Worth Reading – Deepfakes: A Problem In Search Of A Problem?
If you ask a group of legal professionals if they’ve seen deepfakes be an issue in court, and they all say no, is there no issue, or did they fall for the fakes?
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Rethinking eDiscovery in the Age of AI
This makes me wonder if eDiscovery productions shouldn’t be done using a solution like SharePoint, with permissions that allow the opposing side to read documents online but not download a copy. Thus, they would not have a copy to upload to a GenAI platform.
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Never Assume Searches Are Accurate Without Verifying
Technology, especially M365 technology, changes all the time. It’s vast and complicated, and things get broken when new versions are rolled out. When dealing with eDiscovery, security, privacy, etc., we have to stay on top of those changes to understand new features and ensure the old ones still work the same way.
Don’t assume the old ones will always work the same way. I can tell you from this and plenty of other experiences they often don’t.
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Linked – Changing the eDiscovery Burnout Blueprint: Practical Solutions to Address Failing Mental Wellness in the eDiscovery Industry
It’s great that someone is putting it all in writing with research. Still, until the collective response to our stories about dropping out of a wedding to pop open our laptop is “that’s not acceptable,” we will have this issue. We should reconsider the tales of all-nighters, working from vacations, and extraordinary efforts to get eDiscovery work done in time. Instead of wearing them like badges of honor, we should think of them as exploitation. What else would you call the expectation that you are available to respond 24/7, and when you sacrifice much of your personal and family life to meet that expectation, you are rewarded with a 2% raise at the end of the year?
Because as long as that is the job, mental health is going to be an issue.
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Learning Legal Tech – The Struggle for Attorneys
Imagine a day when technologists, lawyers, and vendors could have easy conversations about eDiscovery because they all have a deep understanding of the technology and tools involved. We don’t see it often, and that causes some real problems as we see from some of the cases we all read about. Maybe someday.
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Talking Using Metrics to Fight For Your Team’s Wellness on a Rampiva Webcast
It was an interesting conversation, and I hope these conversations can help us in the eDiscovery industry think about employee wellness, mental health, diversity, and other issues that can result from doing things the way we’ve always done them. It’s time for this conversation to be had across the industry. If this can spark more of that, I would be very happy.
