Our Insights on eDiscovery

The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) annual educational conference of 2019 (known as ILTACON) kicked off yesterday with several networking events, and begins in earnest today with the first day of sessions. As always, eDiscovery Daily will once again be covering the show. Over the next four days, we will provide a description each day of some of the sessions related to eDiscovery to give you a sense of the topics being covered. Here are some of the sessions of interest in the main conference tracks today.

Are we left, then, with no true educational conferences? Not entirely. Let’s take a look at some conferences that are still primarily focused on education.

We’ve discussed the various categories for tracking files from collection to production before, so let’s walk through a fairly simple eMail-based example to show how the files collected are accounted for during the discovery process.

As I mentioned, a number of renowned legal commentators about the state of legal technology conferences all year, including Dennis Kennedy, Tom Mighell, Bob Ambrogi and Craig Ball. Let’s take a look and see what they said.

Hard to believe, but we’re less than a week away from ILTACON 2019, being held this year at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in sunny (and hot and humid) Orlando! Yep, we were in NYC in winter for Legaltech and now we’ll be in Orlando in summer for ILTACON! Maybe one year, we could flip that? Just sayin’. The conference kicks off with some networking activities on Sunday and starts in earnest with sessions Monday through Thursday. As usual, some of those sessions look interesting (especially for litigation support professionals), so let’s take a look at some of the more promising sessions to attend next week.

I was recently asked to write about the upcoming ILTACON19 conference. But that discussion leads naturally to the larger question about the current state of legal tech conferences. What exactly is going on with legal tech conferences? A number of renowned legal commentators have been asking the same question all year. In this series, I’ll take a look at some of their observations and provide some of my own and analysis of legal tech conferences out there today.

Last time, we talked about addressing parameters of production up front to ensure that those requirements make sense and avoid foreseeable production problems well before the production step. Today, we will talk about quality control (QC) mechanisms to make sure that the production is complete and accurate.

In our webcast last week (Key eDiscovery Case Law Review for the First Half of 2019), Tom O’Connor and I discussed several cases where spoliation and sanctions associated with smartphone ESI were the key issue being addressed. Let’s face it, discoverability of mobile devices has become a standard consideration in litigation these days. But, how can you ensure you’re properly preserving the ESI on your smartphone and how can you get the most out of the data it contains? Here’s a webinar TODAY that discusses that very topic!