EDRM Update - December 2014

Issue 16 – December 2014

Welcome to the December 2014 issue of EDRM Update!

\r\nWelcome to the year-end issue of EDRM Update and best wishes for a happy, healthy and prosperous 2015!\r\n\r\nEDRM’s 10th year was perhaps its best, as we welcomed 40 new organizational members and 25 new individual members.

Many creative and energetic members helped create useful content and materials to further EDRM’s mission of delivering practical resources to improve e-discovery and infomation governance. Thank you to everyone who worked hard on the EDRM projects throughout the year.

Please take a look at the year’s highlights below.

Regards,

George Socha & Tom Gelbmann

2014 Highlights

It has been a busy year at EDRM. Here are a few of the highlights, focusing on accomplishments acheived rather than work in progress:\r\n\r\nJanuary: We updated the EDRM Collections Standards on January 16 in response to feedback posted at EDRM.net.

February: The Data Set group updated the diagram for the EDRM Privacy & Security Risk Reduction Model. Click here for more information.

March: EDRM and the University of Florida Levin College of Law held our second annual e-discovery conference, Electronic Discovery for the Small and Medium Case.

April: The IGRM group published a white paper, “Disposing of Digital Debris – Information Governance Strategy and Practice in Action.” The paper, authored by leaders of EDRM’s IGRM (Information Governance Reference Model) team in collaboration with the Compliance, Governance and Oversight Council (CGOC), is available for at the EDRM website.

Also in April, EDRM held its 10th annual kickoff meeting. Members met as a committee of the whole to review progress since the mid-year meeting last October and to set the direction for current and new initiatives. Project teams then used the time together to work on achieving or revising the goals of each of the projects.

May: EDRM published version 3 of the EDRM diagram, updated to emphasize information governance. Click here to download JPG, EPS and PDF copies of the updated diagram.

June: The EDRM Search team released the EDRM Search Intent Framework. The term “search” is used interchangeably in records management, archiving, and e-discovery, but not all searches are similar as some have more legal impact than others. The new framework was developed to define and document various types of Search search intent that are part of the EDRM.

September: As the first of a series of anticipated its maturity model tools and resources, EDRM’s Metrics group released the new eDiscovery Maturity Self-Assessment Test (eMSAT-1). eMSAT-1 is the first self-assessment resource to help organizations measure their e-discovery maturity with the overriding goal of improving processes. eMSAT-1 is available for download at www.edrm.net/resources/emsat1.

Also in September, EDRM announced a new fee structure for corporations, government entities, and academic institutions. As a result of the change we’ve already seen a significant increase in membership and look forward to the trend continuing.

October: EDRM held its 2014 Fall Workshop. Members met as a committee of the whole to review progress since the April kickoff meeting and to set the direction for current and new initiatives. Project teams used time together to work on achieving or revising the goals of their projects.

December: EDRM’s Search group published Release 2 of Statistical Sampling Applied to Electronic Discovery.

EDRM had been working to form a non-profit organization that could serve as a successor to the current EDRM, ensuring EDRM’s long-term sustainability. Unfortunately, those efforts have not been successful and so we have made the difficult decision to halt that initiative. Our objective remains the same and we will consider other options to address EDRM succession planning in the coming year. In the meantime, rest assured that EDRM will continue to operate as it has the past ten years, focused on its mission to create practical resources that improve e-discovery and information governance.

2014 Webinars

We hosted eleven webinars in 2014, which were viewed over 2,100 times. The webinars were:

“Evolving eDiscovery Workflows for the Future” Sponsored by Nuix
“Tales from the Trenches: Blue Shield In-House Team” Sponsored by AccessData
“Cyber Security 101 for Legal Professionals” Sponsored by AccessData
“Easing the Pain of Document Review” Sponsored by LexisNexis
“e-MSAT-1: Understanding the EDRM eDiscovery Maturity Self-Assessment Tool“
“End-to-End eDiscovery with Nuix” Sponsored by Nuix
“Don’t Let Smartphones Outsmart Your Mobile Device Discovery Needs” Sponsored by AccessData
“Dark Data” Sponsored by UBIC
“eMSAT-1: Building the Business Case for the eMSAT-1” Sponsored by Zapproved
“Summation 5.6 – Setting the Bar for Legal Review” Sponsored by AccessData
“Audio, Chat & Mobile” Sponsored by Consilio

For a full list of past EDRM webinars and to see upcoming webinars, click here. Interested in sponsoring an EDRM webinar? For more information click here.

New Members

2014 brought EDRM 40 new organizational and 25 new individual members:

Organizational members:

Individual members:

Chiara Rustici
Benson McGrath
Phyllis Barker
William Webber
Hope Egan
Tom Frohne
Julie Hoff
Andy Kim
Ashley Smith
Louis L. LaFontisee III
Rob Kenny
Darcie Spruance
Isis Miranda
Ralph Rostas
Johnny Lee
Jenna Aira-ventrella
Andrew Keller
Chad Main
Jessica Silge
Natalie LePage
Evan Benjamin
Adrienne Johnson
David Kittrell
Johnny Lee
Nancy Regula

For a full list of current EDRM member organizations, click here. Interested in joining EDRM as a member? For more information click here.

New Model Code of Conduct Subscribers

2014 saw the number of EDRM Model Code of Conduct subscribers increase as well, bringing the total number of subscribing organizations to 101 and subscribing individuals to 34. New subscribers in 2014 were:

Organizational subscribers:

Subscribing individuals:

Corken, Erin
Crespolini, Eric
Foggon, Keith
Hull, Peter
Melendez, William
Milburn, Tim
Mueller, Andreas
Sack, Norman
Thompson, Robin
Tremblay, Serge
Turner, Teddi Lane
Tutsch, Volker

Voluntary registration as a MCoC subscriber indicates that the subscriber pledges to adhere to the principles, corollaries and guidelines set forth in the MCoC. For the complete list of subscribers, click here. To subscribe to the MCoC, click here.

Upcoming EDRM Events

TBD	EDRM webinar, “Cross Border Issues in eDiscovery”Sponsored by UBIC
Feb. 11, 2015	EDRM webinar, “Assembling the Team to Complete the eMSAT”
Mar. 27, 2015	UF Law & EDRM conference, “Social Media, Cloud Data, and Smart Phones: Going Where People Live”

Full List of EDRM Updates

Click here for a full list of EDRM Updates.

Author

Doug Austin

Doug Austin is the editor and founder of eDiscovery Today and an EDRM Global Advisory Council Leader. Doug is an established eDiscovery thought leader with over 30 years of experience providing eDiscovery best practices, legal technology consulting and technical project management services to numerous commercial and government clients. Doug has published a daily blog since 2010 and has written numerous articles and white papers. He has received the JD Supra Readers Choice Award as the Top eDiscovery Author for 2017 and 2018 and a JD Supra Readers Choice Award as a Top Cybersecurity Author for 2019.

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EDRM Update – December 2014