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I’m shocked – shocked! – that I haven’t covered this before now. What if I told you there is a single place you can go to get a list of weekly trends on eDiscovery – everything from articles to case law to announcements and even upcoming events and webinars? And that it’s available from an organization you probably know well and an author you probably know even better? You’d probably want to check that out, right? Indeed, you should.

As we learned in Tom O’Connor’s recent five part blog series, millennials, with their focus on mobile devices and social media sites, may be changing eDiscovery (depending on your point of view).  Regardless, eDiscovery is changing and millennials may be a BIG part of that change.  Here’s a webcast that will help you think like a millennial to address your eDiscovery needs.

Sure, I might be a little later on this than intended (wanted to cover some other topics earlier this week and also allow some time to organize my thoughts), but we’re still within a week(ish) of the conference wrap up, so here are some of my observations regarding this year’s conference using the theme of the classic spaghetti western The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.

A long time ago, we talked about how the average number of pages in each gigabyte is approximately 50,000 to 75,000 pages and that each gigabyte effectively culled out can save $18,750 in review costs. But, did you know just how widely the number of pages (or documents) per gigabyte can vary? Let’s take a look.

We’ve certainly noted before how slow law schools are to provide eDiscovery education. But, are they slow to push for it because eDiscovery is “too practical”? At least one law school dean suggests that might be the case.

Last year, Brett Burney of Burney Consultants and Chelsey Lambert of Lex Tech Review created the 2018 eDiscovery Buyers Guide to provide education about the alternatives to help solo to medium sized firms select a solution that’s right for them. Now, they are back with the 2019 eDiscovery Buyers Guide, which is free once again! And, this one not only has a write-up about each of the reviewed products, it also has a video review of them too!

As noted yesterday, Tuesday and Monday, the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) annual educational conference of 2019 (otherwise known as ILTACON) is happening this week and eDiscovery Daily is once again covering the show and, this year, CloudNine is exhibiting at the show and participating in a major way. Today’s the last day to check out the show at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in sunny Orlando area with a number of sessions available and as many as 191 exhibitors providing information on their products and services. Here are sessions of interest in the main conference tracks today – including one that I’m moderating!