eDiscovery Chicks Podcast

eDiscovery Chicks Podcast

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RIP to RFPs: Two Sides of the RFP Process with guests Kelly Pritchard (Head of Litigation PM & Paralegal Services, BP) and Mary Ferguson (Head of Legal Ops, BP)
🪦RIP to RFPs (at least that's the dream...) In this episode, Angie (a/k/a Princess Donut) and Bree chat with Kelly Pritchard, Head of Litigation PM & Paralegal Services at BP, and Mary Ferguson, Head of Legal Operations at BP, to talk about the RFP process from both sides of the table. If you're wondering about anything RFP related; What it is? Why they are so painful? ...this conversation is for you and it's packed with practical insights, candid perspectives, and a few laughs along the way.
eDiscovery Playbook Pt. 1: Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth!
Part 1 of our eDiscovery playbook series is live. If your litigation program lives inside one person's head, you don't have a program — you have a liability. In this episode we break down: 🔍 The three "chaos agents" that hit teams without a playbook 📌 What a playbook actually is (the format doesn't matter — the single source of truth does) ✅ Why post-matter closeout is the step almost nobody does, and every team needs #eDiscovery #LegalTech #LegalOperations #LitSupport #eDiscoveryChicks #WomenInLegalTech #LegalTechnology #Podcast #NewEpisode #FlockOn #LegalInnovation #InHouseCounsel #LitigationSupport #LegalCommunity
Map it Like a Polaroid Picture - with Guest Debie Reynolds a/k/a The Data Diva!
This week, we're sitting down with the one and only Debbie Reynolds — aka the Data Diva 👑 — and we are talking ALL things data mapping. 🗺️ Here's what we're getting into: 📌 How data maps directly impact your eDiscovery process 📌 How organizations are tackling data maps AND leveling up their cross-collaboration efforts 📌 AND... a little pantry analogy you didn't know you needed — think chickpeas. 🫘 IYKYK Debbie brings the expertise, we bring the energy, and together we're breaking it all down in true eDiscovery Chicks fashion. 💅 Whether you're deep in the data world or just getting started, this one is for YOU!
Spilling the Courtroom Tea
☕OUT NOW ☕ Allison LaBarbera Dowd and Jennifer Salvadori Crumblish drop in to chat about what to expect next month at Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference! Its not too late to register now and join us there!! 🫖Later the tea is spilled.... Twenty years ago, one case changed eDiscovery forever. Last month, another one did it again. 🍵 Bree revisits Zubulake v. UBS — the landmark eDiscovery ruling everyone should know (preservation, cost-shifting, sanctions). 🧋 Angie breaks down Morgan v. V2X (D. Colo. Mar. 30, 2026) — a major AI-in-discovery decision: risks of uploading confidential materials to consumer AI, need for AI-specific protective orders, and limits on withholding your AI tool identity. 👂 Listen now — one case built the foundation, the other just cracked it open. #flockon 🐔 #jointheflock #ediscovery
𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐀𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐮𝐭 (𝐀𝐈 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧)—with Ralph Losey and Hon. Ralph Artigliere (Ret.)
🦾 This episode is for anyone who’s tired of AI panic and ready for AI competence. 📣 Out now! 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐀𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐮𝐭 (𝐀𝐈 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧)! Angie and Bree are re-visited by our favorite Ralphs! This episode with Ralph Losey and Hon. Ralph Artigliere (Ret.) on AI literacy, is basically a survival guide for practicioners who want to use modern tools without becoming a cautionary tale. Highlights: ✅Sanctions headlines: what courts are actually punishing vs. what we fear ✅“Verification” that isn’t vibes and isn’t performative ✅Why banning AI doesn’t eliminate AI, it just makes it sneakier ✅The credibility problem: when the prose gets stronger than the facts #FlockOn Friends! 🐔
This quarterly nothing burger coulda been an email ...
“This quarterly nothing burger coulda been an email.” If your QBR feels like a deck, a data dump, and a whole lot of acronyms being thrown around like alphabet soup (KPIs, CBRs, RACI… we see you 👀), we’ve got you. In this episode of the eDiscovery Chicks podcast 🎙️🐔, we’re breaking down the actual components of an effective QBR — what these acronyms mean, how to use KPIs to drive decisions, how RACI creates accountability, and how to give your QBR a real glow up ✨. We’ll also cover who should be at the table 👥 to make these meetings collaborative, strategic, and worth everyone’s time. Because once you know the recipe🍳, you can stop clucking around 🐔 and start serving up something egg-ceptional 🥚🔥
Legal Ops is So Fetch with special guest: Jessica Vander Ploeg, VP of Legal Ops at Belron
Legal ops is the difference between: A legal team running on strategy and a legal team running on vibes and late-night fire drills. With Jessica Vander Ploeg, we get brutally practical about: Priority management when you’ve got 20–30 “top” priorities Partnerships as currency across the business Proving value (including the messy reality of quantifying “soft savings”) How to diagnose a role before you accept it
Prompt Me Like One of Your Search Terms with Guest: Doug Austin
It’s live: our 2026 State of the Industry episode with Doug Austin. If GenAI is “transformative,” why does adoption still look like a secret hobby? Because the problem isn’t the robot. It’s the fact that half our workflows exist as oral tradition. In this episode, we get specific about: The adoption gap—and what it’s really exposing Governance as the true gatekeeper (who owns the risk, who approves, who verifies) Incentives: why some sectors sprint and others clutch their pearls Defensibility: validation methods that hold up when someone asks, “prove it” And yes: we talk about prompts—work product, strategy, and the upcoming disputes that will feel very familiar to anyone who has lived through search term negotiations.
Talk Nerdy to Me: 5 AI Prompting Tips and 3 Custom Bots
📣 𝐎𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰: “𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐍𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞: 𝟓 𝐀𝐈 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝟑 𝐂𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐬.” If you’re still prompting like it’s Google, you’re going to keep getting essays when you wanted work product. 💡 The fix is boring and powerful: 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫. Angie and Bree break down 𝟓 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 (output not topic, role + rubric, earn confidence, dictation, chunking) and then show how to turn those habits into 𝟑 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐬 you can build today (decision support, email drafting, meeting transcript → workflow artifacts). 🎧 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐬.
FOCUS: IT's giving boss (with best-selling author: Nicole Mott)
If your system is chaos, AI doesn’t fix it. It just makes your chaos faster. Out now with Nicole Mott, author of The Undeniable Power of Movement and the person who built enablement from scratch at Exterro. We talk about getting unstuck, protecting focus, building discipline without waiting for motivation, and managing perception so you can push back without getting labeled “difficult.” Where are you stuck right now: distraction, indecision, or lack of structure? Listen wherever you get podcasts.
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