eDiscovery practitioners on data, forensics and AI after the hype.
Law and Candor pairs co-hosts Brooks Thompson and Sarah Barsky with guests who handle the practical side of eDiscovery, from linked cloud files to phone forensics. AI runs through the conversations as a tool whose strengths and weaknesses are still being worked out, not a sure thing.
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Law and Candor stays close to the daily realities of eDiscovery. Co-hosts Brooks Thompson and Sarah Barsky share the mic, and their openings are loose and friendly. Often the warm-up is a personal question aimed at the episode's theme. Before a talk about the technology hype cycle, Sarah picks 3D printing and virtual reality as the most overhyped. Before a talk about data remediation, Brooks places himself at the low end of maximal data generation, swamped by client emails and internal aliases. Some openings also make room for what the hosts call a 'sighting of radical brilliance' before the guest joins. After that, the guest carries the substance. The subjects are narrow in a useful way. Chris Carpenter, Director of Modern Data Solutions and Enterprise Operations at Lighthouse, lays out the risk of leaving cloud attachments and linked files out of an early collection. If a court later orders them in, pulling them back can be very difficult, and after too much time some may end up unpreserved because of their custodial ownership. In A Less is More Strategy for Data Risk Mitigation, a guest makes a plain case that over-retention raises both cost and risk, since old information has to be processed and reviewed and may surface something damaging. The second-requests episode frames innovation as reflection after a challenge: what worked, what did not, and how to improve it. Kamika, who has managed more than one second request, describes the time pressure and the shifting custodians and data sources on the way to a substantial compliance deadline. Will Way, a forensics consultant at Lighthouse, brings a long view. He spent 25 years in law enforcement, and his story of starting a computer crimes unit goes back to a 1999 global denial of service attack with a link to Monmouth County, New Jersey. AI connects all of these conversations, and one sign-off jokes that it would not be an episode of the show without it. The coverage is measured. The conversation with Fernando Delgado follows the Gartner hype cycle from the peak of inflated expectations down into the trough of disillusionment. It treats that letdown as a normal phase that comes before people learn what a technology is actually good for. Sarah Moran, a marketing director at Lighthouse and an attorney, brings Lighthouse survey data on attorney attitudes. The discussion describes a small well-informed group, another group largely in the dark, and a wide middle between them. Even the forensics episode turns to AI as a faster way to identify possible evidence. Episodes close by pointing to lawandcandor.com or lighthouseglobal.com, and several guests work at Lighthouse, so the company connection is obvious. A listener tired of AI boosterism could start with Feeling Disillusioned with AI? You’re Not Alone. Someone closer to collections and preservation may get more from All in the Family: What’s Next for Cloud Attachments in eDiscovery or eDiscovery Needs Digital Forensics for a Mobile World.
Made for: Suits a listener who works with discovery data, preservation or compliance and wants practical views from specialists on cloud files, data retention, forensics and where AI actually helps.
What sets it apart: It ties its AI talk to the everyday details of discovery work, such as linked cloud files, over-retained data and second-request deadlines, and treats disillusionment with AI as a phase of the hype cycle rather than a final verdict. The two co-hosts' personal warm-up questions make the technical conversations easy to get into.
The podcast wholly devoted to pursuing the legal technology revolution. Co-hosts Sarah Barsky and Brooks Thompson explore the impacts and possibilities that new technology, including AI, is creating for eDiscovery, modern data, compliance, privacy, and information governance.
Brooks Thompson's 250-gigabyte inbox makes your 'keep everything' instinct look expensive.
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A clear discussion of AI disillusionment as a stage in learning what the technology can and cannot do.
Law & Candor frames AI disillusionment as a familiar stage in how people learn to live with new technology. Brooks Thompson and Sarah Barsky begin with overhyped tools, from 3D printing and virtual reality to cryptocurrency, which gives the discussion an accessible human scale…
A grounded review of stale data as both a legal risk and an AI data-quality problem.
Law & Candor gives data remediation a practical technology frame, tying over-retention to discovery cost, legal risk, and the quality of information that generative AI may rely on.
A grounded discussion of how cloud links complicate preservation, collection, and e-discovery work.
Cloud attachments make a familiar e-discovery process much harder to preserve and control. Chris Carpenter of Lighthouse walks through the practical trouble spots: linked files that collections miss, material that is harder to add after the fact, ownership that shifts between…
A survey-led legal AI discussion that weighs efficiency, privilege, accuracy, and risk.
Law & Candor brings together Sarah Moran, a marketing director at Lighthouse and an attorney, for a focused discussion on changing attitudes toward AI and e-discovery.
Legal tech, measured against real practice.
Measured legal tech for a changing profession.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
["Law & Candor frames Gen AI through the Gartner hype cycle, after Brooks Thompson and Sarah Barsky compare 3D printing, virtual reality, and cryptocurrency as earlier overhyped technologies.", "Guest Fernando Delgado, head of AI and analytics at Lighthouse and a PhD from Cornell University's Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, explains how AI moves from the 'peak of inflated expectations' into the 'trough of disillusionment.'", "He describes Lighthouse's gen AI work as issue coding plus thematic analysis on responsive documents, including sets identified by humans, machines, or both, and says the output helps with second-pass review and strategic sampling.", "The episode lands on a practical rule: start with a specific pain point, use an 'engaged skepticism' toward AI adoption, and measure ROI with more than time savings or labor reduction."]
Sarah Garstie and Brooks Thompson interview John Cummins of Lighthouse about reducing unnecessary organizational data through retention, deletion, and Microsoft Purview.
["Law and Candor's \"All in the Family: What's Next for Cloud Attachments in eDiscovery\" centers on Chris Carpenter from Lighthouse and the problem of linked files in modern data.", "Carpenter defines linked files as documents shared via link from SharePoint, OneDrive, or Google Drive, and he contrasts them with static email attachments.", "The episode also touches the Stargate project from OpenAI, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and SoftBank, before returning to e-discovery, ESI protocols, and preservation risk.", "The conversation closes on Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Purview, loop components, and the idea that there is still no current industry standard for linked files."]
["Lighthouse's survey found 87 percent of respondents very interested in AI, but Sarah Moran says the biggest barrier is the need to constantly verify results.", "Sarah Varsky and Brooks Thompson open Law & Candor by linking John J.
Law & Candor examines AI trust in eDiscovery through Fernando Delgado's experience in information retrieval, machine learning, and AI ethics.
Co-hosts discuss the start of a new season, focusing on generative AI developments and legal tech trends.
The hosts celebrate Women's History Month by interviewing Lighthouse's Chief People Officer about creating diverse and inclusive cultures, and discuss an HBR article on being a better ally in remote workplaces.
The hosts discuss AI voice recreation and debate eDiscovery review methods with a guest.
Co-hosts discuss strategies for managing data and review in legal cases, featuring an interview on repurposing work products and a news segment on a law firm specializing in AI.