In today’s legal landscape, investigations and discovery often involve processing thousands of complex documents. Traditional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology struggles with the varied document types legal...more
5/7/2025
/ Algorithms ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Discovery ,
Document Review ,
e-Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Evidence ,
Legal Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
OCR ,
Technology-Assisted Review
I was speaking to Jack, an old friend and senior partner at a national law firm, late one afternoon. Our topic was how GenAI technology could handle a wide variety of litigation tasks in seconds—work that would otherwise...more
4/25/2025
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Discovery ,
Discovery Costs ,
Document Review ,
e-Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Law Firm Partners ,
Law Practice Management ,
Legal Technology ,
Litigation Strategies ,
Professional Development ,
Technology-Assisted Review
Over the past few months, we’ve been exploring how generative AI can transform trial preparation by analyzing complex litigation materials and producing sophisticated closing arguments. Our series began with an exploration of...more
3/13/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Complex Litigation ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Evidence ,
Innovative Technology ,
Legal Project Management ,
Legal Technology ,
Litigation Strategies ,
Machine Learning ,
Oil & Gas ,
Popular ,
Trial Preparation
Our exploration of generative AI in trial preparation has demonstrated how Large Language Models can analyze complex materials to generate sophisticated closing arguments. We began by showing how to overcome traditional LLM...more
2/27/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Closing Arguments ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Evidence ,
Legal Technology ,
Litigation Strategies ,
Machine Learning ,
Negligence ,
Oil & Gas ,
Technology-Assisted Review ,
Trial Preparation
In our recent articles exploring how generative AI can transform trial preparation, we demonstrated how Large Language Models (LLMs) could analyze complex trial materials to generate sophisticated closing arguments. Our first...more
2/11/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Data Management ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Environmental Policies ,
Evidence ,
Expert Testimony ,
Legal Technology ,
Litigation Strategies ,
Machine Learning ,
Oil & Gas ,
Technology-Assisted Review ,
Trial Preparation
As law firms and legal departments race to leverage artificial intelligence for competitive advantage, many are contemplating the development of private Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on their work product. While the...more
2/5/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Management ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Information Governance ,
Legal Project Management ,
Legal Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
Risk Management
In our recent article “Understanding GenAI Response Limits: What Every Legal Professional Should Know,” we explored how legal professionals can overcome the traditional length limitations of Large Language Models that...more
1/15/2025
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Complex Litigation ,
Data Management ,
Discovery ,
Document Review ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Evidence ,
Legal Technology ,
Litigation Strategies ,
Machine Learning ,
Technology-Assisted Review ,
Trial Preparation
As some readers will know, we have spent many hours working with Generative AI-based Large Language Models (“LLMs”) like GPT (aka ChatGPT) and Claude. We use both in our DiscoveryPartner® software to summarize and synthesize...more
1/10/2025
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Data Collection ,
Data Management ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Legal Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
Popular ,
Software ,
Technology-Assisted Review
Generative AI is revolutionizing legal investigations and discovery workflow in ways we never thought possible–until recently.
Join us on October 30th at 1 pm ET for a groundbreaking EDRM webinar that explores the...more
On July 16th at 1 pm ET, join legal luminary John Tredennick and GenAI pioneer Dr. William Webber of Merlin Search Technologies for a Master Class on how Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming investigations and...more
In November of 2022, ChatGPT upended our thinking about artificial intelligence with a new form of machine learning called Generative AI (GenAI). Since then, discussions about GenAI models like GPT have taken center stage in...more
6/18/2024
/ Algorithms ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Attorney-Client Privilege ,
Confidential Information ,
Data Collection ,
Data Management ,
Discovery ,
Discovery Costs ,
Document Review ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Eminent Domain ,
Evidence ,
Innovative Technology ,
Legal Project Management ,
Legal Research ,
Legal Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
Privileged Communication ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Technology-Assisted Review
A first look at this exciting new GenAI release. Not long after Anthropic seized the spotlight with the release of Claude 3 Opus, OpenAI has struck back, elevating the stakes in the GenAI wars with its latest innovation,...more
5/21/2024
/ Analytics ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Data Collection ,
Discovery ,
Document Review ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Evidence ,
Legal Project Management ,
Legal Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
Technology-Assisted Review
On March 5, 2024, Anthropic announced the release of three powerful versions of Claude 3. Early reports here and elsewhere suggest these new large language models may give GPT 4 a run for its money both in terms of...more
It’s been more than a year since ChatGPT upended our thinking about artificial intelligence. Over that time, discussions about Large Language Models like GPT (the engine behind ChatGPT) have taken center stage in just about...more
2/16/2024
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Data Collection ,
Discovery ,
Discovery Costs ,
Document Review ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Evidence ,
Legal Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
Risk Management ,
Technology-Assisted Review
Merlin Search Technologies is proud to introduce DiscoveryPartner, a ground-breaking multi-LLM (large language model) cloud platform. Launched a year after OpenAI's ChatGPT, DiscoveryPartner integrates generative AI with...more
12/14/2023
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Cloud Computing ,
Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) ,
Cloud Storage ,
Data Collection ,
Discovery ,
Discovery Costs ,
Document Review ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Investigations ,
Legal Technology ,
Webinars
[EDRM Editor’s Note: EDRM is happy to amplify our Trusted Partners news and events. The opinions and positions are those of John Tredennick and Dr. William Webber.] Jennifer AI is a new associate starting work at your law...more
In an age of digital transformation, the legal industry is increasingly thinking about using AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT for document review, legal research, and even writing legal briefs. Yet, in our...more
9/21/2023
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Attorney-Client Privilege ,
Client Data ,
Confidential Information ,
Data Collection ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Data-Sharing ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Law Firm Associates ,
Law Firm Partners ,
Legal Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
Natural Language Processing ,
Reasonable Expectation of Privacy ,
Webinars ,
Work-Product Doctrine
[EDRM Editor’s Note: The opinions and positions are those of John Tredennick, Dr. William Webber and Lydia Zhigmitova.] The legal industry is witnessing a revolution with the adoption of AI for its core functions. There are...more
9/19/2023
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Data Collection ,
Discovery ,
Discovery Costs ,
Document Review ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Evidence ,
Legal Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
Technology-Assisted Review
In an age of digital transformation, the legal industry is increasingly thinking about using AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT for document review, legal research, and even writing legal briefs. Yet, in our...more
8/31/2023
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Attorney-Client Privilege ,
Client Data ,
Confidential Information ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Law Firm Associates ,
Law Firm Partners ,
Legal Technology ,
Natural Language Processing ,
Webinars ,
Work-Product Doctrine
Using the right LLM for the job will save you money! We recently wrote an article about Using Multi-LLM Systems for Investigations and Ediscovery: Fast, Flexible and Cost-Effective. One of the reasons we chose this path is...more
While our focus in previous articles has been on using Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT and Claude 2 to review and analyze discovery documents, there is more they can do. In this article we will focus on hearing and...more
Lucille Brown is a new associate at Johnson and Smith, LLP. Orientation has completed and it is time for Ms. Brown’s first assignment. Let’s see how she does....more
We have approximately 290,000 emails from and to Jeb Bush during his two terms as Florida’s governor in our discovery collection. These are the emails used during the annual TREC conferences put on by NIST. Program organizers...more
Since its debut in late 2022, ChatGTP has become the focal point of discussions in almost every field that involves some form of computing. The advent of these new generative large language models (LLMs) heralds a...more
As ChatGPT enters the mainstream, there are still open questions (and a lot of generalities) of how and the extent to which ChatGPT and other large language models will transform ediscovery and investigations.
John...more