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Welcome to the February 2015 issue of EDRM Update!
\r\nMarch 2, 2015 – February is a busy time in the electronic discovery market. Many of us began the month attending LegalTech New York, where we enjoyed reconnecting with industry peers and where again this year we were reminded – both in the educational sessions and in the exhibit hall – that e-discovery remains a prominent topic in the world of legal technology.\r\n\r\nEDRM kicked off the month by announcing a busy calendar of events for Q1. In addition to several webinars held this month and scheduled for March, EDRM is also co-sponsoring the Third Annual Electronic Discovery Conference with the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law on March 27. We also announced dates for the 2015 EDRM Spring Workshop, being held May 4-6 in St. Paul, MN.\r\n\r\nThis month we also announced the publishing of an updated Statistical Sampling Applied to Electronic Discovery to the EDRM website. A special thank you to the project’s principal author, Michael Levine, and to the entire team that worked on this important initiative.\r\n\r\nWatch for more exciting news and updates in the coming weeks, including a new EDRM partnership with the eDiscovery Daily blog and another new, soon-to-be published, resource to help practitioners through the critical stages of the discovery lifecycle.\r\n\r\nRegards,\r\n\r\nGeorge Socha & Tom Gelbmann\r\n\r\nTo receive the newsletter, subscribe to our list\r\n\r\n[contentblock id=1344]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n[toc]\r\n\r\n
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February 2015 Highlights
\r\nPresentations\r\n\r\nOn February 11, EDRM hosted a webinar, “Assembling the Team to Complete the eMSAT,” the third in a series of five webinars about EDRM’s eMSAT. Speakers were Tiana Van Dyk of Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP; Evan Benjamin of Protiviti/Robert Half Legal; Matthew Knouff of Complete Discovery Source; and Brett Livingood of Robert Half Legal eDiscovery Services.\r\n\r\nOn February 18, EDRM hosted a webinar, “Cross Border Issues in eDiscovery,” sponsored by UBIC. Speakers were Brian Corbin of JP Morgan Chase & Co., Matthew Davis of Hogan Lovells International LLP, and Paul Starrett of UBIC.\r\n\r\nStandards & Other Resources\r\n\r\nOn February 24, EDRM announced the release of an updated Statistical Sampling Applied to Electronic Discovery. The release, published on the EDRM website, reflects public feedback from the comment period that concluded on January 9, 2015.\r\n\r\nThe IGRM group is putting the finishing touches on its IGRM IT ViewPoint Paper, which should be published soon.\r\n\r\nEDRM’s Metrics team‘s Budget Calculator group is finalizing a new Data Calculator spreadsheet file, which will be released soon.\r\n\r\nEDRM’s Processing group is completing the last edits of its new EDRM Processing Standards Guide, which also will be released in the coming days.\r\n\r\nSponsors & Partners\r\n\r\nEDRM welcomes FTI Consulting as its newest premier-level sponsor. For more information about FTI Consulting, go to www.ftitechnology.com. For a list of EDRM sponsors click here and for information about becoming a sponsor click here.\r\n\r\nEDRM also welcomes its newest partner, eDiscovery Daily; details to be announced on March 3. For a list of EDRM partners click here. If you are interested in becoming a partner, send us a note.\r\n\r\nAnd a quick reminder… EDRM’s and ACEDS’s combined membership program officially began yesterday. For more information, contact us. To see the press release, click here.\r\n\r\n
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Member Profile of the Month
\r\nMichael Levine, Independent Attorney and Consultant\r\n\r\nEDRM Member since 2011\r\n\r\nEDRM Projects & Committees: Search Team, and led the 2011-12 and 2014-15 projects on statistical sampling.\r\n\r\nWhy I’m an EDRM member: I have long been interested in the use of statistics in legal contexts, and the emergence of electronic discovery has clearly expanded this use of statistics. I joined EDRM, and I have enjoyed participating, because I have been able to work with and learn from others who share this interest. EDRM is a forum in which different views are expressed and debated, but always with the goal of developing a useful consensus.\r\n\r\nJust as e-discovery generally presents the challenge of bridging the tech and non-tech worlds, the statistics area presents the challenge of bridging the math and non-math worlds. I would like to thank all the participants who contributed in producing a resource that will assist people in this industry who are engaged in that challenge.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n
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Welcome New Members!
\r\nWelcome to our newest EDRM members. We look forward to their participation and contributions.\r\n\r\nOrganizational members:\r\n
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- Aflac
- British Columbia Securities Commission
- CloudNine Discovery
- Colonial Pipeline
- Driven
- DTE Energy
- Hess Corporation
- Iris Data Services
- National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
- PNM Resources
- Tower Legal Solutions
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- Lori Ashley
- Mark Lassiter
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\r\nFor a complete list of organizational members, click here. For a complete list of individual members, click here.\r\n\r\n
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Upcoming EDRM Events
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| Mar 4, 2015 | EDRM webinar, “Getting Cloud Data from the New Big Three: Google, iCloud & MS Office 365” Sponsored by Zapproved | more |
| Mar 27, 2015 | UF Law & EDRM conference: “3rd Annual Electronic Discovery Conference: Electronic Discovery in Social Media, Mobile Devices and the Cloud” | more |
| May 4-6, 2015 | 2015 EDRM Spring Workshop | more |
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Full List of EDRM Updates
\r\nClick here for a full list of EDRM Updates.
