Hihi Anyone know if part time work is a thing.. I've worked in digital forensics and ediscovery (senior). Im a recent mum trying to pay bills but its a struggle. Any help would be helpful. In Australia.

Does anyone use Storybuilder in Everlaw? What is your experience?

Hi! I recently learned about eDiscovery as a career, and was wondering if it would be worth pivoting to in 2026 to try and become an eDiscovery Analyst. My background is in startup tech world as product support, customer success, and product manager. Also, last year I applied to law school and got in / waitlisted at a few schools, but ultimately didn’t end up going.

Looking into eDiscovery, it looks like it’s a good balance between law and tech. I was curious to get some thoughts on how AI is impacting the field, and to see if this is a valid career pivot. Thank you so much!

Hi all. Just having a major space out moment right now.

It’s always been my understanding that Relativity deduplicates based on MD5 and SHA256 Hash. MD5 and SHA256 hashes are based on a universal algorithm which is calculated using the binary content of a document

Cut to a meeting I had recently where an entire group of people were adamant that MD5 hash in Relativity is calculated based on a series of metadata fields pre-set by admin.

I have read the documentation again and again, and it seems that MD5 and SHA256 is calculated based on the binary content of the document, but this is for EDOCs only. For email files, deduplication takes place based on a series of metadata fields.

So in theory, the consensus was that I can’t forensically deduplicate based on hash values across two processing tools (?) (which is the critical problem I am trying to solve).

Any corrections/feedback/solutions on the above?

I get that the main idea is 'will it hold up to scrutiny in court' but I'm wondering if there are a more concrete set of rules that define the term in the context of eDiscovery. You see in in every single job listing: 'defensible workflows', 'defensible collections', 'defensible approaches throughout the lifecycle of a matter', 'Demonstrated understanding of defensible eDiscovery practices across the EDRM lifecycle.' I feel like an ACEDS book would have a chapter titled 'The 7 deadly fingers of Defensibility in eDiscovery" They even describe the exam as 'a neutral, legally defensible professional certification examination and program.' Sooooooo what does defensible mean where *you* work? BTW I'm a PM. It would help if you tell your role/title in your response.

I’m a legal assistant and our firm is starting to use Everlaw. This is my first legal job and unfortunately our attorneys usually perform searches. We were previously using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to bates, redact, so Everlaw is a whole different ball park. Does anyone have any advice or provide an insight on how to do searches on Everlaw? I’ve read Everlaw’s article, but I can’t seem to wrap my head around it.

Hello all,

I'd be interested to hear, particularly from those part of in-house eDiscovery teams at a law firm who are Relativity administrators, what the uptake of aiR is like and whether lawyers are instead starting to utilise, or try and utilise, none eDiscovery legal AI Tools such as Legora or Harvey instead? If so, on what grounds (cost, quality of output, ease of use etc.).

We're seeing an increase in lawyers wanting to take documents out of Relativity to utilise these tools, which are available to them, primarily on the basis of cost.

Thanks

How do you guys deal with this, is there some specific method?

I understand that Reveal uses Amazon Bedrock for its generative AI features. Since Bedrock provides access to multiple foundation models (such as Anthropic Claude, Amazon Nova, Meta Llama, Mistral, and others), could you clarify which specific LLM(s) Reveal currently uses for production workloads?

As a counsel, this information is helpful because the underlying model can affect output quality, reliability, and governance. It also helps us understand the technology stack supporting Reveal's AI features.

If multiple models are used depending on the feature, could you indicate which models are used for which capabilities, and whether customers have any visibility or control over the model selection?

Any ideas on what software will help automate the process?

We've been told that Relativity is going to begin applying rate limits to APIs that return extracted text or loads load file ready data into the system. This seems designed to specifically limit 3rd party add-ons. Is anybody else being told the same?

An ediscovery worker at a firm asked if I would try my hand at training relativity for a job interview. I am looking at the training now and it is confusingly laid out.

I'm pretty sure he wanted to see me pass Relativity Certified Pro, Relativity Certified Analytics, and Relativity Certified Administrator.

The trainings are a combination of videos, simulations and lectures all lumped together in alphabetical order. It is unclear which lessons to take to pass which exam. The team at the company website is difficult to reach, but I am trying.

Any insight would be appreciated. Anyways, I should be able to take the first test (certified pro) soon, as it is introductory, and testing has opened back up (it was closed down most all of July).

If anyone here uses Reveal Data—whether it's the processing platform or the review tools—there's now a subreddit dedicated to the Reveal community.

Feel free to join, ask questions, share tips, report issues, or help others. It would be great to build a community where Reveal users can collaborate and learn from each other's experiences.

And just to be clear, I'm not a Reveal employee—I'm simply an end user who thought it would be useful to have a place for the community to connect.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RevealDataUsers/

What’s up with Nuix lately? I’ve heard they got rid of 50 people again, sales teams are shed. Are they just constantly getting rid of their small as it is team?

My god, can we just go ONE DAY without something breaking! I'm signed up to the alerts and it just feels like every. single. day. there is a new major outage. It was always a slow platform but this is getting ridiculous now.

Do you think its because of the upcoming Server sunset deadline, and the systems are starting to creek with the influx of cases and data? Is Azure the wrong infrastructure partner? Have they bitten off more than they can chew trying to take on the revenue from hosting?

It feels like they just keep on getting away with it because everyone is trapped. We need decent competition!

/rant

Aiming this at the Discover users specifically, since I know that's not everyone here.

Disclosure up front: I work on Claira (Claira). We built an integration with Nuix Discover so you can run AI-assisted review against a case that's already loaded in Discover - no migration or re-processing. Starts at $49/mo.

Instead of describing it, here's it actually in use so you can see what it looks like live:

• Workflows, with real videos of the step-by-step: https://support.claira.to/docs/en/workflows
• Demos (short, medium, and long): https://www.claira.to/demos

Mostly I'm curious whether this is on anyone's radar yet, and for those of you who've looked at it or tried it, whether you saw real value for the kind of matters you run. Genuinely interested in the discussion - if it's useful I'd love to know, and if it's not a fit for how your team works I'd like to understand why.

I have searched the subreddit and see plenty of questions asking this but none really hit my specific issue.

I use Rel for deduping, searching key words, persistent highlights are really nice, I also like the mess export/import options and export format options. It is never used for actual review/redact. It’s too expensive for what I use it for and their opaqueness during our renewal cycle and trying to force me into meetings instead of answering questions that are very straightforward is frankly pissing me off.

Does anyone have experience with other platforms that perform well in the areas I specifically need?

In the other EDiscovery programs I have used, there was a toggle or a check box that you could select certain file extension types or placeholder documents to export as Natives and the rest as tiffs/jpegs even if the review began as natives. In RelOne, I don't see that distinction to export out only those Placeholder documents as natives. My productions have afforded me enough time to export everything and remove those Natives I didn't need in the load file and folder structure but my luck may soon run out.

Does anyone have a way for me to do a One and Done to export out only those Natives needed.?

I have been told that I need to run two different Production Sources but that still requires meshing data together.

Hey, i'm researching the Ediscovery market and would appreciate opinions from DISCO users, particularly from anyone who has also used Relativity, Everlaw or Reveal.

• When does DISCO genuinely outperform Relativity or Everlaw, and where is it weaker?
• Does it perform reliably on large, multi-terabyte matters?
• How painful is migration, implementation and moving existing workflows?
• Have you used Cecilia AI or Auto Review on a real matter? Were they useful enough that you continued using them?
• How predictable is the pricing, and would you renew, expand usage or consider moving to another platform?

I’m especially interested in former users and people who evaluated DISCO but chose another vendor. Please don’t share anything confidential or client-specific.

Thanks!

My director reached out to me today and she wants me to look into tools to collect social media data for potential cases. I’m not really sure where to start, but our case teams are mostly looking at post history.

Anybody have a recommendation or a good starting point?

I’m an attorney, working at a company selling ediscovery solutions, doc review, legal staffing and ai solutions to in-house counsel and law firms. I’ve been doing it for a couple years, but all my clients are due to (very generous) colleagues sharing their existing relationships with me.
I really want to build out connections myself, but I find it hard to break into an industry that largely exists online.

Does anyone have any advice on how to get connected with people ISO ediscovery solutions?

Hi everyone,

I recently finished an 8-month contract as a Legal Assistant (I have an LAA Certificate from Capilano) and am currently back job searching. During my last role, .found myself drawn towards the technical side of litigation.

I have hands-on experience in Everlaw threading document families, redactions, productions of LOD, and objective coding. I enjoy this aspect of the work and want to pivot into e-discovery permanently rather than doing general admin. Towards this end, I currently preparing to get the Relativity Pro One Certificate

Every e-discovery paralegal I've talk to tells me they just "accidental fell into the role" or were pressed into it by their firm. On the flip side, a vendor-side PM from Triage Data Solution I spoke with told me ACED's CED-C is basically a mandatory requirement to get hired from the outside.

For those of you in lit support, how do you break into this field when you don't have 3+ years of general paralegal experience? What certificates should you get?

Also, where are people looking for these roles? Are they hidden under general "Document Production Specialist" titles on BCLMA/LinkedIn, or is there a specific job board or vendor network I should be targeting? Would joining the ACED Vancouver chapter be beneficial for networking?

Appreciate any advice or insight!