is:

An internet connection: ChatGPT is a cloud-based service, which means you will need an internet connection to access it.

A web browser: You can use ChatGPT directly in your web browser without needing to download or install anything.

A question or prompt: ChatGPT is designed to answer questions and generate text based on prompts. So all you need to do is type in a question or prompt, and ChatGPT will generate a response for you.

Whether you're looking for information, entertainment, or just want to try out a cool new AI tool, ChatGPT is an amazing resource that's available to everyone. So join us for ChatGPT 101 and learn how to get started as a basic user today!

Expert presenter: John Tredennick, Founder & CEO of Merlin Search Technologies and Dr. William Webber, Chief Data Scientist, Merlin Search Technologies

ChatGPT 101- How Do I Use It?

Organizations of all sizes are at constant risk of data breaches and security incidents that could disrupt business operations from a variety of malicious actors. Whether these risks come from insider threats, malware, or ransomware, corporate investigators and IT administrators need actionable intelligence to mitigate risks swiftly and efficiently.

According to the 2022 Cost of a Data Breach report from IBM, 83% of companies will be victim of a data breach. The global average cost of a data breach is $4.35 Million. 

Is your company properly equipped with an incident response plan to mitigate these threats and recover from incidents as quickly as possible?

Join Josh Barone, Senior Developer at Cellebrite Enterprise Solutions, as he showcases:
- How to first respond to a possible incident through the six step PICERL process
- How Endpoint Inspector can quickly gather sensitive and volatile data to identify what might be at risk 
- Possible incidents that could impact your organization
- How to triage an incident to help minimize disruption to your organization

 About the Presenter:
Joshua Barone, Senior Developer III at Cellebrite

Identifying and Triaging Security Risks in your Organization

"Ripped from the Headlines" The recent letter signed by prominent figures, including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, urging a pause on training Large Language Models more powerful than GPT-4 highlights the potential dangers of generative AI. As these technologies advance, it's crucial to consider the ethical and societal implications and potentially develop appropriate regulatory structures.

Join us for an open and informative discussion with leading AI experts Dr. Maura R. Grossman, Johannes (Jan) Scholtes and John Tredennick. Our panel will explore the risks associated with generative AI and the potential need for responsible development and regulation. We welcome your questions and ideas in this critical conversation.

Flash Webinar- Navigating the Risks of Generative AI: An Expert Panel Discussion

Collecting what is needed from endpoints regardless of location, is critical in today’s hybrid working environment. Corporate investigators and eDiscovery practitioners need to easily create and define targeted collections from remote computers, remote mobile devices, and from supported cloud workplace applications like Office365, Google Workspace, Slack and Box.

Watch as Lisa Neyen, Lead Software Developer for Cellebrite Enterprise Solutions, demonstrates how Cellebrite’s Endpoint Inspector can collect and analyze data from endpoints and cloud workplace application data over an organization’s network to give you the critical insights surrounding sensitive issues like data being shared and exposed, litigation, or employee misconduct.

This webinar will highlight: 

• How to collect data from a custodian’s computer, mobile device, and Slack, validate it, and implement the process for the entire organization
• The end-to-end collection process in Endpoint Inspector to ensure you’re ready for review and have all the data you need

Collecting Custodian Data to Prepare for Review

In just eight short weeks, a new AI program called ChatGPT has captured the world’s imagination. From Silicon Valley to London, Tokyo, Sydney and beyond, millions of people have started asking ChatGPT to answer questions, write term papers and even create poems in Pirate Speak (Arrrgh). Lawyers have also jumped on board, asking ChatGPT to explain complex legal concepts, analyze contracts and even tag ediscovery documents. 

What is this new technology and how might it affect ediscovery professionals? Join us for a fascinating look at ChatGPT’s capabilities along with a candid discussion of its limitations. Learn about groundbreaking research suggesting that ChatGPT (actually its underlying algorithm called GPT) may not only help make ediscovery more efficient but actually replace ediscovery review teams altogether. Both time and cost savings could improve over human review by several orders of magnitude. 

ChatGPT has already passed a Wharton MBA test, a three-day national medical licensing certification and even a state bar. Should ediscovery lawyers be nervous about ChatGPT? Tune in and find out. 

Speakers:
John Tredennick is the CEO and founder of Merlin Search Technologies, a cloud technology company developing revolutionary new AI technology for large-scale document search. 
 
Dr. William Webber is the Chief Data Scientist of Merlin Search Technologies. He completed his PhD in Measurement in Information Retrieval Evaluation at the University of Melbourne under Professors Alistair Moffat and Justin Zobel, and his post-doctoral research at the E-Discovery Lab of the University of Maryland under Professor Doug Oard. With over 30 peer-reviewed scientific publications in the areas of information retrieval, statistical evaluation, and machine learning, he is a world expert in AI and statistical measurement for information retrieval and ediscovery.

ChatGPT: Should Ediscovery Lawyers be Nervous?

eDiscovery case law disputes “march” on! Our March 2023 monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog discusses six disputes including production of all calendar items and text messages, sanctions for supplemental production due to a vendor’s deduplication error, production of all search term results without review, sampling of purportedly privileged documents for in camera review, adverse inference sanctions for spoliation of text messages and sanctions for violation of a protective order!

Join Doug Austin, Editor of eDiscovery Today, Mary Mack, CEO of EDRM, Tom O’Connor, Director of Gulf Legal Technology Center, and Hon. Andrew Peck (Ret.), Senior Counsel at DLA Piper as they discuss important rulings that may impact how you conduct discovery in the future. Topics to be addressed include:

+ Production of All Calendar Items and Text Messages
+ Sanctions Over Vendor’s Deduplication Error
+ Production of All Search Term Results Without Review
+ Sampling of Purportedly Privileged Documents for In Camera Review
+ Adverse Inference Sanctions for Spoliation of Text Messages
+ Sanctions for Violation of a Protective Order
 
Expert Presenters:
Doug Austin, Editor, eDiscovery Today
Mary Mack, CEO and Chief Legal Technologist, EDRM
Hon. Andrew Peck (Ret.), Senior Counsel at DLA Piper
Tom O’Connor, Director, Gulf Legal Technology Center

Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for March 2023

Our responsibilities as an industry for managing and utilizing data are changing. Data diversity and transformation, disparate databases and the need to access data across borders are all factors contributing to the changing face of data. Join us as we discuss the importance of a data management strategy, data organization, litigation preparedness, and the unique challenges associated with multi-national litigations and investigations. Highlighting the issues and strategies handling data across Canada and the US.

Session Highlights Include:
• The importance of managing data under an organization’s control
• What should be considered when creating a data strategy
• Cross-border issues between Canada and the US
• Supporting multi-national workflows
Expert Presenters:
Sean Lynch, B.A., J.D., LL.M.
Director, Client Strategy – Legal Services, Ricoh Canada

Jessica Lockett, Director, Review Services, Ricoh Canada

Mary Mack, CEO and Chief Legal Technologist, EDRM

A New Look at Old Data Strategies: Mgmt, Organization & CAN/US Border Readiness

You are invited to join EDRM’s Email Duplicate Identification Global Project Team as they share how they have solved the painful and oftentimes expensive process of duplicate identification across emails processed by multiple vendor platforms. This webinar will be held in multiple time zones over two days so everyone can participate.

During discovery, disclosure or an investigation, it is often useful to identify duplicate emails in data exchanged between parties. This can deliver many benefits, including the ability for legal teams to rapidly triage emails already reviewed that also reside in data received from others. While current approaches effectively identify email duplicates within native datasets processed by a single vendor, they do not enable duplicate identification across emails processed by multiple vendor platforms. Vendors use similar methods to detect email duplicates, but there are nuanced differences in their proprietary algorithms. 

Currently no means of cross platform email duplicate identification exists, except to reprocess the data using a single vendor platform, often expending significant time and cost. The EDRM Duplicate Email Identification project set out to develop a solution to cross platform email duplicate identification. Our solution is a simple, but effective approach which involves the use of the hash value of an email Message ID metadata field that we have named the EDRM Message Identification Hash (“MIH”). This new approach need not replace current vendor email deduplication methods, and will enable cross platform email duplicate identification. It is expected cross platform duplicate identification using the MIH will be applied to email data sets that have already been deduplicated using a vendor’s standard deduplication process.

Global Market Intro to EDRM's "CROSS PLATFORM EMAIL DUPLICATE IDENTIFICATION"

Since the dawn of the digital age, ediscovery vendors have charged for hosting the way landlords charge for rent: by the month. As with a rental home, you pay hosting fees for ediscovery sites even when you aren’t using them. The problem is worse for sites that need to remain online for months “just in case.” 

Modern cloud computing offers new options for ediscovery sites, ones that can provide greater security and save substantial amounts on hosting costs. Instead of running a site 24/7, turn it off when you aren’t using it. Sites can be spun back up in a matter of minutes, about the time it takes to get a cup of coffee. Charges are hourly rather than monthly.

Join our panel of lawyers and legal technologists to discover how Cloud Utility Pricing can dramatically reduce hosting costs, increase data security and help turn ediscovery green. Learn how you can save substantial amounts on hosting fees by running sites on a schedule, turning them on and off manually or have Merlin’s Cloud Energy Saver utility turn sites off automatically when not in use. 

Cloud Utility Pricing is the first Green Computing Initiative for ediscovery–in fact one of the first innovations in hosting costs since ediscovery began. Save as much as 70% on hosting services just by turning off the site. And do something good for the planet in the bargain.

With Expert Speakers:
John Tredennick: Founder and CEO of Merlin Search Technologies, former Founder and CEO of Catalyst Repository Systems, and former Litigation Partner at Holland & Hart. 
Dara Tarkowski: Founder and Litigation Partner at Actuate Law and CEO of Quointec, a technology subsidiary of the firm. 
David Greetham: Principal PC Forensics, former VP of Ricoh E-Discovery and inventor and developer of Remlox™, a forensic collection device used around the world. 
Kathy Hogy: Former VP of Legal Operations at FiServ and former senior paralegal at a national law firm, Kathy is currently VP Operations at Merlin Search Technologies.

Cloud Utility Pricing: Reduce Hosting Costs and Go Green in the Bargain

As investigations evolve and the amount of data involved increases, backlogs grow. For forensic investigators, finding specific and relevant evidence from that mass of data takes skill and experience. This webinar will teach you how to master and optimize the processing options by:

Using field mode to quickly triage
Turning off specific processing options
Using features, like new column sets in FTK rather than index search
Creating processing profiles that can be used again

Speaker: Dan Sumpter, Senior Instructor, Exterro

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