eDiscovery Journal

Despite 787 updated items and 385 new roadmap items there were very few with significant potential eDiscovery impact. That makes sense with recent changes on the Purview Product Management team. I would call out the general theme of the Roadmap is Copilot enablement and integration on every surface. Do you know how to scope searches for Copilot user prompts or differentiate b...

That is the debate topic for David Horrigan’s Legal Data Intelligence State of the Union session at RelFest Chicago 2026. The cast of eDiscovery luminaries and pontificators (myself) are given 4 minutes to make our case. Since I struggle with brevity, I created a variation on the Gartner Hype Cycle that I hope is worth a thousand words. I based my assertion in an analysis of ...

Custodian intent is often central to resolving internal investigations. Custodian’s Copilot chat queries have provided some of the best evidence of intent in recent complex investigations targeting knowledge workers who are highly aware that every email, Teams chat or meeting Recap may be monitored (i.e. they have good Operational Security). Even in civil discovery custodian’...

I was having ILTA FOMO until I started getting briefing requests for RelFest. Case commitments  squeezed my RelFest time this year. I am sharing my client recommendation list of sessions that have either great speakers or content that aligns with my focus areas. My briefings usually eat up session time, but last year I really benefited from several good sessions and labs. So ...