Remote eDiscovery – Anytime, Anywhere

The ACC’s 2021 CLO Survey Report highlighted converging market trends that are shaping why Legal must more closely align with their colleagues in Privacy, Compliance, IT, Security and other departments. The skills and experience of e-discovery professionals are now required to address compliance mandates related to privacy, investigations, breach response and other critical business challenges.
Register for this webcast to learn how to take your career to the next level and support your organization’s broader Legal Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) initiatives.
In this webcast you’ll learn:
• The emerging business challenges that require e-discovery skills
• The trends supporting the implementation of a Legal GRC strategy
• How to leverage your experience, further your career and deliver value to your company’s Legal GRC efforts.
Speakers:
- Linda Luperchio, Director of E-Discovery and IG, Hanover Insurance -- https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-luperchio-ceds-2a319916/

- David Yerich, Director of E-Discovery, UnitedHealth Group -- https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-Yerich-91029ab/
- Nancy Patton, Exterro -- https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancybpatton/

Join us on April 6th as Monica Enand, Founder and CEO of Zapproved, discusses how an early strategic decision to focus on the challenges of corporate legal teams has shaped the company’s journey from industry-leading legal holds to the expansion into collections, processing and review, and now, the fully-integrated ZDiscovery platform. Hear Monica’s perspective on how corporate ediscovery challenges will continue to evolve and how, drawing from deep expertise gained from over a decade of working closely with corporate legal customers, ZDiscovery was designed to handle them.

Technology has presented new challenges for corporations as they cope with the impact of the pandemic. Coordinating legal holds and managing preservation and collection activities has been complicated, since so many full-time employees are now working from home. Given this unprecedented time, remote work has become a security nightmare. How do you fix it? Is the answer to turn to outside service providers? How can the right eDiscovery software platform help you address today’s data challenges, given the fact that corporate internal investigations are on the rise? Join us virtually, as we plan to answer these questions and discuss the ways to which you can improve your work environment and optimize productivity.

Expert Presenters:
Moderator - Mary Mack, CEO at EDRM
Panelist - Robert Keeling, Partner at Sidley - https://www.sidley.com/en/people/k/keeling-robert-d.
Panelist - Rishi Chhatwal, Assistant Vice President - Senior Legal Counsel, Antitrust & Enterprise eDiscovery at AT&T - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishi-chhatwal-0227a07/.
Panelist - David Yerich, Director of eDiscovery at UnitedHealth Group - https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-yerich-91029ab/.
Panelist - Scott Elder, CTO at Lumix by Now Discovery - https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-elder-4b4653a/.

"Siloed systems and “status quo” processes needed to be re-engineered to create data-driven businesses that can extract knowledge and intelligence from data.

Join Jason Velasco, founder of eDiscovery Advisory, as he shares more about the global team of advisors, project managers, and staff helping to transform what eDiscovery is for small to medium sized businesses."

eDiscovery Case Law “marches” on! Our March monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog discusses several disputes related to topics ranging from social media discovery, to discovery of video evidence, to permissible border searches of electronic devices, to use of file deletion software and sanctions and more.

Join Doug Austin, Editor of eDiscovery Today, Mary Mack, CEO of EDRM, Tom O’Connor, Director of Gulf Legal Technology Center, and Hon. Andrew Peck (Ret.), Senior Counsel at DLA Piper as they discuss important rulings that may impact how you conduct discovery in the future. Topics to be addressed include:

+ Social Media Discovery Disputes
+ Existence of Video Evidence and Burden of Proof
+ Border Searches of Electronic Devices
+ Potentially Unwarranted Sanctions
+ Scope of Third Party Subpoenas
+ Use of File Deletion Software and Intent to Deprive

Expert Presenters:
Doug Austin, Editor, eDiscovery Today
Mary Mack, CEO and Chief Legal Technologist, EDRM
Hon. Andrew Peck (Ret.), Senior Counsel at DLA Piper
Tom O’Connor, Director, Gulf Legal Technology Center

Privilege review is in general a time-consuming and manually intensive process - with good reason. Missing even a single document in a privilege screen can directly influence the outcome of a matter. Even as legal teams embrace innovation for other workflows, the risk of getting privilege review wrong has stood in the way of new approaches.

In this webinar, we will discuss how AI can reduce risk by better identifying potentially privileged documents, and improve the productivity of review teams by focusing their expertise on tough calls.

Join us to learn more about
• How AI can look beyond the four corners of the document for privilege determination
• How automated document scoring can enhance productivity of review teams
• How reviewer QC and annotation can help refine AI accuracy
• How AI technology has performed for live matters

Expert Presenters
David Cohen, Partner at Reed Smith and EDRM Chair of Project Trustees and Omar Haroun, Co-Founder and COO at Text IQ

2021 is a new year, which means, as always, there are new eDiscovery disputes and case law decisions to address them! Our February monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog discusses several disputes related to topics ranging from technology assisted review and proportionality to discovery about discovery and social media discovery to potentially sanctionable actions (including the act of requesting unwarranted sanctions).

Join Doug Austin, Editor of eDiscovery Today, Mary Mack, CEO of EDRM, Tom O’Connor, Director of Gulf Legal Technology Center, and Hon. Andrew Peck (Ret.), Senior Counsel at DLA Piper as they discuss important rulings that may impact how you conduct discovery in the future. Topics to be addressed include:
+ Technology Assisted Review and Cooperation
+ Proportionality and Adding Custodians
+ Discovery About Discovery and Boilerplate Objections
+ Social Media Discovery Disputes
+ Potential Sanctions for Unwarranted Sanctions Request
+ Sanctions for Series of eDiscovery Violations

Expert Presenters:
Doug Austin, Editor, eDiscovery Today
Mary Mack, CEO and Chief Legal Technologist, EDRM
Hon. Andrew Peck (Ret.), Senior Counsel at DLA Piper
Tom O’Connor, Director, Gulf Legal Technology Center

TRU Founder and CEO Jared Coseglia sits down with EDRM's Mary Mack and Kaylee Walstad to deliver an update on where the legal technology job markets are today as they adapt to the ongoing pandemic while keeping up with the ever-evolving legal tech landscape. Jared will break down what happened in Q4 in terms of job opening trends, compensation metrics, hiring behavioral patterns, and much more! We will, as always, take all your burning questions about the job market, but this quarter we will share some incredible statistics about legal ops, compliance, LPM, and other siloed legaltech jobs as they compare and contrast in demand to traditional e-Discovery roles.

Using e-discovery technology is no longer a nice to have, it’s a must have for legal professionals no matter what your title is. With a growing amount of data to review and a variety of new locations where responsive data may be found, legal professionals must be aware of e-discovery technology that can help them execute legal activities more efficiently.

In the fourth and final webcast in Exterro’s E-Discovery Masters Series, a panel of experts from Becton Dickinson and Thrivent will discuss what e-discovery technologies legal professionals must be aware of and when it’s time to buy.

Watch this webcast and learn:
•The top e-discovery technologies legal professionals should be aware of and how they can help
•When legal professionals should start to think about using these e-discovery technologies
•How other legal departments have used e-discovery technology to reduce costs
Speakers:
- Alayne Russom, Director - GCO Operations, Thrivent
- Christa Haskins, Associate Director, Becton Dickinson
- Mike Hamilton, Sr. Managing Director, Exterro

Who says that there were no interesting cases last year? Our January monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog is a review of the most interesting cases of 2020 and what they can mean to you in your eDiscovery practice in 2021!

Join Doug Austin, Editor of eDiscovery Today, Mary Mack, CEO of EDRM, Tom O’Connor, Director of Gulf Legal Technology Center, and Hon. Andrew Peck (Ret.), Senior Counsel at DLA Piper as they discuss important case law rulings from 2020. Topics to be addressed include:

+ Ephemeral Messaging Apps and Discovery
+ Rule 37(e) vs. Court Discretion in Sanctions Rulings
+ Courts and Search Term Disputes
+ Rule 26(g) Attorney Certification Violations
+ Proportionality and Discovery about Discovery
+ Technology Assisted Review Protocols
+ Technology Assisted Review and Cost Shifting

Expert Presenters:
Doug Austin, Editor, eDiscovery Today
Mary Mack, CEO and Chief Legal Technologist, EDRM
Hon. Andrew Peck (Ret.), Senior Counsel at DLA Piper
Tom O’Connor, Director, Gulf Legal Technology Center

Legal teams combat a variety of obstacles when it comes to conducting review, not to mention that working in a remote environment adds its own layer of complexity. Organizations are met with the pressure of sifting through vast data troves and reviewing them quickly and in context. Without a streamlined process, this can prove to take longer than originally anticipated and can cost organizations thousands of dollars.

But – never fear! Everlaw offers a fresh take at both managing and conducting review. Whether you’re a first-pass reviewer or litigation support manager, Everlaw helps legal professionals save time and money.

Join us for an in-depth look at Everlaw’s unique review capabilities and how workflows can be simplified. Everlaw helps organizations:
•Upload and view all kinds of file types – ranging from spreadsheets to Slack and chat data on mobiles devices – in an intelligible format so that review can be conducted on a single, unified platform.
•Easily build complex searches - no prior ediscovery software experience needed!
•Ensure reviewers are meeting deadlines and track their progress.
•Confidently redact privileged or confidential documents.

Expert Presenters:

Christina Ling
Product Marketing Manager, Everlaw
Christina Ling is a Product Marketing Manager at Everlaw. Prior to Everlaw, she worked on global product marketing projects for discovery and security solutions at OpenText. Additionally, Christina has consulted on litigation and investigation matters for Fortune 500 clients at Deloitte. She serves as a board member for the San Francisco chapter of ACEDS.

Isabela Reid
Product Marketing Manager, Everlaw
Isabela Reid is a Product Marketing Manager at Everlaw. Before joining the marketing team at Everlaw, Isabela worked on the customer success team helping train, support, and onboard customers. Isabela is a graduate of UC Berkeley and previously worked at the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law and ABC7 News in San Francisco.

Many, many years ago, in April of 2020, Korein Tillery’s Stephanie Clerkin and Divergent Language Solutions’ Brian Klunk held webinars on the challenges of working from home, and offered tips and ideas on how to handle what they thought would be a few weeks of remote work. Here we are, nine months later, and the two have come together for a useful and amusing look at how their perspectives evolved.

With the prospect of going back to the office full time seeming to be a goal for well into 2021 join EDRM’s Mary Mack as she moderates a discussion with Stephanie and Brian, exploring what working from home means as we approach the new year. Please feel free to offer your experiences and best practices via email info@edrm.net so we can include them in this conversation.


Brian bio:
Brian Klunk is Divergent Language Solutions’ Business Development Manager, responsible for new and existing accounts, and partnership development. Brian spent seven years with ALM media where he worked with legal media titles such as ‘The American Lawyer,’ ‘National Law Journal,’ and Law.com.

Stephanie Clerkin bio:
Stephanie is the Director of Litigation Support at Korein Tillery, one of the country’s leading plaintiffs’ complex-litigation firms, where she leverages over 14 years of experience in finance, consulting, and data analytics to manage massive litigation projects, as well as the firm’s e-Discovery platform. Working with all departments in the Firm, she understands how to bridge the gap between the legal teams and IT personnel to streamline discovery efforts and design cost-effective solutions for clients. She is responsible for the processing, analysis, review and production of numerous terabytes of ESI.

Stephanie is a Certified e-Discovery Specialist and Relativity Expert.

[Orwellian Narrator] "There is nothing wrong with your television set.... You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits."

Most practitioners view the implications of the Actavis decision(s) as a cosmic departure from reality. Relevance has served as an express limitation on the scope of discovery ever since the Federal Rules were promulgated in 1938. So how can the Court order the production of documents without a relevance review, subject only to an eventual clawback?

Join our panelists as they take a closer look at the practice surrounding the production of irrelevant materials, particularly in light of modern review techniques. We will explore jurisprudence and alternatives from agreed production to mandatory production, from slip-sheets to redaction to exclusion. Topics to be covered will include:
•Client perspectives and the implications of confidential commercial information versus general civil litigation;
•The evolution of production of irrelevant documents as a function of technology-assisted review;
•Non-responsive documents and government investigations;
•Production and the irrelevant family member; and
•Deadlines, sanctions, privilege screens and clawbacks.

All registered will receive a link to the recording and related resources.

Speakers:
Lea Malani Bays, Of Counsel, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP
Robert Keeling, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
Tom Gricks, Lead Strategy Consultant, OpenText

The role of e-discovery professionals or people involved in e-discovery looks very different these days than even just 10 years ago—having gone from a largely reactive, fire drill mentality to now playing a key role in defining proactive strategies that empower legal departments to showcase ROI and ensure smart defensibility.

In this webcast, we will review how the modern e-discovery professional's role is changing based on new research results from a survey conducted by Today's General Counsel, Exterro and In The House.

Register for this webcast and get:
•Expert analysis on how e-discovery professionals must evolve amidst these uncertain times
•Results from a recently released in-house e-discovery benchmarking report
•Tips on how to be successful in today's modern e-discovery environment

Expert Speakers:
- Thomas Mullane, Raytheon Technologies
- Linda Luperchio, Hanover Insurance Group
- David Yerich, UnitedHealth Group
- Mike Hamilton, Exterro

David Cohen, Partner at Reed Smith and EDRM Chair of Project Trustees and Privilege Log Protocol Project Trustee Cristin Traylor, Discovery Counsel, McGuire Woods sit down for a fireside discussion on the project's recent unanimous selection at Georgetown's Judges Tank and updates on the nearly completed work product.

•"Emediation, is this for you?"
Drastic budget cut backs in the court leaves many parties struggling with discovery conundrums without court assistance. Who do you call? The emediator.
•When Does Remote Mean Disengaged?
Some love it, and some hate it: the pros and cons of virtual mediation and arbitration