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Thumbs Up for Upjohn: Sixth Circuit Upholds Privilege for Internal Investigations
Thumbs Up for Upjohn: Sixth Circuit Upholds Privilege for Internal Investigations
On October 3, 2025, in In re FirstEnergy Corp., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated a district court order that, if permitted...
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December 6, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Thumbs Up for Upjohn: Sixth Circuit Upholds Privilege for Internal Investigations
[Webinar] Most Important eDiscovery Case Law Rulings of 2025 - December 18th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET
[Webinar] Most Important eDiscovery Case Law Rulings of 2025 - December 18th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET
What are the most important eDiscovery case law rulings of 2025? In our December 2025 EDRM monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
[Webinar] Most Important eDiscovery Case Law Rulings of 2025 - December 18th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET
Collecting Slack, Zoom, and Mobile Data: What Lawyers Need to Know
Collecting Slack, Zoom, and Mobile Data: What Lawyers Need to Know
As legal teams prepare for discovery, the scope of electronically stored information (ESI) continues to expand, and so does the complexity of...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Collecting Slack, Zoom, and Mobile Data: What Lawyers Need to Know
What to Discuss at Meet and Confer and Include in ESI protocol on Slack
What to Discuss at Meet and Confer and Include in ESI protocol on Slack
This is the second part of a three-part series of tech tips on Slack as ESI. When Slack is a key platform for evidence for your case, making sure...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
What to Discuss at Meet and Confer and Include in ESI protocol on Slack
[Webinar] Simplify Internal Investigations with Guardian Collaborate for Enterprise - December 17th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET
[Webinar] Simplify Internal Investigations with Guardian Collaborate for Enterprise - December 17th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET
In today’s complex data landscape, business-related communications and messaging data are critical and often only available from mobile devices....
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December 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
[Webinar] Simplify Internal Investigations with Guardian Collaborate for Enterprise - December 17th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET
Privilege Protections Held Firm, but Caution Should Remain: The Sixth Circuit Affirms Privilege Protections in Internal Investigations
Privilege Protections Held Firm, but Caution Should Remain: The Sixth Circuit Affirms Privilege Protections in Internal Investigations
On October 3, 2025, in a highly anticipated ruling in In re First Energy Corp. No. 24-3654 (6th Cir. Oct. 3, 2025), the Sixth Circuit granted a...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Privilege Protections Held Firm, but Caution Should Remain: The Sixth Circuit Affirms Privilege Protections in Internal Investigations
The Hidden Cost Center No One Understands: Why 40% of Legal Pros Still Misunderstand eDiscovery
The Hidden Cost Center No One Understands: Why 40% of Legal Pros Still Misunderstand eDiscovery
The Misunderstanding Nobody Wants to Admit - Here’s a truth we don’t talk about enough in the legal world: eDiscovery is frequently...
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December 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The Hidden Cost Center No One Understands: Why 40% of Legal Pros Still Misunderstand eDiscovery
eDiscovery Day 2025: Year-End Review of the Top 5 Transformative eDiscovery Trends
eDiscovery Day 2025: Year-End Review of the Top 5 Transformative eDiscovery Trends
As 2025 closes, the eDiscovery sector has experienced another year of change. No longer is the function relegated to a reactive, back-office...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
eDiscovery Day 2025: Year-End Review of the Top 5 Transformative eDiscovery Trends
Hyperlinked Files Are Now Core Evidence. Treat Them That Way.
Hyperlinked Files Are Now Core Evidence. Treat Them That Way.
Email used to be predictable. You collected the mailbox, and you received the message and its attachments as a clean parent–child family. Modern...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hyperlinked Files Are Now Core Evidence. Treat Them That Way.
Is Slack Discoverable? What Legal Teams Should Know
Is Slack Discoverable? What Legal Teams Should Know
In today’s fast-moving workplace, collaboration tools like Slack have become central to day-to-day operations. With messages, files, and...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Is Slack Discoverable? What Legal Teams Should Know
Keeping Current with eDiscovery Search Trends
Keeping Current with eDiscovery Search Trends
Editor’s Note: Courts continue to shape the evolving balance between emerging technologies and long-standing practices in eDiscovery. Recent...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Keeping Current with eDiscovery Search Trends
Kinetic Cybercrime: The Terrifying Shift from Hacking Code to Hacking People
Kinetic Cybercrime: The Terrifying Shift from Hacking Code to Hacking People
On a quiet weekend morning in San Francisco’s Mission District, a man dressed as a delivery driver rang the doorbell of a residence on Dorland...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Kinetic Cybercrime: The Terrifying Shift from Hacking Code to Hacking People
Three Major LLMs Released in Twelve Days: Why Single-Model Discovery Platforms Are Now a Liability
Three Major LLMs Released in Twelve Days: Why Single-Model Discovery Platforms Are Now a Liability
Between November 12th and November 24th, all three major AI labs released new flagship models. OpenAI shipped GPT-5.1. Google launched Gemini 3...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Three Major LLMs Released in Twelve Days: Why Single-Model Discovery Platforms Are Now a Liability
Top 5 Collection Mistakes That Could Jeopardize Your Case
Top 5 Collection Mistakes That Could Jeopardize Your Case
In today’s complex litigation landscape, data is everywhere – and the way you collect it matters more than ever. A small misstep early in the...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Top 5 Collection Mistakes That Could Jeopardize Your Case
Cost of Deposition: What to Expect
Cost of Deposition: What to Expect
Depositions are at the core of discovery. Eyewitness testimony, scientific and forensic facts, expert knowledge, character witnesses—it all...
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December 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Cost of Deposition: What to Expect
How Peer-to-Peer Payment Platforms Should Handle Third-Party Subpoenas
How Peer-to-Peer Payment Platforms Should Handle Third-Party Subpoenas
Peer-to-peer (P2P) payment platforms have become the financial backbone of digital life, enabling billions of dollars to move instantly across...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:12 AM
How Peer-to-Peer Payment Platforms Should Handle Third-Party Subpoenas
AI Says AI Will Replace Paralegals – But Here’s Why Experts Say No
AI Says AI Will Replace Paralegals – But Here’s Why Experts Say No
The buzz about AI paralegals taking over the legal world is everywhere, but the reality is far more nuanced. We’ll break down why these...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
AI Says AI Will Replace Paralegals – But Here’s Why Experts Say No
Medical Record Review and Retrieval in Mass Tort Cases: What Attorneys Need to Know
Medical Record Review and Retrieval in Mass Tort Cases: What Attorneys Need to Know
If any aspect of a mass tort case can be characterized as fast, fun, or friendly, it’s not the process of retrieving and reviewing medical...
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November 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Medical Record Review and Retrieval in Mass Tort Cases: What Attorneys Need to Know
The New Stanford–Carnegie Study: Hybrid AI Teams Beat Fully Autonomous Agents by 68.7%
The New Stanford–Carnegie Study: Hybrid AI Teams Beat Fully Autonomous Agents by 68.7%
For years, technologists have promised that fully autonomous AI Agents were just around the corner, always one release away, always about to...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
The New Stanford–Carnegie Study: Hybrid AI Teams Beat Fully Autonomous Agents by 68.7%
Sloppy Transactional Work Leads to a Privilege Mess: Part I
Sloppy Transactional Work Leads to a Privilege Mess: Part I
In 2022, Jim Daws agreed to sell his company, Daws Trucking, to Rick Fernandez under an asset purchase agreement (APA). The same law firm...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Sloppy Transactional Work Leads to a Privilege Mess: Part I
AI and LLMs in Corporate Cybersecurity: Choosing the Right Solution for Your Organization
AI and LLMs in Corporate Cybersecurity: Choosing the Right Solution for Your Organization
This article examines how cybersecurity teams can leverage AI and LLM technologies like Microsoft Copilot and Open WebUI while managing...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
AI and LLMs in Corporate Cybersecurity: Choosing the Right Solution for Your Organization
AI-Driven Forensics 101: What It Is and Why It Matters
AI-Driven Forensics 101: What It Is and Why It Matters
Think of artificial intelligence (AI) as a forensic magnifying glass... here is how it works.
In the simplest terms, AI-driven forensics...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
AI-Driven Forensics 101: What It Is and Why It Matters
The Case for Regular Legal Maintenance: A Litigation Readiness Mindset for Modern Health Care Organizations
The Case for Regular Legal Maintenance: A Litigation Readiness Mindset for Modern Health Care Organizations
Health care organizations operate under constant scrutiny from government regulators and the threat of potential whistleblowers.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The Case for Regular Legal Maintenance: A Litigation Readiness Mindset for Modern Health Care Organizations
AI Meeting Tools: Asset or Exhibit A?
AI Meeting Tools: Asset or Exhibit A?
Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered meeting tools are being adopted into the workplace at unprecedented speed. Platforms such as Microsoft...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
AI Meeting Tools: Asset or Exhibit A?
4 Strategies to Keep Modern Discovery Defensible
4 Strategies to Keep Modern Discovery Defensible
The modern workplace wasn’t built with e-discovery in mind. Every year brings new collaboration platforms, new mobile apps, new cloud...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:11 AM
4 Strategies to Keep Modern Discovery Defensible