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HSR Filings Fall Sharply in March 2025, Lowest Monthly Total Since Early Pandemic

ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: The March 2025 Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) filings dropped to 89 transactions, marking the lowest monthly total since the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in April and May 2020. This...more

LLMs to Agentic AI — Tackling Trust and Explainability | Epiq

Legalweek 2025 Session Recap - What does it mean to trust AI? According to AI expert Ron Brachman, “it’s when technology demonstrates consistent behavior over time.”  Trust is a cornerstone of any successful AI deployment....more

No Password Required: SVP at SpyCloud Labs, Former Army Investigator, and Current Breakfast Champion [Video]

On this episode, we sit down with Trevor Hilligoss, director of security research and the research and innovation division of SpyCloud Labs. From his beginnings in the Army Criminal Investigation Division to his leadership...more

2025 Legal AI Report: Key Insights from ACEDS + Secretariat

The conversation around Artificial Intelligence in the legal industry has moved rapidly from theoretical potential to practical reality. Generative AI (GenAI), once a novel concept, now dominates discussions and is actively...more

Choosing the Right Legal Transcription Service

While Legal Transcriptionists can be hired internally, working with an established service provider helps ensure the highest reliability, efficiency, and accuracy. Your transcription needs can change at the drop of a...more

[Webinar] Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for April 2025 - April 28th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

eDiscovery case law disputes are in full bloom! In our April 2025 monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog we will discuss disputes related to proportionality of discovery requests, lack of cooperation...more

Everything a Corporate Legal Team Needs to Know About eDiscovery

If your legal department handles complex litigation or regulatory matters, you already know that eDiscovery is more than a back-office function – it’s a critical business risk that touches data governance, compliance, IT, and...more

Chess, Not Checkers: Navigating Complex Litigation with AI and Tech Solutions

Historically, managing complex litigation has been complicated by overwhelming data volumes, inefficient workflows, and high costs associated with manual review and analysis. Legal teams have faced challenges in identifying...more

Ready to File a Motion for Sanctions? Make Sure You Tell the Court.

Filing a motion for sanctions under Rule 37(e) requires a strong evidentiary foundation. But there's another factor that's just as critical — timing. Courts have broad discretion in how they handle sanctions, and...more

This Week in eDiscovery: Why You Should Meet and Confer in Good Faith | Upcoming eDiscovery Webinar

Every week, the Array team reviews the latest news and analysis about the evolving field of eDiscovery to bring you the topics and trends you need to know. This week’s post covers the period of March 30-April 5. Here’s what’s...more

Linked Documents or Modern Attachments: Protocols to Minimize Risks in Preservation, Collection, and Review

Whether we refer to them as “linked documents” or “modern attachments,” gathering the information contained in these files poses an increasing challenge in the ever-evolving e-discovery landscape. I had the privilege of...more

AI for the Legal Industry is "Real"

Legal Week (formerly LegalTech) had over 6,000 attendees last week, with virtually all the vendors either promoting AI Tech or using AI to enhance existing services....more

How to Prevent Data Exfiltration and Protect Your IP – Q&A with Steve Davis

What exactly is data exfiltration, and why should organizations be concerned about it? Data exfiltration is the movement or migration of company-owned trade secrets or intellectual property outside of the enterprise. It...more

[Webinar] Considerations and Strategies for Preserving and Analyzing Critical Data - April 23rd, 10:00 am PDT

When employees depart – voluntarily or involuntarily – they often leave behind a digital footprint that may be critical to investigations, litigation, or regulatory compliance. Ensuring their data is properly identified,...more

From Texts to Trials: The Impact of Mobile Data on eDiscovery Today

Mobile devices have fundamentally reshaped how we communicate, work, and live. With 91 percent of Americans owning a smartphone and spending nearly five hours per day on these devices, mobile devices have become integral to...more

eDiscovery Case Law Podcast: How Failing to Meet and Confer Effectively Can Lead to Sanctions [Video]

Magistrate Judge Scott Hardy delivers a masterclass on what the meet-and-confer requirement really means in federal litigation—and the serious consequences of failing to cooperate in discovery. In this riveting breakdown of...more

French Competition Authority Fines Apple €150 Million Over ATT Framework and Market Dominance

ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: Apple’s aggressive stance on privacy has earned both praise and penalty, most recently, a €150 million fine from the French Competition Authority. This significant enforcement action challenges...more

Crafting Customized ESI Agreements in E-Discovery: The Importance of Specificity of Document Production Formats

In litigation, especially in dealing with E-Discovery, the importance of an effective electronically stored information agreement (“ESI Agreement”) between the parties is a must to help prevent discovery disputes. This is...more

Nokia and Amazon: A Patent Dispute Reshaping Tech Collaboration

In the autumn of 2023, a storm brewed between two tech titans. Nokia, the Finnish telecommunications stalwart, filed lawsuits across four continents, alleging that Amazon’s streaming services—Prime Video and Twitch—had woven...more

Top AI-Related Concerns in eDiscovery—And How to Address Them

As a Vice President of Regional Sales at Purpose Legal, I spend a lot of time speaking with legal teams about their biggest concerns when it comes to AI in eDiscovery. Whether I’m meeting with corporate legal departments, law...more

Utilizing Digital Forensics Expertise in Intellectual Property, Copyright & Trade Secret Matters

Need Assessment, Vetting, and Identification of a Reliable Expert in the Digital Forensics Process - Whether your organization is looking for advisory and expert support for an internal investigation into allegations of...more

Creating Privilege Logs: A Best Practices Guide

A privilege log is a critical component of the discovery process,. It provides a line-by-line account of confidential communications, documents, and other materials that have been withheld or partially redacted due to claims...more

“It Ends With Us”

In Lively v. Wayfarer Studios LLC, 2025 WL 662896 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 28, 2025), the court granted in part and denied in part a motion to quash subpoenas issued to AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile (the “Wayfarer Parties”) by Ms. Blake...more

How Failing to Meet and Confer Effectively Can Lead to Sanctions

If you’ve been around the ediscovery space long enough, you’ve likely heard the term “drive-by meet and confer.” It’s what happens when counsel shows up to a Rule 26(f) conference unprepared, without the necessary knowledge...more

Delaware Significantly Narrows Scope of Stockholder Inspection of Corporate Books and Records

Delaware Governor Matt Meyer signed into law substantive amendments to Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (Section 220), the statute that allows stockholders of corporations organized under Delaware law to...more

This Week in eDiscovery: Negotiated eDiscovery Protocols | Upcoming Webinar on Modern Attachments

Every week, the Array team reviews the latest news and analysis about the evolving field of eDiscovery to bring you the topics and trends you need to know. This week’s post covers the period of March 23-29. Here’s what’s...more

Webinar Recap: Enhancing eDiscovery Processing and Early Case Assessments with Cloud Technology

Ryan Nichols kicked off the webinar with an overview of the latest product updates to Reveal’s web data processing platform. He also touched on how these advancements are addressing common problems often seen in the...more

The CFO’s Perspective: Why Culling Data First in eDiscovery Saves Big Money

As a CFO, managing costs without sacrificing efficiency is always a priority. One of the biggest cost drivers in eDiscovery is data volume —the more data you have, the more expensive it is to process, host, and especially...more

Your Model Isn’t Failing — Your Data Is

What is your first instinct when your TAR model performs poorly on a control set?  A commonly held view is that more training data (read: more review effort) would help push the performance in terms of Recall and Precision...more

[Webinar] Remote Mobile Discovery: Your Secret Weapon Against Malicious Insiders - April 16th, 10:00 am PDT

Malicious insiders are the silent threats lurking within organizations—employees, contractors, or partners with privileged access who can cause devastating data breaches. With the rise of remote work and mobile-first business...more

Eye on ESI Highlights the Exciting Changes in the ESI Job Market

The February edition of Eye on ESI featured my regular cohost Michael Quartararo, president of ACEDS as well as our special guest Rose Jones, partner at Hilgers Graben Law Firm. Jones, who specializes in crisis management,...more

Adapting to Change: New Rules of Civil Procedure Require New Considerations for Construction Attorneys

On Jan. 1, 2025, the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure changed dramatically. The new rules and amendments are designed to enhance efficiency and impact the setting of cases for trial, case management, discovery practice,...more

District Court: Common Interest May Protect Communications with Third Parties from Discovery, but Not Always

The District of Delaware recently denied in part a motion to compel production of documents and testimony between a patentee and potential investors, valuation firms and an international bank based on the common interest...more

Cracking the Code: How AI is Revolutionizing Forensic Investigations

Picture this: A corporate investigator stares at a mountain of digital evidence—emails, chat logs, spreadsheets, and mobile device data. With a sigh, they prepare for weeks of painstaking manual review, knowing that the clock...more

Court Holds That an ESI Protocol Must be Specific in GenAI Copyright Class Action

In Andersen v. Stability AI Ltd., 2025 WL 870358 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 19, 2025), the court resolved a dispute over an ESI Protocol. The starting point was a Standing Order that, absent good cause, parties “shall use” one of the...more

[Webinar] Eye on ESI - April 15th, 9:30 am PT

Join ACEDS and TRU Staffing Partners for a monthly interactive discussion on industry trends - Jared Coseglia, founder and CEO of TRU Staffing Partners and agent to thousands of e-discovery, privacy, and cybersecurity...more

Escaping Orwell’s Memory Hole: Why Digital Truth Should Outlast Big Brother

George Orwell warned us in his dark masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four how effortlessly authoritarian regimes could erase inconvenient truths by tossing records into a “memory hole”—a pneumatic chute leading directly to...more

You say “Modern Attachments,” I say “Hyperlinks” – Can’t We Just Link Up and Get Along?

The question of how to handle “modern attachments” has become the hot topic that’s sweeping the ediscovery landscape this year. Major litigation involving Uber Technologies has led to extensive conversations on how to...more

Why keyword search isn’t enough for modern collaboration—Or how AI can help detect hidden relevance in digital conversations

It goes without saying, workplace communication has transformed. Gone are the days when structured emails dominated business interactions. Today, collaboration tools like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Google Chat have taken...more

This Week in eDiscovery: Proving Discovery Production Errors | Our Legal Tech Predictions

Every week, the Array team reviews the latest news and analysis about the evolving field of eDiscovery to bring you the topics and trends you need to know. This week’s post covers the period of March 16-22. Here’s what’s...more

Key Discovery Points: Timing is Mostly Everything in eDiscovery [Video]

In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today dive into a recent court ruling in Riviera v. Costco Wholesale Corp. – where a plaintiff's request for an independent forensic...more

Key Discovery Points: AI Says AI Will Replace Paralegals… But Not So Fast! [Video]

In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today dive into Deep Research’s bold prediction: AI could replace paralegals – coming in at #5 on the list of replaceable jobs...more

Security Best Practices for Remote Depositions in the Digital Age

Trial outcomes often hinge on witness testimony. Attorneys collect much of this testimony during a formal process called a deposition. A critical component of discovery, depositions traditionally occur in law offices or...more

It’s all in the Details: Text Messages and The Importance of Detailed ESI Agreements

Document collection and production now involves more than just sending opposing counsel emails. As business communication has evolved, so has the need for producing from various and evolving streams of communication. Text...more

Strategies for Combatting the Proliferation of Fake Evidence

The increasing sophistication of digital manipulation and AI-generated content has brought a new challenge to eDiscovery and legal professionals: fake evidence. From deepfakes and shallow fakes to fabricated emails, text...more

AI Adoption Surges in the Legal Industry: Key Findings from the 2025 Secretariat and ACEDS Global Artificial Intelligence Report

Gen AI has emerged as a dominant force, reshaping legal practices and workflows. 80% of legal professionals now rate themselves as knowledgeable about AI, reflecting growing confidence in the technology. 74% of respondents...more

Just Passed: Senate Bill Significantly Amends Delaware General Corporation Law

On March 25, 2025, Senate Bill 21, which significantly amends the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL), passed the Delaware General Assembly and was signed into law by Governor Matt Meyer....more

Secretariat and ACEDS 2025 Artificial Intelligence Report

It is an honor to collaborate once again with ACEDS on their third annual Artificial Intelligence survey. This marks Secretariat’s first year as a sponsor, and my third time leading the survey and writing this summary. We are...more

[Podcast] Multidimensional Data Reversion: E-Discovery Evolution—From Paper Trails to AI

Welcome to Multidimensional Data Reversion, a four-part podcast series from Ropes & Gray’s Insights Lab where data analysis intersects with the law. On this first episode, join Shannon Capone Kirk, managing principal and...more

Why Confidence Scoring With LLMs Is Dangerous

When it comes to confidence assessments from LLMs, scoring predictions is essential. The most important thing is not the scores themselves, but the resulting ranking these scores produce. Once our model (TAR 1.0, TAR 2.0,...more

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