Law and Candor Bill Mariano and Paige Hunt

With innumerable use cases and benefits proclaimed by everyday users and technology evangelists alike, generative AI continues to bask in the spotlight. To amplify its positive efficiency impacts, it's important to have a solid foundation of predictive AI. Through the power of linguistics and large language models, predictive AI augments indispensable data classification—like privilege and PII—and positions you to more effectively use gen AI’s ability to summarize and reason. The trick is knowing how and when to use them.

For a clear view of the relationship between these branches of AI and how to leverage it for your eDiscovery needs, Law & Candor welcomes Karl Sobylak, Director of Product Management, AI, and Lon Troyer, Vice President of Review and Advanced Analytics. They not only untangle the benefits of predictive and generative AI from the jargon, but also provide the best use cases for each they’ve encountered in their work and from what’s cutting edge in the market.

Links, modern attachments, shared documents—the descriptors for files exchanged through email and collaboration platforms continue to grow with no clear consensus on what to call them or how exactly to handle them. Despite their wide use, why are they a persistent challenge for eDiscovery and data governance teams? Beyond semantics, links and attachments raise bigger questions about how to manage collaboration data as it proliferates in the evolving workplace.

Michael Blank, Corporate Counsel – eDiscovery, at DISH, and Lisa Lukaszewski, Of Counsel at Gunster, join Law & Candor to discuss how the issues with links and collaboration data continue to transform—including changes to ESI protocols—how recent legal decisions are contributing to the debate, and best practices for tackling these persistent challenges.

Although the novel and often comical uses of generative AI have captured more recent headlines—think philosophical conversations with a chatbot or essays written in seconds using AI—there are big changes happening across sectors of the economy thanks to adoption of new tools and programs, including the legal and healthcare spaces. Recent case law and legislation highlights the new landscape emerging in healthcare litigation with potential long-term implications.

Lighthouse welcomes Ty Dedmon, Partner at Bradley who leads their healthcare litigation team, to assess how generative AI is impacting litigation and what we can do to prepare, and to share advice on leverage AI innovation while minimizing the risk.

As the demands of modern data, litigation, investigations, and data privacy continue to grow in scale and complexity, solutions for them need to adapt accordingly. Although there is a lot of noise around the latest generative AI promises or capabilities for eDiscovery, often legal teams and counsel merely need solutions that can effectively scale to their matters at hand. Deploying platforms or technology intended only for larger or more specific matters can be cumbersome and drain resources, leaving teams ill equipped for the variety of projects they encounter.

Lighthouse’s Brooks Thompson, Executive Director of Spectra Operations and Support, joins the podcast to provide some practical advice and use cases for scaling and diversifying your eDiscovery platform and technology to make them more comprehensive.

Continuing a more aggressive posture toward corporate mergers, the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission recently announced new HSR rules that dramatically change and expand the amount and type of information that needs to be submitted with HSR filings. How will this impact future M&A activity and Second Requests?

Brian Rafkin, counsel in Akin’s antitrust and competition practice, joins to examine the new HSR rules and their potential implications. He also shares best practices for utilizing technology and workflows to manage increased scrutiny and pressure on deals.

In demanding and highly contentious litigation or investigations it can often feel like it’s every person for themselves without much room for partnership. However, this is a lost opportunity. The relationship between the strong trio of corporate counsel, law firms, and legal technology providers is often an unacknowledged key to overcoming critical challenges. By sharing key information, balancing workloads, and building on each other’s expertise, these partners can work together to solve modern data challenges and the toughest matters.

Law & Candor welcomes Michael Bohner, Managing Discovery Attorney at Cleary, and Justin Van Alstyne, Head of Discovery and Information Governance at T-Mobile, to explore the practical aspects of this partnership, including balancing responsibilities, employing technology, and building relationships.