Posts Tagged "Best Practices"

How to Shop for Electronic Discovery Services

How to Shop for Electronic Discovery Services

This show might be more accurately described as how not to shop for electronic discovery services. Listen to Brett Burney, a leading electronic discovery and legal IT consultant, provide a framework for this important issue which law firms and company’s both face. What should you look for? When is price the most important issue? How do you perform a reference check? When can comparing price can turn into an apples and oranges comparison? These and other issues will be discussed.

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Electronic Discovery and Medical Records

Electronic Discovery and Medical Records

In this program we will discuss electronic discovery in general and how effective records management impacts e-discovery. We will then delve into the unique issues facing hospitals and other healthcare organizations as they implement electronic records management programs to get a better handle on delivering health care solutions to patients. With these efforts come more exposure to the world of electronic discovery.

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Electronic Discovery Lessons from Dedicated Review Teams

Electronic Discovery Lessons from Dedicated Review Teams

The program will discuss issues associated with the human side of electronic discovery such as metrics, differences among review tools, rewarding good review work, quality control processes, and strategies, as well as risks, to avoid when building a review team for an electronic discovery project.

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Electronic Discovery Tips for IP Litigation

Electronic Discovery Tips for IP Litigation

Learn E-Discovery tips related to IP Litigation from Cisco attorney Mark Michels and Covington & Burling partner Edward Rippey moderated by Karl Schieneman, Director of Legal Analytics and Review at JurInnov. Both of the panelists are active in the world of IP litigation and electronic discovery and they provide an interesting in-house versus outside counsel perspective.

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Working with First Time Clients on Electronic Discovery Projects

Working with First Time Clients on Electronic Discovery Projects

Listen to an all-star panel of attorneys discuss how to hand-hold a client who is experiencing electronic discovery litigation for the first time. The attorney panel we have assembled is well versed in this issue because each participant has headed up electronic discovery practices at sophisticated regional law firms with national practices.

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Part 1 Migrating From E-Discovery to Effective Records Management by an All Star Panel

Part 1 Migrating From E-Discovery to Effective Records Management by an All Star Panel

This is part 1 in a two part podcast. Listen to one of my older “vault shows” taped as a legal audio conference CLE by Pike & Fischer’s Digital Discovery and e-Evidence publication, which was subsequently acquired by BNA. This panel was the second show we did in this format and had an incredible panel as well as a very interesting topic – the link between records management and electronic discovery.

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Part 2 Migrating From E-Discovery to Effective Records Management by an All Star Panel

Part 2 Migrating From E-Discovery to Effective Records Management by an All Star Panel

This is part 2 in a two part podcast. Listen to one of my older “vault shows” taped as a legal audio conference CLE by Pike & Fischer’s Digital Discovery and e-Evidence publication, which was subsequently acquired by BNA. This panel was the second show we did in this format and had an incredible panel as well as a very interesting topic – the link between records management and electronic discovery.

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Part 1 Records Management & Electronic Records Readiness All Star Panel

Part 1 Records Management & Electronic Records Readiness All Star Panel

This was another show from the BNA vault of E-Discovery CLE’s I presented over the last few years before launching ESIBytes™. For sheer star power, it would be hard to top this audio broadcast. The panelists were: Greg McCurdy, one of the early star panelists in the electronic discovery world from Microsoft Corporation; Ed Wolfe, head of electronic discovery and records management at General Motors and long time Sedona Conference member; Jim Michalowicz, ACT Litigation and formerly with Dupont and Tyco; David Martin, head of electronic discovery and records management at Medtronic; and David Cohen, Co-Chair of Electronic Discovery at Am Law 100 law firm K&L Gates.

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Part 2 Records Management & Electronic Records Readiness All Star Panel

Part 2 Records Management & Electronic Records Readiness All Star Panel

This is part 2 from another of the audio broadcasts I presented with BNA over the last few years before launching ESIBytes™. For sheer star power, it would be hard to top this audio broadcast. The panelists were: Greg McCurdy, one of the early star panelists in the electronic discovery world from Microsoft Corporation; Ed Wolfe, head of electronic discovery and records management at General Motors and long time Sedona Conference member; Jim Michalowicz, ACT Litigation and formerly with Dupont and Tyco; David Martin, head of electronic discovery and records management at Medtronic; and David Cohen, Co-Chair of Electronic Discovery at Am Law 100 law firm K&L Gates.

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Electronic Discovery in Employment Law Cases

Electronic Discovery in Employment Law Cases

We will be discussing in the context of electronic discovery: (1) Harrasment and Discrimination cases, (2) Wage and Hour Cases, and (3) Missing Intellectual Property.

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What Is Concept Searching?

What Is Concept Searching?

We will focus this podcast on what exactly is concept searching. Lots of tools say they are concept searching. What does this mean? What are the ranges in concept searching? How do you effectively do concept searching? How important is process to the entire search and retrieval effort. How do you build a “cocktail approach” to designing the right electronic discovery process. These and other issues will be addressed by Dr. Herb Roitblat.

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The Top 10 Ways to Reduce Costs of Electronic Discovery

The Top 10 Ways to Reduce Costs of Electronic Discovery

Listen to Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Gates attorney David Cohen, discuss 10 ways companies can reduce the costs of electronic discovery. Mr. Cohen is a partner in K&L Gates where he co-chairs the firm’s e-Discovery Analysis & Technology (e-DAT) Group. Mr. Cohen has over 25 years of commercial litigation experience in a variety of subject matters. David Cohen is a frequent national speaker on electronic discovery, using technology in litigation and electronic records management. He has also authored numerous legal publications.

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The Sedona Conference Cooperation Proclamation

The Sedona Conference Cooperation Proclamation

Our guest, Richard Braman, will provide an overview of The Sedona Conference and some of its noteworthy accomplishments in the field of electronic discovery. He will then spend most of his time describing The Sedona Conference Cooperation Principles: Guidance for the Bench, In-House Counsel, Litigators, and Mentors/Mediators/Facilitators which The Sedona Conference is currently promoting. He will also describe how to get more information on this and other The Sedona Conference initiatives for free.

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Case Closing – A Step In The E-Discovery Life Cycle

Case Closing – A Step In The E-Discovery Life Cycle

Listen to Jim Michalowicz, a Director at Act Litigation discuss why effectively closing an electronic discovery case is a part of the E-Discovery Life Cycle. Jim has had a long career in electronic discovery and is one of the original members of The Sedona Conference. Prior to working at ACT Litigation Services, Jim has been a consultant for Altman Weil, the Litigation Program Manager at Tyco International, Inc., and the Manager of Litigation Support at E.I. Dupont de Nemours and Company. Jim is also a Six Sigma Black Belt.

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Managing Large Electronic Discovery Projects

Managing Large Electronic Discovery Projects

The topic of managing large review teams has seldom been discussed nationally in the e-discovery world, but given the substantial costs of e-discovery, is worth analyzing. Listen into what is possibly one of the first national presentations of this electronic discovery topic as we discuss best practices and theorize about ways to improve the process. Topics include how to start a project, transitioning from small to larger projects and the issues which can occur, how to approach training, developing an organizational structure, devising a process to maintain quality, how technology intersects with reviewers, and what are the major issues being discussed in the electronic discovery world on the human aspect of electronic discovery review.

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