eDiscovery Daily Blog

• February 6, 2014

As noted Tuesday and yesterday, LegalTech® New York 2014 (LTNY) is happening this week.  Today is the last day to check out the show if you’re in the cold and snowy New York area with a number of sessions (both paid and free) available and over 218 exhibitors providing information on their products and services.

Perform a “find” on today’s LTNY conference schedule for “discovery” or “information governance” and you’ll get 41 hits.  More eDiscovery sessions still happening!  Here are some of the sessions in the main conference tracks:

10:30 – 11:45 AM:

The Changing of the Guard- How Cutting Edge Corporate Legal Departments Are Reinventing In-House eDiscovery

Nowhere is eDiscovery evolving more quickly than behind the scenes of some of the world’s most savvy enterprises. In this session, hear how cutting edge corporate legal teams have turned the tables on traditional eDiscovery approaches, effectively rewriting best practices for 2014 and beyond. Our panel of experts will discuss:

• What are ways to significantly reduce legal spend and improve outcomes when managing eDiscovery
• Why hybrid deployment models are quickly surpassing traditional, on premise only approaches
• What are ways to revolutionize the communications patterns with outside counsel
• What are the ROI metrics that really move the ball for forward thinking corporations

Speakers are: Dean Gonsowski, Vice President, Business Development and Head of Global Information Governance, Recommind; Marla Bergman, Goldman Sachs; Meghan Landrum, Google; Cliff Dutton, AIG.

Rightsizing Your Program to Get Funding and Succeed

Enterprise Information Governance programs are often as complex as the problems they are intended to solve, incorporating governance needs and requirements of a multitude of internal and external stakeholders while beholden to industry requirements and tight budgets. In this session, our panel of seasoned experts will help prepare attendees with best practices for breaking down the Information Governance equation in their or their clients’ organizations in order to kick-start an IG program. Topics to be explored include:

• Assessing current realities to gain an understanding of what information-based threats and opportunities exist
• Prioritizing threats and opportunities by evaluating risk/reward and estimating remediation ROI, including defensible deletion
• Achieving cross-stakeholder support for development of an Information Governance framework and program

Panelists are: Julie J. Colgan, Director of Information Governance Solutions, Nuix; Galina Datskovsky, Independent Information Governance Consultant; Jason R. Baron, Of Counsel, Drinker Biddle & Reath; Dan Regard, Managing Director, iDiscovery Solutions; Susan Goodman, MLS, CRM, IGP, CIP, CIPP/US, Director, Records and Information Management (RIM), Consumer Reports.  Moderator: Barclay Blair, President and Founder, ViaLumina.

The TAR Workroom

Now that the industry has more TAR case history and experience to draw upon, workflow guidelines are emerging as well.  This panel will guide participants through a working session examining the lifecycle of a TAR project, including:

• planning for a TAR project
• establishing statistical goals based on selected TAR objectives
• defining the TAR project team’s roles and responsibilities
• evaluating TAR training options
• devising QC strategies
• assessing TAR results
• deciding optimal pathways for strategic utilization of TAR results
• documenting the project to ensure defensibility and replicability

Participants will emerge with an understanding of what it takes to plan and implement a successful TAR project.

Panelists are: Mira Edelman, Discovery Counsel, Google; Bennett Borden, Partner and Co-Chair of the Information Governance and eDiscovery Group, Drinker Biddle & Reath; Stuart LaRosa, Senior Search Consultant, Xerox; Julie Brown, Litigation Technology Executive Manager, Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease.  Moderator: Shelia Mackay, Vice President, Consulting, Xerox.

Transforming Discovery Through the Optimization of Legal Intelligencee

Accurately identifying potentially relevant documents in discovery is often described as finding needles in a haystack.  With data growing exponentially, legal counsel is struggling to control the size of the haystack.  However, they can now effectively identify where the needles reside earlier in the process with greater accuracy than ever.   By combining technology and analytical expertise, it is now possible to gather early stage legal intelligence to develop case strategy and efficiently zero in on the needles in mountain of hay.

Speakers are: Dave Deppe, President, UnitedLex; Christine Hasiotis; Senior Counsel & GE Legal Support Solutions Leader, Electric Insurance Company; Jason Yurasek, Litigation Partner, Perkins Cole; Mark McGrath; Associate, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP; Jack Halprin, Head of eDiscovery, Enterprise, Google; Farrah Pepper, Executive Counsel – Discovery, General Electric Company.

12:15 – 1:30 PM:

The rise of the machines? How computers can amplify human intelligence, not replace it.

Since the dawn of time, the ability to make, use and refine tools and machines has helped define and advance the human race. Now more than ever, assistance from technology is paramount in our world. We see and interact with it every day, from our smart phones and tablets to our vehicles and homes. This assistance is equally as important in our industry, with data volumes and client expectations growing at an exponential rate; humans alone can’t keep up.  In this session, you will learn about the different techniques and approaches for assistive technology and how it applies to eDiscovery including:

• Artificial Intelligence vs. Amplifying Human Intelligence
• How Human-Machine symbiosis is the next generation of assistive technology
• The key differences between TAR, CAR, and Predictive Coding
• How to successfully apply utilize this capability in eDiscovery

Speakers are: Neil Etheridge, Recommind; Patrick Oot, Electronic Discovery Institute; Daniel Lim, Former VP & Deputy G, Guidance Software, Inc.

TAR Ethics Lab – ABA & State Ethics Rules

This program addresses the ethical and legal consequences of using TAR in the context of a shifting landscape of governing rules. Through this interactive lab, participants will become better prepared to meet their ethical and legal obligations and help their clients contain ever-mounting e-discovery costs.

Last year, the American Bar Association (ABA) approved an important new resolution under the duty of competence (Model Rule 1.1) that requires lawyers to “keep abreast of changes in the law and its practice, including the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology …”  Amendments to rules on communications with clients (Model Rule 1.4), confidentiality (Model Rule 1.6), and supervision (Model Rule 5.3) also impact the use of TAR.  Various state ethics rules have since followed.

In addition, significant changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure regarding e-discovery have been drafted, but the debate continues under Congressional review before any changes go into effect near the end of 2015.

This panel will guide participants through real-life TAR scenarios that promote an understanding of the new ethical and legal landscape of e-discovery.

Panelists are: Anthony Diana, Partner, Mayer Brown; Julie Brown, Litigation Technology Executive Manager, Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease.  Moderator: Gabriela P. Baron, Senior Vice President, Xerox.

In addition to these, there are other eDiscovery-related sessions today.  For a complete description for all sessions today, click here.

So, what do you think?  Have you attended LTNY this year?  Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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