Jason Lemkin wrote an excellent analysis of the CS Disco’s loss of$2.25 BILLION since their IPO. Harry DeBari’s additional commentary caught my attention and got me thinking about the “eDiscovery IPO curse” that Barry Murphy and I used to joke about. eDJ Group was a boutique analyst group covering a ‘nascent market’ back then. The Guidance Software (Encase) IPO was a big deal [...]
Since at least the late 1990’s (my recollection) our premiere legal technology conference has been hosted at the midtown Hilton New York in February. Legalweek New York 2026 has moved to the North Javits Center. Bob Ambrogi’s 2018 article provides excellent insights into the 1982 origin and evolution of LTNY into Legalweek. I have to wonder if the new venue will be an [...]
Anyone can now create volumes of fake email, text screenshots and other deepfake ‘evidence’ with minimal effort. It not only shows up in cases, it raises the bar for authentication of real evidence. You may need more than a simple chain of custody to demonstrate reasonable effort and completeness of your discovery process. This trend makes me nostalgic for all my compliance mode Enterprise [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]