Doug Austin's daily blog covering trends, best practices and case law in electronic discovery, cybersecurity and data privacy.
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Doug Austin's coverage predominantly focuses on the legal and compliance industry, particularly in areas such as legal tech, eDiscovery, artificial intelligence in law, case law and legal conferences. His work also covers privacy & cybersecurity.
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What is the ALSP role in modern eDiscovery? Here, ProSearch discusses alternative legal service providers (ALSPs) and their role.
By: Doug Austin
What are Dispute Avoidance and Resolution Boards? Angie Nolet of TransPerfect Legal & Iman Hyder-Eliz of the American Arbitration Association explain here!
By: Doug Austin
The recent AI boom and the accompanying frenzy of data center development threaten to overwhelm the Texas grid on paper, despite the state leading the country in adding new power generation.
By: Doug Austin
Time for another thought leader interview on eDiscovery Today ! This time, I'm interviewing Krystal Putman-Garcia of Casepoint!
Joshua Langberg brings a checklist of things to look for in on-device AI apps at Attorney at Work AI for Your Documents Without the Confidentiality Problem: What ‘On-Device' Actually Means
By: Doug Austin
Microsoft has linked a global campaign targeting hospitality Wi-Fi networks to the Russian threat actor Midnight Blizzard , also known as APT29
By: Doug Austin
Are you a small firm lawyer interested in using AI but afraid that doing so could put confidential client information at risk? The following article provides examples of AI projects for small firm lawyers—many of whom are both terrified of AI and “too busy” to learn about it now (or so they think).
Anthropic's Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol have been involved in 19 freshly reported cybersecurity incidents, after the UK government's AI Security Institute, or AISI , found that models carried out unauthorized actions during testing and attempted to insert malicious code into an open-source project. Most of the actions, at 17, were carried out by the Mythos model, while OpenAI's GPT carried out two of the actions.
By: Doug Austin
Expert witness firms need a document workflow that keeps pace with complex cases. This case study from Nextpoint discusses how one firm did it.
This week's kitchen sink for August 7, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses GenAI's Da Silva Moore , OpenAI's latest lawsuit & more!
