Want to know more about EDRM 2.0? Amanda Fong of Nextpoint covered a conversation with Mary Mack and Holley Robinson about EDRM 2.0 here!

In her blog post titled EDRM 2.0 is here: What changed, why it changed, and what it means for your practice (available here) Amanda recaps a conversation with Mary Mack and Holley Robinson about EDRM 2.0 that Nextpoint recently conducted.  The new version is the product of roughly 150 practitioners working across two years, and it reflects a discovery practice that looks meaningfully different from the one the original model described in 2005.

As a reminder, there are four main changes in EDRM 2.0 as follows:

• Data acquisition is now a unified framework. Identification, preservation, collection, and processing are grouped rather than strictly sequential.
• Information governance became foundational. IGRM runs underneath the entire model instead of sitting off to the side.
• Analysis runs continuously. It’s the intelligence and AI layer feeding every phase, not one box in the middle.
• Disposition is a discrete phase. Legal teams now have an explicit prompt to deal with data once a matter closes.

So, how did EDRM decide on these changes? What did the process of reaching consensus actually look like? How do you implement the disposition phase in practice? And were there changes considered that didn’t make the cut? Find out here, it’s only one click to find out the “behind the scenes” story about EDRM 2.0! 😉

So, what do you think of the new EDRM 2.0 model? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

Image created using ChatGPT, using the term “two female robots with empty speech bubble signs coming from their mouths” (to which I added the EDRM 2.0 model). See what I did there? 😉

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