Here’s another set of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week! It’s the kitchen sink for January 26, 2024 – with another brand-new meme from Gates Dogfish!

Why “the kitchen sink”? Since I try to cover “everything but the kitchen sink”, I thought it would be a good way of referring to the stories I didn’t get around to covering! In looking for stories to write about, I usually find more than I can cover each week. So, why not reference them in one final post of the week, so that you can check them out on your own? Try to remember that from now on! 😉

Even better when you can include a brand-new eDiscovery meme courtesy of Gates Dogfish, the meme channel dedicated to eDiscovery people and created by Aaron Patton of Trustpoint.One. Based on some of the search terms I’ve seen over the years, I think I’ve worked with those clients! For more great eDiscovery memes, follow Gates Dogfish on LinkedIn here! Unless you don’t like to laugh, that is… 😀

Here is the kitchen sink for January 26, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week (plus a bonus repeat from last week), with a comment from me about each:

Quarterly Industry Survey: Share Your Insights on eDiscovery Business Confidence: Believe it or not, Rob Robinson’s quarterly survey on eDiscovery business confidence is starting its ninth year! And I’ve covered every one of them and promoting it again this week. It now has three LLM/Gen AI questions too, so take the survey here!

“Self-Collection” May Be Reasonable Using Ralph Losey’s Dual-Protection System: Great write-up by Michael Berman on the EDRM blog of the self-collection dilemma and how to address it, referencing Ralph Losey’s write-up from several years ago, where he discussed the dangers of having the “Fox Guarding the Hen House”. Great read!

Corporate Counsel Sound the Alarm on AI and Cyber Risks, Norton Rose Fulbright Survey Finds: Dangit! I meant to cover this! Rob Robinson did, and he hits the highlights of the 19th(!) Annual Litigation Trends Survey on his ComplexDiscovery blog. One finding: “over a third of corporate counsels endorse the adoption of generative AI technologies by their legal teams, underscoring a complex interdependence between innovation and mitigating litigation risk”.

New Hampshire Officials to Investigate A.I. Robocalls Mimicking Biden: And so the election deepfakes begin – or probably continue. Be careful who you trust.

iPhone owners just got access to a life-changing feature: News you can use about how to turn on “Stolen Device Protection” on iPhones updated to iOS 17.3, which is designed to keep your iPhone and all the data it holds safe in the event it gets into someone else’s hands. Take note: Legalweek travelers!

And When I Die… What Happens to My Social Media? – – Part II: Michael Berman follows-up on his part I about the Maryland’s “Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act” (“MFADAA”) on the EDRM blog with a case where the judge applied MFADAA.

Does AI Signal The End Of The Billable Hour?: Sure, with Death and Taxes to follow… 😉

AI-generated puffy pontiff image inspires new warning from Pope Francis: Deepfakes aren’t just for elections. This image of a “puffy pontiff” is not real, but whoah! 😮

Whose Instagram Login Is It, Anyway?: Interesting article about “work-for-hire” agreements and giving up rights to anything creative designed or developed at a company, with discussion of a case involving a fight over social media accounts created by an individual and who owns them when she left.

How Delaying Third Party Discovery Can End Up Costing You Dearly: Kelly Twigger discusses in which the delay seeking third party discovery led to a motion to strike the evidence obtained after the close of fact discovery that could have been dispositive of the case for Plaintiff. Was it? You’ll have to read it to find out!

Transform Your Legal Practice with AI: A Lawyer’s Guide to Embracing the Future: Ralph Losey provides a great discussion of prompt engineering with a terrific setup: “that just means word engineering, the art of knowing how to talk to ChatGPTs. The new generative AIs are designed to be controlled by natural language, not computer code. This is the easiest kind of engineering possible for lawyers. The precise use of language is every lawyer’s stock-in-trade and so prompt engineering is within every lawyer’s capacity.” In other words, you can do it!

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for January 26, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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