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Dive into the dynamic world of eDiscovery like never before with eDiscovery Chicks, the podcast about all things eDiscovery and legal tech. Join our hosts, Bree Murphy & Angie Nolet, and subject-matter experts, as they combine humor, expertise, street smarts, and passion to explore the intricacies of eDiscovery. 🐣Why Join the Flock? Whether you're a seasoned eDiscovery professional or just spreading your wings, eDiscovery Chicks podcast is a welcoming space for all. Subscribe wherever you get your pods and join our vibrant community of eDiscovery enthusiasts.

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July 31, 202646 min

Hold Me Maybe? - eDiscovery Playbook Part 2

Part 2 of our Litigation Hold Playbook Series - Hold Me Maybe? Angie and Bree go back to basics while sharing what needs to be a part of the Legal Hold Playbook including.... ⏰ The trigger problem: Decide how you'll handle them before you're making that call at 11pm. 🔴 Nobody owns the kill-switch. If you can't name who turns off auto-delete when a trigger hits, that's a hole in your plan. 📋 Custodians still sitting on holds from matters closed 18 months ago — that's not clutter, that's a liability. Check us out at www.ediscoverychicks.com ! 83c733edc7ce63fe985a0e57342f09f3ddecfa2c

July 16, 202655 min

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.

June 26, 202631 min

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

May 29, 202654 min

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!

May 15, 202655 min

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

April 23, 202653 min

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! 🐔

April 16, 202633 min

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 🥚🔥

April 2, 202651 min

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

March 19, 202645 min

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 .

March 5, 202641 min

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.