This E-Discovery Briefing will provide you with deep insight into the latest and most important cases, rules, and trends, and their impact on e-discovery. Leading practitioners will offer their perspectives on important recent cases all in a concise 1.5-hour program (with CLE credits available).
Topics
1) Recent Cases and Updated Rules Led by the judge on our faculty, topics will include: procedural issues, cost shifting, sanctions, technology-assisted review, discoverability, preservation, cooperation, etc., as well as any relevant state court or local rules and new developments related to the proposed amendments to the FRCP.
2) Data Analytics: Applying Big Data Lessons to E-Discovery What tools and methodologies, in addition to technology-assisted review, can organizations use to reduce cost and increase speed and accuracy in the discovery process? How can sophisticated organizations use these same tools to uncover key evidence, assess potential matter outcomes, and even reduce the company’s risk portfolio?
3) Cross-Border Discovery There is an added dimension to e-discovery and electronic records management when data is stored outside the U.S. Parties seeking or asked to produce information across borders face often conflicting and contradictory rules and privacy principles with the risk of sanctions on one or the other country. How should you proceed when you or your client becomes entangled an issue involving cross-border discovery?
4) Taking Control of Discovery With e-discovery expenses often growing large enough to gain the attention of the c-suite or board of directors and with continued concerns over potential sanctions, more and more corporations have “taken control” of their e-discovery in order to reduce costs and improve defensibility. In some cases, this has meant:
a) Outsourcing substantial amounts of work, including management of the function
b) Developing preferred partnerships with e-discovery providers
c) Using data analytics and other methods to streamline the review process
d) Developing clear litigation readiness plans and discovery protocols
e) Clarifying in-house roles and responsibilities, including assigning overarching responsibility over discovery
f) Redefining the role of outside counsel by focusing their efforts on substantive legal issues (as opposed to the discovery process) or through use of national discovery counsel
How can a company evaluate the best ways to manage its e-discovery spend? What have other companies done that has been successful? And how can law firms position themselves to deliver the most value?
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