John Tredennick

John Tredennick

April 25, 2024 | Legaltech News

Five Questions to Ask If You Are Considering a Private Large Language Model for Your Law Firm

While intuitively building an LLM seems appealing, it may not be as attractive or cost-effective an option as you might think.

By John Tredennick and Dr. William Webber 

10 minute read

May 24, 2023 | Legaltech News

Five Ways to Use ChatGPT for Investigations and E-Discovery

An overview of ChatGPT's capabilities in helping with keyword searches, summarizing documents, answering questions about specific documents, creating investigation reports, and document review.

By John Tredennick and Dr. William Webber

30 minute read

February 21, 2023 | Legaltech News

Will ChatGPT Replace Ediscovery Review Teams?

Following a practical exercise in review, prompt engineering and more, what's the authors' verdict on whether GPT technologies can replace human reviewers? "Potentially yes, with appropriate guidance."

By John Tredennick and Dr. William Webber, Merlin Search Technologies

18 minute read

January 25, 2023 | Legaltech News

What Will Ediscovery Lawyers Do After ChatGPT?

A practical exercise in ChatGPT's capabilities and limitations when applied to a variety of common ediscovery tasks.

By John Tredennick and Dr. William Webber, Merlin Search Technologies

16 minute read

June 14, 2018 | Corporate Counsel

Mastering Legal Holds: What Is the Scope of Preservation and Best Practices to Comply? Part III

When a legal hold duty arises, an organization must decide what to preserve and how to do it.

By John Tredennick

1 minute read

May 16, 2018 | Corporate Counsel

Mastering Legal Holds: When Does the Hold Obligation Arise? Part II

In the first of this three-part series on mastering legal holds, I introduced the concept of a legal hold and offered seven steps for implementing a hold.

By John Tredennick

1 minute read

April 24, 2018 | Corporate Counsel

Mastering Legal Holds: Best Practices for Legal Professionals

This three-part series will provide a primer on the duties surrounding legal holds and preservation and offer tips on how to fulfill your responsibilities as a legal hold administrator. It is written for legal and IT professionals who want to learn best practices for effectively managing and implementing legal holds. This first article focuses on key steps to consider in implementing the hold.

By John Tredennick

6 minute read

June 16, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

Companies Are Turning to E-Discovery Technology for Global Compliance Investigations

As many companies have already realized, the same technology used for e-discovery in litigation is equally adept at discovering evidence in compliance matters.

By John Tredennick

18 minute read

November 20, 2014 | New Jersey Law Journal

How GCs Are Using Technology To Manage Global Litigation

By using technologies such as multimatter repositories and technology-assisted review, corporate counsel are able to gain greater control and better manage costs, no matter where in the world their cases may be.

By John Tredennick

7 minute read

November 12, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

How GCs Are Using Technology to Manage Global Litigation

As businesses and their legal matters go global, corporate counsel face greater pressure to control e-discovery costs and manage disparate e-discovery caseloads.

By John Tredennick

7 minute read