Microsoft Roadmap: Q4 2025
This update covers 374 new features announced since September. The Microsoft PM team has been busy rolling out features from earlier this year, so the real news is to closely check you exports. I have seen corrupted zips in client and test tenants since the wide range of Purview eDiscovery UI enhancements started arriving in June. The 8 features that I felt had potential [...]
eDJ Take – Relativity Fest aiR for Case Strategy
While my lab time was limited at Relativity Fest 2025, I thoroughly enjoyed the scenario and how Relativity has AI-powered facts, outlines and summaries. As it happens, the inappropriate procurement scenario used in the Learning Lab exercise resonated with recent client investigations where I leveraged Case Dynamics to translate and connect external financial records, interview facts and documents into coherent timelines and outlines. Far too [...]
eDJ Take – aiR Assist at Relativity Fest 2025
aiR Assist is Relativity’s entry into RAG AI driven query tools. It will be included in the new RelativityOne pricing that includes integrated aiR document review solutions. aiR Assist leverages indexes based on saved searches (initial 50k item limit). The answer summary and up to 25 citations are limited to that index. In my initial experience with aiR Assist in aiR for Case Strategy, it [...]
eDJ Take: Relativity Developer Summit – 2025
Why attend the Developer Summit session at Relativity Fest? I believe that Relativity’s innovation and growth is dependent on the ability of partners and ‘citizen developers’ to access highly technical information and resources. The launch of Rel Labs will expand the existing development partner programs, provide sandbox environments and fund new technology partnerships directly and through The LegalTech Fund. Legal technology exists within an adversarial, [...]
Relativity Fest 2025 – Keynote Hightlights
My apologies for taking this long to consolidate and publish my notes. As you all know, cases do not stop just because you ducked out to do one of your favorite conferences. I will be dropping my session and lab notes asap. I approached this Relativity Fest as an active customer rather than my traditional journalist/analyst role. That changed my take-aways and I hope ‘kept [...]
SharePoint Download vs. Purview Export Risks
Ran into this recently with a client and wanted to share a short technical note so that you can avoid the headache. Many clients use shared subfolders in Teams/SharePoint to stage internal collections from document systems, 3rd parties or other non-M365 sources. Direct load to RelativityOne, Reveal or other cloud platform requires integration and security configuration. So many practitioners are still stuck downloading to local [...]
Corporate Impact of Reduced Regulatory Enforcement in 2025
What do the daily articles reporting federal agencies being radically downsized mean to eDiscovery professionals? Federal enforcement activity is down 37% in the first half of 2025. Will that create a compliance free-for-all and take the wind out of corporate governance initiatives? Will states step in to protect businesses and consumers? This is my chosen "2025 eDiscovery Trend" for my 3 minutes of fame on [...]
Catch Me at Relativity Fest 2025
Join me in Chicago for the annual Relativity Fest edutrainment spectacle “The e-Discovery State of the Union” hosted by our unflappable master of ceremonies David Horrigan. Hopefully they will give us the grand ballroom this year as this session always overflows anything smaller. For first timers, each team articulates what they consider the most important legal development of the year to the audience and [...]
Microsoft Roadmap – August 2025
After June’s massive drop of feature updates, July had ZERO with significant eDiscovery impact. That gave me a month off of roadmap coverage. The 178 new/updated features since June continue to improve Copilot integrations. Teams meeting recap will now reach mobile, 1:1 chat and in-person meetings, which increases the pressure on corporate legal to expand eDiscovery to manage this content. Feature Impact eDJ Description [...]
2025 eDiscovery Market – Rough Entry for ALSP/LPO Players
While responding to the following kind analyst inquiry I decided it made a better blog for the broader audience. Love your comments and feedback to my perspectives. We have been following your thoughts and views on various topics within the ALSP / LPO space and are amazed at the insights you have. Our Organization is planning to get into the ALSP / LPO space and [...]
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