Both Tool and Target: AI in Legal Hold and eDiscovery

Learn how AI enhances eDiscovery while creating new data, retention, and legal hold challenges for RIM & IG teams. Both Tool and Target: AI in Legal Hold and eDiscovery While AI has impacted information governance in many ways, the issues raised by the intersection of AI, legal hold, and eDiscovery are critical for RIM and IG pros to understand. On the one hand, AI tools are extending and improving automated review capabilities for large datasets to scope, enforce, and process legal holds. These allow practitioners to focus less on the mechanics of discovering and evaluating responsive data and turn instead to applying IG expertise to the work of the eDiscovery team working the matter. However, the use of AI tools across the enterprise also generates extremely large sets of new (and new types of) data that are themselves potentially discoverable as part of future litigation. The methods and tools to access this new data are emerging and in some cases not ready for prime time, increasing eDiscovery risk and cost. In addition, RIM and IG pros need to evolve their retention and disposal schedules to reflect the legal, regulatory, and operational requirements for managing this novel data. Presenters’ Bio Joe Shepley is a Senior Director with Triad Executive Advisors in Chicago and leads their Governance and Advisory Practice (Compass). He specializes in information governance, including data privacy and AI Governance. With 25 years of experience, Joe has helped Fortune 1000 organizations build, operationalize, or modernize their information governance programs, evolve their records management capabilities, execute large-scale data cleanup efforts, stand up AI Governance programs, and revamp their policies, procedures, and other controls to support effective information governance—particularly in meeting the retention and disposal requirements of U.S. and global regulations, such as California’s CPRA, the GDPR in the E.U., HIPAA, and NYDFS 500.13. Joe earned a bachelor’s degree in English, religious studies and philosophy from Connecticut College and a master’s degree and a PhD in the history of Christianity from the University of Chicago. He is an AI Governance Professional (AIGP); a Certified Information Privacy Professional U.S. (CIPP/US); an Advisor for the Health Sector Coordinating Council Joint Working Group on Cyber; on the planning committee of the Western Energy Institute; and a member of the Sedona Conference Working Group on AI and the Law. Connect with Joe: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joeshepley/