EDRM published the final EDRM 2.0 model Tuesday and pointed readers to the trustees’ written answers to public comment. EDRM grouped the submissions into eight sections; the trustees say one changed the diagram. The reasoning behind the seven no-change responses is the most useful thing in the package.
EDRM published its new map and the reasoning behind what it kept Read More »
HSR reported transactions reached 233 in July 2026, a 20.7% jump from June and 29.4% above July 2025, lifting the preliminary fiscal 2026 total to 2,091 with two months to go. This month’s report pairs the FTC’s count with the fiscal 2025 annual report’s finalized data, a proposed final judgment carrying a record $12 million in HSR penalties, the DOJ’s optional Expedited Consideration process for second requests, second-quarter GDP growth held at 1.5% in the BEA’s second estimate, and a record $2.8 trillion first half for global M&A.
June HSR reported transactions fall to 193 as preliminary FY2026 total reaches 1,858 ComplexDiscovery Staff The FTC’s Premerger Notification Office recorded 193 HSR-reported transactions in June 2026, a 17.9% step down from May’s 235 — the highest monthly total since
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The worldwide eDiscovery market reaches an estimated 19.61 billion dollars in 2025 and a projected 28.08 billion dollars by 2030, a reconciled 7.44 percent CAGR. Underneath the aggregate trajectory, data grows at roughly 35 percent annually, compounding into a 3.13-times productivity-per-dollar mandate that reshapes where eDiscovery dollars flow at the segment, task, and channel levels through 2030.
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The FTC logged 235 HSR filings in May 2026 — a FY2026 high, the strongest month since December 2021, and a 58.8 percent jump over last year. With FY2026 volume running 22 percent ahead of FY2025 and a new form rulemaking in play, here is what the surge means for Second Request and eDiscovery planning.
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Professional buyers are letting AI build the shortlist before they ever call a vendor. Here is what the research shows about being seen, and how the rules of online visibility are changing.
AI is becoming an advisor, and it is rewriting how buyers find you Read More »
An 18-year reconciled view places worldwide eDiscovery spending at $4.73 billion in 2012 and a projected $28.08 billion in 2030 – a near six-fold expansion that surfaces software’s quiet takeover, review’s declining task share, and the data-volume gap as the central structural force shaping discovery economics.
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FutureLaw 2026 closed in Tallinn with the conversation getting harder. Uwais Iqbal’s hard truths from 23,000 adjudications and Chas Rampenthal’s reading of Texas Opinion 705 anchored a day-and-a-half of sessions on predictive justice, productized law, and transnational legal infrastructure.
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Day One at FutureLaw 2026 moved from morning AI regulation debates to afternoon construction work: trust stacks, legal ops, surveillance limits, pilot economics, infrastructure standards, and the legal-education gap.
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The opening session of FutureLaw 2026 did not start with a vendor pitch. It started with a warning. “We are moving beyond AI hype towards verifiable infrastructure,” Valentin Feklistov, the conference’s founder and CEO, told the Main Stage audience at
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Stanford’s 2026 AI Index shows AI adoption and investment accelerating even as transparency declines, incidents increase, and governance struggles to keep pace. For cybersecurity, information governance, and eDiscovery professionals, the report signals a more urgent need for defensible oversight, stronger vendor scrutiny, and authenticity-focused workflows.
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Generative AI is beginning to materially reshape eDiscovery economics, but pricing maturity has not kept pace with adoption. The Winter 2026 eDiscovery Pricing Survey shows stable benchmarks for forensic collection and hosting, persistent opacity in document review billing, and an emerging $0.11 to $0.50 per-document pricing zone for GenAI-assisted review that could challenge traditional review models.
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