The 2025 Advanced eDiscovery Institute is this week! And it’s still not too late to register to attend this terrific eDiscovery educational conference!

The Georgetown Law 2025 Advanced eDiscovery Institute (AEDI) conference will be conducted at The Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC this Thursday and Friday, November 20-21. This year’s program begins with a forward-looking exploration of emerging trends in eDiscovery, beginning with a discussion of future technological and societal convergences and leading into a highly anticipated annual review of key case law developments. Attendees will hear directly from judges and practitioners about significant court decisions and how they influence litigation strategy and client counseling in the rapidly evolving discovery landscape.

Not surprisingly, a central theme at AEDI this year is the growing role of AI in legal practice. Multiple sessions address the operational, compliance, and ethical implications of using generative AI in discovery. Topics include whether AI protocols are necessary, methods for building cases with AI-assisted fact development, and best practices for ensuring human oversight and defensibility. Dedicated hands-on labs allow participants to experiment with AI applications from leading technology providers such as Everlaw and Relativity.

However, AEDI also emphasizes the increasing complexity of modern data sources. Panels examine technical strategies for handling massive and diverse information repositories, mobile and application-based data, and persistent challenges in evidence preservation and authentication—particularly in an era where information may be partially or fully generated by AI. Additional sessions look at sanctions trends, eDiscovery challenges in government investigations, and discovery management in specialized contexts such as MDLs and special master proceedings.

The 2025 Advanced eDiscovery Institute offers between 11 and 13.2 hours of CLE credit depending on your jurisdiction, including ethics credit. And, up to 10 hours of continuing privacy education (CPE) credits through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) are also available. More good reasons to attend!

Speaking of sanctions trends, I’m excited to be speaking on the panel eDiscovery Sanctions: Behind the Opinion, this Thursday at 3pm ET with Phil Favro, Founder & Governing Member of Favro Law PLLC, Rachelle Rennagel, Senior Discovery Counsel at Senior Discovery Counsel, Maria Salacuse, Assistant General Counsel for eDiscovery & Information Governance at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Hon. Xavier Rodriguez, District Judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas!

Our panel will summarize facts from recent sanctions opinions and ask our audience to vote on whether the party was sanctioned or not, and – if sanctioned – the form of and authority for the sanction. The panelists will then look behind the opinions and share further details on the background of the discovery issues and litigation, including any details available through declarations or testimony, to see if that broader context changes the audience’s view. The results from the actual cases will then be revealed and discussed.

Should be a lot of fun – hope to see you there!

Here is the page with registration fees for the conference – there is a “Register Now” button at the top of the page where you can register.

So, what do you think? Are you going to the AEDI conference this year? If so, please say hi! And please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

Disclaimer: The views represented herein are exclusively the views of the authors and speakers themselves, and do not necessarily represent the views held by my employer, my partners or my clients. eDiscovery Today is made available solely for educational purposes to provide general information about general eDiscovery principles and not to provide specific legal advice applicable to any particular circumstance. eDiscovery Today should not be used as a substitute for competent legal advice from a lawyer you have retained and who has agreed to represent you.