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Cracking the Code on Modern Attachments in eDiscovery

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Modern attachments, in Google Workspaces and Microsoft Office, have long posed significant challenges in eDiscovery. They are not actual files attached to an email or message but are links pointing to files stored elsewhere....more

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Harnessing the Power of AI and Traditional E-Discovery: A Pragmatic Hybrid Approach

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In the rapidly evolving world of e-discovery, enterprise legal departments face mounting pressure to embrace digital transformation through artificial intelligence (AI). The promise of AI—efficiency, speed, and cost...more

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July 2024 HSR Transactions: What GDP Growth and Economic Trends Mean for eDiscovery

ComplexDiscovery’s Editor’s Note: This article provides a detailed analysis of the July 2024 HSR transaction data and key economic indicators, emphasizing their impact on the eDiscovery sector. It explores the implications of...more

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Tips for Paralegals and Litigation Support Professionals – July 2024

July 6, 2024 – Rufus – How to Create Bootable Media with ISO Files If you have a flash drive or disc from which you want to access a program when booting up in BIOS, the data can be saved in an .iso file – which acts as a...more

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Artificial General Intelligence, If Attained, Will Be the Greatest Invention of All Time

A computer capable of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), if ever created, will be the greatest invention in history. It will be far more transformative than the printing press or the wheel. Unlike narrow AI, which excels...more

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Bill Gates on the Next ‘Big Frontier’ of Generative AI: Programming Metacognition Strategies into ChatGPT

Bill Gates has insider knowledge on the future of generative AI. He predicts there will be ‘two more turns of the crank’ on scaling, with the next ‘big frontier‘ being ‘metacognition.’ Gates describes ChatGPT’s metacognitive...more

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How Apple’s Failure to Suspend its Retention Policy Resulted in Siri-ous Sanctions: A Cautionary Tale for Litigation Professionals

In a recent ruling in Lopez v. Apple, Inc., Apple faced significant sanctions for failing to suspend its automated data deletion policy for Siri recordings after the initiation of litigation. This case is a  reminder of the...more

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Efficient Text and Chat Data Discovery Starts with Information Governance (IG)

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When it comes to ensuring that data is preserved and available for litigation, investigations, or government inquiries, it all starts with establishing and codifying clear data governance policies and procedures....more

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ChatGPT’s Surprising Ability to Split into Multiple Virtual Entities to Debate and Solve Legal Issues

One of the most important emergent intelligence abilities of OpenAI’s ChatGPT is its bizarre ability to split into different sub-personalities, like different minds, and then speak with each other. They can even be made to...more

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Eleventh Circuit Judge Admits to Using ChatGPT to Help Decide a Case and Urges Other Judges and Lawyers to Follow Suit

The Eleventh Circuit published a ground breaking Concurring Opinion on May 28, 2024 by Judge Kevin C. Newsom on the use of generative AI to help decide contract interpretation issues. Snell v. United Specialty Ins. Co., 2024...more

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Navigating Social Media Discovery and Generative AI in the OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation

Introduction - Each week on the Case of the Week I choose a recent decision in ediscovery and talk to you about the practical applications of that case and what you need to be thinking about as you conduct discovery of ESI....more

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Some Legal Ethics Quandaries on Use of AI, the Duty of Competence, and AI Practice as a Legal Specialty

This blog considers some of the ethical issues of competence that arise when a lawyer or law firm uses generative AI to assist in rendering services. Prior to the advent of artificial intelligence, the legal profession...more

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Report on the First Scientific Experiment to Test the Impact of Generative AI on Complex, Knowledge-Intensive Work

A first of its kind experiment testing use of AI found a 40% increase in quality and 12% increase in productivity. The tests involved 18 different realistic tasks assigned to 244 different consultants in the Boston Consulting...more

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Too Sensitive? Emotion AI and the Next Frontier in Digital Innovation

ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: In this compelling piece, the ComplexDiscovery OÜ team delves into the revolutionary field of Emotion AI, heralded as the next frontier in digital innovation and the evolution of digital...more

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OpenAI Generates a ‘Hired Gun Hacker’ Defense to the N.Y. Times Copyright Case

Most everyone in the AI and legal worlds by now knows about the New York Times (“NYT”) suit against Microsoft and various Open AI entities (“OAI”). The NYT alleges copyright infringement by the practice of OAI, and most all...more

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More Than Algorithms: The Human Expertise Amplified by Legal Technology

The digital age has transformed the legal landscape, and nowhere is this change more evident than in the realm of eDiscovery. Mountains of data now hold the key to legal battles, demanding sophisticated tools to navigate this...more

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2023 PFAS Year in Review: EPA Policy and Aqueous Film-Forming Foam Litigation Updates

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2023 was a busy year for folks following legal developments related to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). In December, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its Second Annual Progress Report. Some of...more

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Survey Results Predict Top Legal Technology Trends for 2024

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The last few years have seen rapid advancements in technological solutions across industries in response to the global pandemic and increasingly remote-friendly work culture. The legal industry is no different, as many...more

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Move Fast and Fix Things Using AI

Conclusion to the Plato and Young Icarus Series: Why It’s a Bad Idea to Slow Down Development of AI. This is the conclusion to the Plato and Young Icarus series. Part One set out the debate in neoclassical terms between those...more

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Don’t Slack on Slack data retention

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Employee communication methods have undergone a dramatic makeover during the past five years — indeed, it sometimes seems, from month to month. Slack, a collaboration tool for workplaces, has been among the forces upending...more

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Circuits in Session: How AI Challenges Traditional Appellate Dynamics

This article describes an experiment using OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 to do appellate work, usually considered the most intellectually challenging area of the law. My hypothesis was that AI was already capable of acting as an...more

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A Review of Sedona’s “Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Practice of Law” by The Hon. Xavier Rodriguez

[EDRM Editor’s Note: This article was first published September 27, 2023 and EDRM is grateful to Michael Berman for permission to republish. The opinions and positions are those of the author.] “Artificial Intelligence (AI)...more

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[Webinar] Analytics, Machine Learning, and Microsoft - October 6th, 2:00 pm ET

ACEDS advisory board members will discuss a range of questions concerning how Microsoft 365 is evolving and pivoting to Purview eDiscovery, including the expected application of readily available analytics and machine...more

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Eliminate a Fatal Flaw in Your Information and Data Loss Prevention Strategy in Five Steps

Legal teams go to great lengths to identify and protect privileged information from inadvertent disclosure. There is another type of information that could be just as damaging to the company as a whole, but it receives far...more

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DefCon Chronicles: Sven Cattell’s AI Village, ‘Hack the Future’ Pentest and His Unique Vision of Deep Learning and Cybersecurity

DefCon’s AI Village - Sven Cattell, shown above, is the founder of a key event at DefCon 31, the AI Village. The Village attracted thousands of people eager to take part in its Hack The Future challenge. At the Village I...more

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