Time for another thought leader interview on eDiscovery Today! This time, I’m interviewing Josh Kreamer of Fileread at the CLOC conference!

Josh Kreamer just joined Fileread after spending six years at AstraZeneca, where he led the drugmaker’s eDiscovery program and later expanded its scope to include a variety of insourced services designed to significantly reduce legal costs. Prior to moving in-house, Josh was at the global law firm Winston & Strawn LLP. In 2022, Josh was named on the annual list of the legal industry’s “AI Visionaries”, and he is a founding member of the Legal Data Intelligence project. Josh is also a graduate of Harvard Law School and a member of the Washington DC Bar.

Josh and I covered a lot of topics, including why he decided to make the move to Fileread, what Fileread does, how generative AI technologies are particularly suited to support legal and eDiscovery professionals, his thoughts about genAI challenges for eDiscovery and how to mitigate them when using genAI tools and models, whether he thinks genAI will complement TAR, or possibly even replace the use of TAR for many organizations, and whether genAI could even disrupt how legal services are billed and reduce dependency on the billable hour model.

We also discussed his advice to corporate legal teams regarding taking more control of their eDiscovery programs and how they should address emerging technologies like generative AI, some of the feature and capability requests Fileread plans to address in the near term and some of the long-term plans for the product, and his thoughts about the Legal Data Intelligence (LDI) initiative (that you’ll be hearing a lot more about very soon). 🙂

Since we were both going to CLOC’s CGI conference, we decided to conduct the interview there, so the audio of the interview is below!

So, what do you think? Are you looking for a discussion of a wide range of legal and eDiscovery topics? If so, check out the interview with Josh! And please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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