Key Discovery Points: A Judicial Approach to Handling AI-Generated Evidence
Key Discovery Points: Don’t Get Caught with Your Hand in the Production Cookie Jar
Key Discovery Points: Petty Finger Pointing Over Search Terms Results in Wasted Time
Key Discovery Points: Do Your Best to Avoid Discovery Shenanigans!
Key Discovery Points: Be Willing to Agree and Compromise When It Comes to Hyperlinks
Navigating the Maze: eDiscovery Essentials for Employers — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Harnessing the Power of eDiscovery: The Revolution of AI and Technology in Litigation and Investigations - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Key Discovery Points: Don’t Rush in as an AI Fool!
Key Discovery Points: If You Dispose of Relevant Hard Drives You Will Face (Some) Consequences
Key Discovery Point: Collecting Hyperlinked File Versions – Contemporaneous or “As Sent”?
Key Discovery Points: Timing is Mostly Everything in eDiscovery
Key Discovery Points: AI Says AI Will Replace Paralegals… But Not So Fast!
Key Discovery Points: Get Your Copy of the 2025 eDiscovery State of the Industry Report
What are Some of the Concerns With Applying AI to Document Review?
Biggest Benefits of Applying AI to Document Review
All in the Family: What’s Next for Cloud Attachments in eDiscovery?
Key Discovery Points: Even AI Experts Can Get Faked Out
Innovation in Second Requests: Data is Your Greatest Asset
Key Discovery Points: No Need to Be Leery About AI
Key Discovery Points: Timing Sweet Spots for Spoliation Motions
When I first entered the legal services space over 18 years ago, eDiscovery wasn’t the structured, tech-driven process we know today – in fact, I didn’t even know what it was at the time. Like many of us back then, I learned...more
The true value of AI isn’t measured by a single metric or outcome but rather is derived from an interconnected set of goals. Read about five dimensions of value that are making AI critical for your work in eDiscovery and...more
Picture this: you’re in-house counsel, and your company’s just been sued. But you’ve seen this film before. You know (with reasonable certainty) how much it’ll cost to get from complaint to Rule 26, through discovery, motions...more
In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping every industry, the legal profession stands at a pivotal crossroads. Building on the successful adoption of predictive coding and machine learning in everyday...more
The rise of legal AI has sparked a familiar fear: that our hard-won expertise might be absorbed into machines. That lawyers will be off-loaded—our reasoning encoded, commodified, and reduced to prompts. That we’ll be...more
In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today explore a key stipulation from the In re Uber Techs. Passenger Sexual Assault Litigation that’s reshaping the handling of...more
In this episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast, Chris Willis is joined by Troutman Pepper Locke Partners Joseph DeFazio and Jason Manning, along with Alison Grounds, founder and managing partner of Troutman Pepper Locke’s...more
When it comes to eDiscovery, term translation isn't just about converting words from one language into another. It's a highly specialized process that requires a nuanced understanding of both linguistics and technical search...more
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
The question of how to handle “modern attachments” has become a major conversation in the ediscovery sphere over the past year. While traditional email attachments consist of a discrete, downloadable file, these "modern...more
If your legal department handles complex litigation or regulatory matters, you already know that eDiscovery is more than a back-office function – it’s a critical business risk that touches data governance, compliance, IT, and...more
This post is based on remarks recently delivered during the 12th Annual University of Florida E-Discovery Conference. With only 10 minutes during the conference to squeeze in this massive topic, we thought it may be useful to...more
In In Re: Uber Technologies, Inc. Passenger Sexual Assault Litigation, 2025 WL 678543 (Mar. 3, 2025), the court issued another hyperlinked document discovery decision arising out of the parties’ ESI Protocol. While...more
Although occasional murmurings about general AI reached the public during the 2010s, it was ChatGPT’s November ‘22 entrance onto the global stage that officially introduced the world to artificial intelligence....more
In Tremblay v. OpenAI, Inc., 2025 WL 635335 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 27, 2025), plaintiffs, the requesting parties, sought to have input in determining search terms to be used by defendant, the producing party. Based on “the specter...more
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
Last week’s decision in Partners Insight, LLC v. Gill (M.D. Fla., October 28, 2024) tackles an often-overlooked yet essential aspect of ediscovery: manner of production. While much of our focus in ediscovery tends to be on...more
I was fortunate to moderate a webinar for ACEDS about proportionality and summarize the discussion below. You can listen to the entire program here. Proportionality in e-discovery is based on the objective of Rule 1 of the...more
Law firms today possess access to a wider and deeper collection of technological tools than any prior generation. Within this “golden age of legal technology,”1 one of the most impactful innovations has been the development...more
The intersection of litigation, investigations, and technology is becoming increasingly vital to the success of legal teams. As organizations face mounting pressures from data proliferation, complex regulatory landscapes, and...more
Document review, the most expensive part of the eDiscovery process, often poses a formidable challenge for litigation professionals, especially in large-scale, complex cases. This task is further complicated by the need to...more
Join us for an enlightening webinar where we delve into the future of eDiscovery and investigations powered by artificial intelligence. This session, brought to you by Hanzo and ACEDS (The Association of Certified Ediscovery...more
There’s no denying it—artificial intelligence is changing the legal landscape. Generative AI and the use of machine learning promise to boost efficiency and reduce prep time through multiple phases of litigation. For...more
Nextpoint and Tom O’Connor published a new edition of eDiscovery for the Rest of Us, a strategic and tactical resource for legal teams navigating the modern ediscovery landscape. The 2024 version features new content,...more
“Anybody else have something to say?” - Ted Lasso, S3 Ep 12 - Robert Burgett is a good neighbor. He keeps his yard tidy. And in the summer of 2010, in the rolling hills of eastern Kentucky near the town of Belfry,...more