The (Under Appreciated) Value of eDiscovery Networking
This expert panel is committed to the idea and will share their insights into why networking works for them as a critical part of their eDiscovery education efforts.
Read MoreTop 10 E-Discovery Cases and Trends of 2011
Learn about the top 10 electronic discovery cases and trends of 2011 with this free eDiscovery podcast. The participants’ experience includes serving as a judge, a lawyer, a technologist, a former in-house e-discovery manager and an e-discovery consultant. The plethora of experience and knowledge is daunting at best. This is an episode that should not be missed.
Read MoreThe 12 Days of Remediation, A Holiday Classic
This podcast addresses items ranging from data maps to retention schedules; effective and realistic legal hold strategies; effective policies regarding social media; personal and mobile devices and much more.
Read MoreTechnology, Training, Lawyers and E-Discovery
There are many who are very tech savvy but the fact that many lawyers are not is one of the reasons why teaching law firms new tricks with using technology can be so challenging. This show is a peek into where many lawyers are as far as a comfort level with technology and provides some insights into how difficult it is to change the field.
Read MoreWhat Makes The Georgetown Advanced e-Discovery Program Special?
The discussion will focus on the Advanced eDiscovery program at Georgetown and the forthcoming conference on November 17 and 18th. Bob will outline the academy’s history and examine how it became the preeminent e-discovery conference in the country.
Read MoreUsing Metrics to Improve Legal Process and E-Discovery Techniques
Learn about techniques that can create a more efficient law department. We also discuss how these techniques can play out in electronic discovery, a field which at times cries out for better bench-marking.
Read MoreHow To Get E-Discovery Education with Ralph Losey
We will address the ongoing debate about the validity of certification in the e-discovery field, provide information about Ralph Losey’s 84 lecture online course which he has created with the help of many of the top judges and lawyers in the e-discovery space, and what impact the education efforts are having.
Read MoreThe Role of Statistics in Electronic Discovery
This episode explores the important role of statistics in electronic discovery for both newer software programs as well as traditional linear review approaches. We cover statistical concepts that lawyers should be familiar with when assessing large document collections. In addition, we discuss how statistical methods such as random sampling can prove useful for arguing the process utilized is defensible and how to figure out if you are heading in the right direction in an active project.
Read MoreRetrieving ESI From Cloud-Based Applications
In this show we talk about Google Docs, social media, instant messenger applications and other third party software where ESI might reside that lawyers frequently would like to access to analyze in the context of litigation. We will provide some guidance on what you can do today and what the future is shaping up to look like.
Read MoreE-Discovery Search and Retrieval and is Human Review The Gold Standard?
Listen to a discussion on search and retrieval issues with Maura Grossman of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Professor Gordon V. Cormack from the University of Waterloo. Maura and Gordon have been deeply involved with the TREC program measuring different approaches for accomplishing document reviews with electronically stored information. They have jointly published a number of cutting edge articles describing their results.
Read Moree-Neutrals and Special Masters in Electronic Discovery Cases
This podcast features a discussion on how e-neutrals and Special Masters can add efficiency to electronic discovery cases. The common thread of the episode is the process of gaining efficiency by bringing experts onto a project to help with the technical issues associated with electronic discovery. The discussion also focuses on how the different e-neutral and Special Master programs work, differences between the two and why these ideas are useful in speeding up electronic discovery cases and overcoming challenging issues.
Read MoreProject Managing Electronic Discovery
This discussion will address the following challenges of project management: start up, potential dangers, assessment of success, and how the many moving pieces on a project work with each other. Regardless of the size of a project, the tools that can be used are similar. Having recently submitted an updated chapter on project management for PBI, E-Discovery, Karl also contributes to the discussion as well.
Read MoreInterviewing Witnesses in E-Discovery Cases
This show will address the critical E-Discovery step of interviewing witnesses before charging ahead and ramping up an E-Discovery project. In the haste and fear to get our arms around ESI, this non-technical step is often missed. This is why the lawyer is still the most important piece of technology in an E-Discovery case as technology always works best when it is aimed at useful ESI instead of lots of ESI.
Read MoreThe Importance of Metrics in Electronic Discovery
Learn about the importance of metrics in electronic discovery. We discuss the different forms of metrics, how to gather metrics, whether relying just on vendors to supply metrics makes sense, and get Alex to discuss some of her favorite metrics.
Read MoreE-Discovery and Effectively Working Through Privilege Issues
Listen to us discuss: where privilege is today and where it is heading in electronic discovery, the risks of sending business documents to lawyers to obtain the supposed protective seal of privileged, how to review for privilege effectively, how cooperation plays into effective privilege review, how to lose trust with the other side and reduce the effectiveness of cooperating on privilege documents, what privilege logs really get you at the end of the day, and how Rule 502 is supposed to work and how it is working today.
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