The Brief

Practitioner-level guidance on AI, discovery, and investigations — from the team building the technology.

The Brief

When Two Minutes Changes Everything: A Real-World AI Discovery Demonstration

Picture this: Six teams of senior legal professionals from the world’s largest law firms and investigation groups, each armed with nothing but a natural language question and access to 14,000 documents from one of Britain’s most complex scandals. Their challenge? Master an AI-powered investigation platform they’d never seen before and produce sophisticated multi-page reports analyzing the UK Post Office disaster. Their time limit? Just 45 minutes. The result? A groundbreaking demonstration that complex investigations and discovery will never be the same.

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London Calling: Two Venues, 16 Teams, One Remarkable Evening for Merlin Alchemy

London Calling: Two Venues, 16 Teams, One Remarkable Evening for Merlin Alchemy By John Tredennick Last week, we accomplished something unprecedented: running two simultaneous hands-on AI programs across London on the same night. One sponsored by HKA Global, the other by Arkus Consulting. Different venues, different case materials, but the same transformative experience for 16

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The Real Lesson of the MIT Study: AI Works, If You Know How to Use It

Picture this: Six teams of senior legal professionals from the world’s largest law firms and investigation groups, each armed with nothing but a natural language question and access to 14,000 documents from one of Britain’s most complex scandals. Their challenge? Master an AI-powered investigation platform they’d never seen before and produce sophisticated multi-page reports analyzing the UK Post Office disaster. Their time limit? Just 45 minutes. The result? A groundbreaking demonstration that complex investigations and discovery will never be the same.

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From Search Hits to Answers: How GenAI Solved Complex Discovery Challenges at HKA’s “Hands On” AI Program in London

Picture this: Six teams of senior legal professionals from the world’s largest law firms and investigation groups, each armed with nothing but a natural language question and access to 14,000 documents from one of Britain’s most complex scandals. Their challenge? Master an AI-powered investigation platform they’d never seen before and produce sophisticated multi-page reports analyzing the UK Post Office disaster. Their time limit? Just 45 minutes. The result? A groundbreaking demonstration that complex investigations and discovery will never be the same.

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GenAI Prompting for Smart Legal Professionals

When working with modern generative AI tools, creating effective prompts doesn’t have to be complicated or intimidating. One of the most powerful aspects of these systems is that you simply ask questions in plain English. In seconds, AI can analyze your request, find relevant information across your documents, and provide answers with links to source materials.

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Don’t be Kodak: A Parable About AI and the Legal Profession

Rather than watching your firm slowly slide toward its own Kodak moment, why not embrace the new era of legal practice by creating specialized expertise in AI-powered legal solutions, developing new workflows that integrate AI for enhanced efficiency, and focusing human talent on the truly complex aspects of law that AI cannot handle. Firms that adapt will explore value-based pricing models that decouple revenue from time spent and transform their operations for dramatically greater efficiency.

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EDRM Webinar: Introducing Merlin Alchemy™ Transforming Data into Intelligence with Next-Gen, Generative AI

Join us on March 13th at 1 pm ET for a groundbreaking EDRM webinar that will explore advanced techniques for using Generative AI to master complex investigations and discovery. Our panel will demonstrate how legal professionals are fundamentally shifting from traditional keyword searches and hit lists to asking questions and receiving comprehensive, actionable answers—a transformation that dramatically accelerates workflow for  investigation reports, case preparation and strategic decision-making.

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The Book

Written by Practitioners, Not a Marketing Department

Our founder spent two decades as a trial lawyer before building discovery technology for another twenty. The articles, webinars, and book you’ll find here reflect that experience — practical guidance for legal and investigation professionals navigating the AI shift.

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