By its very nature, eDiscovery is serious work. Truly, whenever litigators and legal professionals get together, it’s probably serious because the outcome of litigation, investigations, and government actions carry massive financial and emotional consequences for adverse parties and counsel.

On the client side, legal work product provides the building blocks of substance and strategy, and the required cost, time, and technical nature of the process is often a source of stress.

I believe it's imperative that eDiscovery providers like myself take our work seriously, but not ourselves seriously. Are you with me?

That's why I host a podcast called eDiscovery After Hours, where in each episode, the guest and I share a (virtual) drink and talk about life. It’s also why I make sure to have dinner with my wife and kids every night, even when that means pulling out the laptop later and burning the midnight oil.

With Legalweek coming up, we were reminded of the years and decades of Legalweeks in the past. It’s quite an event with a week filled up by education, drinks, conversations, walking the floor, running into former colleagues, and generally, a week of excited exhaustion. Don’t we all feel sort of like we’re walking the halls of a crowded campus at this event? I can’t be the only one rushing around trying to make it all happen without getting too distracted by the coffees, happy hours, dinners, and myriad other meetings that happen this week.

So ahead of the event this year, we wanted to do something a little tongue in cheek. For the sake of levity, so we decided to put together this silly bingo card (grab yours here!) to make people chuckle as every vendor "differentiates" themselves by using the same adjectives and demo-ing the lots of legal technology.

Travel safe – and enjoy Legalweek 2024!