Here’s another set of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week! It’s the kitchen sink for February 9, 2024 – with another brand-new meme from Gates Dogfish!

Why “the kitchen sink”? Find out here! 🙂

It’s 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. His meme actually fits with the last item on this week’s list, which was authored by…Aaron! For more great eDiscovery memes, follow Gates Dogfish on LinkedIn here! Unlike the meme, don’t ever stop, Gates, er, Aaron… 😀

Here is the kitchen sink for February 9, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

FTC and DOJ Update Guidance That Reinforces Parties’ Preservation Obligations for Collaboration Tools and Ephemeral Messaging: Actually, this first topic is from a couple of weeks ago, but since I missed it, maybe you did too? Better make sure you preserve those Slack, Teams and Signal archives in FTC/DOJ matters!

Harnessing the Power of Technical E-Discovery Neutrals in Litigation: Great article, which includes ten considerations for how to use a technical eDiscovery neutral!

Surviving a Registration Bomb Attack: I almost never fail to devote a full post to cover Craig Ball’s excellent blog posts on Ball in Your Court. Why didn’t I this time? Because I don’t want to call too much attention to it and have the hackers do the same thing to me (sorry, Craig!). See what happened to him and what you need to know if you’re attacked. 😮

Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’: Our deepfake story of the week and it shows how hackers can now follow up phishing messages with video calls to make the request seem real. This is scary.

E-Discovery and Ephemeral Application Data: Mike Quartararo sure knows a lot for a guy who still doesn’t know how to spell “eDiscovery”. 😉 I agree with his discussion in this post on the ACEDS blog that managing ephemeral data starts before you ever have a case.

Artificial Intelligence Prompts And When The Source Of The Error Is NOT Between The Keyboard And The Chair: Joe Patrice gets into prompt engineering and the token problem, with words of wisdom from Jeremy Pickens of Redgrave Data. I look forward to more of Dr. J’s comments with antici…pation. 😀

Reports of sexual harassment abound during Legalweek tech conference: One more story about the sad, but very important, topic of the week. More to come on this topic, and rightly so.

Prompt Engineering: The New Vanguard of Legal Tech: Rob Robinson also discusses my new favorite topic on his ComplexDiscovery blog and this sentence sums it up – “The once-prized command of Boolean logic—essential for electronic legal research—is giving way to a new reverence: the prompt engineer.” He also notes prompt engineering “will become a coveted skill”. Is it too late for a career change? 😉

Gen AI Could Force Lawyers, Clients to Talk Differently About Billable Hour, Legal Pricing: Well, they’re talking about it in an article for the second week in a row, so that’s something.

The eDiscovery Answer to “What Do You Do?”: Say it isn’t so! Aaron Patton aka Gates Dogfish, writes too! And his post on the EDRM blog addresses that age old problem all of us in eDiscovery have trouble with – explaining what we do for a living. Aaron provides some good ideas for that, with clever cartoon images to illustrate.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for February 9, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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