Week in Review
A seven-day eDiscovery AI board scored out of 100 points, with Recency, Impact, Source, and Topic fit each worth up to 25 points. Items fall off after seven days.
A federal court addressed a proposed “three-strata validation” process for ESI discovery in In re Class Action Settlement Administration Litigation. The parties agreed to statistically valid sampling of documents coded nonresponsive, while the court rejected required re-review of responsive documents and post-review.
Discernis Discovery publishes performance three different ways and throughput in three separate statements, and the figures leading the marketing are the ones that tell a buyer least. The court order the company markets around asks for something its public pages do not show: the contract.
This week’s kitchen sink for August 28, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses AI as evidence, draconian rules for California lawyers & more!
Three August rulings involved alleged judicial AI use and defective citations, and neither appellate opinion said AI caused the errors. California's SB 574, awaiting an Assembly floor vote by Aug. 31, would impose express duties on lawyers who use generative AI and require personal verification of citations in papers covered.
iCONECT and eDiscovery AI have announced a strategic partnership to develop an integrated AI-powered document review experience combining iCONECT's review platform with AI technology for relevance, privilege, and PII detection.
Since U.S. employee exemptions under the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) expired—joining the long-standing enforcement of the EU/UK GDPR—enterprises have faced a surging operational challenge: the employee Data Subject Access Request (DSAR).... By: Exterro, Inc.
A Connecticut court sanctioned a self-represented litigant for repeatedly concealing AI prompt-injection instructions in court filings. In Elliott v. New York Bariatric Group, LLC, the court distinguished the familiar risk of unreliable AI output from the deliberate manipulation of AI input and concluded that hidden.
Congrats to Everlaw for the announcement that Everlaw has four new legal AI partnerships and integrations! Here’s part of the announcement!
Working with clients to collect their own data ranks as the third most common firm-level challenge in Nextpoint's 2026 eDiscovery Landscape Survey, cited by 31% of respondents. Unlike document review or data mapping, ediscovery client collection isn't primarily a technical problem. It's a relationship one, shaped by how well a.
As businesses implant AI tools deeper into hiring, the litigation keeps coming – and the courts are expected to fill in the gaps left by the absence of settled precedent. The latest guidance arrives from the Northern District of California, where a magistrate judge has issued a discovery ruling in the closely watched Mobley v..