Essay

eDJ Brief: Elevate LegalWeek 2025

Mark Noel (VP AI & Data Consulting) caught me up on the integration of Redgrave Data into the larger Elevate ecosystem. Since joining Elevate, the Redgrave Data team has focused on developing internal automation, as well as custom tools and capabilities for the broader Elevate customer base. This kind of post M&A work takes time, as the team’s world-class experts need to scale their [...]

By |2025-04-30T13:29:36-05:00April 30th, 2025|Provider, Essay, Analytics, Services|0 Comments

eDJ Brief: Pinpoint LegalWeek 2025

Pinpoint Labs has entered the remote mobile collection market with their CrossCopy Enterprise application. VP Shane Havick gave me his annual briefing devoid of market fluff and vague value propositions. If you have tracked my recent return to the trenches supporting complex international matters, you may guess that mobile devices have been a particularly challenging ESI source. My recent experience with Cellebrite and ModeOne [...]

By |2025-04-28T16:28:58-05:00April 28th, 2025|Essay, Collectors, Legal Holds|0 Comments

eDJ Brief: Hanzo LegalWeek 2025

Hanzo’s new CEO Sarai Schubert clearly articulated Hanzo’s shift from compliance archiving to unified navigation and access of diverse collaborative enterprise sources. It could be that I am just out of date with their brand shift, but the briefing put them back on my RFP list for Enterprise clients seeking governance solutions for Slack, Teams, Google Workplace, Atlassian, Asana, Websites and other dynamic SaaS [...]

By |2025-04-16T14:33:38-05:00April 16th, 2025|Platform, Essay, Analytics, Collectors, Legal Holds, ESI Sources|0 Comments

eDJ Brief: Everlaw LegalWeek 2025

Everlaw Founder and CEO AJ Shankar responded to my question, “Tell me what makes Everlaw’s new Project Query different?” with a deep dive into their implementation of RAG AI. Instead of complicated prompts or rigid review workflows, this extends the EverlawAI Assistant portfolio by allowing non-technical users to just ask questions and get a GenAI summary derived exclusively from and linked to your hosted documents. [...]

By |2025-04-14T11:12:35-05:00April 14th, 2025|Essay, Analytics, Analysis|0 Comments

eDJ Briefing: Relativity at LegalWeek 2025

  Phil Saunders Phil Saunders kicked off the briefing by tackling his January announcement that many have interpreted as Relativity Server EoL in 2028. I had certainly heard from many competitors eager to take advantage of Relativity Server customers not ready to embrace the cloud for a variety of reasons. I get the 'new' Relativity leadership vision that cutting edge AI driven [...]

By |2025-04-07T17:20:28-05:00April 7th, 2025|Platform, Essay|0 Comments

Microsoft Roadmap – March 2025

With 1784 updates to the Microsoft Roadmap, March seems to have had an ‘update your release dates’ mandate to the PM teams. We did have 253 actual new additions that seem to be focused on the new eDiscovery Portal, expanding CoPilot integrations, new IRM controls and more. There are a LOT of date and content updates to Purview eDiscovery items, so it is worth [...]

eDJ Brief: StreemView – LegalWeek 2025

CEO Mike Schubert barely mentioned their new StreemView AI search in our briefing. Instead, he hammered on how StreemView's architecture and UI is uniquely designed for the mobile and collaborative data sources at the heart of modern investigations. Having spent the last quarter struggling with mobile and chat content in complex international investigations, his arguments resonated with me. Most lawyers think of evidence as [...]

eDJ Brief: Infinnium LegalWeek 2025

CEO Elie Francis CRO Doug Kaminski While you may not be familiar with Infinnium, I am betting that it will appear on corporate legal's radar this year. Their 4iG platform was launched in 2018 and previously seemed focused on enterprise governance through in-place processing and analytics. Familiar eDiscovery rock stars Elie Francis (Driven/One Discovery) and Doug Kaminski (Relativity/Consilio) joining [...]

LegalWeek 2025 – The eDJ Hot Takes

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 [...]

By |2025-03-30T18:38:08-05:00March 30th, 2025|Essay|0 Comments

LegalWeek 2025 Sponsor-Exhibitor Metrics

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 [...]

By |2025-03-17T14:53:39-05:00March 17th, 2025|Essay|0 Comments
Go to Top