Yesterday, we talked about the skill sets and areas of expertise that are required to effectively handle an electronic discovery project. Those skills and expertise are diverse and you won’t find everything you need in a single person. You need to put together a team. So, where do you find the right people for your team?
read moreThere are lots of tasks associated with a large electronic discovery project. A number of skill sets and areas of expertise are required to do them all well. It’s not likely that all of those skills and knowledge will reside in a single person. You need to create the right electronic discovery team to ensure that there are no glitches.
read moreBrad Jenkins, President and CEO of Trial Solutions, has over 20 years of experience leading customer focused companies in the litigation support arena. Brad has authored many articles on litigation support issues, and has spoken before national audiences on document management practices and solutions.
read moreKirke Snyder has earned a law degree and also a masters degree in legal administration. He is an expert in document retention and litigation electronic discovery issues. He can be reached at KSnyder@Regis.edu.
read moreChris Jurkiewicz is the Co-Founder and Executive Vice President at Venio Systems which created Venio FPR™ to provide law firms, corporations and government entities the ability to gain a comprehensive picture of their data set at the front-end; thereby, saving precious time and money on the back-end. Prior to the founding of Venio Systems, Chris was Vice President of E-Discovery Technologies at Onsite3 for eight years.
read moreAlon Israely has over fifteen years of experience in a variety of advanced computing-related technologies. Alon is a Senior Advisor in BIA’s Advisory Services group and currently oversees BIA’s product development for its core technology products. Prior to BIA, Alon consulted with law firms and their clients on a variety of technology issues, including expert witness services related to computer forensics, digital evidence management and data security.
read moreThis week, the EDRM Mid-Year meeting is taking place in St. Paul, MN. Twice a year, in May and October, eDiscovery professionals who are EDRM members meet to continue the process of working together on various standards projects. EDRM has eight currently active projects and there are over 300 members from 81 participating organizations including eDiscovery providers, law firms and corporations.
read moreWriting procedures is easy. In fact, it’s probably the easiest writing task you’ll ever do. You don’t need to be creative. You don’t need to develop an elegant writing style. In fact, the best procedures are simple and to the point. All that’s required to write good procedures is knowledge of how to do the task and some guidelines.
read moreEven for simple eDiscovery tasks, good written procedures are critical. Written procedures are a good idea for all tasks, but they are especially important for work done by multiple people. Often procedures are overlooked for simple tasks. It’s easy to feel comfortable that everyone will do a simple task well. The problem is that it’s very easy for two people to interpret a task differently.
read moreJim McGann is Vice President of Information Discovery for Index Engines. Jim has extensive experience with the eDiscovery and Information Management. He is currently contributing to the Sedona working group addressing electronic document retention and production. Jim is also a frequent speaker for industry organizations such as ARMA and ILTA, and has authored multiple articles for legal technology and information management publications.
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