LegalWeek 2025 was a wild ride that started and ended early for me this year. My thanks to everyone who managed to find my impromptu Sunday happy hour gathering. My Mon-Wed schedule was filled, so it spilled over to Sunday and we made the most of the time. Our industry is experiencing an unprecedented rate of change, a Shakubuku moment (alternative definition). Some players seem [...]

Legal technology seems to be riding the AI wave with exhibitors old and new investing in booths. My annual sponsor/exhibitor charts and the published Legal Week metrics reflect this uplift in technology and service providers eager to show off their AI-enhanced offerings. Not too long ago I was predicting a slow decline in conference attendance and exhibitors based on the steady consolidation and acquisition of [...]

After around 30 years of LTNY (LegalWeek now), pre-conference activities and social events can tell you a lot about the industry and where companies are allocating their event budgets. Thanks to Stephanie Clerkin and Maria Victoria Yuste for building the social event list this year (I thought that Stephanie Wilkins also did this, but LI search is terrible). Almost all the networking events are packed [...]

The new Purview eDiscovery Hub UX has exited the 'preview' stage and is theoretically ready for actual use. The classic eDiscovery UX will be EoL in August 2025, so you have 5 months to adapt your workflows and test the new UX. Since November I and clients have been testing the new hub (when time allows). That testing has given me a much deeper understanding [...]

264 in development – 71 Rolling out – 88 Launched New features were dominated by Copilot integrations and development support last month. Some minor Purview release date updates and adding Loop Workspaces to Teams channels are the only real eDiscovery related roadmap updates. I would like to call attention to the "(Preview)" label in the new Purview eDiscovery Hub UX. Users are already been automatically [...]

Another Legal Week year in NY with all my technology peers! So far, I am on a star-studded panel on Collaboration in Complex Litigation Tuesday at 3:30, so please come and enjoy some recent collaboration do's and don'ts from the trenches. Have a new product or offering to show me? Maybe just want to talk shop about Microsoft Purview and their new portal? Grab [...]

A young Houston Police Department CSI with a table of evidence, my how the years have flown My apologies for going dark over the holidays. My favorite client asked for an intervention, and I have been back in the trenches running Purview searches and meeting unmovable deadlines. You will benefit from a lot of anonymized lessons learned when I have caught up on [...]

Relatively few new features introduced in the month following Ignite, but the theme is Copilot summarization/recap of meetings, documents and more. It will become all too easy for meeting organizers or document collaborators to forward Copilot recaps or conversions without reviewing them for accuracy. eDJ has seen these recaps actually reverse counsel statements (i.e. DO this instead of DO NOT do this) in pilot testing. [...]