eDiscovery Chicks Podcast

🔥NEW RELEASE ALERT🌶️

We couldn't let the week go by without a new episode! Angie & Bree are talking all things forensics! 🔍 Daniel Gugliotta explains the 0️⃣Zero's and 1️⃣One's as he provides a full overview of what forensics really means and how it relates to adjacent workflows like DFIR and eDiscovery. We will also discuss how AI is changing the forensics scene...and how to "well-season" your data!🧂🧂 Don't miss this one....

➕ADDED BONUS: Learn about the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference from our pop-in guests Allison & Jennifer. There is still time to register to join us in San Diego this October! ⛵

🎙️"New model, who dis?"

😮 The EDRM just got its biggest rework in 25 years. Mary Mack, CISSP, CEO and Chief Legal Technologist at EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model, walks us through EDRM 2.0 — the circular-vs-linear fight, the "exploding megabyte," and the live redraw of the model's relevance nexus in front of 100+ global professionals.

🗣️ We also talk about what it actually takes to bring a non-homogeneous, global group to consensus — and how to get involved with EDRM yourself.

🎧 Listen now

🔥Hot of the Presses!📰

Episode 3 of the Playbook Series is out. Join Bree and Angie as they talk about Phones! ➕PLUS: Hear from our extra special guest Connie Brenton who popped in to talk about LegalOps.com and Running Legal Like a Business Conference.

💡 We're breaking down what actually has to be in a mobile device policy before litigation (or the FTC) forces the question; 💡Tips on what your eDiscovery Playbook should include; 💡And what to actually say when you need someone to hand over their phone.

#FlockOn Friends 🐔

Part 2 of our Litigation Hold Playbook Series - Hold Me Maybe?

Angie and Bree go back to basics while sharing what needs to be a part of the Legal Hold Playbook including....

⏰ The trigger problem: Decide how you'll handle them before you're making that call at 11pm.

🔴 Nobody owns the kill-switch. If you can't name who turns off auto-delete when a trigger hits, that's a hole in your plan.

📋 Custodians still sitting on holds from matters closed 18 months ago — that's not clutter, that's a liability.

Check us out at www.ediscoverychicks.com!

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🪦RIP to RFPs (at least that's the dream...)

In this episode, Angie (a/k/a Princess Donut) and Bree chat with Kelly Pritchard, Head of Litigation PM & Paralegal Services at BP, and Mary Ferguson, Head of Legal Operations at BP, to talk about the RFP process from both sides of the table.

If you're wondering about anything RFP related; What it is? Why they are so painful? ...this conversation is for you and it's packed with practical insights, candid perspectives, and a few laughs along the way.

Part 1 of our eDiscovery playbook series is live.

If your litigation program lives inside one person's head, you don't have a program — you have a liability. In this episode we break down:

🔍 The three "chaos agents" that hit teams without a playbook

📌 What a playbook actually is (the format doesn't matter — the single source of truth does)

✅ Why post-matter closeout is the step almost nobody does, and every team needs

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This week, we're sitting down with the one and only Debbie Reynolds — aka the Data Diva 👑 — and we are talking ALL things data mapping. 🗺️

Here's what we're getting into:

📌 How data maps directly impact your eDiscovery process

📌 How organizations are tackling data maps AND leveling up their cross-collaboration efforts

📌 AND... a little pantry analogy you didn't know you needed — think chickpeas. 🫘 IYKYK

Debbie brings the expertise, we bring the energy, and together we're breaking it all down in true eDiscovery Chicks fashion. 💅

Whether you're deep in the data world or just getting started, this one is for YOU!

☕OUT NOW ☕

Allison LaBarbera Dowd and Jennifer Salvadori Crumblish drop in to chat about what to expect next month at Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference! Its not too late to register now and join us there!!

🫖Later the tea is spilled....

Twenty years ago, one case changed eDiscovery forever. Last month, another one did it again.

🍵 Bree revisits Zubulake v. UBS — the landmark eDiscovery ruling everyone should know (preservation, cost-shifting, sanctions).

🧋 Angie breaks down Morgan v. V2X (D. Colo. Mar. 30, 2026) — a major AI-in-discovery decision: risks of uploading confidential materials to consumer AI, need for AI-specific protective orders, and limits on withholding your AI tool identity.

👂 Listen now — one case built the foundation, the other just cracked it open.

#flockon 🐔

#jointheflock

#ediscovery

🦾 This episode is for anyone who’s tired of AI panic and ready for AI competence.

📣 Out now! 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐀𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐮𝐭 (𝐀𝐈 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧)! Angie and Bree are re-visited by our favorite Ralphs! This episode with Ralph Losey and Hon. Ralph Artigliere (Ret.) on AI literacy, is basically a survival guide for practicioners who want to use modern tools without becoming a cautionary tale.

Highlights:

✅Sanctions headlines: what courts are actually punishing vs. what we fear

✅“Verification” that isn’t vibes and isn’t performative

✅Why banning AI doesn’t eliminate AI, it just makes it sneakier

✅The credibility problem: when the prose gets stronger than the facts

#FlockOn Friends! 🐔

“This quarterly nothing burger coulda been an email.”

If your QBR feels like a deck, a data dump, and a whole lot of acronyms being thrown around like alphabet soup (KPIs, CBRs, RACI… we see you 👀), we’ve got you.

In this episode of the eDiscovery Chicks podcast 🎙️🐔, we’re breaking down the actual components of an effective QBR — what these acronyms mean, how to use KPIs to drive decisions, how RACI creates accountability, and how to give your QBR a real glow up ✨. We’ll also cover who should be at the table 👥 to make these meetings collaborative, strategic, and worth everyone’s time.

Because once you know the recipe🍳, you can stop clucking around 🐔 and start serving up something egg-ceptional 🥚🔥