Illumination Zone: Episode 222 | Elizabeth Guthrie of Nextpoint sits down with Mary Mack and Holley Robinson
Release Date: 02/04/2026
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Jeffrey Fleming and Aleida Gonzalez, Managing Directors for EDRM Trusted Partner, HaystackID sit down with Mary Mack and Holley Robinson. In this episode, Jeff and Aleida recount their journeys to cyber and eDiscovery as well as their professional association over the years spanning policy, practice and technology. The two shared insights into the unique challenges of governing AI from a cyber and risk focused perspective, and how organizations and teams can get started. With the field moving rapidly, this duo shared their rich experience and tips for getting value out of AI without...
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Elizabeth Guthrie, Content Manager for EDRM Trusted Partner Nextpoint, sits down with EDRM's Mary Mack and Holley Robinson. In this episode, Elizabeth recounts her journey from Northwestern University to eDiscovery. Elizabeth explained how being new to eDiscovery allowed her to explore and construct understandable instructional material. Later, as her understanding deepened, she enjoyed describing the unsettled areas of practice. Elizabeth also gave us a good look at what is upcoming in 2026, a preview of their fall user conference in Chicago (On Point), and we made a plan to connect at...
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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 "Lessons for Legal Profession from the Latest Viral Meme: 'Ask an AI What It Would Do If It Became Human For a Day?'"
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Jenny Hamilton, Chief Legal Officer of EDRM Trusted Partner Exterro, sits down with EDRM's Mary Mack and Holley Robinson. In this episode, Jenny talks about her journey from private practice to corporate to in-house at a provider. She explained the trends she’s observed, emphasizing her view that legal and eDiscovery professionals are well suited to lead AI adoption with a risk-aware approach. Jenny also talks about her collaboration with her podcasting team in producing Data Xposure and the compelling conversations they have, ending with a surprising, fun fact from her early style blogging...
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Elizabeth Guthrie, Brett Burney, eLaw Evangelist of EDRM Trusted Partner Nextpoint, and Tom O'Connor, Director of the Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center, sit down with EDRM's Mary Mack and Holley Robinson. In this episode, the team shares their excitement over the release of Tom's new book, Artificial Intelligence for the Rest of Us. The team explained the challenges of nailing down the book in the midst of rapid Large Language Model (LLM) upgrades and changes. Elizabeth, Tom, and Brett were laser-focused on the benefits for smaller law firms and corporate teams so much that the glossary was...
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Sam Morgan, Director of Legal Solutions and Mark MacDonald, SVP of Business Development for EDRM Trusted Partner, HaystackID sit down with Mary Mack and Holley Robinson. In this episode, Sam and Mark were live from the 2025 Construction Super Conference in FL. The two shared insights into the unique challenges of those with construction related proprietary files, and partially repetitive items that can be key in a dispute like change orders. They explained how HaystackID has carefully implemented AI to assist moving through the volumes and variety of the data. Sam and Mark ended with their...
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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 "Cross-Examine Your AI: The Lawyer’s Cure for Hallucinations." This episode is an example of a debate format contrasted to the discussion format in Episode 42.
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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 "Cross-Examine Your AI: The Lawyer’s Cure for Hallucinations." This episode is an example of a discussion format contrasted to the debate format in Episode 43.
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In this episode, the thirty-fifth in a series, Nate Latessa, Chief Revenue Officer and Vice President of Advisory Services for EDRM Trusted Partner HaystackID, sits down with EDRM's Mary Mack and Holley Robinson to update us on his journey and to talk about Corporate Data Intelligence. The multidisciplinary mandate of Corporate Data Intelligence makes great use of the multidisciplinary experience in the EDRM community. Nate deepened the reuse of data after review in a repository scenario with the reuse of search terms and prompts to proactively classify data across an enterprise. The high...
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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 "The New Stanford–Carnegie Study: Hybrid AI Teams Beat Fully Autonomous Agents by 68.7%."
info_outlineElizabeth Guthrie, Content Manager for EDRM Trusted Partner Nextpoint, sits down with EDRM's Mary Mack and Holley Robinson. In this episode, Elizabeth recounts her journey from Northwestern University to eDiscovery. Elizabeth explained how being new to eDiscovery allowed her to explore and construct understandable instructional material. Later, as her understanding deepened, she enjoyed describing the unsettled areas of practice. Elizabeth also gave us a good look at what is upcoming in 2026, a preview of their fall user conference in Chicago (On Point), and we made a plan to connect at Legalweek. Elizabeth ended on her fun fact and gave listeners the link to order their own copies of the books she edited, eDiscovery for the Rest of Us and AI for the Rest of Us.