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Worth Reading – Deepfakes: A Problem In Search Of A Problem?

Mike McBride — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:39:35 +0000

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

Mike McBride — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 23:55:21 +0000

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

Mike McBride — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 13:28:33 +0000

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

Mike McBride — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:00:19 +0000

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

Mike McBride — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 17:44:54 +0000

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

Mike McBride — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:07:45 +0000

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.

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Linked: Remote Work Helped Meta Achieve Diversity Goals Years Ahead of Schedule

Mike McBride — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 13:55:41 +0000

Something I've been thinking a lot about in the industries I have worked in has been this idea that remote and asynchronous work is something that makes it less likely that the only people we can hire are the ones who are both willing and able to dedicate their entire days to be in the office and also willing to jump in and do more work at any hour of the day and weekends. That eliminates a whole bunch of people from even applying, especially women with kids, neurodiverse and disabled candidates, and underrepresented groups without a large presence in the area where your office happens to be. (When you start a company in Silicon Valley, Seattle, Austin, or some other "hot" area, your candidate pool is limited to the people who live there now or are willing to move immediately.)

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Linked: Lesser Included Emails in Threads Must Be Produced, Court Rules

Mike McBride — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 19:34:10 +0000

Essentially, if you're not familiar with email threading, the idea is that if a group of people is sending emails back and forth by hitting the Reply button, and the previous email is copied into the body of the previous email, you don't really have to read each individual email. At some point, later emails have the entire conversation in them. This means that it's not necessary to read the "lesser included emails" because you already read them as part of the thread. But, the problem Judge Aaron describes is that while the text is there at the end of thread messages, you're missing important metadata that is unique to the individual message.

As I said, having worked with Teams messages often I have seen this, where a transcript doesn't have all of the message metadata, especially the time/dates of each message versus the beginning or end of the chat. If you're creating those transcripts and not including each message in your production, you might be running afoul of your production requirements.

But, as I said, IANAL, so don't take my word for it, do your own testing.

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Linked: Google routinely hides emails from litigation by CCing attorneys, DOJ alleges

Mike McBride — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:59:58 +0000

I mean, it seems so simple, and yet so genius. But also so very unethical:

"In a program called 'Communicate with Care,' Google trains and directs employees to add an attorney, a privileged label, and a generic 'request' for counsel's advice to shield sensitive business communications, regardless of whether any legal advice is actually needed or sought. Often, knowing the game, the in-house counsel included in these Communicate-with-Care emails does not respond at all," the DOJ told the court. The fact that attorneys often don't reply to the emails "underscor[es] that these communications are not genuine requests for legal advice but rather an effort to hide potential evidence," the DOJ said."

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Rampiva Releases Baseline – New Free Tool To Measure Workloads in Nuix

Mike McBride — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:02:38 +0000

This post is a little specific to Nuix users, which I know is not something I've been posting for a while now, but I had the opportunity to talk to Bill Potter from Rampiva about a week ahead of the release of their new tool and wanted to share some of that conversation with you.

You can read about Baseline here.

In essence, the idea is to solve an interesting problem that has existed with Nuix Workstation users for years, finding an elegant tool that lets you know just how much work your people and your technology are doing.

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