Illumination Zone: Episode 216 | Justin Tolman of Exterro sits down with Mary Mack and Holley Robinson
Release Date: 10/21/2025
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Greg Moreman, Customer Partner of EDRM Trusted Partner Level Legal, sits down with EDRM's Mary Mack and Holley Robinson. In this episode, Greg shared his journey into eDiscovery, the care his team takes with Level Legal's clients, the human element of delivering value to clients, and how privacy informs document reviews. Greg explained the Level Legal team's approach to evaluating and incorporating AI into appropriate aspects of the workflow, ending with a very productive and delicious fun fact.
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Attorney, award-winning blogger, and AI expert Ralph Losey's curated and vetted recording features two AI's as they explore Ralph's EDRM blog post (in debate format) titled "Google’s New ‘Quantum Echoes Algorithm’ and My Last Article, ‘Quantum Echo’". The previous episode addressed the same material, in a more conversational style.
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Attorney, award-winning blogger, and AI expert Ralph Losey's curated and vetted podcast features his Anonymous Podcasters as they do a deep dive on Ralph's EDRM blog post (in the traditional podcast discussion format) titled "Google’s New ‘Quantum Echoes Algorithm’ and My Last Article, ‘Quantum Echo’". The next episode will contrast this discussion with a debate format.
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Attorney, award-winning blogger, and AI expert Ralph Losey's curated and vetted podcast features his Anonymous Podcasters as they do a deep dive on Ralph's EDRM blog post titled "From Ships to Silicon: Personhood and Evidence in the Age of AI."
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Justin Tolman, forensic evangelist for EDRM's longstanding Trusted Partner Exterro, sits down with EDRM's Mary Mack and Holley Robinson. In this episode, Justin shares his journey from traditional IT work to serving in a police department’s forensic unit, offering a unique perspective on the differences and similarities between criminal and civil digital forensics. He also gives listeners a bird’s-eye view of FTK Imager Pro, Exterro’s powerful upgrade to the classic FTK Imaging tool, highlighting its triage capabilities, mobile device collection, and real-time decryption features. The...
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Capri Miller, Customer Partner of EDRM Trusted Partner Level Legal, sits down with EDRM's Mary Mack and Holley Robinson. In this episode, Capri shares her unique journey into the world of eDiscovery. Capri finds that having eDiscovery professionals integrated with case teams offers the client the least risky and most efficient service. Capri provided tips for eDiscovery professionals seeking to engage in more substantive legal practice, as well as for legal professionals looking to break into the world of eDiscovery. We ended our discussion with Capri sharing her very engaging fun fact.
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In this episode, the thirty-fourth in a series, Alex Walstad, Marketing Coordinator and "Metal Man" of EDRM Trusted Partner HaystackID, sits down with EDRM's Mary Mack and Holley Robinson. Alex shares his unique journey into the world of eDiscovery and how his mom, our wonderful Kaylee Walstad, connected him to the community, as well as the surprising ways his musical passion informs his career. Discover how the precision required for songwriting influences his approach to content quality control, and how organizing music events—with an audience notably different from the typical eDiscovery...
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Bryan Bellack, Executive Vice President of EDRM Trusted Partner, HaystackID, sits down with Mary Mack and Mary Bennett to talk about trends since his visit on Episode 174. In this podcast episode, Bryan focused on the unique challenges of eDiscovery in the white collar crime context, especially the timeframe, the sensitivity of the data, and the status and stature of the stakeholders. Bryan emphasized the mission-critical need for an attorney experienced in the art and science of communication and management of this high-stakes, high-profile engagement. Bryan's fun fact led us into a...
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Mary Mack sits down to talk about Kaylee Walstad's untimely departure from the physical plane last month, and Xen Hartzell, our podcast editor, created an audio retrospective of Kaylee in her own voice. Mary invites listeners to learn more about Kaylee and how she made a difference for many in their personal, professional, and spiritual lives, and how to communicate your thoughts and wishes to her beloved family, Alex Walstad and his fiancée Maddie Lewandowski, Ashlee and Kate Walstad, and her sister, Kari Frangos. Mary also provided a glimpse of upcoming Illumination Zone episodes and the...
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In the thirty-second episode of EDRM Trusted Partner, HaystackID’s monthly podcast series, Todd Tabor, Vice President of Project Management Operations, Forensics, for our wonderful Trusted Partner, HaystackID sits down with Kaylee & Mary to talk about his journey into forensics, and HaystackID. Todd shared some field stories about data collecting with language barriers in Russia and ways the team is trained to address client concerns about giving up their most sensitive personal data. Todd gave us a backstage view of the technology the team is using to detect deep fakes at scale, and...
info_outlineJustin Tolman, forensic evangelist for EDRM's longstanding Trusted Partner Exterro, sits down with EDRM's Mary Mack and Holley Robinson. In this episode, Justin shares his journey from traditional IT work to serving in a police department’s forensic unit, offering a unique perspective on the differences and similarities between criminal and civil digital forensics. He also gives listeners a bird’s-eye view of FTK Imager Pro, Exterro’s powerful upgrade to the classic FTK Imaging tool, highlighting its triage capabilities, mobile device collection, and real-time decryption features. The conversation concludes with Justin's fun (and tasty) fact.