Good day, readers. Jeff Meisner, editor of the Rule 26 blog, here.

It's my pleasure to announce that Blank Law + Technology PS will hold an open house for clients and partners from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29.

BL+T is the parent company of the Electronic Data Extraction Network (EDEN) and TestudoData LLC, an email security, encryption and archiving applications provider. Attendees will have an opportunity to meet BL+T, EDEN and TestudoData professionals and learn about the history of the firm.

If you would like to attend the open house, send an email to rsvp@digital-legal.com.

Beginning at 5.30 p.m., the open house will feature four 10-minute briefings to showcase trends in the electronic discovery, data security and computer forensics industries:

All About EDEN: An introduction to EDEN and how it started.

Weird Science: The anatomy of a hard disk drive.

Saving Private (Business) Information: Archiving, filtering and encryption.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Data hosting in 2009. Sorry, Mr. Poitier declined his invitation. He's probably accepting some award for that acting thing he does.

Attendance at the briefings is optional, but if you collect a stamp at each one, you will walk away with a BL+T gift pack.

For those who don't know, here's a little more information on EDEN: Launched in May, EDEN is a national community of IT, legal support professionals and attorneys that provides unified, reasonable and practical solutions to e-discovery challenges related to litigation, compliance inquiries and internal investigations.

EDEN’s membership is comprised of 120 IT companies in 40 states and Canada. We appreciate our TestudoData reseller base getting involved with the EDEN community and providing feedback about this unique network.

If interested in EDEN and how it can benefit your clients, contact Mark Marino at 877.837.7147 or mmarino@edenhub.com.

Oh, and here's our address:

157 Yesler Way, Third Floor, Seattle, WA. 98119

We hope to see you there!

Jeff Meisner is the blog editor and media relations manager at Blank Law + Technology PS. Prior to his current position, Mr. Meisner was a newspaper reporter for 13 years, nine of which he spent as a staff writer at the Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle. Mr. Meisner has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from Concordia University in Montréal.