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eDiscovery Humor: And Now For Something Completely Different…
Every now and then, it’s nice to take a break from the regular case law updates, emerging trends reports and best practices tutorials and just have a laugh. We recently published a two part interview series from LegalTech New York with Ralph Losey, who always has interesting and educational thoughts to share regarding eDiscovery. Ralph recently published a video post on his excellent blog, e-Discovery Team® entitled How Not to Cooperate in an E-Discovery Conference.
Based on the watermark, it appears that Ralph used XtraNormal to make the video. XtraNormal enables you to make an animated movie by selecting your animated “actors”, type or record your dialogue, and select a background. The “actors” sound a bit robotic if you type the dialogue, but that just adds to the humor as the pronunciations and inflections are rather humorous. Sometimes, they put the emPHASis on the wrong sylLABle. And, it’s funny to hear them try to pronounce words like “chutzpah”. 🙂
Ralph’s video depicts opposing parties negotiating terms of eDiscovery production, and his attorney representing the producing party is particularly uncooperative. Complete with applause and a laugh track, the four minute video is guaranteed to amuse anybody that has dealt with discovery negotiations or even works in discovery or litigation support.
Ralph has posted several other videos to YouTube, some of which are educational and others of which (while possibly also being educational) are also fun, including a Star Trek Meets e-Discovery series.
So, what do you think? Did you get a laugh? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.
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