DAY ONE
9:00am - 5:15pm, Including Luncheon
5:15pm - 6:15pm Networking Reception

Indentifying, Collecting and Assessing Electronic Information

1. Introduction

2. Presentation: Identifying Your Goals
Though most people think of presentation as the end of e-discovery, knowing what to do with what has been collected is crucial. Our panel will offer tips and suggestions for using electronic discovery at arbitration / mediation, trial, hearings, depositions and in regulatory proceedings.

3. Information Management and Litigation Readiness: New Strategies and Tactics
In today’s world, more than 90% of communications and business activities take place electronically. However, many records retention programs do not adequately address the creation, management and disposition of electronic records. Our panel examines strategies and tactics for proactively evaluating and managing your records retention programs so that your organization is in a position to minimize costs and risks in any future litigation.

4. Identification: Understanding What You Have
With the new federal rules in place, determining the scope, breadth and depth of electronically stored information that might be pursued during litigation has taken on a new sense of urgency for many organizations. This panel will explore approaches, as well as emerging technologies that are increasingly being used, for learning the location of information and how to systematically assess it in light of claims and defenses, preservation demands, disclosure requirement and discovery demands.

5. Preservation and Collection: Striking a Reasonable Balance
Preservation for electronic discovery has become a complicated, multi-faceted, steadily-changing concept in recent years. Beginning with the nebulous determination of when the duty to preserve arises, continuing into the litigation hold process and the staggering volumes of material that may need to be preserved across locations, platforms and formats, preservation has become an enormous challenge. Our panel of experts will discuss how to find an acceptable balance between offsetting the risks of spoliation and sanctions related to destruction of evidence, against allowing a business to operate normally.

6. Processing: Identifying Variables, Assessing Options
How do you accommodate a wide variety of unstructured data, handle each form in a manner appropriate to its file type and generate output that is structured according to various review requirements? This is the challenge faced by professionals who must process data for electronic discovery. The challenge is magnified by data that is always changing. Our panel will focus on how to identify the variables inherent in data processing and recommend appropriate methods for addressing each one. In addition, the panel will discuss and assess processing technologies currently available and their performance.

7. Review and Analysis
The review and analysis of enormous volumes of electronic documents can be daunting....and expensive. However, evolving technology as well as innovative strategies and approaches in the review process are having a significant impact in streamlining review and analysis as well as making it more cost efficient. This panel will explore the new approaches to review and analysis being put to use to save time and money, as well at the emerging technologies that are being applied.

DAY TWO
9:00am - 1:00pm

Budgeting and Controlling Costs

8. Production: Reducing Risks, Costs
The complexity, potential costs and significant risks associated with producing electronic data are so great that the courts and electronic discovery professionals are focusing increased attention on production. Our panel will address the variables of electronic document production as well as the options that are now being employed to reduce the risks and costs inherent in the process.

9. Predicting, Assessing and Reducing Costs
As a result of the sheer volume of discovery today, it is essential to predict costs when planning an electronic discovery budget. Our experts will discuss the steps for developing an effective e-discovery budget and will analyze the hard and soft costs, including options for managing costs of review such as the use of temps, outsourcing review to a third party vendor or a combination of tactics. They’ll discuss various metrics for sizing up the task as well as offer insights for monitoring the budget through the lifecycle of the case.

10. A View from Corporate Counsel
Our panel of corporate counsel share their real world views of the challenges they face, how they and their electronic discovery teams have faced the challenges efficiently and cost-effectively as well as their current and future priorities.

11. Response of Vendors and Outside Counsel
In response to the challenges and priorities expressed by corporate counsel, vendors and outside counsel share their views and discuss options and solutions they have been developing and using to make the electronic discovery process more efficient.