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IS THE NEW NIST STANDARD FOR AI LOOKING AT THE WRONG END OF THE HORSE?

With all the analytics companies being bought up recently, I made the above comment to Doug Austin in discussing his column a few weeks back on the new NIST standards for developing trust in Artificial Intelligence programs. (https://ediscoverytoday.com/2021/06/29/nist-publishes-new-study-establishes-model-for-trust-and-artificial-intelligence/ )
But maybe the analogy isn’t a good one. A better one may be that this…
ABA TECH SHOW 2021: FIRST TIME ONLINE
I always like to wait a few days before I review a big tech conference to let the impact settle in. And not just for me but for attendees and exhibitors as well. That said, here’s my thoughts on the ABA Techshow2021.
This year was the first ever virtual TechShow and as such defied most…
Goodbye to ILTA>ON and Again to Browning Marean

It’s Friday Aug. 28 and the fifth and final day of ILTA>ON is coming to a close. It was a wonderful event and, as always, featured outstanding educational content and robust, albeit virtual, social interaction.
In 2014 at this time I was at ILTA and sending emails to my dear friend Browning Marean who was…
ILTA>ON Wraps Up Today
Today is the last day of ILTA>ON and the high caliber educational sessions don’t let up a bit. The keynote address today is Legal’s Next Disruptor? Demystifying the Big 4 and the discussion about the changes caused by corporate legal departments working in new ways to handle eDiscovery, including the use of external resources beyond…
Dont Forget the Vendors At ILTA>ON
Day 4 and the sessions are continuing with their high quality and levels of attendance. The Litigation Roundtable yesterday had over 150 people and broke out into smaller groups for focused chats ….something you can’t do in a large room at a live conference. And the first time Marketing track had over 120 people in…
ILTA>ON KEEPS ROLLING ON
It’s Wednesday and day three of ILTA>ON. Todays keynote speaker is Richard Punt, Managing Director of Legal Strategy & Market Development at Thomson Reuters and his topic is AFTER THE QUAKE: PREDICTIONS FOR AN UNCERTAIN LEGAL FUTURE.
The other tracks for today include Litigation Support, IT Operations, Office 365 and Marketing. As always, Doug Austin…
ILTA>ON Is Officially ON
ILTA>ON is underway. It began yesterday with some great sessions including my personal favorite, a sneak peek at the forthcoming ILTA technology survey. For a great recap of that session see the summary by David Horrigan Discovery Counsel & Legal Education Director of Relativity at https://twitter.com/i/events/1297958325821243392. David also had a great interview later in…
New Relativity One UI Makes It Extremely Easy for Users to Get to Work Right Away.

RelOne AERO
Relativity held their annual Relativity Fest London event virtually in May this year and the keynote speaker, Relativity chief product officer Chris Brown, spoke about both their recently announced pay as you go pricing model and the new, currently under soft release, UI for RelOne called Aero.
RelOne has been around for four…
Take A Look At Our New Podcast
We’ve added a podcast to our menu …it’s called Gumbo Cast and you can reach it by clicking the Podcast menu item on the main page of TechnoGumbo https://technogumbo.wpcomstaging.com/ . And of course the Blog tab will bring you to our award winning blog posts.
Ok, we haven’t won any awards …. but it’s still…
O365 eDiscovery Search Part 2 with Rachi Messing and Tom O’Connor
In our previous installment on Content Search we discussed basic searching and how to work with the results. This session covers some of the deeper filtering functionality that can be performed in a Review Set along with advanced search techniques and basic ECA functionality with those techniques. In addition, Rachi mentions an exciting development regarding the new…
Louisiana Misses The Mark On Technical Competence? Not So Fast My Friend!

My adopted home state of Louisiana has come under a lot of fire recently for not being up to speed on the duty of technical competence. Bob Ambrogi rather pointedly called his blog post on the subject, A Tech Ethics Opinion that Misses the Mark and in that column referred to another post by Nicole Black…
Is ESI Production Rigged Against Plaintiffs In Mass Tort Cases? One Expert Thinks So
The eDiscovery Daily Blog has been running a series I wrote on the challenges facing Plaintiff’s counsel in the eDiscovery arena. The most recent chapter was posted this morning on their site here and starts with a quote from Bob Eisenberg talking about forms of production.
Bob is well known in the eDiscovery community. He is…
Rachi Messing & Tom O’Connor Are Back with Searching in O365 EDiscovery
This is the fifth installment of the Office 365 series with Rachi Messing, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft Legal and Tom O’Connor of the Gulf Coast Legal Tech Center and this week Rachi and Tom discuss the basic search features of O365. You can use Content Search to search mailboxes, public folders, SharePoint Online sites,…
Rachi Messing and Tom O’Connor with Office 365 Part 4: Collection and Processing
This is the fourth installment of the Office 365 series with Rachi Messing, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft Legal and Tom O’Connor of the Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center on the YouTube eDiscovery Channel. This week Rachi and Tom discuss the collection and processing features of O365 and how they can change the workflow you…
Implementing Litigation Holds In O365
Here is the third installment of the Office 365 series with Tom O’Connor of the Gulf Coast Legal Tech Center and Rachi Messing, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft Legal. This week Rachi and Tom discuss the Litigation Hold features of O365 and how they impact the discovery process.
The duty to preserve is, of course,…