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Key Discovery Points: A Judicial Approach to Handling AI-Generated Evidence

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In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today discuss how courts are beginning to address the challenges of AI-generated evidence, including deepfakes. Drawing from the...more

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Key Discovery Points: Don’t Get Caught with Your Hand in the Production Cookie Jar

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In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today unpack a court’s bold move in the Meta Pixel healthcare case – ordering the production of third-party cookie data tied to...more

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Forging the Path Forward: My Journey Through the Evolution of eDiscovery and Legal Service Delivery

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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

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The Five Dimensions of AI Value

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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

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Key Discovery Points: Petty Finger Pointing Over Search Terms Results in Wasted Time

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In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today discuss key takeaways from Tremblay v. OpenAI, where the court denied plaintiffs’ proposed search terms for a third time. They...more

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The Legal Ops Advantage: Why Smart Lawyers Don’t Go It Alone

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

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How Digital Forensics Drive Smarter Investigations

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Forensic collection and analysis are the processes of gathering large quantities of data from electronic devices and Cloud based data sources, preserving them, and examining the information. Both law firms and corporations...more

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AI Can Improve Great Lawyers—But It Can’t Replace Them

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

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Key Discovery Points: Do Your Best to Avoid Discovery Shenanigans!

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In this Key Discovery Points video, Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today and Brett Burney of Nextpoint break down a sharply worded ruling from Judge Matthewman in 777 Partners v. Leadenhall Capital. After repeated delays,...more

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Key Discovery Points: Be Willing to Agree and Compromise When It Comes to Hyperlinks

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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

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What Is a JSON File? And What Role Does It Play in eDiscovery?

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If you’re involved in eDiscovery in any way, you’ve undoubtedly come across JSON files. These files increasingly act as the way in which we access and interact with digital evidence—especially as the limitations of screenshot...more

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“This Was a Collective Debacle”

In Lacey v. State Farm General Ins. Co., 2025 WL 1363069 (C.D. Cal. May 5, 2025), plaintiff submitted a filing with erroneous AI-generated citations. The Special Master pointed out some of them. The plaintiff resubmitted a...more

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Harnessing the Power of eDiscovery: The Revolution of AI and Technology in Litigation and Investigations - The Consumer Finance...

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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

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Key Discovery Points: If You Dispose of Relevant Hard Drives You Will Face (Some) Consequences

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In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today break down the case Clayton Int’l, Inc. v. Neb. Armes Aviation, LLC, where the court ruled on sanctions for hard drive...more

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Search Term Translation for eDiscovery: The Art & Science of Getting the ‘Technical Translation’ Right

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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

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Don’t be Kodak: A Parable About AI and the Legal Profession

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

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Key Discovery Point: Collecting Hyperlinked File Versions – Contemporaneous or “As Sent”?

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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

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“It Ends With Us”

In Lively v. Wayfarer Studios LLC, 2025 WL 662896 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 28, 2025), the court granted in part and denied in part a motion to quash subpoenas issued to AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile (the “Wayfarer Parties”) by Ms. Blake...more

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Court Holds That an ESI Protocol Must be Specific in GenAI Copyright Class Action

In Andersen v. Stability AI Ltd., 2025 WL 870358 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 19, 2025), the court resolved a dispute over an ESI Protocol. The starting point was a Standing Order that, absent good cause, parties “shall use” one of the...more

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Key Discovery Points: Timing is Mostly Everything in eDiscovery

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In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today dive into a recent court ruling in Riviera v. Costco Wholesale Corp. – where a plaintiff's request for an independent forensic...more

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How Not to Negotiate an ESI Protocol? Say it is “Mandatory”; and, Demand That Discussions be Recorded

In Wilbert v. Pyramid Healthcare, Inc., 2025 WL 873947 (W.D. Pa. Mar. 20, 2025), the court wrote: From the inception of this action, Counsel for the parties could not agree on the scope and methodology for ESI discovery…....more

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This Week in eDiscovery: How to Scope an eDiscovery Project | Is AI Discoverable?

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Every week, the Array team reviews the latest news and analysis about the evolving field of eDiscovery to bring you the topics and trends you need to know. This week’s post covers the period of March 9-16. Here’s what’s...more

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Properly Scoping an E-Discovery Project

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

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The Final Challenge: How GenAI Crafted BP’s “Impossible” Closing Argument

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

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Uber Technologies – Another Hyperlink Decision

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

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