DAY ONE:

IDENTIFYING, COLLECTING AND ASSESSING ELECTRONIC INFORMATION

9:00am – 9:15am

INTRODUCTION

9:15am – 10:15am

State of the Industry: Highlights of the 2008 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey

Understanding the fast paced developments and trends in this exploding field.

10:15am – 11:15am

Information and Knowledge Management: Getting Your Electronic House in Order Before Litigation Strikes

Today’s businesses process millions of bites and bytes of data each day. Mapping, storing and finding the data when needed are the keys to success. Organization and access to the data will decrease both the frustration of those involved and the costs, if litigation should strike. This panel will discuss the importance of:

• Archiving email, VOIP, text messaging, IM
• ProActive data mapping-tools and strategies including e.g. CMDB
• Evaluating technology to assist in getting organized

11:15am – 11:45am

COFFEE BREAK

11:45am – 12:45pm

Project Management and Cost Control

This session is going to discuss how project management has become a critical skill set for electronic discovery projects. Included in the discussion will be risk analysis, cost control and a work breakdown structure.

12:45pm – 2:00pm

LUNCHEON WITH JUDGE’S PANEL

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Beyond Faith Based Electronic Discovery

This is section is not for the faint hearted. Many people will relate to jumping right into their electronic discovery process and found out there was no plan in place. This lack of planning causes chaos to ensue along with a lot finger pointing which results in increased costs. Our experience panelists will communicate the value of the Victor Stanley case and the importance that ‘key word searching’ plays in a successful plan. They will also cover subjects such as:

• Do you have a plan?
• How do you know what you want to do will work? Have you tested it?
• Have you examined your assumptions?
• How to put pilots in place and evaluate the results. 

3:00pm – 3:15pm

COFFEE BREAK

3:15pm – 4:15pm

Ethical Issues

There are several cases that have been filed directly dealing with ethical issues surrounding electronic discovery. Our panel of experts will analyze the following topics:

• Disclosure- conflicts check,
• Achieving and maintaining competency
• Failing Strategies, i.e. Hide-the-Ball

4:15pm – 5:15pm

Process Management

Process management has come to be seen as the challenge that every litigation support manager must supervise. Our esteemed panel will discuss the importance of understanding and implementing effective work flows

5:15pm – 6:30pm

NETWORKING RECEPTION

DAY TWO:

8:15am to 9:00am

Breakfast Workshop: FREE to all registrants: 

Breakfast-conference workshop sponsored by CPA Global & Applied Discovery

Strategies to Limit Risks and Reduce Costs in E-Discovery

One of the biggest risks in today’s legal landscape is the minefield created by e-discovery.  In addition to managing the risks associated with the preservation and processing of electronic information, companies need to understand how to curb e-discovery’s explosive nature before the litigation hits full stride.  This session will examine major risks in e-discovery, including financial, practical, and legal strategy issues. Areas to be discussed will include: early case assessment; negotiating the parameters of e-discovery with opposing counsel and the case law to support that discussion; taking a holistic approach to your company’s litigation; developing an institutional, cost effective strategy; and strategies  to ensure your work product limits risk and cost across all of your case work. In addition, we will review strategies for working with your outside counsel and service providers to improve cost efficiency.

Topic Areas

• Effectively negotiating e-discovery scope limitations with opposing counsel and regulators
• Developing a comprehensive e-discovery strategy in litigation and government investigation cases
• Avoiding e-discovery pitfalls and fire drills
• Examining recent developments in e-discovery case law and technology 
  

9:00am – 10:00am

Search & Analysis: What does the data really say

This highly knowledge panel will cover the effects of:

• Factual investigation
• Forensic strategies, deleted files, fragmented hard drives, (bad actors)
• High value/high cost proposition to get at the heart of the issue
• Concept and clustering engines, social networking, email threading, de-duplication and near de-duplication are all tools of analyzing the data.

10:00am – 11:00am

Identifying and working with Special Masters, Neutral Experts and Expert Witnesses

Judges and lawyers are working more often with Special Masters, Neutral Experts and Expert Witnesses. This has been a challenge for all parties involved. This panel will discuss:

• When and how to use a Special Master
• The Daubert Challenges

11:00am – 11:30am

COFFEE BREAK

11:30am – 12:15pm

The Pitfalls of Handoff

This panel will analyze how to avoid the issues surrounding handoff of data by addressing the following:

• How do you get data from one stage of the process to the next
• How does one software program give all of the information to the next
• How is data passed on from one organization to the next
• How does data pass between people without loss

12:15am – 1:15pm

Review: The care and feeding of Contract Attorneys and other thorny issues

Many times a transnational business will encounter issues in review that are difficult to resolve. Our panel will discuss:

• Foreign language/ Multiple Language documents
• Privacy Implications
• Machine assisted review
• Managing the review room